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AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY Saturday, August 9, 2008


Y'know...after watching the Beijing Olympic Opening, the Singapore NDP seemed to be a kinda anticlimax. It isn't very fun watching a huge, beautifully planned out opening ceremony for a famous international once-in-four-years event then watching an annual, uh, y'know what I mean celebration.
On the 8th of August, we had this connect Singapore thing, in which everyone had to hold hands and say the pledge. Or summat like that. I think my class was the most unenthusiastic...when we were supposed to sing some school cheer song, coincedentally it happened to have the same tune as "Blood upon the Risers"...so I taught my friends the chorus and we all sang it instead.
"Gory, gory what a helluva way to die...
"Gory, gory what a helluva way to die...
"Gory, gory what a helluva way to die...
"And he ain't gonna jump no more!"
Wasn't that fun! We were also shouting "NEW YORK YANKEES!" when they were cheering for god knows what. And when they played the "bomb" game and one Diligence bombed us, we didn't reply at all. Although, when my class bombed me, I did bomb Lemon...but that's different.
Then we had a lookout for unpatriotic caps. I brought the most unpatriotic one I had - not the Singapore Navy one, or the camouflaged one, but the USS NIMITZ one. That's totally American, that is. Then my friend brought a Ferrari one, and we spotted a Yankees cap as well, not to mention Akira and Adidas.
For us, connect singapore was a failure since the bloody radio didn't even tell us when to start the pledge, so we only managed to say the last part. In fact, some didn't even say it at all. But let's not dwell on that.
'Cause after that, I rushed off to have a small reunion at SUBWAY, which I Couldn't Even Find. And all the directions y'all gave me were so headachey-giving. But anyway I made it and after that, we went to West Mall [which is somewhere around, in the West] and played arcade and watched Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Then I lost my wallet.
Ok, so I didn't really lose it, thanks to the cleaner, but I was walking out of the theatre and suddenly I discover it's gone, so I shouted "HOLY CRAP!" loudest I ever swore, and raced back to my seat. I don't know where the heck it was, but thankfully that bloke helped me find it. Or I wouldn't have been able to get home.
So I took the MRT. Unfortunately, I took it from Bukit Batok down to Dhoby Ghaut, then changed to Serangoon, thus wasting half an hour when instead I could have been picked up from Bishan. My parents had envisioned me taking the train down to Jurong East, changing, going to Outram park, changing, and going to Serangoon. SO I was smart enough to take the route, but not smart enough to call 'em to pick me up from BIshan.
Or summat like that.
Anyway, I was just in time for the olympics. Boy, was the ceremony good! I particularly enjoyed the giant fireworks steps to the Birds Nest Stadium thing. Very creative of the whatchamacallit person who created it.
Compared to that, although my aunt booked a room at the Swissotel and we could see almost everything up there, the Singapore NDP was boring. Only the military part was fun - although the Black Knights were a helluva lot more entertaining at the airshow. THe rest was...boring. Even the baseball match we watched after the parade was more fun then the entire thing. GO YANKEES!
So, anyway. Yesterday, coincedentally AGAIN, was the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the B-29 bomber Bockscar and the atomic bomb Fat Man. And as my dad pointed out, there sure were a lot of fat men running around the baseball field yesterday night.
Happy belated birthday, Singapore.

~Quote of the Day~
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
-Harry Truman, trying to justify the droppings of the atomic bombs. Made no difference to the thousands of people who died, anyway.


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