{"id":13610,"date":"2011-05-03T20:17:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T12:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2011-05-04T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:06:27","slug":"hannahs-first-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/05\/03\/hannahs-first-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah&rsquo;s First Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a once every five years event, and it\u2019s exciting not only because (most) Singaporeans get to vote. It\u2019s because it\u2019s also a national thing where the very uniquely Singaporean trait of kayposing comes right to fore!<\/p>\n<p>We had an interest to go to an opposition rally, not that it\u2019s indicative of our political persuasions mind you, but largely because everyone talks about its electrifying atmosphere, the energetic speeches, and the tens of thousands of other Singaporeans who\u2019ll attend just to participate in the rah-rah. Since the opportunity only comes by once every blue-moon, relatively speaking, we decided to give it a go this evening, with a Worker\u2019s Party rally held literally just next door at the Sengkang East open field (Matt will know where it is LOL).<\/p>\n<p>Only thing is that it\u2019d rained for a good part of the afternoon. Open field + mud = lethal combination. We spent just 10 minutes at the rally, but within that time, our feet were caked with mud, both our shirts and bermudas had mud splashes. Only Hannah was unscathed, and only because she was carried throughout and well away from nature\u2019s elements.<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of pictures of our little family outing.=)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-family-OLYP0360-rally-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blog-2011-family-OLYP0360-rally-flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-family-OLYP0360-rally-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah looking overwhelmed throughout. I think she was totally unused to being surrounded by so many people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-family-OLYP0365-rally-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blog-2011-family-OLYP0365-rally-flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-family-OLYP0365-rally-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain and mud certainly didn&#39;t stop what looked like tens of thousands of people attending the opposition rally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-family-OLYP0367-rally-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blog-2011-family-OLYP0367-rally-flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-family-OLYP0367-rally-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stayed for just 10 minutes. And what impressed Ling most were the enterprising ice-cream sellers that lined the fringe of the rally field.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a once every five years event, and it\u2019s exciting not only because (most) Singaporeans get to vote. It\u2019s because it\u2019s also a national thing where the very uniquely Singaporean trait of kayposing comes right to fore! We had an<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/05\/03\/hannahs-first-rally\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Hannah&rsquo;s First Rally<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[508],"class_list":["post-13610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-blues","category-news-letters","tag-e-pl2","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-12-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}