Singapore National Day Parade, 2012

National Day Parade 2012
Organiser HQ Guards
Chairperson: Colonel Desmond Tan
Venue The Float at Marina Bay
Theme Loving Singapore, Our Home
Event Chronology
NE Show 1 14 July 2012
NE Show 2 21 July 2012
NE Show 3 28 July 2012
Preview 4 August 2012
Actual 9 August 2012
Parade
Parade Commander Lieutenant colonel (NS) Clarence Tan - BDE 2IC 13 SIB
Music
Theme song Love At First Light (Olivia Ong and Natanya Tan)

The Singapore National Day Parade 2012, also known as NDP 2012, was a national ceremony held in Singapore on August 9, 2012, in commemoration of Singapore's independence and its 47th birthday. It was held at The Float at Marina Bay, five years after the event was first held there in 2007. It is also the second time that the combined-school choir was introduced to guest at The Float. It is also the first ever National Day Parade officiated by President Tony Tan Keng Yam since he took office in September 2011 and attended by millions of people and also the cabinet ministers such as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, President Tony Tan Keng Yam, the former Prime Ministers Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Mr Goh Chok Tong.

Theme

The Theme is, "Loving Singapore, Our Home". It is to reflect on why we love Singapore. The logo also represents on how we appreciate Singapore and the love about our country.[1]

Logo

The logo for this year is launched by President Tony Tan Keng Yam and popularly known as the "Orchidstar"due to its shape that resembles the national flower, Vanda 'Miss Joaquim'. The logo is usually promoted most of the time along with its language rather than the Orchidstar alone.[1]

The following elements in the logo represent:

  1. Vibrant colour - Vitality and diversity of our people
  2. Red Heart - Love for Singapore
  3. 47 - Represents Singapore's birthday in years

Theme song

Main article: Love at First Light

The theme song for NDP 2012 was Love At First Light, written by Paul Tan and composed by Iskandar Ismail. It was performed by Natanya Tan and Olivia Ong.[2]

The parade also inaugurated the Tamil theme song for NDP 2012, Singai Naadu. Singai Naadu was written and composed by award winning music producer Shabir Tabare Alam who is the winner of the inaugural Vasantham Star 2005 competition.

NDP Funpack

This year's funpack is much smaller in size compared to its previous incarnations. It is also the first time in NDP history that a funpack takes the same design rather than the usual various printed themes on each funpack. Printed on each funpack is a unique bolded sentence in white. One such example reads, "LOVE IS THE BOND THAT UNITES US AS ONE PEOPLE". These sentences are displayed against a red background. Each of these funpacks is made from recycled materials as a follow-up to the previous year's parade.

Motivators

Colourful costumes that comes in the form of green top, a shiny blue bottom and a blue cap has been designed for the motivators from the TOUCH Community Services. According to the designer, the cost for manufacturing the costumes has been very costly as compared to the previous years due to the special materials being used to create the "shininess" for the blue bottom. The motivators has been divided into 2 halves, the viewing gallery and the floating platform. The objective for motivators on the viewing gallery is to have fun interacting with the audiences while they do the balloon sculpting. At the very start of the pre-parade, motivators towards the stage performing a special "run-in" dance under the music Let's Get It Started by The Black Eyed Peas. Upon the end of the dance, they quickly jogged onto the viewing gallery to join the audiences and the other half of the motivators in the pre-parade while the Emcees were introducing themselves to the audiences.

The motivators are students that came from the following 6 institutions:

In addition to that, the motivators re-appeared right in front of the stage during the grand finale, forming up in rows with each of them holding a lighted torch on their left hand while performing some hands movements accompanying the past-year NDP medleys while audiences and participants sing along with it under the colourful pyrotechnics. They had also ushered off the President Tony Tan Keng Yam as he made his leave inside his car.

Parade & ceremony

This year, in commemoration of NS45, an Advance-in-Review Order drill will be performed by the parade for the first time, with aerial flypasts and performance by the Police Coast Guard and Naval Divers on boats, as a salute to NS45. Traditional delights such as the march-past and the feu-de-joie will also be performed, plus the Majulah Moment (the raising of the Flag of Singapore) by SAF NSmen and veterans, the unique floating 21-gun salute by members of the Singapore Artillery, the Onward March to the stands from the 2011 edition, this time performed by the youth uniformed groups, and the 4th edition of the City Marchpast to Marina Bay Sands by all the marching contingents participating.[1]

Full Order

Parade Colour Guards

Guard-of-Honour Contingent Commanders

Also listed are each contingents' respective contingent commanders

Supporting Contingents

Also listed are each contingents' respective contingent commanders

Row A: Military/Paramilitary Forces

Row B: Uniformed Youth Organisations

Row C: Socio/Economic Organisations

NDP 2012 Combined Bands

Led by Band Conductor ME5 Philip Tng Liat Peng, and Drum Major ME2 Gilbert Lim

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "NDP 2012: Loving Singapore, Our Home". Ministry of Defence Singapore. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "NDP Show promises visual & audio feast". Channel NewsAsia. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
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