This weeks posts on AngryAngMo.com were all centered around the biggest day of the year.
Singapore’s National Day Parade. Today I present the best and most useful posts summarized and listed in one entry. You can save it, come back next year, forward to your friends or just enjoy reading!

The following text is based on my personal “encounter” with the Singapore National Day Parade during this years first rehearsal.

Obviously I am not Singaporean, which means I am not able to share heartwarming and patriotic moments with you, like singing the National anthem with 25.000 other people, or feeling overwhelming joy about the free “Funpacks”.

Instead I can show you how a foreigner sees and feels about these 2 hours filled with interesting but weird elements, that got me and my buddy asking more then once “Why the hell would you do that!?”

It was such a stereo type picture, but there we were.
Me and my buddy (both Ang Mohs) sitting half starved, dehydrated and soaked in rain water, in between happily munching and with their “Funpack” playing Singaporeans in the middle of the huge Floating platform to watch the last minutes of the National Day rehearsal.
I learned a lot during those 2 hours and I will write about it tomorrow. But today I want to give advise to everyone who otherwise might be as unprepared as we were.

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.

The state of Singapore came into being exactly 50 years ago on June 3. Singapore achieved self—government in 1959, and had full control over domestic policies, with Lee Kuan Yew as prime minister.