Significance
The Big Walk On Water 2008 was organized to mark three significant events that happened that year.
First, the event was held as part of the celebrations for the success of the inaugural Formula One Singtel Singapore Grand Prix race—F1's first ever night race—held on 28 September 2008, by moving participants onto part of the race track where the drivers drove on race day.
Second, the event was also to mark the opening of the new Marina Barrage that officially opened on November 1st, 2008. Participants of the Big Walk On Water will most likely be the first few people to be allowed to visit the magnificent new Barrage and reservoir at Marina Bay.
The Big Walk On Water was organized to mark the 20th anniversary of "The New Paper". The change of name and its new location highlight and signify the "New Paper's" evolution to become one of Singapore's best selling newspapers today.
Read more about this topic: New Paper Big Walk
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“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?—to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)