....Yes, at a carpark and alone! This was non intended.
So, I did a couple of events on the last day of 2005 and had my car parked at the millennia walk because i figured that was the only place with available lots in the vicinity, and turned out I was right. I decided to shuttle between the shows by foot as they were not far from each other. After my shows which was close to midnight, all the walking in my 6-inch boots was hurting my feet so much so I decided to drive from millennia walk to Marina Mandarin (I know, so near right?)where my colleagues are working, so that we could all count down together. I know it was a silly move but if you have been on that 6-inch boots prancing on stage and walking around for close to 3 hours, you would want to do the same. Once my car passed the exit gantry of Millenia Walk car park I immediately realised I made a mistake as esplanade was having a HUGE countdown!
Now each and every car park gantry from Marina Mandarin to Ritz Carlton to Millennia Walk, to Pan Pac and Oriental is closed! Actually i know for sure there are lots but think they just don't want all the revellers to park. Forget about returning to Marina Mandarin, I decided to go else where, Actors, a jamming pub in boat quay I frequent. The carparks in the vacinity were, as expected full so i decided to try Golden Shoe. No 'car park FULL' sign, ok, good. Went up until 6th floor than found lots. Once parked the car, heard Jean Denker and Rod Monteiro on Class 95 counting 5,4,3,2,....and the minute it hit 1...i heard fire works. I dashed out of my car and caught glimpse of the fire works from behind OUB Centre like this:
I know the first pic looks like an explosion...scary, but it was much nicer than this, quite awesome in fact. So I stood there watching til it ended.
Once ended, I made my way through the immensely crowded Boat Quay and was horrified by the number of people arming with Foam Spray. I remembered last year shouting so loudly at a guy to"STOP"when i spotted him running towards me with a foam spray. It was so loud for a moment i felt everyone froze to look at me for at least 3 seconds. I walked away un-casualtized! This year, I braved through Boat Quay with a don't-mess-with-me look and successfully 'siam' the foam sprayers until I decided to take a picture of the sight of crowded boat quay. When caught off-guarded, someone sprayed at me and my camera! I was so mad I instinctively kicked at the nearest groin. Ouch! Turned out, it HAD TO BE someone who looked like a FOREIGN WORKER(in a group). When I ferociously turned around, I saw this guy quickly scurried away! Anyway, no nice picture captured of Boat Quay cos camera blurred!
Anyone with new year resolutions here? This year I learned a new skill, look :
Yup, Glitter Tattoo. Not bad huh? Can "tan jiak" after i retire from performing.
Besides, for shows and my new image, i should have something new to update. Come back and visit soon!
5 comments:
aiyah...and right at zero hour I thought you would be hugging and kissing friends and ringing in the New Year in GRAND STYLE somewhere very stylo. So did you make it to Actors to hug and kiss your favourite uncles?? LOL
never mind lah. at least you got to see the fireworks, right? it would have absolutely horrid if you were still stuck in a traffic jam when the countdown started
You are so positive! Even though you were alone at the stroke of midnight, you saw beauty in the fireworks and savoured the moment :-)
Those foam spray things are horrid! Good on you for kicking a mischief-maker in there-where-it-hurts!
Love the glitter tattoos! So cute!
Joanne, the uncles were busy hugging and kissing else where, there weren't many people at actors that night, music quite pathetic actually. Shortly after that i headed for you-know-where la!
3a gurl, i tried the cream cone at katong liao. Quite nice but they very stingy with the cream leh, you gotto bite off a big chunk of the front and the back pastry to reach the cream in the middle! Thanks for tip anyway.
Simone. Yah my only regret was it wasn't properly aimed or else this guy confirm no 'next generation'
I read about some new outlet offering super yummy extremely-high-fat cream cones recently in ST. Think it is one of the more atas places like the pastry corner of the Raffles City supermarket or something like that. That outlet offers some of the best cream pastries around, but of course rather ex compared to the more bawah joints. But then if I am gonna get pui, I rather get pui on quality stuff, even junk food.
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