Here are the list of songs which I shall aim to revisit and listen to again:
Take That - Back for Good, How deep is your love, Relight my Fire, Babe
NKOTB - By my valentine, Please don't go girl
BB Mak - Come Back
O Town - Liquid Dreams (Hahahaha... I use to despise this song, but I have to concede it is nice and groovy. Something special when it was first broadcasted.)
Human Nature - I Wish, Last Christmas
Bossan - One in a million
These songs really remind me of the late night radio listening sessions with my roomate, who is also my favourite cousin (I use to reside with her family because I was enrolled in a school far away from home), and the hushed up midnight video watching on TV sessions with her.
We use to creep downstairs to the living room from our room, and switched on the TV just to catch the top 10 videos listed in the US, broadcasted on channel 5 (then known as SBC something). Everyone, especially the ruling adults of the household, was fast asleep in their beds.
These midnight sneaks eventually came to a standstill when my cousin advanced to college, and then university. During her absence, since she moved to the hostels in her uni campus, I don't really enjoy the company of the others, thus I decided to stay in my room, listen to radio till late in the nights.
Those were the comforting times when I was away from home. I'm glad I could still remember =)
Oldies?
It never crossed my mind that the songs I loved and enjoyed years back have stopped playing frequently on the radio. Even if they were played, people would've forgotten that they were once well-loved by the masses.
A conversation about boy bands, NKOTB and Backstreet Boys, The Hansons and The Moffats, came up unintentionally today, and it also spurred me to check on the list of once popular, now forgotten, boybands online.
Guess what - the brief research led me to back to the songs which I've loved, and sad to say, have forgotten all about (since my first computer crashed and burn, and all the hundreds of songs I've collected from friends were never revived).
It's even sadder to learn that some of the songs I remembered enjoying can't be found in music search engines - I can't listen to the mp3 versions of them. So I went to YOUTUBE, and got the music videos. Thank god!
It seems rather warming to listen to these music once again. Makes you truly feel the changing times, and how many years have passed us by.
LFO (Check out their videos "Girl on TV", "Summertime", "I don't wanna Kiss you Goodnight" on YouTube - really missed them!)
Let Loose (Only one song I enjoyed from them - their remake of "Make it with you". Very romantic and weddingly)
Belle Epoque
Every heard of "Coffee Prince"?
A korean drama centred around coffee beans and cafe.
I've always yearn to live in the soft, natural, and earthly atmosphere captured in the show. So to kinda bluff myself into believing that I'm truly living in it, I tried to get my hands on the music that partly created the mood in the drama.
My sister and I bought the soundtrack, and we waste no time listening to it.
I especially love the light-hearted, warm and fuzzy mood of the tunes by 'Tearliner' and 'Belle Epoque'.
Tearliner doesn't exactly draw your tears out, but they do make you feel what they intend to with their rhythms. The ones by Belle Epoque, albeit only one available in the soundtrack, will more likely lure you to the dreamy mood felt when the first glimpse of light ray hits memories of droplets left behind by a crazy storm, and you miraculously hear the first note sung by a chirping bird. You might even start to picture Paris, a city of romance and love. (Well, I guess Italy might be a better analogy, but you know what I mean.) Yup, the soft melodious chimes in Belle Epoque's "May" does do such wonders.
A korean drama centred around coffee beans and cafe.
I've always yearn to live in the soft, natural, and earthly atmosphere captured in the show. So to kinda bluff myself into believing that I'm truly living in it, I tried to get my hands on the music that partly created the mood in the drama.
My sister and I bought the soundtrack, and we waste no time listening to it.
I especially love the light-hearted, warm and fuzzy mood of the tunes by 'Tearliner' and 'Belle Epoque'.
