smiling now. (:

joan, mag, alfred and I went to ecp for dinner, intending to watch the ndp fireworks but we either missed it or we're just at the wrong place. nevertheless, we settled down at the jetty playing bored-games. hahaha. there was his finger game, "peace like a river", "dumdumdeedee" then "what, huh, who?" lol. kept laughing at our poor attention spans and inability to speed up our movements. getting old, arent we? oh yeah! and we played 7up! we couldnt count for nuts. hahaha.

more interestingly, there was this other grp of people playing bored-games as well and one of their dares was to send the loser over to teach us the "dumdumdeedee" game and the other was to ask for the title of "peace like a river". hahaha. and the classic, was to have the guy standing in the middle shouting "tell laura"! (: very spontaneous people, indeed.

with that, it was a great national day spent despite missing the fireworks. for their warmth and ecstacy was explicitly shared amongst us. I've never felt more comfortable in the outdoors and with strangers than tonight. 'cause that experience was the true spirit of unity - regardless of race, language or religion.

Happy 41st Birthday, Singapore! with love.