Thursday, August 10, 2006 Y
Though national day is supposed to be a public holiday but I cant get any time off at all. 11am left the house for Tampines to gather for the pre-NDP briefing. Basically nothing much, just some last minute instructions and a morale boosting session. Than around 2pm the bus came and brough us all to the Singapore indoor stadium. Once we reached there we change into our costume and went to do our hair. They made my hair so stiff by spraying tonne of hair spray into it -_-" Anyway after that, we went outside the indoor stadium for our dinner and last min adjustment to our props. And just before we set off to the national stadium, we did some light training.I was pretty nervous as we waited for our turn outside the stadium since this was the final performance and I would also kinda worried that I would messed up my role as one of the group key counters. Anyway the time came and we entered the stadium and formed up at the track during the MP's performance. Once they cleared off the field and our music started, we ran straight ahead full of energy and force. The atmosphere was really good, you can hear the crowd really shouting and can see orange light from the torch given in the goodie bags, as well as flashes from the cameras. It was sure a wonderful sight, I just gave everything I got for the peformance, but I was so nervous that at certain point I forgotten to count and my groupmates reminded me of my role and I started counting again XD Things went pretty smoothly I guess and before you knew it, it was time for our exit. In case you still wondering, I am actually from the Singapore Soka Association and I am one of the 1200 performers involved in the mass display. You know, the one with the lights formations =P For our finale, we actually did human towers of 3 to 4 layers high and I was rather disappointed that the camera did not captured that since we really put in a lot of effort into it. But overall, it was still good =DAnyway we came back during the grand finale and I was really getting into the mood. Singing the national day songs and waving the ballooon around. And when the fireworks display went off, I took out my cam and video the whole thing down, guess no one will notice anyway since everyone will be too busy looking at the fireworks anyway. Managed to get myself a very nice video.Soon after, the parade draw to a close and the post parade party starting. Everyone was still very high, singing and dancing all over the stadium. I was messing around with my friends and they wanted to take some photos with the other performers as well. We did take some photos and 1 interesting thing that happen was. My friends spotted 3 girls and wanted to take a photo with them. Turn out that one of them is Lydia, my classmate. Din see her for quite a while. Used to study very often with her and a couple of others on many evenings while mugging for the A levels. Anyway it was great to see her once again and I chatted with her for a while before we left. After that, we just gathered back at the national stadium for our debrief and collected our belongings before heading home. This national day is really very memorable for me. I made many good friends from all walks of life and I enjoy the time we spend together as a group. I had loads of fun and brought back with me many good memories. This marks the end of another chapter and I will surly the times spent training. Times really files, where we started training in april at kranji camp and now we at already finished our performance. I would like to thank the trainers who dedicated so much time into training us and of course EVERYONE who made this performance a huge sucess. I uploaded some photos which really bring back sweet memories to me below... ^^ Dun mind the background music... I am still into the NDP mood =POutside the indoor stadium just before we haf our dinner...
Inside The Stadium...
The Centre Tower..
Running Into Lydia...
Performance Pix 1
Performance Pix 2
Performance Pix 3 (Can See a lil of the human tower XD)
left his footprints
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