Celebration of Light 2006 - China (Day 2)

Today wasn't such a great day for me. I woke up feeling not-so-good. Chatted w/ Jacq for a bit, then had to go back to bed because I felt like crap :( sorry Jacq <3 One thing that was worrying me was whether I would be well enough to make it downtown for the fireworks tonight!

Thankfully, I did! (tho, again, things didn't all pan out)

I managed to acquire my tripod from my buddy KL... he lives on Burrard near Nelson and my tripod was at his place. I grabbed it and then started making my way down to the beach to catch up with x. Before I got there he had called and let me know where they were located. 'By the Mens washroom' Simple enough :) because I knew exactly where that was... what I wasn't expecting was the even bigger crowd that was there today. I neglected to factor in the weekend and the fact that people don't have to go to work the next day.

I slowly made my way down to the men's washroom and started rubbernecking to try to find x and his group of friends. By that time it was already dark so it wasn't an easy task... apart from that, there was a wall of people in front of me. I tried calling his phone... and someone from his house answered (?)... nice... good job, x... :p nedless to say, I ended up watching the show by myself... probably within 10 meters of him... AND I didn't get to setup the tripod because I was with the standing crowd.

I am working on compressing / uploading the footage at the moment :) be patient! it's worth the wait ;) China's show is going to be hard to beat!

Video has been compressed and uploaded. Pending verification :)

*** UPDATE ***

Google is pissing me off as their verification process take sooo long... I've uploaded chunks to YouTube again:

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