Happy 41st Birthday Singapore!

Abit late for this post.. But then again, better late than never.

We decided that we will go for the NDP instead of giving the tickets or selling it away. And surprisingly, Aw gave me another ticket the day before National Day and thus, I was even able to go to NDP wif my sister and hubby!

First time go to NDP. This year is special, coz this is also the last year that the National Stadium will house the parade. And this is also the first time that I ever went to see NDP LIVE! Though, I had gone for the preview abt 2 weeks ago, but the atmosphere and shows are slightly different as compared!

Mre actions and more fun, of course more standing also.

The best part of the show is the Pok Pok Pok as my sister called it lor. It was really really beautiful!!

But the headache was still the going home part. Crowd was sooo much bigger than the preview but our NS guys and SBS buses are really superb!! When we reach the bus, we din even have to queue and even manage to get a seat on the bus ok! But the trip from stadium to the Marina Bay MRT took us more than 30 mins. Massive jams along the way. Gosh!!

By the time we reach home was like 9.40 pm and the next day is a working day.. =( Sen came over to our plc with hubby's bicycle. FINALLY too!!!

I was already dead tired after my shower but hubby want to watch TV still leh.. power.. so he watched and I dozed off.

But celebrating National Day in the stadium with thousands of other Singaporeans really really made the day more memorable and makes it more special!

Happy Belated 41st Birthday, Singapore!!

My FIRST ever NDP!

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Went for the preview of NDP yesterday evening. The sun was scorchingly hot (tks to my kiasu-ism that we should reach early), kids were brawling, parents were shouting and screaming. Ppl were holding brollys over their heads. Ushers kept asking us to shift right, shift left to make space for ppl. Typical Singaporeans who kept arriving late even when the parade started at like 5pm and they were strolling in at 6pm?! Kiasus left while we were SAYING the pledge! Gosh... Ugly Singaporeans!

But having endured all these, the show was nice!! But coz of our sitting, it wasn't so enjoyable coz we mostly saw the backs of the performers. But I truly enjoy the part where the ladies were hoisted up into the sky with huge hot air balloons and doing somersaults in the air. I also like the performance done by the military police. Nice! But of course, the BEST of all is the FIREWORKS!! NICE NICE NICE!!!

Some of people left while saying the pledge and there was another bout of fireworks AFTER the pledge! It was simply fantastic!

The mood of all the participants were at an all time high and it was only the preview!

I guess, we are just lucky that we manage to get some preview tickets through my BIL. But the luckiest thing for us is, this year, we get to enjoy 2 show!! Yesterday's preview as well as the ACTUAL DAY too!! Tks to my colleague! haha..

I'm looking forward to the show now.

Oh ya.. BTW, the journey was not as terrible as we imagined it to be!