Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Chinese New Year Fireworks
Yesterday, 20th of Feb, was the best day of my life this year...cos i went to watch fireworks!!! Not that i've never watch them before...I watched once in S'pore during National Day...but the Chinese New Year Fireworks display in Hong Kong is spectacular! It's also the reason why I went back this year to celebrate CNY - so that I can go and watch and experience it first hand. It was freezing when we went there (with my parents and my friend) because it was at the harbour and in addition it was drizzling but many pple still stayed on. We reached there two hours before to get a place that was nearer the sea, for better view you see...haha...ate mcdonald's and play chopsticks with my friend (I lost all the games ) : ) Thankfully, more and more pple arrived to block the wind...
After an interminable wait, the show finally started (at 8pm)! Wow...it was spectacular...there was 8 displays in total with music for accompliment and the show lasted about 20 mins...around there i think...I was going, "WOW...WOW....WOW..." with each display...oh...and it's really special...this year, there's one fireworks that show the chinese charactar "ji", another showing a pig's snout, some that looks like floating fire crackers (they tied red little parachutes on the thing) and smiley faces, ones that look like flowers blossoming, gold ingots and many many more! But i couldn't capture those clearly...but i did took a video...specially bought a 1 GB card for this show...haha...
Watching the fireworks live is really different from watching it through the television. I could feel the entire ground vibrating with each explosion...that's the best part...only then can you feel the beauty of fireworks...with the sound that reverberates...the feeling of estacy still lingers...
Can't wait to see you guys back in school! YAY! See you tmr!
Posted by Flo at 3:48 PM
