it had been a very interesting week i must say. i have become a groupie.

but it’s all because this could be the only chance i had of ever meeting the royal duke and duchess of cambridge, in my homeland nonetheless! some people might say why the heck i go all the way and why the fuss…but i couldnt think of all that. i just felt doing it, what’s more all this while i’ve been ‘stalking’ kate middleton online and loving her by the day with her gorgeous gorgeous dresses. i had to do it! don’t care what people say! 🙂

since the day news came out that the royal couple are going to have their asian tour due to the queen’s diamond jubilee, i have been waiting day in day out for news of where they might be visiting when they visited singapore. so when details came out, i’m desperately excited about it! they were to go places such as gardens by the day, botanic gardens, queenstown and kranji war memorial. being a newbie groupie, i thought i had to park myself somewhere in queenstown the whole day just to get a glimpse of the royal couple. but thankfully no.

it was made known to the media their whereabouts, even ‘recommended’ areas for the public to see them! i’m doubly excited! having known they are going to be at the gardens by the bay at 10am on 12th sept, i know that’s my call. haha.

took a half day despite having an administrators’ meeting and my mosque being the host somemore, i couldnt step back and let this opportunity go. it’s only for half a day, and the meeting will take a whole day. i had to take this chance!

and i did. my beloved babies Nuri and Khidir accompanied this crazy sister of theirs. ‘dragged’ them early on a wednesday morning, battling the morning train crowd, with take away kfc breakfast just because i want to be early. but alas, when we reached gardens by the bay, there’s already a crowd! quite a surprise though because apparently there are many others like me who wish to see the couple live! it’s heartwarming!

and so the wait begins and i got excited by the minute! but of course they had to be fashionably late but despite it all, it was worth it!

i got a good spot i must say. i mean, gardens by the bay had put barricades around the supertree area and after a good hour’s wait, the couple came in a buggy with their entourage and already people started screaming and shouting their names. so the buggy passed exactly where i’m standing and kate was waving her hand with that bright smile of hers! but alas, the buggy went quite fast and i could only got a glimpse of her and couldnt even get a nice picture!!

and i thought that’s it, but seeing the crowd further up were shouting and cameras all up above everyone’s head pointing to the couple, i thought no, i cannot stop here. i went all the way up and rightly so, the couple are still hanging around there shaking hands with the crowd! i braved the the hustle. i really did!

i’m like pushing my way in this crazy sweaty crowd holding my iphone tightly and not daring to take out my camera. i was scared ok! but i got as close as i can to get a look at the prince!! he was such a polite man! one disappointment for me was when i got that close, kate was nowhere near! she must have been escorted away already. but seeing the prince is good enough.

and that was it, the prince was escorted away and the crowd dispersed and i had to go back to my normal life. i didnt regret doing it, i enjoyed it and it was a nice experience. i will continue to love this royal couple of my generation.

well, i was my mother’s daughter. she was head over heels with the late princess diana. i remembered those magazines with diana in it, newspaper cuttings about her, i grew up watching her flipping through those magazines over and over again. i remembered too well how angry she was at prince charles during those turmoil days of the royal life and definitely that night we all found out diana was killed in an accident, she cried and mourned for diana, although at that time, i was sad more for my mother than diana’s death. i didnt think i could have developed this interest when diana passed away, but kate middleton has re-ignite that love and interest. heh, my mother was all supportive when i told her i wanted to stalk the royal couple when they are here.

it was nice while it lasted. the royal couple is now moving on with their tour. i am back to normal routined life, but for that half day, i am happy.
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