After National Day....
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |  
Ah yes.. today...no.. yesterday... was Singapore's birthday.

I stayed in the heartland of YISHUN (make some noooooiiiiissseee!!!!!!!!) to watch this historical event.

and i tried my best to capture the essence of the event.

marcus and I (dion was sick. zzz.... and he lost his phone again....) ran through the crowds.. across the field.... popping here and there to watch the MASS of people in what used to be a field that noone cared for.

i went up to the block nearest to it... to the 12th storey... and OMG!!!!! THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE!!!

but everyone esle around me were interested in my camera ( i had my wide angle lens on and it just made it look like some futuristic submachinegun or sth... -.- ).

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MASS of people! and that's not even all of them! there were more near northpoint! and wtf!!! is that and INDONESIAN flag?!? LOLZ!!!

When the flyby was played on the big screen, marcus and i were at the block beside 925.. 9th storey (that's the highest, man~~~) and a few moments later.... ZZZZZZZHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~~~~~~!!!!!!

the freaking F16s were flying above us!!! it was so freaking fast.. my camera didnt get set up in time to catch it. ZZZZ only got the sound though...

and great.. today marcus touched almost all the infantry weapons currently in our mlitary (and he has the tendency to aim cock-eyed.. LOL...) .. the GPMG, M16.. SAR21... sniper rifle... MILAN.... LAW.... lolz... names that will throw some people to the little "X" at the top right corner of this window...

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"Do you feel lucky, Bei?"

Then night fell... i found a spot near the centre of the field.... it was one of the scaffoldings that had a photographer and spotlight on it. Chhildren were climbing all over it like monkeys! A few security personnel had to come down with their little LED torchlights and shooing eveyrone down.

marcus got naughty and climbed almost wayy to the top of tht two storey sturcture.... i just stuck my camera up high...

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We climbed that.... one of those...

Then bla bla.. ... FIREWORKS!!!

I GOT THE WHOLE DISPLAY!!!

PLUS THE SECOND ONE!!

AND SARAH DIDNT GET THE SECOND ONE!!!

WHOO HOO!!!

its on the video below.

OMG they had a sequence for the fireworks... i thnk they took the idea from anti-aircraft guns. Cos it was just liek that! two streams of fireworks swaying left and right like how an anti-aircraft gun fires... and they ended it with an explosion of green fireworks! splendid...

i mean really!! just look at the pic! that's roughly how AA shots look like!

ok enuf war, audi... ppl are not interested.

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DRT DRT DRT DRT DRT DRT!!!!

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BOOM~~~~mmmm!!!

Then.. my favourite... the national anthem. -.- LOLZ!!! no la jk... cmon man..... for the first time in yishun... the national anthem echoes for all...

I looked back from my spot and found that there was a gap in the crowd directly behind me... like some linear force cutting through the crowd, revealing the grass. LOLZ... i blocked ppl's view.. =p=p=

Then freak! iw as running out of tape and the mini concert came on!

i threw away that malaysian guy's rap hippo hoppo but took down the TWINS..... with 100x ZOOM!!! do you know how far is that!?!?

and good gott!!! everything was shaky and pixelated!

but hey i saw wei shan and her grouppies scuttling below me.. LOLZ.. after i saw her beinding down and running... a WHOLE BUNCH of GIRLS... i thnk there were ten or so.. followed her as close as possible to the stage befoe the twins came up.. LOZ~!!!

then came the mobile column.

they fired blanks on their machineguns and low-calibre shells. WHOO!!!!

then duh... i started to imagine as if yishun was really in a battle or sth.... ahh... ..... romance...

i saw.. FOR THE FIRST TIME (!!)... the AMX-13!!! that freaking 50-year-old tank made by the French that is currently used by Singapore... The AMX-13 did a 360-degree turn with its turret (kncokin a few spectators on the roadside infront of 925 dead in their heads... LOLZ no la jk...) and rolled off... oo i think they changed the engine.... it sounds so War of The World-ish..

and FREAK!! i saw the HOWITZER!!! That HUGE gun-totting vehicle.... its like a mobile artillery or somesort...... the gunbarrel elevated and.... de-elevated... adn it drove off.... LAME!!!!...

but omg when they fired the low-calibre shells ...ZZZ.... that thing could tear a man apart!

anyways yeah... marcus and i ran as close as possible to the stage while the mobile column was slowly dripping into yishun (i thought the army was supposed to maintain a certain distance between a column? booo.... bad leadership...) and i saw CLARA~!!! (make some noooooiiiiisssseeee!!!)

then the fat boy donald... who doesnt look fat that much as before... lolz maybe its cos he's sick eh? literally.

clara's cousins were there too... :) (hallo.. ni hao~~~)

i didnt stay longer for Tanya chua and Nick Tse to get on (each other... =p=p=p) cos my tape ran out anyways... so i left marcus with his sister (not to you, Don... =p=p=) and lef for home....

i was at the front door (everything happens there, dammit...) andi heard tanya chua sining... whee~~~~

then in my room while transferring the video to the comp, i heard nick tse... whee~~~

its like... we're neighbours!!

LOLZ!!!

ahh yes.. fun day.....

Anything for Singapore, my friends....

Anything....

p.s. ... ... i thin kthey used the word "Motherland" in one of the speeches or sth..... and i think.... communists use that word.... nationalists use "fatherland".... democratics DONT USE WORDS LIKE THAT... i thnk they use... "the country"... :)

SIngapore.. a communist nation?

well....

Anyways here is a frame from the Twins video i took....

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na bei i should hit myself damn hard for not going into the crowd and taking the video... SO BLUR!!!! SO PIXELATED!!! SO RED!!! COLOUR BLEEDING!!! SOFT FOCUS!!!

never again, audi.... never again.... Think of that person who likes the Twins so much that the person has the poster on the person's wall... =p=p=p *hint hint*
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