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Celebration At Jurong East Central

Today, I went with KB to Jurong East Central to witness the community celebrating the nation 40th Birthday. It was quite intriguing to be involved with the crowds and enjoy the celebration with the rest of the Singaporean island wide. We saw exhibits from the army Signals and Armour unit as well as the PTI. At the PTI encouragement, I did 13 chin-up in exchange for a bottle of Newater. Damn Malu…

The moment the President SR Nathan arrived at Padang for the parade, the crowd rose together and sang the National Anthem. Being a soldier who is currently serving the nation, KB together with me stood at attention; feet closed stomach in chest out fists clenched together and sang the National Anthem with pride. Such a pity we aren’t in uniform or else we will have to salute the Singapore flag as well…HaHa

The rest of the event did not stood out. It was the usual stuff. We witnessed the mini fireworks display and after another round of National Anthem to signal the end of the NDP show, we stayed back to watch the mobile column which were making their way from Padang to Jurong East. In the meantime, several artistes such as Eric Moo, Zhou Chong Qing and Joi Cai performed their usual hits. Joi Cai looked particularly pretty and radiant when she sang her new hits from her latest ablum.

We waited the mobile column for quite some time and when they did arrive, they did not disappoint. We tried to catch Darren with his sniper pose. However when the vehicle came to a standstill, he stood up; fired a shot and went down again all in a matter of seconds…what the fcuk! There was a secondary school kid behind us who tried to impress his friends by naming the purpose of the vehicle as well as the unit where it come from but the problem is…he got it all wrong. When the vehicle, with the antenna protruding out at the back and obviously from “Signals” stopped right in front of us…he actually exclaimed it was the Medic vehicle. I almost “Peng San” on the floor upon hearing that.

I will upload the pictures taken into Flickr tomorrow so for those who are interested can take a look what happened at Jurong East for our nation 40^th birthday.

And once again, Happy 40th Birthday Singapore!

posted by Immortali @ 12:07 am