It was 9.25 pm Melbourne time - 7.25 pm SG time - and the highlight of the show was scheduled for 8.10 SG time. Some clever person had connected the year 2010 with the time 20:10...
We watched videos of the choir (I liked the rap and the fancy dance moves, but not the way they ruined my memories of old favourites like Count On Me Singapore: what would Clement Chow say??), listened to the Exco guy speak, and thought the theme song (who's the long-haired girl in the video? the composer?) a bit slow and not very catchy. After Kit Chan's 'Home', all other songs seem so-so.
As it was WAY PAST the girls' bedtime and a school night (Aussie kids go to bed at 7), Beth was allowed just a few minutes to explore the interactive quiz on SG history before we chased the brood off to bed.
That was probably the biggest gain of the evening: 3 Singaporeans (including our house guest) logging on from AUS competing with each other and 'showing off' our general knowledge to an 8 yo who has spent half her life away from SG:
- What was the first civilian airport (Kallang),
- When did Stamford Raffles arrive (1819),
- What's the unofficial first language of Singaporeans (Singlish lah!),
- Who are the original indigenous people of SG (Malays),
- What is Sentosa's old name (Pulau Belakang Mati) etc.
Majulah Singapura!
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