COFFEE & BISCUITS

Am working on Misty and As Time Goes By (from Casablanca);

And a very dramatic interpretation of MISTY from a Japanese girl:

Today piano teacher played this piece for me. It was intoxicating. Below is my favorite interpretation of the song on youtube thus far. Though I still like piano teacher’s version better. The tune is supposed to sound lay back, resigned, and romantic.

and the sung version….

When Sunny gets blue, her eyes get gray and cloudy,
Then the rain begins to fall, pitter-patter, pitter-patter,
Love is gone, so what can matter,
No sweet lover man comes to call.

When Sunny gets blue, she breaths a sigh of sadness,
Like the wind that stirs the trees,
Wind that sets the leaves to swaying
Like some violin is playing strange and haunting melodies.

Bridge:

*People used to love to hear her laugh, see her smile,
That’s how she got her name.
Since that sad affair, she lost her smile, changed her style,
Somehow she’s not the same.

But memories will fade, and pretty dreams will rise up
Where her other dreams fell through,
Hurry new love, hurry here, to kiss away each lonely tear,
And hold her near when Sunny gets blue.

(Instrumental interlude and pick up at Bridge*.)

Hurry new love, hurry here, to kiss away each lonely tear
And hold her near when Sunny gets blue.

I am belatedly falling in love with this song — the official song for World Cup 2010, by Shakira.

You’re a good soldier
Choosing your battles
Pick yourself up
And dust yourself off
And back in the saddle

You’re on the frontline
Everyone’s watching
You know it’s serious
We’re getting closer
This isnt over

The pressure is on
You feel it
But you’ve got it all
Believe it

When you fall get up
Oh oh…
And if you fall get up
Oh oh…

next one to learn is:

再見, 純情玉女.

To commemorate restarting piano lessons tomorrow! Crossed my fingers.

Love love love the following performance of the same song (Louis Armstrong was there!). I am back to New Orleans again by listening to it.

Hearing these songs again feels like drinking a cup of hot milk with chocolate chip cookies on a cold winter night. The cartoons are still here, but the old carefree days are bygones.

我係小忌廉

長腿叔叔

Maple introduced this song to me back in college days. Now re-listening to it and have a renewed appreciation.

歌名: The best is yet to come
演唱: At 17
附註: Atseventwins solo
作曲: 林一峰, 編曲: 李端嫻＠人山人海
監製: , 填詞: 林一峰

永遠有一個吻未嘗　有些燭光未燃亮
若愛太苦要落糖　結他斷線亦無恙
To hug someone To kiss someone
The best is yet to come

若要錯失永不能守
得到也不代表長久
假使快樂有盡頭
痛苦也未會不朽

寂寞半點假如不能承受
這生命註定過得不易
笑與淚　亦有時候
To hug someone To kiss someone
The best is yet to come

若你說不再聽情歌
不想再經歷這漩渦
假使抱住你拳頭
到底也沒法牽手

就是為了追求一時平靜
將感情隔離半點感動都扼殺　沒法承受

永遠有不妥協傷口　有些憾事不放手
若你太刻意淡忘　越會補不到缺口
Why don’t you just hug someone
Just kiss someone
The best is yet to come
最好的尚未來臨

Recently, an elementary school classmate and a fellow children choir’s mate messaged me on Facebook. She mentioned the times we had in Hong Kong Children’s Choir. That suddenly brought back some memories, hidden in a place where I don’t even know exist in my mind.

The most memorable event in my 6 years in HK Children’s Choir is participating in a musical call “Wackadoo Zoo.” The plot line roughly goes as follows: one day, the animals in this zoo suddenly had a voice change — the sounds that came out of their mouth became incongruent to their animal type. For example, the pigs now roar like lions, the sheeps make monkey sounds, and the lions make pig sounds.

I was a pig.

As the story goes, the zoo hired 3 professors to cure the animals of this “sickness.” My older brother, who has an extremely high voice and was sort of a “star” in the higher grade singing groups, was one of the 3 professors hired. (Keep in mind he was only around 11 or 12 years old then).

(by the way, several girls in my choir suddenly developed a crush on my older brother because of this musical).

In the end, the animals, in the mismatched sounds, chased the 3 professors away from the zoo.

Just now, in the shower, from nowhere I started singing these these songs of “Wackadoo Zoo.” To my EXTREME shock, I remember the lyrics VERY CLEARLY. I can still sing those songs as if they were yesterday although I have NOT SUNG or SEEN or HEARD about them in the last 18 years!!!!

Here is the song I was singing, as if it was yesterday that I was wearing that Pig mask.

This goes to provide further evidence that as people age, they still remember old stuff clearly though they have crappy short term memory.

It just occurred to me to google this musical on youtube, and Viola, I found it! And I hear those songs ago! Here is a clip of the pigs. (I used to be among the pig group. There was a scene where we had to stand in front and sing with our lion’s roar)