Singapore Fireworks Celebrations 2008

Posted by HELiX

This comes really late, but I wanted to get through the ordeal I’ve been through for the past three weeks first. Prelim exams. I’m done with that, but I’m not gonna talk about it for now, so let’s move on.

The last weekend was the Singapore Fireworks Celebrations 2008. Oh yeah, right in the middle of my prelims. But well… I still went anyway. On both days.

Just some background for those living underground okay?

Alright. The Singapore Fireworks Celebrations is an annual event held part of National Day celebrations. It features several local and foreign teams which launch fireworks displays on different nights.

First held in 2004 at Marina Bay, the event was initially known as the Singapore Fireworks Festival. Last year, the festival was renamed to Singapore Fireworks Celebrations. The event cost over S$1 million, and featured 130 varieties of fireworks over two days.

The amount of fireworks used has grown in magnitude over the past three years, from 4,000 rounds used in 2004 to over 9,000 in 2006.

So this year, the two days featured fireworks performances from France and South Korea.

My family went down on both days, but I wasn’t really into capturing the fireworks like every other year because the background for the fireworks wasn’t that great this year, and I’ve got tonnes of fireworks photographs from over the years.

1:30 AM 8 August 2008