It's 3:17am in the morning and I'd decided to jot down my thoughts after a night well spent!
Went to countdown at marina square with swee khoon, sadil, jeremy and bryan today. We had dinner at Secret Recipe (well, me and sadil just had the marble cheesecake and strawberry yoghurt shakes, which were pretty good), and then hopped over to the arcade to entertain ourselves while waiting to join the impossibly huge crowd outside to watch the fireworks.
It was insufferably crowded today! Everywhere was a jostling mix of pretty girls, plain looking guys, and possibly everything else in between. Not many families out. I didn't think I'd have to squeeze and nudge this much this year. It was really annoying sometimes as much as it was refreshing and warming to be able to soak in the spirit of welcoming the new year. Yeah yeah, I might be being melodramatic, but I speak from the heart.
There was some kind of a 'one way pedestrian traffic' going on outside, in which police marshals only allowed movement of the crowd in one direction; from the esplanade to the marina bay floating platform. We got held up at one junction while trying to go the opposite way to get to the open space outside marina square, so we had to duck behind some bushes and hightail around them to get to the other side. Spotted a green lamborghini gallardo roadster parked in front of a hotel whose name I forgot! Damn, it was a beauty. But not as beautiful as what we saw next.
We found ourselves a spot outside a restaurant skirting the open area outside marina square, whose name I've also forgotten...beers in hand, waiting for the fireworks to start. And it was absolutely breathtaking. The blooms of light and muffled pops seemed to come out of nowhere and the finale was a stunning display, lighting up the entire sky in our immediate view. All that jostling and pushing was well worth enduring for the reward that was what we saw.
We headed back after that, stopping over at Starbucks at Raffles City for a short rest. I was dizzy and actually forcing myself to walk in a straight line. Apparently downing half a bottle of beer in one gulp wasn't such a good idea after such a long time of having a complacent liver. The crowd was still immense and immeasurable.
Sadil and I stopped at Bedok to walk home. Well, we walked to his place, then I cabbed from there. I wasn't prepared to walk the rest of the way alone. We actually contemplated walking all the way from marina, but decided that though it was tempting to have accomplished that as the first incredibly stupid thing to do of the year 2009, it was too stupid to go through with. haha. We talked about relationships and stuff, just sharing.
That just about wraps up today. I'm going to leave the rest of my New Year ranting for the morning (or afternoon, as I predict I'll awaken) because any more I say is just going to make my post look verbose again.
Happy New Year, people.
Went to countdown at marina square with swee khoon, sadil, jeremy and bryan today. We had dinner at Secret Recipe (well, me and sadil just had the marble cheesecake and strawberry yoghurt shakes, which were pretty good), and then hopped over to the arcade to entertain ourselves while waiting to join the impossibly huge crowd outside to watch the fireworks.
It was insufferably crowded today! Everywhere was a jostling mix of pretty girls, plain looking guys, and possibly everything else in between. Not many families out. I didn't think I'd have to squeeze and nudge this much this year. It was really annoying sometimes as much as it was refreshing and warming to be able to soak in the spirit of welcoming the new year. Yeah yeah, I might be being melodramatic, but I speak from the heart.
There was some kind of a 'one way pedestrian traffic' going on outside, in which police marshals only allowed movement of the crowd in one direction; from the esplanade to the marina bay floating platform. We got held up at one junction while trying to go the opposite way to get to the open space outside marina square, so we had to duck behind some bushes and hightail around them to get to the other side. Spotted a green lamborghini gallardo roadster parked in front of a hotel whose name I forgot! Damn, it was a beauty. But not as beautiful as what we saw next.
We found ourselves a spot outside a restaurant skirting the open area outside marina square, whose name I've also forgotten...beers in hand, waiting for the fireworks to start. And it was absolutely breathtaking. The blooms of light and muffled pops seemed to come out of nowhere and the finale was a stunning display, lighting up the entire sky in our immediate view. All that jostling and pushing was well worth enduring for the reward that was what we saw.
We headed back after that, stopping over at Starbucks at Raffles City for a short rest. I was dizzy and actually forcing myself to walk in a straight line. Apparently downing half a bottle of beer in one gulp wasn't such a good idea after such a long time of having a complacent liver. The crowd was still immense and immeasurable.
Sadil and I stopped at Bedok to walk home. Well, we walked to his place, then I cabbed from there. I wasn't prepared to walk the rest of the way alone. We actually contemplated walking all the way from marina, but decided that though it was tempting to have accomplished that as the first incredibly stupid thing to do of the year 2009, it was too stupid to go through with. haha. We talked about relationships and stuff, just sharing.
That just about wraps up today. I'm going to leave the rest of my New Year ranting for the morning (or afternoon, as I predict I'll awaken) because any more I say is just going to make my post look verbose again.
Happy New Year, people.
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