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Event
Information:
In
Singapore, the biggest celebration
and also the main focal point of all
New Year's Eve celebrations in
Singapore takes place at the Marina
Bay area. It would be attended by
some 250,000 or more people spanning
around the bay area starting from
the Marina Bay floating Stadium to
the Esplanade promenade, the
Esplanade Bridge, Benjamin Sheares
Bridge, Merlion Park, and the Padang
at City Hall facing the Marina Bay
direction.
Other
places where people has also soak in
the celebration atmosphere in Marina
Bay includes from nearby hotels such
as The Fullerton Hotel, Marina
Madarin, The Ritz-Carlton Millenia,
Marina Bay Sands, offices located at
Raffles Place, Marina Bay Financial
Centre, Residential Apartments at
The Sail @ Marina Bay, and from atop
the world's tallest ferris wheel -
The Singapore Flyer. All of whom are
facing the Marina Bay direction and
overlooking the waterfront also.
Out on
the watersfronts of Marina Bay,
20,000 inflatable 'wishing spheres'
- carrying 500,000 wishes penned
down by Singaporeans would formed a
visual arts display filled with
brilliant colors beamed from the
spotlights erected along the
Esplanade promenade open area.
The
audiences would also be entertained
by a host of variety shows and
concerts staged at the Marina Bay
floating platform stage featuring
local and overseas artistes viewable
by all at the bay and telecast live
on the republic's local TV channel.
10
seconds to the stroke of midnight,
the concert emcees would be
initiating the final countdown
together with the audiences. And
thereafter, spectacular and
glittering fireworks would be fired
off from the waters at Marina Bay
and lighting up the whole bay
against the backdrop of the
Singapore skyline.
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