Watched International Firework displays on 13 Oct 07

Wow wow! Just last last week, me, tiff and Sueishi went to Yeoido to watch a spectacular firework displays by 3 countries namely Japan, USA and Korea!!! Not really sure what is the festival but was told by Junwoo earlier that its a International Firework show... But too bad he got to work that day so he cant join us....

So before that I gathered the people, Tomoe had plans to watch it with her other Japanese friends hence she wont b joining us, Ah Han couldnt make it last min hence its left with me, Tiff and Sueishi.

It was really an experience for me, the firework show starts at 7.30pm, hence I had make plans to meet up with Sueishi at 6.30pm (1 hr enough to travel to the place). But was told by Hwanhee that its too late... I said its fine since its fireworks we can stand anywhere to c isnt it? haha.... So at 6pm, Junwoo called me and asked me where am I, so I told him i am preparing to go out to watch the fireworks... HE said: "Wat ?! You are still at home?! There wont be b nice seats anymore if you are so late!!"

So off we went by subway.....who knws at the interchange we saw HUGE crowds...... we had to wait for 2-3 trains before we could finally SQUEEZE ourselves up the subway..... Its so squeezy that we could not even move an inch..... and after our stop there are a few more stops before we reached our destination... who knws more and more people got on the train at each stop... its really disaster!!!

Finally reached the station and I thought its a relieve..... however to my horror!! There are even more people trying to get out of the subway station........ the crowd was really CRAZY.... we spend more than 40 mins trying to get out of the subway station.... everyone squeezin each other... n u can really experience the POWER of the A-jumas and A-joshi (aunties and uncles of Korean) The journey out of the subway station seems to take forever.... escalators had to be stopped cause the crowd is simply uncontrollable!

FINALLY we gotten out of the station, so cooling!!! And wat more.... people were all trying their best to move out of the station but in a very slow manner......... And with that the firework show for Japan had already started....... I cant view anything except hearing the fireworks...... It got me so excited bt I cant see a thing....!!! So all I can do is to follow the crowd (or kind of being push by the crowd in a direction)

Finally got to watch a few mins of the Japan team's fireworks.... It really nice with lots of color blending together.... For the next thing I know, we were walking on a road meant for vehicles.... haha.... bt there were so many people so who cares?! haha.... This reminds me of watching firework displays back in Singapore at the Esplanade.... where people practically dun care about the vehicles or whether is it the road?!

So we found a comfortable location (not the best but at least I can watch the fireworks) and stayed there... Hakki was on his way to join us but we had a hard time trying to contact each other... Our mobiles simply failed on us, we had problem calling out nor receiving calls....... Sueishi told us that its because of the telecom network congestion as many of the people were trying to make calls within the same region.... Its the same in Japan too....

So off we went watching the firework displays by USA team and Korea Team.... Here are the videos I had took:

Note: Problem of 2nd video rectified, you can watch it now..... :)

Overall, the experience was great despite the squeezing and stuff... haha... I watched a total of almost 1 hr fireworks display.... Going back was another tough job... squeezing wif people etc...... a hectic yet enjoyable day...........