I'm really looking forward to 9th August because Singapore Idol is finally coming back after a long absence!! Oh ya, its also Singapore's 44th birthday i.e its National Day again! To show my love, I have actually changed my blog header to the special national day edition around 2 weeks ago! If you haven't noticed or its your first time here, let me show you the difference!Normal Blog Header
National Day Edition
See so patriotic sia. The stickman is carrying a flag and the bee (acting as a helicopter) has a flag attached to it. If you observe carefully you can see that even the house in the background has a Singapore flag now! The background also features the logo (Come Together) of this year's national day parade ....
We all know that almost every year, we have a new National Day song, and this year's new national day song is called by What Do You See by local band Electrico. National Day songs are usually very catchy and easy to sing along, but this year's one is a little different and I love it! Its a song that I would put in my iPhone together with my other non NDP songs ha.
I remember in the past when I was in primary school, we would all have song books with national day songs included to practice. Its been a long time since I have seen that little book and I have forgotten the lyrics to most of the songs. Lucky for me and students in this high tech world, we have something called youtube and now you can sing along to the music videos anytime you want.
If you have somehow forgotten how to sing all the NDP songs, here are all the songs I can find on youtube. Practice while viewing the videos (with lyrics included) and sing along during national day!! If you are from Singapore I'm sure some of these songs will bring back some happy childhood memories =)
*Some videos are updated versions of the song.
1985 - Stand Up for Singapore (Celest Chong, Stella Ng, Celeb Goh, Ric Low)
1986 - Count on Me Singapore (lots of people)
Funny Dick Lee Version
1987 & 1988 - We are Singapore (Jacintha Abisheganaden, Jeremy Monteiro, Yee Ee Ping)
Money No Enough 2 version
1990 - One People, One Nation, One Singapore (lots of people)
1998 - Home (Ki Chan)
Singapore Idol Season 3 version
1999 - Together 心连心 (Kit Chan)
2000 - Shine on Me (Jai)
Chinese version (Mavis Hee)
2001 - Where I Belong (Tanya Chua)
2002 - We Will Get There (Stefanie Sun)
2003 - One United People (Stefanie Sun)
2005 - Reach Out for the Skies (Rui En, Taufik Batisah)
2006 - My Island Home (Kaira Gong)
2007 (1) - There's No Place I'd Rather Be (Kit Chan)
2007 (2) - Will You (Janani Sridhar, Asha Edmund, Emma Yong, Lily Ann Rahmat, Jai Wahab, Shabir Mohammed, Sebastian Tan, Gani Karim)
2008 - Shine for Singapore (Hardy Mirza)
Watched all these videos while I was uploading and I'm feeling a little emo now lol. Really bring back all those memories.
And Finally ..... This year's National Day Song What Do You See by Electrico!!
There is also a parody by Mr Brown which is really funny!!
Shows to watch today (Thursday)
- National Day telemovie "This is My Home" starring Siona Wu Murphy (Sam in Fighting Spiders) at 10PM!!
Shows to watch on Sunday after Wayne's B-day party part 2 on Saturday
- National Day Parade 2009
- Singapore Idol after the National Day Parade at 8.30pm!!
Which is your favorite National day song?
Happy 44th birthday Singapore!!
(Images Taken From: NDP Official Website)