Hi

Today was a hectic afternoon. My mum and I didnt realise that there was NDP rehearsal and Nicoll Highway was blocked! We were heading to suntec city for a Garden festival exhibit!
Wow, we were lost as that moment when there were many yellow sign boards saying that Nicole Highway was blocked from 1pm to 11pm! It was rather tense as we do not know how to get there with so many roads blocked and not sure whether we could even enter any carpark there too.
Signboards showing ' To suntec city go ECP' and ' to suntec city go to Republic rd via ophir rd' but where on earth were the stretches of roads?

We parked at the International SOS building and realised that the parking fee was $2.20 1 hr and 90 cents subsequent half an hour! It was so expensive. Thus, we asked a police officer by the roadside and ended paying $2.20 as we left the carpark and went to raffles city carpark instead!

just then, I then realised that we were driving for about 1h 30 mins with the huge traffic jam as roads were blocked like nobody business just for the NDP.

We ended up walking to suntec city outside and saw many floats, military tanks and marching soldiers right before my eyes. We could randomly walked across roads like grandfather road since the roads were blocked. Many people flashed out their cameras and took pictures in middle of the road. So strange there were was suddenly a grp of soldiers marching out from the staircase of esplanade circle MRT. We just walked behind them and my mum flashed out her camera.

We finally arrived at the exhibit. My sis was angry as she came from school and waited for like 45 mins. It wasan amazing garden exhibit with so many interior or exterior garden designs by worldwide designers. It is like walking into a fantasy world with leaves and fairytale architectures. It was worth it!
I didnt really take much pictures as my HP camera colour has some problem.

Now, I finally came back. It was much better than the horror we had seen before, winding through roads hoping to reach the city. I also got to know how NICOLL HIGHWAY was so important!!! NDP rehearsal today, oh, I think it was preview as I saw P5 students wearing white and red at suntec.

Massive Traffic jam