Night Festival@ National Museum

Night Festival @ The National Museum of Singapore
18 – 19 and 25 -26 July 2008

Events Highlights
Studio Festi International performing arts company known for staging large-scale outdoor extranganzas of dance, acrobatics and pyrotechnics. Projects they have completed include the opening for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, and the recent 100-day Olympic countdown celebrations in Macau. Making use of the expansive landscape for the Night Festival, the sky is literally the limit as Studio Festi pulls out all stops and transforms the Museum grounds and SMU Campus Green with soaring dancers, helium-balloon ‘planets’ and flying ships and pianos.

1. Free Newater given! Look for white tentage at SMU campus Green
2. Very crowded. go early to avoid being blocked by others
3. Smell of sweat everywhere.
4. prepare for some amount of shuffling, pushing and shuffing, pushing.
5. nonetheless i enjoyed the flying ship the most as it was very dramatic, beautiful and romantic. Especially when it started a light shower as a backdrop.
6. i thought the rolling ball was like an alien BIG rolling eyeball attacking civilians across stamford road! it was hilarious!

on the window sill

Family Affair@ the museum

It was a flashback to the past of the 1960s and 1970s as the ambience of pasar malams from these decades were brought to life and brought fond memories not only to my parents, especially my dad who bought 2 wooden spinning tops home, my mum who Q-ed in the hot sunny afternoon for a piece of caricature of herself, my sis relishing on her hum ching peng for the 2nd time, even myself and wj had a real swinging good time too looking back at the games we bought played when we were young. Remember 5 stones, kuti-kuti, yo-yos? and the blowing balloon? they seem so long time ago....

The food stalls enticed a local crowd with local delicacies while the free games stalls and their tables and stationed voluteers who shared the rules of the game with children brought much joy to the young and old. And the best of all were the freebies!!!! Free chinese calligraphy, caricature and self protraits and free paper balloons, blowing balloons and free games to play. This has just to be the best pasar malam this year i have been too.

ps: did i forget to mention that we enjoyed ourselves so much that we visited the pasar malam twice on different days , the night affair on saturday and the family affair on sunday.

brink of death

at the window edge.