*..Happy Birthday, Singapore!..*

The days leading up to National Day, xq had been pondering if she should go catch the NDP fireworks.  Been "chasing" fireworks like a fan girl since JC days with the PL gang and FSV gang, my parents as well! There's 3 major occasions for fireworks annually, minus the fringe events:

(1) National Day
(2) New Year's Eve Countdown
(3) International Fireworks Festival

Haven't seen a single fireworks display since 2008 NYE.  And just as I decided against seeing it this year, a twist of events required slave to videograph the fireworks from Textile Centre's highest floor. So this means that, XQ WAS FATED TO WATCH FIREWORKS THIS NDP 2010! WOOHOO!

We reached early at about 545pm and was fascinated by how old school the textile centre really is. Only been there once before, to purchase backdrop cloth for Year 1 FSV Studio Production with the T1B3 girls. 2006.  Other than that, pretty excited because it's near my Grandma's old house and Jalan Sultan held many precious childhood memories of xq's. Used to catch the NDP flypast and fireworks from Ah Ma's house with relatives back in kindergarten till early primary school years.

Then we spotted the parachuteeee very tiny.

This was the closest we got to the flypasts.

Looked down the stairway and got a fright from the height. 

xq lovess sunsets!! And silhouettes.

We loveee shadows too! heh heh! in the evening sun!

Time to camwhore the videographer whilst he's framing up!

The nicest shot of me, too bad the wind messed my hair up!

After 29736823 attempts, I finally got a few decent sunset shots of slave! wahhhhh! =)

All of which taken by my IXUS 100IS! haha don't belittle consumer cameras! Only the sky shots of fly pasts were taken with my Prosumer Powershot S5IS. Either way, Canon rocks!

We caught sight of the tankers along Beach Road.

And the night mode of the IXUS looks pretty cool. It's surprisingly better than my Powershot. Here's the very smoky skies after fireworks (majorly blocked by Suntec city and another building)

And the pretty night landscape of the low-lying shophouses.

Okay finally getting sleepy. From waiting 47528913 mins for the photos to be uploaded onto blogger.  Been having insomnia. Hais.

I loveee long weekends btw! Wonder when's the next. 

And it was ham ham's 1st birthday on 9th August 2010 too =)

MORE PHOTOGRAPHY TRIPS COMING OUR WAY =)