{"id":34403,"date":"2024-08-10T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=34403"},"modified":"2024-08-14T20:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:33:57","slug":"how-i-spent-my-home-countrys-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=34403","title":{"rendered":"How I spent my home country\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went with Alex and Jin Quan to take photos for National Day Parade (NDP) yesterday. Well, it has been like the tradition for many years with them. I\u2019m very glad that I still have friends who are still into camping for taking photos on the NDP day. Last year I joined them at a later time because I don\u2019t want to fall sick just before my surgery. It was my first surgery and also my first time having GA so I want to make sure that my body can handle GA. So I joined them at a later time. This year I planned to join them earlier but I ended up taking more time to pack my luggage. I also started using my hand carry luggage to put mostly my camping essentials rather than the camera. Haha. Should have packed the night before since I am quite a slow packer. Anyway, shortly after I joined them, I saw the rain clouds coming and it started raining heavily. I quickly put in my jacket and started looking for my umbrella in my luggage. I did not expect the rain. One of the rare times the weather forecast is accurate omg.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I took some time to set up my tripod to \u201cchope\u201d (reserved) the place then stood there for a while to see if I can find Alex after knowing. I ended up standing in the rain for a few mins before I decided to just seek shelter. Then I forgot to take my Koi black tea latte. Sigh, I only drank 2 sips and it is a large cup. Sighhhhh. I was feeling really irritated by myself when I realised I forgot about it when I reached shelter. Luckily Alex and Jin Quan shouted at me when I walked past them so we managed to reunite at the shelter. Haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the rain somewhat stopped, we went back to the place we \u201cchoped\u201d and I had to look for my orange tripod before. So glad that my tripod is bright orange so it is easy to spot it in the sea of black tripods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to throw away my black tea latte even after reuniting with it because it probably got lots of rain water. Oh well. Wasted S$5.60. I also noticed that I am losing the data connectivity on my phone but luckily I didn\u2019t really use my phone much. We watched the NDP show on my iPad using Alex\u2019s data plan. Somehow his phone network is not impacted. Low key irritated that mine was impacted though. I should have paid the S$5 enhanced data connectivity instead for my black tea latte. Lol. Alex didn\u2019t pay for the enhanced data connectivity and is using the same telco as me but was not impacted. So weird\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex\u2019s SD card stopped working when he was checking his camera. Luckily he realised it before we need to use our cameras to take photos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also met Jin Quan\u2019s photography friend, Ethan, along with some other folks who are like below 20 years old. Happy to meet new people with the same love for photography. Alex and Jin Quan were exchanging Instagram handlers with them but none of them asked me. Lol. Probably quite awkward because I am literally the only lady in the area. Lololol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While on my way back home, I met this extremely rude and irresponsible for her own safety lady in the train. She fell down and grabbed my hand to break her fall. In the end, she broke 1 of my bracelets and did not offer to compensate. In fact, her stop is the next stop and she just alighted after apologising. Lol. Such a rude lady and now I am a broken bracelet. Luckily it is costume jewellery and not my diamond tennis bracelet. I almost planned to wear that today. Thank goodness I decided not to. So now I have to bring my heated ruby with freshwater pearl bracelet back to ACrysty Co to repair and have to pay for the repairs out of my own pocket. Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the bracelet is broken to block some bad\/unlucky energy for me? Shrugs. Luckily she didn\u2019t break my rainbow tourmaline bracelet. I will demand for compensation if that\u2019s the case because that is quite expensive even though it is costume jewellery (because it is not using real gold hardware but gold plated hardware).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came home with tired legs and very tired arms and shoulders. Well, 2 days of gym on 7 and 8 August 2024 is really draining. Lololol. I don\u2019t think I can hit 3 days of exercise this week sadly. Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: Sharing some of the photos I took during NDP this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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