TV Broadcast of Chingay Parade 2010

Watched the repeat of the Chingay Parade 2010 on last Sunday as I was not able to watch it on the previous Sunday. It was a different view of the show. It brought back the wonderful experience on ground watching the performances.

The good part of watching it on TV is that I get to know what are the things that I am supposed to look out for. Well, I still prefer to watch it on groud as I can really feel the zest. The ability to smell the fireworks listen to the full blast of fire crackers is a really good experience. The people in-charge of the fire crackers seemed to feel nothing when they were standing right beside the crackers and have the crackers bursting onto them. Yes, it was the most looked forward show of the parade, the fire cracker dragon. It's dragon dance with the fire crackers cracking on the dragon. Some performers that were not holding the dragon held on to the fire crackers as they cracks.

The show started with the music from Chingay Wonderland. I once again felt happy.

The dragon dances are really cool. I remembered that there was a group of monks that performed a very tough way of the dragon dancing. I saw another group showcased on TV but rememeberd what I saw on ground.

Liang Zhu's music is nice. I got to see more of the dances and what was on the float. I got to watch the full performance of the group from Taiwan too. Their skills are really great!

The Sayang Sayang song is great too but I do not really feel the beat that I felt on ground.

The finale song was quite nice. I still prefer last year's though. Hope I can get the sound tracks of the songs.

After watching the TV, I finally understand what was going on for the segment on the "yellow river". As I was at the side on ground, the show was rather confusing for me.

The broadcast lasted for two hours. Quite fast. Maybe it was an advantage that the parade was not broadcasted live so that no segments will be missed and mediacorp can continue slotting in advertisements through the shows.

The commenters were alright. They have provided information that helps me to further understand the show. It can however be improved as I do not think some unnecessary exclaimation is needed. There were point of times when the voices of the commenters drowned the music of the performances, affecting my enjoyment of the show.

Though the show was the same, watching it from the VIP's view is rather different. I am so glad that I got to enjoy the live fireworks on ground.