If you think “National Day, how boring, always the same, Parade, Show, Fireworks…Dinner”, you are actually right. But to spice things up a bit I have dig through 44 years of Singapore’s National Day history, facts and laws, and found some interesting, weird and funny things you should definitely know about!

Twice a year you will walk the streets of Singapore and be surprised about the amount of people wearing red clothes and (surprisingly) smiling and having a good time. You know then its either time to put in your earplugs because the Singapore F1 Race is on and Ferrari Fans are taking over the Padang… or it is somewhere Mid-August and that means Singapore’s biggest Birthday party is about to begin…

Every Saturday very much on time, around 8.30pm the national Day Parade Fireworks go off, rehearsing for the big day, on the 9th of August 2009.

You can already get a good glimpse now on what to expect this year, when you just happen to be somewhere around the Floating Platform during that time. But be warned, on the actual Singapore National Day, the crowds will be overwhelming.