When I was first introduced to Chingay 2016 by PAYM during assembly talk on 27 January, I did not understand what the performance really meant, I thought it was merely a performance during Chinese New Year Festivities.
On 30th January, the day of the parade, along the way to the F1 pit building, I saw many students from different primary and secondary schools gathering there just to see the parade, the place was packed like sardines. As we went into place, we took our goodie bags as we were directed to our seating arrangements. The goodie bag inclued a pompom, a pack of food, a clapper, and a tiny light buld with colorful lights. As we waited for the other schools to arrive, in order to keep us entertained, they put up a small uni-cylcle performance as colorful uni-cycles roamed across the stage,it was spectacular!
As our school was lucky enough, we had the highest seats in the middle so we had a really good view of everything.As I was too busy watching the performance, I did not take any photos but here are some photos of the Chingay Parade form the internet.
The High-Flying performance,
LED dragon dance,
After the parade I understood many new things such as the parade's purpose to celebrate Singapore's past 50 years of success and telling us to strive harder for SG100.
We should also thank the people who made contributions as this would never exist without them and we may not be enjoying of what we have now. I also think that the organizers of this event had done a great job in organizing the performance as with the lightings, and great performances, i do actually feel proud of Singapore. One of my favorite performance was the high-flying performance which consisted of people rolling through hoops and jumping around with bungee straps on their waists.
This parade has truly improved a lot since the first Chingay in 4 February 1973 as our late founding prime minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, thought that we should make some noise to drive away evil spirits as firecrackers are banned in Singapore.There were only about 2000 paraders at that time and performances such as lion dance, wushu, stilt walkers, etc. But now,there are about 1300 participants and havinga much wider variety of performance such as akido, dragons with LED lights etc. Many people form other countries with different cultures were performing too. This also shows racial harmony in Singapore and how Singapore respects people from different races and with different cultures in Singapore.
In conclusion, this performance was truly amazing and made me proud of Singapore, lets work hard towards SG100.
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