The big 60s: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHINA!!! (:

Just finished watching the China national day celebration online with my family. I just want to say: I AM SO PROUD TO BE A CHINESE!!!

It is the 1^st time I watch the China National Day Celebration overseas. The feeling is so different. I did not feel much when I was in China. Maybe that is because I was too young to understand what is happening. However, I think what made me feel so proud and strong is because I am at overseas. It is the feeling when you see the enormous wealth and meteoric rise in power in your home country in other place.

My hometown –China, celebrated 60 years of Communist rule today with a spectacular display of patriotic zeal and military might designed to showcase its enormous wealth and meteoric rise in power. It was simply magnificent! I felt myself strong! Almost 5,000 soldiers goose-stepped through Tiananmen Square, organized according to their height, their chins held high at matching angles. They marched at exactly 116 paces a minute and were trained to blink only once every 40 seconds.

They were followed by more than 100,000 marching masses and 60 gaudily decorated floats designed to showcase China's achievements. No detail was overlooked. Even the weather, foggy over the last few days, was bright and sunny after the People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducted its largest ever cloud seeding effort to ensure clear skies.

I felt so familiar as Beijing is my home. I remembered I went to the Tian’anMen Square at night with my parents to play roller skate there when I was young. What a nice memory!

It also reminds me about the Singapore National Day Parade. I was amazed by the whole parade also and felt blissful to live in Singapore.

I love China. I love Singapore.