Went to the National Day Parade Preview last Saturday... With Joellyn and Marissa. At first, I was supposed to go with only Joellyn. But then she wanted Marissa to come. So her mother got tickets. And so I was scolded for not using the tickets. Great. Anyway, I went to training before that and then went to Joellyn's house to bathe and eat an early dinner.

We got there more than the time we were supposed to be there. We got a bit lost but finally got there. We were REALLY excited when the Singpore Idol people came and said that they were going to walk around! We planned to make them all sign our hats. BUT, the pre-parade started and they didn't come to our section. Joellyn was so depressed that she didn't get Paul Twohill's autograph. The bag is so cool! Much nicer than last years. The hosts came flying in on the flying fox. We had these games and got points. But it's quite obvious that everybody got the same points at the end so as to not disappoint anyone.

After that we had the Red Lions come in with their parachutes. Nobody fell this year. GOOD! Then the marching contingent came in and we sang all the national day songs. Because of that, all three of us memorised the english song. After that we sang the national anthem. The preview even included fake ministers and speakers!

After that, they had all these perforformances lah. Our motivator looked really weird when he was dancing. Our group was pretty unenthu. There was this person, sitting next to us who was reading! The fireworks were great and Joellyn took pictures of them. I had FORGOT to bring my camera.

It was really fun and we went for some KFC after the preview. Then went back to Joellyn's house, hung for a while and then I went home.

What REALLY depressed both me AND Joellyn was that the Singapore Idols were at the OTHER side of the Grand Stand. If we had gone up the other side, we would have been like, only 5-20 metres away from them!!!! AND we would have gotten autographs!! ARGH!!