I don't get it with parades!
Seriously!
What is it with them anyway?
I'm not really sure, but to be safe, I'd better not say the occasions that call for a parade. Lest history repeats itself. Heh!
A parade that everyone knows, at least in Singapore that is, is ofc the NDP. A fren commented on her blog that this is getting a bit tired. Which I agree. Same old same old year in year out: the parade itself, songs, dance, pyrotechnics!
Last year, I saw the Parade in a diff light. Most prob cos by then, I was already enlisted. So I could appreciate the intricacies of parades.
Gotta give credit where credit is due, right? Mind you, a parade, any parade, isn't so easy as it looks. A 'simple', 30 min long parade could have anywhere between 1 to 2 days of practice behind it. I know. I've been involved in one before. Don't ask.
So just imagine a parade of that scale, with so many ppl watching. Months, not days of prep. Uuurrgghh! I shudder to even think of it!
The thing I don't get is this: why a parade to celebrate whatever it is that is being celebrated? How exactly is having a parade celebrating the occasion? Get my drift? Hmm..
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Seriously!
What is it with them anyway?
I'm not really sure, but to be safe, I'd better not say the occasions that call for a parade. Lest history repeats itself. Heh!
A parade that everyone knows, at least in Singapore that is, is ofc the NDP. A fren commented on her blog that this is getting a bit tired. Which I agree. Same old same old year in year out: the parade itself, songs, dance, pyrotechnics!
Last year, I saw the Parade in a diff light. Most prob cos by then, I was already enlisted. So I could appreciate the intricacies of parades.
Gotta give credit where credit is due, right? Mind you, a parade, any parade, isn't so easy as it looks. A 'simple', 30 min long parade could have anywhere between 1 to 2 days of practice behind it. I know. I've been involved in one before. Don't ask.
So just imagine a parade of that scale, with so many ppl watching. Months, not days of prep. Uuurrgghh! I shudder to even think of it!
The thing I don't get is this: why a parade to celebrate whatever it is that is being celebrated? How exactly is having a parade celebrating the occasion? Get my drift? Hmm..
Answers. Answers. I need answers..