Bria celebrated her first National Day on Monday. This year, celebrations were held and telecast live in 5 districts in Singapore, and Eunos happened to be one of those districts. In fact, the celebrations at Eunos was just below my block at the big open field in front of Eunos MRT. Not wanting to miss out on all the fun, I brought C and Bria to the celebrations.
Both Bria and I wore matching red tops and white bottoms, colors of our flag. I even pinned a white ribbon on her hair!
There were a lot of people, and a lot of noise, but other than that, it was nothing much of a celebration. Firstly, I couldn't get a flag for Bria cause i didn't have the coupon for the goodie bag which contained the flag. So i tried to ask for one from the cheerleaders who seemed to be stationed everywhere. Nobody could help me, until a kind auntie who sat beside us, and seeing how cute Bria was, gave Bria her flag.
Secondly, i didn't appear on TV. The stupid camera men kept focusing on the few MPs who were there whenever the live telecast focused on Eunos. For the other districts, everytime they were focused, we can see the entire crowd cheering and waving their flags. But the minute the camera turned to Eunos, it was always the 5 stupid MPs. Even though we were all cheering and waving like mad in the background.
Thirdly, I did not get to see the fireworks. In the first place, I didn't even know there was going to be fireworks! I only heard the fireworks 2 hours after i left the celebrations around 8plus. At that time, I was waiting below my block for the mobile column to drive past. Instead of seeing the big battle trucks and canons, I heard fireworks. Argghhh.. i could have punched myself. I SOOOO wanted to let Bria see the fireworks. And, if i had known there was going to be fireworks, i would have brought my grandmother to my place! I was actually thinking where the hell I can bring my grandma to see fireworks without squeezing with too many people. And the perfect place was just below my house. So Stupid!!
And lastly, because of all the loud noise from the celebrations, Bria had nightmares and didn't sleep well that night. She was totally okay DURING the celebrations, but the fussing kicked in at night.
Oh well, i guess the only good thing that happened was that we got to see the bug tank trucks, and got some free popcorn and tidbits... = )
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