fireworks i heard loud explosions coming from outside...and being a typical paranoid singaporean...i rushed out to the living room to check whether some terrorist bombed some building in melbourne city. it is after all australia day...:| thank goodness it wasnt....instead what i saw was a BEAUTIFUL display of fireworks that stunned (and i mean stunned) me for that long 10+mins....i just stood there and stared from the little living room of mine.... ive seen many fireworks displays throughout my 18+ yrs of existence (was about to type 16 yrs haha) but there was something about today's display that made me feel like ive never ever seen one before.... for once i dont just look at all the colours bursting and fading in the sky. instead (for the first time) i watched each stream of light ..as if they were little shooting stars falling down from the sky. the long golden trail following the little bit of purple...or the explosion of golden dust in the dark night sky.....absolutely captivating. i dont know why it took me so many years to be able to appreciate such wonders of human creation but i guess its never too late. i can fully understand why lovers would bother wasting so much time...on special days like national day or new yr just to wait for that 10 mins of beauty (oh. in singapore u can never get a fireworks display to last more than 5 mins)....and for once in a very long time. i wished there was someone with me to stand there and gaze stupidly ..... nonetheless i dont regret a moment of it. even with the fact that i had to watch it by myself and till actually i watch it with my significant other, i dont think i'll ever truly understand the real beauty of it. celebrating the mysteries of singlehood :)