Today has got to be one of the most exciting days in my life. Pardon me, but it’s the first time I got to see a real live disaster in Singapore. It’s 10pm, and dear and I just finished the movie “Shinjuku Incident” at the new shopping mall at Bugis (the one beside Bugis Village. I duno the name) He’s hungry so we headed to the prata store opposite Fortune Centre, when we realised there was heavy smoke and a strong burning smell. Immediately we realise there must be a huge fire nearby. The indian man at the prata store confirmed our suspicions – Rochor Centre was on fire.

We quickly finished our meal and walked over to Rochor Centre out of curiosity. Initially, we thought the fire was over already, but upon arriving on scene, the firemen were still braving their lives to fight the raging fire. The source of the fire came from a store selling those stuff for praying at the temple – all very flammable. The roadside was cramped full of excited onlookers (even got ang moh tourists showing as much k-pohness as everyone else). The firefighters did not open the doors to the store, settling for spraying water from outside first instead (maybe to prevent the fire from escaping too quickly or got huge dramatic explosion), and whenever the fire starts to seep through the top of the metal gates, everyone in the crowd starts to go “”WOOOO!!!’” and “AHHHH!!!”.

Ultimately the police chased everyone away la….so ppl gotta watch from across the road instead. Well, we didn’t stay till the end of it, but we sure got some pretty good shots of the fire! Check it out!

Thank goodness it’s not DBS on fire. Think of all the moolah!!!!

The strong billowing smoke….

Everyone else’s busy snapping away too.