HAPPY NATIONAL DAY!

Overheard...

Little girl: I want to go there!
Daddy: No. 6 o'clock we must go home to watch the national day parade.

Ahhh.... how he loves Singapore... (note: no hint of sarcasm here. i am serious.)

There’s No Place I’d Rather Be
Singer: Kit Chan
Music & Lyrics: Jimmy Ye

I’ve walked the streets of Cairo & Bombay
I’ve seen the neon signs on old Broadway
I’ve climbed the Eiffel Tower
The Great Wall in one hour
Experience sweet and sour
But that’s ok
Seen Hollywood, the sunsets in LA
The London Bridge, Big Ben, The Thames, UK
I’ve crossed the River Kwai
Yet still I don’t know why
I think of you each night and every day
There’s no place I’d rather be
You’ll always be a part of me
And even though I’ve roamed the world
It’s still my home I long to see
This is where my family
And my friends grew up with me
So I’ll cross the skies and sail the seas
To be where I wanna be
There’s no place I’d rather be
You’ll always be a part of me
And even though I’ve roamed the world
It’s still my home I long to see
This is where my family
And my friends grew up with me
So I’ll cross the skies and sail the seas
To be where I wanna be
Cos there’s no place I’d rather be

I was tinking what I will miss most about Singapore when I am away... being greedy as I am, the first thing that came to my mind was FOOD! On second thought, maybe not coz

1. DURIAN - yucks!
2. CHILLI CRAB - dun lyk crabs... eat about a claw once a year
3. LAKSA - seldom have cravings for it... eat it maybe once a year
4. CHAR KWAY TEOW - prefer the malaysian version... never touch the singaporean version
5. CHICKEN RICE - eat it when my whole family eats it and I dont wanna be such a bother by ordering smthg else

anyway for the 2 months I was away, I missed my mummy's home cooked food and bak chor mee only. So the 1st meal I had when I came back was bak chor mee. After craving for it for so long on cold, windy and rainy days in europe, it was disappointing and unsatisfying coz the weather was sweltering hot and actually all I wanted was smthg cold. so i haven touched another bowl since then...

haha... my diet is about as un-singaporeanish as you can get - bread, biscuits & wat else... nuts.

ok, back to wat i will miss... actually it shld be wat i missed yeah? yep i missed whining to my daddy and mummy, missed irritating my icky brother, missed talking abt everything under the sun with eileen, missed calling my grandma 'ah-ma', missed gossiping and giggling with my frens, missed sms-ing many people at once, missed yakking for hours on the phone...

does tt constitute missing singapore?

i was just telling eileen the theme of the national day song this year seemed to steer away from the traditional. Rather than play on the patriotic feelings of Singaporeans or reflect on the good old days, the song this year seemed to be targeted at Singaporeans overseas... part of the govt's ploy to woo back Singaporeans who are doing well abroad, i guess. And i thought it weird coz the group of people who will sing it most often or care about it are kids in school, who may not even know where Cairo or Bombay is. And the idea of roaming the world? oh puh-leez...

anyway...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!