Singapore National Day Parade, 2005

National Day Parade 2005
Organiser [[3rd Singapore Division]]
Chairperson: BG Loh Wai Keong
Venue Padang
Theme 40 Years of Nation Building
Event Chronology
NE Show 1 9 July 2005
NE Show 2 16 July 2005
Preview 30 July 2005
Actual 9 August 2005
Parade
Parade Commander LTC Choon Soon Onn
Music
Theme song Reach Out for the Skies (Taufik Batisah, Rui En)

The Singapore National Day Parade, 2005 (NDP) was a national ceremony in Singapore on 9 August 2005 to commemorate Singapore's 40 years of independence.

In addition to the military-style parade, other celebrative events, such as the Mobile Column, fireworks and community carnivals were also organised during the period.

The theme for NDP 2005 was "40 Years of Nation Building".

Venue

An aerial view of Singapore city centre, showing the Padang on the right.
Joi Chua and Wendi Koh.

The main parade was held in Padang, the same place where the first National Day Parade was held in 1966.

Pre-parade Segment

Before the main parade, there was an hour-long entertainment at the Padang including performances from the combined schools choir and the combined schools band. Other events included a mass precision drill and a skydiving display by the "Red Lions" team from the SAF.

Three NDP community songs were designated for the pre-parade segment entertainment

The music composer and director was Elaine Chan.

Emcees

Six local celebrities were assigned as emcees:

Motivators

In addition, 300 students from Institute of Technical Education served as "NDP 2005 Motivators" as they interacted with the audiences and performed a special dance called the "Dance Number 40".

Combined schools choir

It was a 400 strong choir comprising students from 15 different schools.

The choreographer was Andrew Ng.

Combined schools band

The 256 strong combined schools band comprised students from 4 different schools.

The choreographer was Lawrence Siao.

Mass Precision Drill

The Mass Precision Drill comprised members from

The precision drill display included participation by female NCC Cadets. The choreographer and trainer for the performance was 2WO Rosman Bin Atan.

Parade

The parade was military-styled, displaying precision and discipline.

Parade Sequence

  1. Fifes and drums
  2. Parade march-in
  3. Arrival of the President
  4. National anthem, fly-past of state flag
  5. Presidential inspection and presidential 21-gun salute
  6. Feu de joie (Fire of Joy)
  7. Guards-of-honour march-past
  8. Parade finale transformation

Full Order

Parade Colour Guards

Guard-of-Honour Contingent Commanders

Guard of Honour

The Guard of Honour comprised four contingents:

  1. Singapore Army, represented by 1st Commando Battalion
  2. Republic of Singapore Navy, represented by Naval Diving Unit
  3. Republic of Singapore Air Force, represented by Combined Field Squadron
  4. Singapore Police Force, represented by Singapore Police Training Command

Supporting contingents

' Military and civil defense:

  1. Singapore Army – Singapore Guards
  2. Republic of Singapore Navy – HQ Fleet, NALCOM, COSCOM and TRACOM
  3. Republic of Singapore Air Force – Paya Lebar Air Base, Sembawang Air base, Tengah Air Base
  4. Singapore Civil Defence Force
  5. Singapore Police Force – Key Installation Unit

Political, social, youth uniformed and economic:

  1. People's Action Party
  2. National Trade Union Congress
  3. Ministry of Health
  4. Modern Montessori International
  5. National Cadet Corps
  6. National Police Cadet Corps
  7. Singapore Scout Association
  8. Girl Guides Singapore
  9. The Boys Brigade of Singapore
  10. The Girls Brigade of Singapore
  11. St John Ambulance
  12. Singapore Red Cross Society

Aerial Display

The parade featured aerial display involving a total of 44 RSAF aircraft, of 8 different aircraft types including the refuelling tanker KC-135 Stratotanker which was making its maiden appearance at NDP. The F-16 Fighting Falcons led the aerial display, and at one time flew very low at 500 metres above ground, at about half the speed of sound.

