Close your eyes and count to 10,
breathe in, breathe out.
Outside the window, the raven flutters its wings,
a downward spiral of black.
Tick-tock, tick-tock,
7, 8, 9, 10.
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Empress Jade, the newest structure launched at Mount Faber’s The Jewel Box, invited UrbanWire to taste a few dishes. (Read more)
People revel the start of 2009 with 10,000 wishing spheres floating in the background
Singapore celebrated 2008’s final hours at one of the biggest countdown parties in town at the Marina Bay.
While celebrities prepared for the Countdown Show at The Float @ Marina Bay, thousands attended free performances at Esplanade’s Outdoor Theatre. Bands, such as Quasimodo, You and Whose Army?, and Tiramisu, kept the crowd excited with energetic shouts and brisk dance manoeuvres .
In between gigs, New Year wishes and shout outs by various celebrities, embassy ambassadors, spokesmen, and other people were projected at the Theatre. UrbanWire had concluded that 4 most used words were: “Trying”, “Challenging”, “Difficult”, and “Uncertain”.
Except the Paralympians, who state their admirable goals of breaking their personal limits and soar to greater physical achievements. Salute.
We know the past year hasn’t been easy, but there’s really no need to remind us (over and over and over and over and over). Yawn.
2009 is a wonderful year of opportunities. Whether good or otherwise, UrbanWire says: CELEBRATE THIS NEW YEAR.
As if reading my thoughts, an elderly man left his seat in the middle of Quasimodo’s gig and started to dance in front of everybody. Boy, did he swing and sway. He put everybody young in that crowd to terrible shame.
Meanwhile, Channel 5 celebrities had gotten the crowd groovy at the Marina Bay SINGAPORE ‘live’ Countdown show. Despite haunting voids, reminder of a cancelled Party @ The Float, the crowd engaged in frenzied screaming and a Marina Bay Wave, adapted from the Kallang Wave.
While Gurmit Singh, Michelle Chia, Fiona Xie, Utt, and Andrea Fonseka made valiant attempts at hosting, homoegrown stars, such as Taufik Batisah, Hady Mirza, Adrian Pang, Jade Seah, Broadway Beng and Phua Chua Kang, and Rabbits from Superband, wildly entertain.
We heard regional rock band Rivermaya also came to wow the crowd, but we weren’t able to catch them for you because we had to prepare to capture enthralling fireworks.
Here are some more pictures:
Happy New Year, dear reader.
Photographs by Lee Xian Jie
With less than 25 hours from glorious 2009, it’s only fitting to leave you with Billboard’s Magazine’s Top 25 music hits in this exciting 4-and-a-half-minute mash up by DJ Earworm: “United State of Pop 2008“. (Read more)
Nike opened its flagship store in Wisma Atria on Nov 28.
The store is modelled after a sports stadium, with metal racks resembling hurdles. The store is also shaped like an oval; the center of the store is padded with the same material on our running tracks.
Stanley Goh, Country Director of Nike Singapore said in a press release that they “aim to transform this store into more than just a premium retail destination. It will be a venue where sporting enthusiasts connect and the passion of sports comes alive.”
The store was launched together with their Metallic Windrunners series.
Another interesting thing to note is the NIKEiD STUDIO where customers are able to put together their own Nike teeshirt by choosing their own colours, graphics and application treatments.
The winner places his piece neatly on the chessboard, arresting his opponent’s king in defeat. The loser’s face collapses in resignation; cold sweat dots his forehead.
The worst is over. The anger will come later.
Relationships often harbour raging emotional turbulences that fling lovers into the depths of depression and the soaring heights of ecstasy—dramatic episodes that distract people from what’s truly happening.
Albert Tiong explores these situations in his Checkmate, a dance piece commissioned by da:ns Festival 2008. The choreographer tells us more about his work that promises to “push the limits of agility”.
“We will always be Olympians for life. That’s like the best thing ever.”
- Carline Muir, 400m
“Getting caught with someone else other than your spouse is really the hardest thing to apologise for,” Drew Brown from OneRepublic said in the press room of the MTV Asia Awards after winning the Best Hook-Up award.
He quickly explained that it wasn’t something he did to his spouse. Instead, the guitarist says it was something he learnt through experience - that it was someone else who did that to him.
MTV’s Best Hook-Up award, however, has nothing to do with romance and the complexity that comes with it. It’s about the best collaboration between musicians.
In OneRepublic’s case, they won the award for their collaboration with Timbaland for their hit single “Apologize”.
“We like both versions, really,” they agreed when asked which versions do they prefer. “Timbaland didn’t rap, so that’s good”.
Video courtesy of MTV Asia Awards
Additional video editing by Lee Xian Jie
Stefanie Sun’s performance at the MTV Asia Awards.
Leona Lewis’s Thank You speech at the MTV Asia Awards.
The Script’s Thank You speech at the MTV Asia Awards.
Karen Mok’s Thank You speech at the MTV Asia Awards.
Panic At The Disco’s Thank You speech at the MTV Asia Awards.
Leo’s Thank You speech at the MTV Asia Awards
