After missing last year’s Singapore Night Festival, I made it a point to drop by National Museum of Singapore last night to see what the night festival is all about.
The main event started at 10.30pm, but there are fringe shows nearby which started at 7.30pm. After I had my dinner in Asian Kitchen, City Link (which has better noodle than Din Tai Fung), I went straight to the park nearby the museum with Evie and Rafi. The other folks later joined us there. One thing you know when you go there is you gotta bring your camera, and so I went with full gear, Canon EOS 450D with 17-55mm IS f/2.8 lens borrowed from Jowena.
The fringe shows started at 7.30pm, and these are the performances which I bothered to take picture of.
They call themselves "Deng"
Some dance
At around 9pm, we started walking towards the museum so we could get a better spot to take picture from. Unsurprisingly, there are already LOTS of people setting up their tripod around the museum, so we tried to find the best available spot from whatever empty spaces available.
The Loop of Fortune
The show started with some lady walking around, dancing, but I couldn’t see much as she was too far away, then it was these two men who continued playing drums in rotations, upside down.
Men playing drums
Then, the real loop of fortune show started in front of really cool backdrops of various decorations to the museum’s face.
Loop of Fortune in action
Finally, it was fireworks galore. Not as great as those National Day fireworks, but these are stage fireworks, so it was so close to you, you can feel it.
Fireworks
They ended the fireworks show with this great fireworks coming down from the museum’s building, really good stuff.
I love these fireworks the most !!
The crowds who were there soon left after the whole show ended. We waited for a while to wait for the crowd to clear up a bit before we head our way back home.
The crowds
On our way back to the MRT, I saw this poster.
The Cross of Christ
In the midst of Great Singapore Sale, it reminded us one most precious thing, human salvation through Christ, though free, is not for sale coz it ain’t cheap.
Hey, these somehow look nicer than the ones I saw in the office!
Especially like the 2nd one coz the performers are so colourful.
Comment by INK — July 14, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
really? they’re the same …
Comment by hendrikch — July 14, 2009 @ 11:46 pm
Wah .. mau bgt sebenernya nih ikutan liat disana … tp ada bridal shower di alexcier
Looked so much fun!
Comment by Leonny — July 16, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
yay! great photos.
Comment by jowena — July 18, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
Thanks
Comment by hendrikch — July 19, 2009 @ 11:02 pm
Hi Hendrikch,
I’m an Arts Administrator for the The TENG Company and would like to know if we could have permission to use the first photo of our performance for e.g. our website and facebook. Do email me if it’s all right.
Thanks!
Regards,
Teresa
Comment by Teresa — July 27, 2009 @ 3:07 pm