Rainbow after a Storm

After turbulent times, the Rainbow emerges beneath the clouds, and the Sun shines again...

Woke up late this morning. Met up with Dear in the afternoon to go to Esplanade. Stopped by Raffles City Convention Centre to witness the tight security for the last time before the IOC session closes. We walked to Esplanade via City Link, and went to the roof terrace. It seemed that we were too early to catch the NE show of the NDP parade, so we went walking around, eating this Ah Pek's Traditional Ice-Cream and then back to the roof terrace again. Parade started soon after and picture taking began...

Saw wat's wrong with the sun? Let me show you a close-up...

Can anyone explain the dot? I cant, except for the fact maybe some outer space planet came into the path between the Sun and Earth, which is..... i dunno?

A series of "belly" pics (cos taken from rite under the aircrafts' bodies), this one is the close-up of the Chinooks carrying the State Flag during National Anthem (which the "Ang Mo" guy behind us could sing with perfect rendition!)

3 planes (F-5s? F-16s?) came roaring towards the Padang...

... The next 5 planes came too fast; all that were left behind were smoke... and the planes got some of the babies and kids screaming and breaking out in tears...

The next 3 pics are of the 21-gun salute during the Reviewing Officer's inspection of the Parade...

Wasnt fast enough to capture the immediate firing of the cannon; could only see the smoke, and was lucky enough to capture this shot...

... and the smoke starts to disperse....

... And it disperses till there's nothing left...

After that, we headed straight to Marina South for Dear's "initiation" to the cheap cheap steamboat-BBQ buffet over there; there were indeed a lot of outlets, though there was one which had closed down, which I had used to frequent during sec sch days. The CHin Huat Live Seafood outlet was indeed overfilled with customers, and we settled for another stall somewhere down the street. It was a very filling 2+ hours, and in the midst of it, we managed to catch the fireworks towards the end of the NE show...

This one was one of the nicer ones that I took; this year's fireworks were worth watching, as there are some new stuff... watch out for them!

We dragged ourselves out of Marina South full but thirsty, and went to get some chilled drinks in JE before we eventually headed for home.... all in all, a tiring, fattening but FUN day! =)

Signing off........... May Death befall all terrorists.........
RC