Pre-National Day celebration

Typed a whole long blog yesterday and that stupid connection had to drop when I just click on "Publish Post". Had wanted to save the html text but clicked too fast and probably just underestimated the connection that it will play me out. Anyway, now I had to repeat the post again, hopefully can remember what I typed yesterday.

Took a bus after work to meet Web around his building as we planned to hang around Raffles Place until 9pm to watch the fireworks display near the One Fullerton area. After walking around to check out the places to makan, finally decided to go Vil'age as most restaurants had closed or dun seem exciting. But as there were no people yet (slightly b4 6pm), we sat around outside while I took picture of the mini moo-moo at the entrance and ate some muffins Web bought earlier in the afternoon at Vil'age (3 for $3 only from 11am to 2pm).

Web dun really enjoy dining at Vil'age as he felt that there are few varieties and too ex. For me, I enjoy except the food is not as good as Marche. And we probably have different taste and ordered different stuff compared to when I go with sis or frens at Marche. We ordered about 4 dishes and paid around $47 for them.

Stopped by the Standard Chartered Bank building and went in to take a look as the lobby looks impressive. The waterfall-like fountain looked like a giant harb and the decor on the walls looks like bread!!


Left at 8pm after a small rest on the sofa there and went to the washrooms at the Fullerton Hotel before walking over to the One Fullerton area. Was really surprised as there were already crowds of people everywhere. We still managed to squeeze through the crowd on the bridge to Esplanade to a good position. There were so many people with huge cameras and large tripod stands. Imagine they could have been there since like 5-6pm or earlier. It was still about 45 minutes to go before the start of the fireworks display so I took a picture of the full moon (its 15th day of the chinese lunar calendar) amidst the clear black sky.

The fireworks display finally started while I took few pictures before taking the rest in video (will update in next post, need to load videos 1st). Although my Sony cam is light and portable, the results were still quite good.

It took only about 10 minutes and cost alot of money!! We sat around for almost an hr plus to wait for the crowd to disperse 1st before making our way to Raffles Place mrt. It was still very crowded when we boarded the train and we saw 2 gals sitting on the floor of the train eating sushi!! My god...