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New Year's Eve countdown at Esplanade. This year's one was much better than last year's, glad I agreed to go. Me, Serene and Mich headed down to Marina Square at around 9 and was joined by Garyler and Andric I think, later. They are really nice people. They'd walk behind us and make sure that nothing happened. It was jam-packed with people. We had to wait for around 15 minutes just to cross a small road. And all the people kept shoving and there was so much body heat. And there was once Serene touched Mich and I and we both shrieked. and some woman behind us went " I didnt do anything!" After lots of pushing we finally got a prime position. At 1159 Serene started the countdown, since there isnt a proper one. And people around us joined in too. We were only 1 second off! The fireworks were right in front of us and it was magnificent. Like the best I've ever witnessed, better than all the national days. Made the long wait and jostling with the crowd all worth the while. I had a genuinely happy new year. Had some Subway after that, met Melina and her band gang, Serene met her brother and his friends. It's amazing how even with hundreds of thousands of people around we can still bump into people we know. Expectedly, there was much chaos when trying to get to the Mrt station coz the citylink underpass thing was closed. Apparently, one of the entrances to the underpasswas closed and the police officer directed us to cross by the road. But when we got to the road, the police officer there told us to go by the underpass. So one man got really angry and started yelling at the police man. And this kaypoh aunty started going " YA YA YA" and clapping. So her friends joined in as well as some other people. We hurriedly ducked away to escape the crowd who had not yet left for the exit. But it wasnt of much use coz me had to wait really long again to get into the station. Finally reached home at around 2am. Had to walk home from the Mrt station but it wasn't that scary. I received a message from Mr Siva and it got me all sentimental. But it also dealt the devastating confirmation that Mr Hong is to be our form teacher for 2007. Came back and heard many different accounts of the horrible Celebration at VIVOCITY. Everyone was talking about it. "Omg I wanted to cry when they sang uptown girl", " they did sexyback la what the hell", " wah that PCK is so teribble". And my cousin from New York thought that that's THE celebration that everyone went to, means equivalent to the Times Square one. Omg what a bloody disgrace. Didn't send out as many New Year messages this year so, Happy New Year to one and all! melissa at 8:56 PM |
