I know this is rather late, but still.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE!

Hope everyone enjoyed National Day! (: I spent mine moving stuff to hall, and going down to Popular to get some stuff for school before meeting Nat and Janesa to have dinner plus watch fireworks. Well, all I got to say is, its quite an experience. Its either be at the parade itself, or stay home to watch the parade for subsequent years now. Hahaha. Yes it was that bad, it was like some sweat-inducing exercise to squeeze with the crowd. And its not even to watch the parade, its just watching the fireworks. Though I got to admit, the fireworks display was so nice that it almost made everything worth it! (: Sorry about my limited vocabulary, but yeah, it was really NICE. It made me feel happy watching it. (: Kids all around were flaunting the star-shaped lights that their mummy/daddy got for them at the Padang area, but we didn't manage to get one. (I’m still sore about that, I really wanted the white one!) It did occur to me to snatch from one of the more-proudly-waving-the-light-around kids, but I figured their parents will probably hunt me down if I did that. Oh well. Not worth risking my life for some light stick.

I still remember National Day celebrations in the past, they were actually kind of fun, in a cheesy sort of way.

In kindergarten, we would get like small goodie bags on celebration day, and they usually include sweets, chocolates, and of course, a mini Singapore flag! Memory fails me as to what we did to celebrate though. I guess goodie bags with food in it were more memorable to me then. LOL.

In primary school, there would be some performances in the form of celebration, and then major sing-along session in the hall, to that same few National Day songs. Oh, my favourite song to sing to was the one that goes “We are Singapore, we are Singapore, we will stand together hear the lion ROAR!” Thus I would sing along with patriotic pride (or perhaps it was just because I thought that song was really fun to sing to). It was quite nice hearing the entire school singing together.

In secondary school, the celebration is not much different from primary school. Except that I didn't like the song mentioned above that much anymore. Haha! But I remember when National Day was nearing, the Singspiration on Friday mornings would be used instead to teach us the National Day song of that particular year. I don't think we were very enthusiastic. Celebrations were so-so. It was only in the Upper Sec that celebrations became more fun. Maybe its due to the fact that I was in uniformed group, so I got to join them during the celebration when I got to Upper Sec, and I could see that they were so much more enthusiastic than the classes. Thus with them, I really had fun. (: And because the celebrations were only half-days, we would definitely make plans to go out after that! Hahaha. Since its GM, there's only that few places that we would always go (Bugis, Suntec, Tampines Mall etc; the few near Aljunied lah).

Strangely, I can't seem to remember much of what we did for National Day during JC. I have no idea why. Its either I didn't go to school, or I didn't enjoy myself thoroughly, or the stuff that we did was really not memorable at all. Hmm. Someone please enlighten me as to what we did for National Day celebration. LOL.

Now that we no longer have such celebrations, I think I sort of missed them. Like I said, they were fun in a cheesy way. We might say that the programme or whatever is stupid. And I just realised there's plenty of singing done to celebrate. But at the end of the day, I think I did have fun with my friends after all. (:

P.S: Because school has started and I haven't updated in days, plus this is the first year we're not having a National Day celebration, I'm feeling kind of nostalgic. The uniform days!