National Day Eve

Morning was shit as I was raining very heavily on my way to school in Bukit Timah. Even with an Umbrella half of my body was soaking wet. The only thing dry was my head. Went for some National Day parade at Base. Got a half day today! I was hoping for it and haha we got lucky half day for us. After lunch waited for the bus which was supposed to come at 12.30 pm but it was delayed until 1.30 pm. Damn was rotting in school during that time!
Reached home got changed and out again with Ryan to the Carnival@Marina. Quite a lot of people were there for the festival. Went there to look at the Army displays plus some photo taking. There were rides in our SAF light armoured vehicles and fire engines and many static displays of military weapons and vehicles.

Bronco

AMX10 Tank

SM1 Tank our mini tank

Bionix IFV

Our new Arty Unit "Primus"

Went for a few shooting with the SAR21 with blank ammunition. Hiaz I pity the guy who is going the clean the rifle after the event ends hahaha. You know that cleaning a rifle which have shot blank ammuntitions is a nightmare?

Super Puma

After a tiring day, we headed to Marina square for Dinner at Carl's Jr Burger. The Burger is freaking HUGE! You thought Burger King's Whooper burger is big? Look at this!



BIG Right?


Ryan trying to stuff the burger into his mouth

After a super filling meal we started our hike to the Sheares Bridge to get a good view for the fireworks. Guess what? We HOLLANDED (Got lost). Hahahaha getting to the bridge is actally quite a task for first timers. But we have our RECCE commander here so we finally made it to the top facing the Esplande.


Walking on the Expressway....


I've reached!

Took a few testing shots at the city and we found something........


A city night


The Esplanade

We were facing the wrong side!!! It's actually at the opposite site! So we had to head down the bridge again to walk to the other side which is Marina South. Dying of thirst, we went to the bay area for a drink and rest by the shore. It's quite a nice place to chill out there.


By the bay

Finally headed up the the bridge again, this time facing the correct side of the bridge. We then waited for midnight with the rest of the photographers for the fireworks show. Waitign was even more tiring, luckily there's Ryan's mp3 player to keep us awake till 1155 pm. Finally 1159 hrs, rdy the camera. 0000 hrs Boom! first shot of fireworks. Everyone's camera started snapping away and adjusting settings trying to get good shots of the fireworks.


Inital shots of pyrotechnics


Roses are red


Violets are.....violets


Pretty purple fireworks


Somemore.....


The Finale

This time the fireworks were quite far so there was not much excitement there. Maybe we were tired too. Well after the whole event ended, we headed back home for a good night rest.

HAPPY 40th NATIONAL DAY