Singapore Airshow 2008

A quick summary, as the husband puts it :
Airshow = Good, Waiting time to and fro the exhibition centre = 3+ hours, crowd control = sucks.

(then you can decide if you want to continue reading, to hear me complaining, or just skip this entry completely)

I wondered exactly how many tickets were the organisers allowed to sell. The papers said that there were about 120,000 visitors, but it felt like there were much more... coz I think they didn't include those little babies in prams and toddlers. And the news also mentioned that the crowd control was better on Sunday than on Saturday. But to us, it was already very very very very very bad on Sunday when we went, I can't imagine how it was like on Saturday.

The queue for the shuttle bus at Pasir Ris MRT station was so damn bloody long! But one good thing was that it was constantly moving, not those kind of queue where you only get to move your ass after every 15 minutes. Even so, we still had to queue for about 1 full hour from the start to the time we reached the shuttle bus. It didn't help that there was no proper barricades to hold the queue, and some thick-skinned people were cutting in like nobody's business.

The husband mentioned that the situation is like an audition to Singapore Idol we always see on TV.

Then because of the loooooooooong wait, we missed the start of the airshow, and had to watch part of it while stuck in the queue in the shuttle bus. Once again, it didn't help that the air-con was weak, and there were these 4 women sitting right in front of us, grown-up women, who were shrieking and squealing and giggling whenever they saw an airplane flew past (even for those that really just flew past faraway). The four over-enthusiastic fingers kept poking and prodding at the window, and if we were to stay any longer in the bus to watch the airshow, I'm sure the window would just fall away.

Anyway, we didn't have the more high-tech equipment to take proper pictures of the airshow, but I did try to take some videos, in which the airplanes all looked like some super-charged ants crawling at high speed.


So in the end, we just had to take those that are not flying in the sky. I had a hard time getting good shots, with all the kiasu crowd, and people who appeared out of nowhere to step right in front of the camera when I had just pressed on the button to shoot.

And check out the crowd at the Changi Exhibition Centre! Honestly, if we disregard the huge rowdy crowd and poor crowd control, the show was a good one. Hopefully, when it comes around again in year 2010, things will be much improved. Also, I don't remember anytime in my whole entire life when I had perspired so much in half a day.