Part 2 to Night Festival: The Dancing Sky (18 July 2008) ...
Still on the Opening of the Night Festival at the National Museum... It's also one of those longest wait... (almost half an hour after the actual beginning time).
Was joking with GC and YL that we'll be standing on the road if we were late... true enough, there were lots of people who stood on the road... that subsequently 'caused' the long delay... We are lucky... got a standing space at the pavement... despite we were almost 30 minutes earlier. Ah ha... so that wait was nearly 1 hour before the show finally began.
The DJ had tirelessly announced who's the performers, giving the background of the group, etc... and also reminders to the crowd who were standing at the closed road to move away from there... as it was a designated performing area. What??? Performance wasn't it in the air space in front of the museum? U mean also the road? I guess it's something that we are not used to... especially when one managed to find a space on the road, that's closer to the museum, who wants to move to SMU's Campus Green to get a bigger picture instead of a closer encounter? It took more than 30 minutes just to persuade the crowd to move out of the blocked road...
So, who caused this delay?
The un-cooperative crowd, which was very obvious - as the DJ kept pleading the crowd to be co-operative... So, Singaporeans (which I presume mostly) were so kiasu... and just relunctant to give up a better view and hence delay everybody's pleasure... causing discomfort? So, the show could not begin because of you???? Bear in mind, there isn't that many big events around (regularly) to train the behaviour (or the mindset) well enough to be considerate....
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The short-sighted organiser to blame? Since you know the designated area for the performance, then you joyly well block the area right at the beginning so that people won't even have the chance to intrude those area... then it saved the DJ from repeating... the more repeat the crowd heard, the angrier the crowd became... hey, you're just trying to create some kind of peer pressure for the uncooperative ones
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