Fireworks Festival 2006

So i went to the grand finale of the national fireworks festival 2006 (Is that what it's called?) today. It was awesome but way way crowded! Luckily A and VB managed to score us some good spots inside an investment office at 1 Fullerton, which is like the best place to watch it ever! Too bad its indoors, so we don't get the music. So I decided to try out my new camera's fireworks mode. I also have some really good videos, but the file size is super huge, so I'm not gonna post it.

The crowd outside was absolutely crazy man. I heard that people were camped out since 4pm. There's no way I'm gonna do that. The only other time I've heard of people camping out since 4pm to see anything was Times Square on New Year's Eve. But then again, Singaporeans will queue up 12 hours for Hello Kitty at McDonald's, so maybe its not so surprising after all!

You know, its great to have such a big event in the city and all, but it gets kinda disruptive to traffic. Most traffic in Singapore passes through the city area somehow or other, so with Nicoll highway and ECP totally jammed up, and all trains clogged up once they reach the City Hall and Raffles Place area, it just makes it so hard to get anywhere anytime some event like this is going on in the city! And that goes for Chinese New Year and National Day and whatever big event you can think of... Back in the Bay Area I only remember one day a year where traffic comes to this kinda standstill everywhere: Thanksgiving Eve.