The NE show sucked ass. This is my first so I'm not making a comparison but as a stand-alone event, it was terrible! I hated that they pop-ified all the traditional songs and killed the patriotism that I used to feel. They had the mobiles and they made it look like it was Chingay instead of a National Day Parade. The only fascinating thing about the event was the flypast! Even the videos that they showed were badly done... it was of Singaporeans f-ing up the pledge!?
The weather was good though.
I spent the majority of the time chatting with the boys, eating their snacks (which they offered!) and pasting the tattoos on them. The funniest bit was when I got trapped when I was returning to my seat and the boys decided to embarrass me by singing to me out loud! The gaps in between the rows of seats are very narrow forcing you to almost walk along the path like it's a tightrope. But with the funpacks and the boys own bags, it was like leaping over hurdles. At one point, this kid from choir, grabbed my hand and started singing Sing A Song for Singapore - the theme song for this year's NDP. Then the 2 rows of classes turned to me to see what the commotion was and... they joined in!! So now I had 2 classes belting out the chorus to me at the top of their voices *blush* One kid even changed the lyrics to Sing A Song to Ms Parveen. I wanted to die. There were other schools present too.
But yea. That's my take home of the parade. I bonded with the boys instead of the nation.
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