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| Singapore Flag Fly Past |
Friday, August 9, 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Singapore Apache Helicopter Flying Into The Sunset
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| Singapore Apache Helicopter Flying Into The Sunset |
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
National Day Parade 2013 Preview (Part 1)
I was lucky enough to get four tickets to the National Day 2013 preview this year and was my first time at the parade after many decades.
Like any other National Day Parades, there is always the preshow entertainment. One of the most dangerous was the appearance of the Kacang Puteh men.
Dressed in the traditional Kachang Puteh sarong and headgear, these NS boys were hurling packet of peanuts like if they were throwing away a "live" hand grenade at the audience. A little gentler hurl would have been more appreciated.
If you are heading down to the National Day Parade itself, make sure you brush up on your Singapore history too.
Randomly selected audience will appear on the huge video board and will be asked about the history of Singapore. Some questions were easy, some were like the final questions of "Who wants to be a millionaire Singapore?". Unfortunately, there is no helpline or a million dollars to win.
You start to appreciate the theme "Many stories, One Singapore" right from the pre-show segment. The organisers searched Youtube to find Shimona Kee and she did a solo redition of her La La La song and The Social Media song in front of thousands. This is how Shimona tells her Singapore stories to one Singapore.
La La La song
The Parade proper started with the arrival of the Singapore Red Lions.
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| Anticipating the Red Lions |
This year is particular special because we have the first woman Red Lion to take the plunge.
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| From the sky... |
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| ...to the ground in minutes.. |
The organisers also decided to turn this year parade of military and civil hardware into a short action packed series. It would have been better if there was a storyline to this parade instead of the rush from point A to point B. Maybe this is the typical "Wait to Rush, Rush to Wait" experience all army boys encounter serving their years in the army.
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| Our Apache Helicopters Ridding Into The Sunset.. |
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| World of Tanks segment.. |
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| Showing how ready we are for the Terrorists.. |
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| Hooray.. We caught one.. |
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| Keeping Singapore Safe. |
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| Here is how you drift on water.. |
Just before the march past, there was the tribute to the NS boys starring the stars of Ah Boys to Men and a tens of primary school students.
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| Not exploiting Ah Boys To Men |
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| Great job.. but wonder why the organisers made the students climb those stairs.. |
Friday, August 2, 2013
Going Baldless Is Better For School Image?
My Facebook newsfeed today is flooded with comments about the news of a school principal at St Margaret Secondary School who asked three of her female students to wear a wig to cover their bald statement in their support for Children's Cancer Foundation.
According to the story in Straits Times, the principal Marion Tan insisted that the three girls kept to their agreement to wear a wig when they returned to school bald. The girls didn't wear their wigs on Monday and the principal was worried about school image than anything else.
Wrote The Straits Times,
The school's rules do not allow "punk, unfeminine or sloppy hairstyles". Said principal Marion Tan: "It's very clear in our mission: it's about their turnout as a young lady."
The principal would had have a better case if she focused on the girls breaking their agreement than the unbecoming of being a young lady. Bertha Henson also agrees.
Wrote Bertha for The Breakfast Network,
She would have done better to keep to the issue of broken promises. Whatever promise has been made, must be kept, as one parent of the five said.
That’s a good principle to live by and to reinforce in our young people.
The whole incident is an example of the unease and stereotype that the Children's Cancer Foundation is trying to stop by getting friends and family to go bald so that children who go bald because of cancer treatment do not feel out place.
The three students should be encourage for their bravery to go bald as one can easily understand how difficult it is for a teenage girl to shave off her locks in support for a worthy cause. This is their real education in their turnout as a young lady.
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