Tearliner doesn't exactly draw your tears out, but they do make you feel what they intend to with their rhythms. The ones by Belle Epoque, albeit only one available in the soundtrack, will more likely lure you to the dreamy mood felt when the first glimpse of light ray hits memories of droplets left behind by a crazy storm, and you miraculously hear the first note sung by a chirping bird. You might even start to picture Paris, a city of romance and love. (Well, I guess Italy might be a better analogy, but you know what I mean.) Yup, the soft melodious chimes in Belle Epoque's "May" does do such wonders.
Tummy ache
I always feel that no one understands me. No living person in this world can grasp the full meaning of a twitch of my brows; or a crease on my forehead. Only I know. Only me.
Well, I guess it's just a reason I use to excuse myself from learning to communicate effectively with people around me. We (well, people who are like me) enjoy making up stories, realistic ones, to console ourselves when things go terribly wrong, and thus allowing us the calmness to move on with our lives.
When I graduated from university with a major in Engineering, not Literature nor English, both of which I have interest in, I automatically thought back to the days when my parents made plans for my future path. I figured that their plans were the reason to where I am standing now, which is not truly what I had in mind. I begin lamenting their efforts and guidance, believing that they were the ones responsible for my destroyed hopes and dreams.
But... was it really their fault? I never really thought about what I really want to be until I become a full potential working adult. It never crossed my mind what I need to do to get to where I want to be. It certainly never came to me that I need to stand up for myself, make my own decisions to live the life I wanted. I let them make plans for me. It has always been me.
Well, I guess it's just a reason I use to excuse myself from learning to communicate effectively with people around me. We (well, people who are like me) enjoy making up stories, realistic ones, to console ourselves when things go terribly wrong, and thus allowing us the calmness to move on with our lives.
When I graduated from university with a major in Engineering, not Literature nor English, both of which I have interest in, I automatically thought back to the days when my parents made plans for my future path. I figured that their plans were the reason to where I am standing now, which is not truly what I had in mind. I begin lamenting their efforts and guidance, believing that they were the ones responsible for my destroyed hopes and dreams.
But... was it really their fault? I never really thought about what I really want to be until I become a full potential working adult. It never crossed my mind what I need to do to get to where I want to be. It certainly never came to me that I need to stand up for myself, make my own decisions to live the life I wanted. I let them make plans for me. It has always been me.
If I really knew that I wanted to be writer, I would have studied hard for my English papers, and insisted on taking Literature as one of my majors during my education path. No... I simply let nature takes its own course; and nature, having too much in its agenda, decides to just listen to my parents' ideas and suggestions. Naturally, I became an Engineer on cert - someone my dad would love to be when he grew up, maybe.
It is really wonderful if you start paying attention to your future, and give it some thought; and not just any thoughts spurred by wild fantasies, but those which stemmed from constant observation of the society we live in. The sooner you wander about it, the better you are at taking control of your life. Then to take the lead in your life effectively, and live your dream life eventually, of course, we must not forget to make wise decisions, knowing full well that such a privilege comes with expensive consquences.
I slowly figured that to make wise decisions for ourselves, we still do need to take in advices, suggestions, ideas, and warnings from those around us who possess more experience. We are the rulers of our lives; and we govern with the guidance of our wise advisors (who also happen to be our full-time welfare officers).
Lazy morning and afternoon
They are not playing dead - they are taking a good nap! These cats of the ground-floor neighbours of my block really know how to live life to the fullest man. Everytime I walk pass them they show me a new way to sleep on the cool ground in style. (And they do really sleep like humans.)Hong Kong Cafe
Very very delicious and tasty! I ate the chicken chop cheese baked rice - FORGOTTEN TO TAKE A SHOT OF IT!!! Darn...
And thanks to my beloved mum, I'm now an official member of this restaurant! One of my favourite eateries! Love the food here (except the Pork chop papaya soup noodles - the combination of milk and pungent porky taste in the soup gives a weird feeling to my taste buds), the music they play and the friendly ambience.
Used to be packed with people even until the eleventh hour in the night. Guess the opening of a new branch at Ion Orchard really dispersed the crowd.... we have more chances of taking the private couch seats!
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