The aerial display was divided into 3 flypast windows:

  1. State flag flypast
  2. Bomb-burst during the Presidential salute
  3. Final flypast

Final flypast

The final flypast involved 3 CH-47 Super D Chinooks and 2 AS332 Super Puma helicopters followed by a C-130 Hercules,a Fokker F50 and a Grumman E-2C Hawkeye and behind it was a KC-135R escorted by 4 F-5S/T Tiger II and the last few planes was 5 F-16D Block 52+ Fighting Falcons from 145 squadron performing stunts.

Mobile column

The Mobile Column was a featured event in National Day Parade, 2005

The Mobile Column was the parade of vehicles and other hardwares from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Singapore Police Force and Singapore Civil Defence Force.

The first Mobile Column was organised in 1969 which displayed the then newly acquired armour vehicles of the SAF. In 1990, after an absence of 20 years, the Mobile Column made a come back as Singapore celebrated its 25th years of independence. Since then, it has been a special feature during National Day Parade for every 5 years.

Show segment

Act 1 – The Beginning

Participants from

ASTIC is proud to contribute to this significant event by producing a 1 min multimedia display on Singapore Legend. This clip was telecast on Mediacorp TV Singapore as an introduction to the Show segment (Act 1 – The Beginning).

Sang Nila Utama, also known as Sri Tri Buana, is a legendary prince who founded Singapore in ancient history.

Click here to watch Act 1

Act 2 – 40 Years of Nation Building

Participants from

Act 3 – Soaring to Greater Heights

Participants from

Grand Finale – The Future is Ours To Make

Community celebration

Besides the national events, local celebration events (named as Celebration@Heartlands) were also being organised in major residential regions throughout the country, including Tampines, Yishun and Jurong East. There was also a 9-day carnival at Marina South (named as Carnival@Marina) featuring funfair, concerts and fireworks.

Floats

The events included a parade of 12 floats with decorations reflecting the history of Singapore, including themes related to Sang Nila Utama, Sir Stamford Raffles and Samsui woman.

Songs

  1. Paduuvoom Vaaruungal
  2. Geylang Sipaku Geylang
  3. Chan Mali Chan
  4. Di Tanjong Katong
  5. Jia, 家 (Home)
  6. One United People
  7. One People, One Nation, One Singapore
  8. Home
  9. We are Singapore
  10. We Can
  11. Sing Our Wishes
  12. Dance No 40 (Dance Version)
  13. Uniquely You
  14. Reach Out for the Skies (English)
  15. Reach Out for the Skies (Chinese) 勇敢向前飞

It can be found in YouTube.

Schedule

NDP @ Marina Bay 2005 Programme schedule on 9 August 2005:

9 August (National Day)

10 August

All times indicated are Singapore Standard Time.

Broadcast

Television channels

As a national event, the parade was broadcast "Live" from 12.00 am to 12.00 am (SST) across MediaCorp for MediaCorp TV channels which include MediaCorp TV Channel 5, MediaCorp TV TVMobile, MediaCorp TV Channel 8, MediaCorp TV Channel U, MediaCorp TV12 Suria, MediaCorp TV12 Vasantham, MediaCorp TV12 okto and MediaCorp News Channel NewsAsia International. The commentary on MediaCorp TV Channel 5, MediaCorp TV TVMobile, MediaCorp TV12 Central (MediaCorp TV12 Kids Central and MediaCorp TV12 Arts Central) and MediaCorp News Channel NewsAsia International was in English, MediaCorp TV Channel 8 and MediaCorp TV Channel U in Mandarin, MediaCorp TV12 Suria in Malaysian and MediaCorp TV12 Vasantham Central in Tamil.

Radio

MediaCorp Radio stations covered the parade "Live" over 938LIVE, Capital 95.8FM, Ria 89.7FM, Lush 99.5FM and Oli 96.8FM in English, Mandarin, Malaysian and Tamil respectively.

Online

"Live" webcast would also be available on the official NDP website, MediaCorp NDP webpage and Channel NewsAsia Live.

Outdoor Digital Media

'Live' screenings of the parade was available on the outdoor digital screens managed by MediaCorp at ION Orchard and Orchard Central malls. Digital media screens managed by SPH MediaBoxOffice in 313@Somerset and HDB Hub also screened the parade "Live.

Other celebrations

See also

Singapore in 2005
Events
Others

External links

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