What does National Day means to you?
Donning red tops, hanging flags or reciting the pledge?
I’m never a NDP person, my closest involvements remained 1. the compulsory P5-er’s NDP experience, 2. when I was ran on the fields of the pre-parade back in Sec1 days and 3. when I went for the rehearsal which never gave any funpack or fired any fireworks.
Those talks about propaganda and soft deterrence, I shall skip on that. But even if you were never in that hotter-than-hot audience seat during each 9th August like myself, don’t you feel momentarily overwhelmed when the nation comes to a still each time the “Majulah Singapura” is played? The proud faces of people who probably last sang the National Anthem some decades ago?
To wear red and to sing aloud “Majulah Singapura” with thousands of red warriors, it’s a fantastic feeling isn’t it? So no wonder even if I don’t follow soccer, I like to do down to the Kallang National Stadium (as long as its not charging exorbitant fees for exhibition matches) in red to support our Lions especially in ASEAN Cup. Honestly, it feels more NDP than NDP there. After all, you do need to be part of the kallang wave to understand what is a kallang wave :)