Sunday, April 22, 2007
was reading zhiling's blog just a moment ago and she was talking bout the ndp songs and even had a website where all the songs were. naturally, i went to the site and played the song "we will get there" by dick lee and stephanie sun. the moment i hear the song, a kind of trembling ran through my body as the memories start flooding back. heard this song many many times every week in 2002 when the mortar trainees from MCC had to do ndp duties there. i was part of it and at that time, i was so sick of it after hearing it so many times. but the song carried a different kind of feelings and emotions now. it brought back the memories of the pleasant as well as unpleasant memories of ndp 2002. all the weekends burnt because we had to go to the stadium, the torture of having to stand under the sun at the exit to raise the gate of the SCDF light strike vehicle to pass, having to do ushering with the ngee ann poly students for NE show for pri 5 students. come to 2003, i was once again involved in ndp. this time because my unit is doing it as a unit. this time round, we did something more. packing and sending of the goodies bags. gosh. i tell you, that is one bad experience. mindlessly puting items by items into the bags like a factory production line for hours each day, before packing them into boxes and sending them to the various pri schools for their NE shows. ndp itself, this time we were involved in crowd control within the stadium itself. of course, the advantage this time is that we get to watch the parade at least 3 times. once during the NE show, once during the preview and once on the actual day itself. tough it may be, it was fun. and of course, the best moment is during the flyby when the national flag is flown past the stadium. standing at attention and salution the flag, i felt so very proud to be a singaporean. the feeling of warmth and pride just flowed through my entire body each time the national flag is flown and the anthem sung.
this year's ndp will be on the floating platform at marina. wont have the chance to be part of ndp again as a soldier. will prob be at ndp this year as a scout. nope i am not marching. marched in ndp many years back when i was still in TK. once is enough. haha. alright.
this is the link of the song "we will get there" that brought back so many memories now : http://media.ndp.org.sg/mp3/2002%20-%20Sun%20Yan%20Zi%20-%20We%20Will%20Get%20There%20(Eng).mp3
and for the website of all the national day songs, here it is. thanks zhiling. and if you are reading this, do tag something k. phantom. haha.. http://www.ndp.org.sg/mp3.php