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The folks around here celebrate their nation's 42nd birthday with the NDP (or National Day Parade) at Marina South (with gaining its independence in 1965, this multicultural country is still very "young"; . Solely for this purpose was a huge swimming platform constructed which serves as a stage for the events today (cf. http://www.ndp.org.sg/ for more infos).
Interestingly, they have 2 current national day songs (who knows for which purpose... may be to whip people up to go ahead ... alias "Malujah Singapura", which is on the national coat of arms).
Btw:
If you think that Singapore is too cool (like my Chinese fellow Gu Zhimin, with whom I share a room in a Chinese apartment in the Woodlands here; he's from Shanghai, so they tend to have up to 39 degree celsius in summer), check out some pic's made in Qatar last Saturday.
I had a stopover in Doha (yes, the Doha of the WTO Doha-Negotiation round). Unfortunately they do not even have a Tourist Office or Visitor Center, so you are advised straight from the airport to go to one of the many hotels (although, half of the hotels are under construction at least in the West Bay Area).
Sadly, the Weaponry Museum and the National Museum were closed (which I experienced only after some sweat-provoking walking, uff), so after being forced to take a rest under a palm tree, I checked out some Souq's (=markets, malls) which unfortunately close between noon and 3.30pm... (siesta in Arabic?) and finally ended up in fleeing to the City-Center Mall (western styled), where they have built an ice rink (yeah, what else could you do if you have too much money, too hot a weather and no else ideas of leisure than watching movies and go shopping?).
I think I gotta go now and check out Singapore's City on its National Day. CU later
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