Celebrating the Singapore Spirit, from home. This year’s NDP will be special in many ways. For one, since the nation and the world is still battling the pandemic, it will be one where the celebration is planned specifically for all to celebrate from the safety of our own home with our family and friends. So while the commemoration, in its pomp and pageantry will go on on the Float at Marina Bay, the celebration is encouraged to be done from the safety of our homes. Here are some … [Read more...]
NDP 2019 Fireworks – Tips to Catch NDP Fireworks!
Authentic tips on where and how to catch the NDP 2019 fireworks with your family. No matter how many activities there are over the National Day long weekend, there is ONE our family will never miss - to catch the National Day fireworks! Here’s a compilation of first hand tips from all our years of chasing fireworks of where to watch the NDP 2019 fireworks! A Family Tradition: Catching NDP fireworks is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the National Day celebration. Not only … [Read more...]
Tips for NDP 2018
Aerial Display Timings and other Information You Should Know Bookmark this site for information on aerial display timings for NDP 2018 for we promise you 2018’s NDP will be significantly different from the past. Take a peek onboard the RSAF Super Puma during the Aerial Flypast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfWm7AoPQW0&t=2s We are Singapore Singapore’s National Day Parade is an annual celebration for the entire country. This year’s theme, ‘We are Singapore’ … [Read more...]
NDP 2017 – One Nation Together…We Celebrate!
Onsite or Offsite…Let’s Celebrate! Whether you are watching the National Day Parade onsite (at the Float) or offsite (at home, at a community center, at a shopping mall offering LIVE telecast or at the Marina Bay vicinity), we provide tips and highlights in chronological order so that everyone can truly celebrate this NDP as one nation on 9 August 2017. The SG52 NDP is truly action-packed and not to be missed! We were so exhilarated after experiencing the exuberance of NDP 2017 Preview … [Read more...]
NDP 2017 – Of Dancing Drones and Rockin’ Grandma
There are so many highlights to NDP 2017. There’s the fact that it’s back to the float, set against our city’s stunning skyline plus this NDP also commemorates 50 years of National Service. THIS next item is BRAND NEW and featured in the National Day Parade for the very first time. We managed to catch it last weekend while picnicking along the Marina Bay waterfront and it’s absolutely mesmerizing! Largest Unmanned Drones Display: I’m talking about the 300 unmanned drones that will take to … [Read more...]
NDP 2017: The People, Parade and Passion
National Day Celebrations is always about the people, even more so for Singapore whose strength and spirit of the people is really key to our progress. It is this strength in unity that National Day Parade (NDP) 2017 aims to rally Singaporeans from all walks of life to stand together and uphold Singapore’s sovereignty, defence and security. Key to our nation’s defence and security are the men and women who dedicate their lives to protecting Singapore around the clock 24/7. These men and … [Read more...]
NDP 2017: 5 Things You Need To Know
National Day Parade gets me choked up every single time. As a family, we would camp out with out kids at various vantage points in Marina come weekends in July and August, just to soak in the NDP revelry. Once a year on National Day (more so than any other day in the calendar), we are reminded how fortunate we are to be citizens of this country and how we should never take our progress, peace and prosperity for granted. After we became parents, we would always use National Day to … [Read more...]
“I’ll be 57…” – Celebrating Singapore’s Golden Jubilee
I’ve never had a greater sense of my own mortality than this weekend. Thankfully it was neither through a near-miss accident nor a health-related scare. In fact, it happened quite unexpectedly during a lull over this Golden Jubilee weekend on Singapore’s 50th Birthday. We had spent the past 5 weekends ‘chasing fireworks’ – a family tradition of sorts to view the National Day Parade (NDP) from various places along Singapore’s stunning Marina Bay. The penultimate was last week where … [Read more...]
#NDP 2015 – 5 Reasons You Should Not Miss National Day Parade 2015
Quite simply, this is THE BEST NDP ever. Serious. It’s not that the rest were not good but given that this is Singapore’s Golden Jubilee year, it seems that all the other National Day Parade leads to this! And the organizers are pulling out all the stops. All. We were blessed to receive tickets to watch the preview and while we were expecting to be wowed but we certainly didn’t expect to be so moved. To top it off, after ‘chasing’ fireworks over the last 4 weekends, to see it all come … [Read more...]
National Day Parade (NDP) 2015 – Soaking in the Action at the Fringe
Here it is, finally! The event the whole country has been waiting for: The 2015 National Day Parade to commemorate Singapore’s SG50 Jubilee year. For us, we are continuing our family’s little ‘tradition’ to chase, or to catch the fireworks and the aerial displays. We were thrilled to know that although the celebration proceedings has moved to the Padang – site of the first National Day Parade, the fireworks and the position of the general aerial displays have not changed much. In fact, there … [Read more...]