Thursday, November 10, 2005

It's a Bird, It's a Plane...no, it's the Fruit Tree Juiceman!

How many people get to witness daredevils jump off their office building?

During lunchtime when most urban creatures like us are munching away on our char kway teows, Stephan Mueller jumped not only once, but twice, off the 63rd floor of my office building, landing safely on the green space right outside Raffles Place MRT station!

This skydiver and base jumper from the US plunged right off a window-cleaning-scaffold protruding out of the roof of Republic Plaza, a 63 storey office building, currently the tallest office building in Singapore, standing 280 metres (714 ft) tall. This building also ranks as the 47th tallest building in the world!


Above : A view of Republic Green from the 60th floor of Republic Plaza...


The first jump was captured in 3 stages on my Nokia 5140, but I haven't yet figured out how to show you the clips on this blog! :P

Last thing I remember was of the smiley-faced trooper, yanking out from his big pockets, plastic bottles of the latest mango-de-nato Fruit Tree drink and distributing them to his fans!

Thank goodness he made it in 1 piece, otherwise the flavour of the day would have been mango-de-human squash!

Three cheers for Juiceman! Sip sip, away!

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