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My Island Home (Chinese: 幸福的圖形; pinyin: Xìng Fú Dè Tú Xíng ）is a song sung by Singaporean (Taiwan based) singer, Kaira Gong. The song is the official theme music to the 2006 national day parade. The song is one of the few NDP theme songs to not mention Singapore's name in it.
At the 1995 APRA Awards, "My Island Home" won Song of the Year. [4] At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 , "Island Home" was nominated for Song of the Year , but lost to " Chains " by Tina Arena . Despite peaking at number 67 on the Australian singles chart , it spent 20 weeks on the national top 100 chart. [ 10 ]
The Islanders refer to this event as "The Coming of the Light", also known as Zulai Wan, [47] [57] or Bi Akarida, [48] and all Island communities celebrate the occasion annually on 1 July. [ 58 ] [ 47 ] Coming of the Light , an episode in the 2013 documentary television series Desperate Measures , features the annual event.
The National Day Parade (NDP) is an annual parade held in Singapore to commemorate its independence. Held annually on 9 August, it is the main public celebration of National Day, and consists of a parade incorporating contingents of the Singapore Armed Forces, Ministry of Home Affairs, local institutions and community groups, followed by a cultural presentation featuring music, dance displays ...
In Morris Gleitzman's children's book Toad Rage, a cane toad travels to Sydney in a bid to become the Olympic mascot. [54] The Games was an ABC mockumentary television series that ran in 1998 and 2000. The series satirized corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and ...
He analysed Fiji Hindi and concluded that it was a unique language with its own distinct grammar, rather than "broken Hindi", as it had been previously referred to. Moag documented his findings and wrote lessons using the Fijian Hindi dialect in the book, Fiji Hindi: a basic course and reference grammar (1977).
Highlights in rock from people of ATSI background were Archie Roach's Took the Children Away, Christine Anu's Party and her version of My Island Home and Yothu Yindi's World Turning. Fans of early punk band The Saints were excited when Ed Kuepper reunited with members of The Saints and played and recorded as The Aints.
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