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On New Year's Eve
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On New Year's Eve |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore 
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Squashed together with the rest of the nation, we stared blankly at reflections of skyscrapers in Singapore River. impatient glaring at our watches, our foreheads futilely wiped (still) the wait to count from 10 to 0 that accomplished, our instinctive selves urgently stormed to the train station, leaving litter behind [This message has been edited by kaile (01-02-2003 08:47 AM).] |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Well there's fine for that here but not on that night....Cute write I enjoyed the image. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
So it isn't just in America that the night ends and the new year begins on a note of rubbish? Is this proof that we have no intentions of cleaning up our collective acts? LOL though at the 'squashed' imagery and then the sudden mad dash for the train. |
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garysgirl 
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
I like this, too. So people all over the world like fireworks? I wonder if folks in lots of other places look at fireworks on the Fourth Of July (or some other day of celebration during the year)?   "Love makes the world go around" |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
thanks for sharing this |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
Eric, that's a fine for littering in my country too, up to SS1000 but apparently nobody cares enough...  Kacy, i'm afraid so...littering seems to be the rage here, despite a "Clean and Green Campaign"...thanks for your LOL...it's a cheap thrill i guess but nonetheless i'm glad someone else besides me liked this musing... Ethel, well, Singaporeans get to watch fireworks on our National Day (9th Aug), eve of the Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve and some other dates, depending on the enormity of the occasion... oh yes, fireworks-watching is one of my favourite past-times...how about you? thanks passing shadows for stopping by and leaving a comment... |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Seems a perfect description of the event, I always feel a bit let down after the hoots and well wishes for a new year, the hugs and bright hopes as well as thanksgiving for the year closing. I always think everywhere else, the celebration goes on longer and "we're" the only ones dispersing quickly from the pomp and revelry/reverie. It helps not being in the only group that rushes the closure of a new beginning. Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
I enjoyed First Nite Annapolis and all the events leading up to the fireworks..then we left before the thousands of people did and missed the fireworks. But I have seen them before. *s M |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
Virginia, thanks for your thoughtful comment...while i had similar sentiments, i just felt the whole situation was absurd...as Obelix might comment, "these Singaporeans are crazy!"..but it comforts me to know that such behaviour is not exclusive.. Maureen, i admire you...i think it takes a lot of discipline to turn away from fireworks even though one may have seen them tonnes of times before and that their beauty is fleeting...i know that i can't do that...  |
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