friday was simply busy. my boss had taken 2 days off to go on a trip to Australia with his family, and will only be back on sunday.
i was meeting reys that evening so i had to finish everything by 6.30pm. lucky thing, the delivery guy came early. i was at the store from 4+ to 6+pm. i moved all the stuff that we need for the event on saturday from our 3rd level store to our office on the 4th level. with ts' help, i was quite sure i didnt missed out anything.
i left the office slightly after 6.40pm, walked to the train station and took the train to cityhall. first time in my life, i see so so so so so many people at cityhall. it was so crowded, there was an announcement saying "the train station is crowded. if you are not taking the train, please leave the station." i even had to queue to scan my card. there was simply not much space to walk.
according to reys, its not the first time. she had seen the similar situation a couple of times, usually fridays. we sat at cafe cartel, had some finger food and salad. all the time we were there, there was a continuous string of people walking from the train station towards the esplanade direction. its like almost half of singapore is at cityhall. reys and i got dizzy looking at them. reys said "its like house of the dead or something (cant really remember the show title), whereby everyone is walking one direction, towards the dead."
we managed to catch the fireworks at 9pm sharp, not the full view cos there was some obstruction; a lamp post and some trees. took a few pictures.
while the fireworks was going off, we called for the bill. we predicted the train station would be full of people right after the fireworks. i bet the waitress must be cursing me inside. as expected, a number of people walked towards the mrt station just seconds after. we quickly made our way to the train platform.
on my way back in the train, i caught a glimpse of fireworks at aljunied. i was quite surprised cos reys told me that the fireworks "presentation" would last only 10 minutes or so.
if you look carefully, you'll see the fireworks, a lil faint though
it comes down like rain or gold dust (whichever you prefer), very pretty!!!
