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What is a National Day Rally without some fun #ndrsg tweets? Here are some from that lovely three-hour long opus by PM Lee.
1. @mrbrown: Make sure you pee before going to PM's National Day Rally tonight. #ndrsg
2. @mrbrown: All Your Channel Are Belong To #ndrsg
3. @mrbrown: OMG! I see #YamAhMee at #ndrsg !!! But they never invite brown Ah Me.
4. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM now speaking in Chinese after his Malay speech. @miyagi and I are hoping he uses proverbs familiar to us, like 人山人海。
5. @miyagi: @mrbrown For sure! 我国现在人山人海!#ndrsg
6. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM just made a joke about flowers in his Chinese rally speech. It sounds like it was a funny joke.
7. @miyagi: #ndrsg PM say Gahmen fly aeroplane!
8. @mrbrown: I think he said something like Singaporeans can go fly aeroplane. #wefailedchinese
9. @miyagi: Or was it 新加坡人打飞机?#wefailedchinese #ndrsg
10. @mrbrown: PM now talking about how the gahmen will help the elderly more. Camera pans to random old people in audience. #ndrsg
11. More shots of random old people in audience as PM speaks about elderly medical issues. #ndrsg
12. @mrbrown: #ndrsg Does PM wearing a blue shirt this year instead of his usual pink imply Blue IC > Pink IC? Or to commemorate WP getting more seats?
13. @mrbrown: I will have you know I am watching the #ndrsg in Mandarin with NO voiceover translation or subtitles. #howlian
14. @mrbrown: #ndrsg If my Chinese did not fail me, I think the PM just announced there will be a new Minister of Finding Your Lost Cat or Dog.
15. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM just finished his Chinese speech. Half an hour toilet break for everyone!
16. @mrbrown: #ndrsg 30-minute break before the English speech begins. Channel 8 is showing some Last-Time-Life-Was-Very-Difficult documentary.
17. @mrbrown: PM: "We have to get our politics right and our policies right." #ndrsg Here we go…
18. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM: "We need active citizens."
Wife to me: "You also quite active what."
Me: "Ya, actively poking fun at everybody."
19. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM: Those earning near the HDB $8000 income ceiling worried. Don't scared, if you earn more that $8k, pass the excess to me lor.
20. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM: HDB income ceiling raised from $8k to $10k. Er, wouldn't that increase demand on HDB flats?
21. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM: University places will go from 12k places in 2011 to 14k places in 2015. You'll need more sexually awkward orientation games.
22. @mrbrown: #ndrsg Audience got a free look at Transformers 3: PM showed 10 seconds of Bumblebee transforming.
23. @mrbrown: #ndrsg My eyes just burned with pain after seeing the loud red flowery shirt worn by a fella sitting next to Vivian Balakrishnan.
24. @mrbrown: #ndrsg New outpatient benefits now apply to those from 40 & above. Eldershield Brigade, rejoice! @miyagi
25. @mrbrown: #ndrsg Go Pathlight school go! (I'm a fan of what they do.)
26. @mrbrown: #ndrsg Jurong will have underground granite caves that store petrochemicals. I am sure that will raise your property values, Jurongites.
27. @mrbrown: #ndrsg There'll be a 5 million memories project to collect stories of Singapore. Gonna need memories at the rate we tear down our heritage.
28. @ilikefilm: I found it nice that the PM showed his solidarity with ordinary workers by dressing like a wafer fab technician #ndrsg
29. @serologist: #ndrsg has ended. No money given out. Lame.
30. @mrbrown: #ndrsg PM showed photos of Punggol new developments. More than 10 years on, they still trying to convince us progress will come to Mordor
31. @Fake_PMLee: Stay tuned 4 my Tamil speech which was recorded earlier. If U don't understand Tamil, e message is abt not cooking curry too often. #ndrsg
And last but not least, here is the most important thing we heard at PM's speech on Sunday:
A very well-shot video by SteadiProductions that takes you on a one-day running tour of Singapore. See if you can recognise all the places. It took 2 months of planning and 4 months to shoot.
According to the team, they "ran around Singapore and shot the whole thing on Steadicam, with the idea of sharing the beautiful places in Singapore to remind ourselves this beautiful place that we live in again".
I was cycling home late one night when I got frightened by this ginormous PAP billboard of PAP MP Fatimah Lateef. It loomed over me as I cycled past and I almost fell off my bike.
Heck, I didn't even know this tip of Lorong Ah Soo belonged to PAP-held Marine Parade GRC. So now residents of Lorong Ah Soo who are part of WP-held Aljunied GRC have to drive past this giant Marine Parade GRC billboard every day.
I was going to take a photo to show you guys this over-compensating billboard, but WP MP Chen Show Mao beat me to it. His caption was, "Happy N Day from me and Fatimah across Lorong Ah Soo from Aljunied GRC!"
Update: Penny Low "apologized": "I was so caught up in the wonderful NDP 2011 and felt so proud of being a Singaporean, that I wanted to capture that moment of pride, at the very tail end of the anthem, to share on FB with my residents. If in my enthusiasm I offended anyone, please accept my apologies. NDP is a time to unite not divide. Majulah Singapura."
Frankly, I don't know how pointing out her faux pas was dividing the country.
Pro tip: During the singing of the National Anthem at the National Day Parade, try not to fiddle with your mobile phone. You are on live HD TV.
I just wanted to thank everyone who voted for me in the Media category of the inaugural Yahoo! "Singapore 9". It was an honour to be even chosen in that category. I promise to "speak on issues only as authorised by the Cabinet" and "follow the advice of the Cabinet" in the discharge of my duties.
Oh wait, that one is for President only. I can still speak on any issues I please. Paiseh. Wrong channel.
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