Google designed a picture logo today
YOG opening ceremony at the floating platform, facing the Marina Bay Sands.. the stage is now ready
How the stage looks, this year national day parade will be held at the Padang
9 Aug is our national day, the 45th birthday.. as usual will be catching the live telecast on TV in the evening.
At the moment, the Olympic flame relay is going around Singapore... as reported on TV, we see groups of people running all over the place. An exciting week indeed, all the attention will be on us in the next few weeks, this is our moment. The YOG opening cermony will be held on 14 Aug. A total of 7,000 performers will be featured in the 110-minute show.
We do have our sense of humour... someone reminded us of another important festival: "The Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival starts Tuesday! Looking forward to Getai*!"
Hungry Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese festival which falls in the seventh lunar month, where burning of hell notes*, open field singing and performance will be all over our island everynight for the whole month.
Excitement is all over the place and we can feel it in the air :)
*Getai - Are performances held to appease roaming spirits. But the glitzy al fresco events also entertain spectators and are a hallmark of the festival.* Burning of hell notes - These paper offerings when burnt, are believed to appease the spirits who "receive" them.pictures from Singapore2010.sg
1st local Merly & Lyo sitting on the globe, 65c Merly & Lyo enjoying on an island, $1.10 Merly swimming and $2 Lyo Basketball.
Lyo & Merly on stamps
