National Day 2010 Rehearsal - 21 gun salute

Wow this sounds so scary. The loud sound was from the canon. It is part of the 21 gun salute as a respect for the arrival of the president. The canon was fired when the president arrived at the celebration of NDP. But since this is not the real NDP celebration, so a stand in for the president was arranged.

Each time the canon fired, I would startled ...lol . That's the reason why my camera moved when I was videoing.

National Day Parade 2010 Rehearsal - Participants

Participants walking towards the venue of the celebration. There are more participants already stationed at the venue but these are just a handful that I saw along the streets.

Lion and Dragon Dances are always favourite with the audience.

Most older Singaporeans about my age can identify with the above float. It is the old National Theatre in River Valley Road. It was a landmark that most older Singaporeans will remember.

But it is so sad to see it gone. In the early 1980s, the theatre was labelled structurally unsafe due to defects discovered in its cantilever roof. Also, with the proximity of the proposed Central Expressway underground tunnel to the theatre coupled with its declining use due to the lack of air-conditioning, led to a government decision to demolish the National Theatre

You can view more information about it from wikipedia .

My World Tuesday - National Day 2010 Rehearsal - March Past by Guard of Honours

As mentioned earlier, last weekend, I watched the behind the scenes of the National Day 2010 rehearsal. I did not managed to get tickets to view the whole performance on the actual site, i.e. at the padang field (a huge field infront of city hall).

These are the flag bearers. They looked so smart in their uniform.

Everyone must looked smart and everything must go right for the march past.

Some short videos of the march past towards Padang - the place where the celebrations started.

You can watch the You Tube of one of the rehearsal. The video was from the official site of NDP 2010


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National Day 2010 Rehearsal-Getting Ready for the March Past

This is just one of several rehearsals for National Day Celerbations. The actual day is on 9th August 2010. Read from the papers, there were about nine such rehearsals where roads were closed for the purposes. Everything need to be perfect for the big day.

The continents were all stationed at the road next to the site where the celebrations were held. I did not get the tickets to watch the actual or rehearsal, so I just stationed myself on the street to watch the parade. Once they got the go ahead, they would marched to the site. The participants all need to be there many hours ahead. Cannot imagine if there's a big downpour.

These armour tanks and a whole lot more positioned themselves getting ready for the march past. It was so grand and lovely. Wow first time, I saw so many army vehicles and tanks up so close.

I took several video of the march past, the numerous army vehicles really awed me.

National Day 2010 Rehearsal

Yesterday was a very busy day for me. There's lot of actions happening in the city.

What is happening here? Why are these people lining on the streets of Singapore?

Why are there so many police and army personnels on the road?

Oh no worry, it is just one of the rehearsal for our coming National Day 2010 celebrations on 9th August 2010. Our National Day is also our independent Day. This year Singapore will be celebrating its 45th birthday. Geez I am five years older than my country...lol

Behind the scenes. We dont get to see much of these behind the scenes on television. This is the first time in my 50 years of life as a Singaporean that I get to see the national day parade. Well it is not the actual, just the rehearsal but is good enough...lol. Next year, I must try to ballot for the tickets to watch the real parade on site. Now I just had to be contended to watch along the streets.

You have to follow closely the lengthy series on my posting about the rehearsal in my coming posts. Lots of video and actions coming up..........