Started of the year with a great big bang! The splendid thing called FIREWORKS!!
First, met up with Shana, Joanna, Jo's boyfriend and her friend. Had lunch at The Central, quite a new mall at Clarke Quay. It's supposedly a Japanese-themed mall, but not much though. Walked to City Hall afterwards and I met Jeaness.
Bought our gears to keep our stomach going for the 7 hours wait till midnight. Went to Marina Bay Waterfront near Esplanade to 'chope' good seats for the fireworks. The wait was tedious. Entertained ourselves with food, cards, rubik's cube, light stick and camwhore the rest of the time. It became dark quickly and lizards started coming. YIKESSS! I had the job of using the light stick to chase away any unwanted brown creatures on the pursuit of our food. Going to the toilet was impossible, but brave Jeaness did it anyway. It was vile and disgusting, worse than China's worst. There were like pads all over the floor with you-know-what on them. Anyway, according to the newspaper, 160000 people are expected there, with 750 policemen. Whoa! Everyone's so excited for the new year.
Finally 10, 9, 8.....3, 2, 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR and the beautiful colours lighted up the sky. I felt that the awful wait was all worthwhile. (:
Going home was horrendous though. Waited for the crowd to disperse first, but it was still bad. Didn't have to walk to the MRT at all, we got pushed right in. Same thing for going into the train. But I think if everyone didn't push me, I might not have made it into the train at all, haha. So thanks for pushing and jabbing and squeezing. Reached home early in the morning 2am. In short, the night was Fabulous and fireworks were Fantastic!! And I'm J1 this year!
No comments:
Post a Comment