SG50: Walking Down 41 Floors

Date:  Aug 9, 2015

Very eventful evening.

This is where we came to watch the NDP fireworks.

We are at 41st floor @ The Sail.

I guess, everyone has the same idea in their head.  We actually have to queue up to get to the apartment at 41st floor.

And it is not a short queue.  There are actually 100-200 people queueing.

But is all worth it.  The wait.  The long walk from the car park.  

All the near by car park are all full by the time we reach there.  So, I have to park at the Maxwell Link that side.

We are like picnic.

But indoor picnic.

From here, we then know how “PACK” is spelled, how “CROWDED” is pronounced.  Wow.

I was shock to see so many people.

There are every where.

Look at the floating platform.

You can see the helicopter clearly from here.

This is where they fire the big guns.

The tanks.

Here comes the fireworks.  Nice.

This year is SG50.  No wonder so many people came to watch it.  It is a big event.

More fireworks.

 The few minutes of the fireworks that I captured.

 

 

 

 

Of course, we sing the birthday song for Singapore.

I have to cook my favourite bee hoon.

The kids are happily playing there too.

What goes up must come down.  And when they come down, they have to cross the road, queue and go up One Raffles Quay to get their car.

We try to wait for the lift to come.  But it seems that the lift stop at every floor.   And when it get to us, it is fully packed.

So, we decided to walk down the stairs.

Yes, from 41st floor.

Still going strong.

Still doing OK.  Left with 17 floors nia.

Left with 9 floors.

4 floors left.

And we finally made it.

As a reward, we pay only $2.40 for the car park.

And that wraps up our exciting NDP experience.  Happy Birthday Singapore.  Happy SG50!

CNY 2014 - Malaysia's Fireworks

Date:  Feb 3, 2014

You can only play this, see this in Malaysia.

This blog entry is for those children who still have not had any chance to go into Malaysia on CNY first minute and enjoy the fire crackers and fireworks.  So that they have an idea of what is fireworks and fire crackers and how Malaysians celebrate the CNY.

Jay Jay loves to play this.

Jay is 8 years old this year.  So, he has been upgraded to light up the small fireworks.

There you go, beautiful small fireworks.  Not so loud, and not so high, and nice small little fireworks.

As for Mr. Kay Kay, he still a bit scare of lighting up the 烟花.

Once he got the hang of it...

He loves it so much.

Of course Jay Jay is more brave than Kay Kay.  He play 2-3 sticks at the same time.

Of course, Mummy will try to teach Kay Kay how to light up bigger fireworks.

And he light up successfully!

Fireworks!  Nice!

And Jay Jay light up more fire sticks.

Side Track a bit… Remember, this Sony QX100 camera?

The QX100 can take such a nice night photo.

Another one.  As long as you have enough lights it can take marvellous photos.

I have even upgraded the new firmware yet.  But is so nice already.

What are they doing now?

Oh.. Mummy is demoing the small pop crackers.  It is dangerous, so, mummy have to demo it.

After you light up, you have to throw it away fast.  So that it will pop pop pop.

I think mommy is having lots of fun of it.  Now, she tied 5 together and it create a loud and big pops.

Let’s see uncle Yon Wei throw the pop fire crackers into the sky...

Kay Kay always enjoy playing the fire sticks...

OK.  Now mummy upgrade her skills and throw many pop fire crackers into the bucket.  And it created a loud bang.

Grandpa asked Mummy to light up the long fire crackers.  And this is our 2014 long fire crackers..

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Happy Chinese New Year!

And the outside world changed.

It is like a war zone.

And it is like almost every house hold displaying their wealth.  The more wealthier you all, the bigger fire works display you will light up.  Hahahaha.

Look at this fireworks.  It is the biggest of that night.  It is cool.  Big and nice.  Thanks for lighting it up in front of the house so that we can all watch.  Wahahaha.