It's SG51! The parade was great, here are my disjointed impressions:
- I love military bands in general! The four-cornered interlocking move was somewhat terrifying to watch, I kept expecting someone to bump into something.
- Bani Hidir has a voice like dark chocolate. His brief rendition of Xiao Ren Wu De Xin Sheng was amazing, would love to hear a full-length version.
- I can't believe they left out the bit where Badang gets his powers from eating the ghost's vomit.
- The cannons used for the 21-gun salute looked very shiny this year. I can't remember if they've always looked that good?
- No mobile column. :'(
- The costumes of Badang's opponents were all fantastic. Love the shield-wielders' armour design.
- THEN THE FIRE NATION ATTACKED
- Oh man, the costumes for the Four Civilisations. So beautiful and intricate. I would love to cosplay as any of them (minus the eight-metre-tall skirts).
- The unicorn was pretty impressive. I wasn't expecting to be impressed, but I was.
- Hey, this looks like Tron.
- OMG DAFT PUNK
- OMG TAKE ON ME
- The Sky City segment was gorgeous, really great airborne prop, beautiful music, all just wonderful.
- Apropos of nothing, What a Wonderful World is a lovely song.
- I suppose if they were going to teach us to sign any song with only minutes to practice, Count on Me Singapore was a good choice purely because of the repetitive lyrics. No, but seriously, that was a great idea, I had a lot of fun learning the signs.
- Singing Majulah Singapura at the end—without backing music initially, just the sound of everyone's voices all together—gave me genuine chills.
I think this may be the first National Day Parade I'd actually want to watch again. Really, really superb effort by everyone.
In any case, happy birthday to Singapore!
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