9th August 2008 - National Day

Wifey had signed up wth his school to do volunteer work for this year's National Day Parade. Basically, he volunteered as an usher and he's in-charge of the Green Sector sitting arrangement for NDP08.

Many saturdays were burnt because of NDP and those saturdays I did not get to spend time with wifey because he would be really tire after a whole afternoon of volunteering work. Initially, he was pretty bad-tempered when i met him after his first NDP08 - NE programme for primary school kids. Tired and hunger made him unhappy and it was vented on me when i met him at night after his volunteering work. There after, he became more and more nicer after each session when he gotten use to the schedule and know how to deal with those kids and their teachers, and also the army guys whom he claimed as "brainless".

I had never been to a real NDP parade before. Never have the luck to get the tickets. This year, due to wifey's volunteering hard work, he was given a ticket to the show and he gave it to me. He managed to get extra two tickers but one of them is of a different sector. So total he got 2 tickets for green sector and 1 ticket for blue sector. I thus invited my army good friend aka my insurance agent Damian to the show with me.

On that day, Damian and me bought donuts, subway bread and drinks to the parade. Wifey had instructed me to collect the goodie pack for him using the blue ticket and thus I had to queue two times to get both the blue and green sector goodie pack. Many people were late although me and Damian are not that early as well. We were ushered to a pretty good seat at the far side of the area near to the stair-way. The weather is cooling with light drizzling but that did not dampen the atmosphere at all.

As usualy, the parade started off with the marching of the different defence forces in Singapore, then performances by kids, different ethnic races etc. Of course the most eye-catching performance is the F-16s fly-past doing different stunts. It's like a trademark for NDP annually. But must really comment the amazing skills of those pilots. The whole show ended with fireworks, really nice for a small country like Singapore.

There was also a post-parade party hosted by George Leong from St James Power Station after the end of the parade to continue the celebration. The music was great and many of the performers stayed back to dance and party like it was an open-area clubbing scene.

After everything ended, wifey stayed back to help clear up the area as well as doing phototaking with the other volunteers. Damian had left and I was left to walk around waiting for wifey. By the time he ended it was way pass 2300hrs and I accompany wifey to his home before I head back to my own place to rest.

"Love You Forever Wifey Shaari"

Hubby Roger