Cousins... Fireworks... Dangdut... Camwhoring... Memorial... Memories...
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Hahaz, long title, but I think it pretty much sums up my night out with my cousins yesterday.
We wanted to watch the fireworks at Esplanade, but well... We were late, so we took a taxi there. Two taxis actually, which was the reason we lost Kak Dayah along the expressway... By the way, the expressway wasn't exactly an EXPRESS way yesterday due to INCONSIDERATE drivers who stopped their car in the middle of nowhere to watch the fireworks. Woitz, the newspaper tell you already right, TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORT!!!! Really inconsiderate you know... As much as my cousins and I wanna watch the fireworks too, we didn't get out of the taxi until we reached Lau Pa Sat. WE, unlike YOU INCONSIDERATE I-DUNNO-WHAT (don't feel that they are fit to be called humans, not even monkeys. Well, at least monkeys would have jumped off the bridge instead of clogging up the expressway...), TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION THE VEHICLES BEHIND US AND KEPT OUR BUTTS IN THE TAXI (I won't exactly say we kept ourselves in our seats cause that'd be stupid of us as we'd obviously miss the beautiful fireworks display) AND WE STILL GOT TO SEE THE FIREWORKS AND GET PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF IT even at the cost of our discomfort. Irritating know... What I refer to as inconsiderate was PARKING THEIR CARS ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE FIRST (EXPRESS) LANE, the taxi we were in as well as other considerate people had to squeeze through the space between the first lane and the divider. Sheesh...
Anyway, the taxi ride was... undescribeable. The taxi driver was really talkative. All the way before the fireworks started he chatted with my brother about clubs and hotels and what-nots. My cousin was like telling me, "Today they're chatting like old pals and tomorrow they'd meet up to go to some club." The taxi driver likes dangdut so much that he had an Inul's cd in his taxi lol. He was a 60++ chinese by the way. When the fireworks started, he joined in our excitement and was very kind to us, trying to help us get a good view of the fireworks despite the traffic jam.
Let's focus on the fireworks lar ok? Lol. The fireworks weren't really as spectacular as how I imagined it to be. It was rather simple considering today's the last day of all this fireworks thingy. Only towards the end was it pretty, golden flecks filling the maroon sky. I made a terrible mistake of taking a video at the beginning, which meant a lot of car tops and vans and lorries instead of the fireworks itself, and so I didn't have anymore memory space after that video, which meant that I could only take 5 pictures instead of 70 if that video wasn't there!!!!! Lucky, and I mean LUCKY my brother caught 3 videos of it, one of it which showed a very nice display. If not, it would have been such a waste of time, for me lar since my main agenda was to watch fireworks at Esplanade and take a video of it whereas my brother's main agenda was mainly to spend a Saturday evening with our cousins.
After alighting at Lau Pa Sat, we made our way to Esplanade to meet Kak Dayah, which we didn't at the end anyway cause she got lost. Along the way, we took lots of pictures of ourselves and the night scene there. Got some pretty nice pictures, though a lot of the pictures of my brother and me were blurred, aiya. After reaching the Esplanade and knowing that we won't get to meet Kak Dayah, we made our way across the padang to the Memorial, which meant more pictures!!!
I dunno what else to write about, so... Photos!