The Damned World

Well I think you can say that i am lucky for NYE because my friend happened to have some free tickets to the Marina Bay countdown and the seats were even the better ones.

The general entry started at 7pm but the show only kicks off at 9pm. There wasn’t a specific seat number on the ticket but different pricing were assigned to different area. So if you want a better seat, you will have to enter earlier to your area to find one.

Most people wanted to enter early near 7pm although the fireworks only go off at midnight. There were 5 hours that you will be staying inside that place so you can predict that people would want to get some food in just in case you start to get hungry. My friends and i too were afraid of that and we got 2 bags of food and mineral water before heading for the entrance.

We were excited about enjoying ourselves at this privileged countdown programme. However, the fun was torn apart when we were told that food weren't allow in the stadium. Most people who came have either drinks or food too. They didn't even allow those people who brought their own water bottles to enter.

Therefore the entrance area was piled with all the food that people had discarded. Btw, SISTIC was the bloody organizer again (same as the farenheit concert).

And this was the menu that they have in there.


And another rant, though they have got about 3 booths selling food and drinks, the queue was so long that would take you 15minutes to get something.

SISTIC is really just some hungry money makers. In events like this, they never make exceptions from earning extras from you. If those people, like me, were allowed to bring our own food in, there wouldn't be more people queuing than there were watching the performance.

Never mind, new year must be happy. So forget about that(but i am not going to folk out my own money for SISTIC tickets, i rather catch a movie) and let see how things looked like from the stadium.











The Fireworks

Actually i wasn't very enthusiastic with anything else apart the fireworks. There were only basically singing by Mediacorp celebrities throughout the performances and from where i was sitting, they looked better on television. Also i honestly believe that the singing was pre-recorded(they appeared to be only moving their mouths and the singings was too flawless to be live). Therefore i didn't bothered to take any photographs.

Here are some static displays of the 2009's fireworks.













For the finale of this post, here is 2 videos of the fireworks. One is from my phone's camera and the other from my friend's digicam(which is obviously clearer but taken from midway of the fireworks onwards whereas the phone's has the entire presentation).

Watch out for the last few seconds of the fireworks. Absolutely stunning. They even managed to portray them to lightning flashes.