Met up with my FTB group at East Coast for cable skiing. I was a tad bit reluctant at first as I intended to go to Marina Bay to catch the fireworks display by Spain. In typical Singaporean fashion, it is customary to go early (and that's an understatement) in order to get a good spot thus I was torn between meeting them at East Coast and heading straight for Marina Bay. In the end, I chose the former, a decision which I did not regret.
So I trudged down from Hougang to East Coast, and after a rather long walk, finally reached the cableski 360. Although I felt a little lazy and apprehensive, I decided to just join them instead of watching along the sidelines - Cable skiing is not something you do every other day. To digree a bit, I figured that since I'm starting life as an SMU student, I might as well just throw myself into situations to try out new things; if I have the guts to dance on a table, I could jolly well afford to swallow a few gulps of NaCl water.
I must say that I had no regrets trying and I'm sure I'll be back for more, to try out the other boards like the wake board and so on and so forth.
After that, I proceeded to Tanjong Rhu to try out a new location to capture photos. I almost got lost as I was clueless about how to get there. In fact, I was supposed to meet a fellow photographer that I met on a forum. Fortunately, I chanced upon another group which led me to the place that I intended for, which was along the shoreline of marina east with the city skyline as a backdrop. While it was a rather long trail which to some extent resembled an obstacle course, involving climbing over rails, walking on creaky, makeshift board bridges and blood-sucking mosquitoes, it was well worth it as the skyline slowly came into view.
The firing point was different from last year so the view of the fireworks was from the side, as such, I wasn't able to view the formation. Regardless, in my opinion, this year's teams weren't as good as those from the last and from pictures off forums, the spanish put up a rather disappointing show.
Some pictures I managed to salvage:
I'll post more if I have the time but I hope the rest enjoy it. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a DSLR somewhere in the near future.
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