Climb Every Mountain
Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every by way, every path you know
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your... dream...
Monday, June 04, 2007
Sound of Music
I think I must have watched The Sound of Music approximately 16000 times, but it's such a classic it's difficult not to love it.
It's such a wonderful film, so timeless and perfect. It's like George Orwell's Animal Farm, when you read or watch it for the first time in your childhood, it's just a book or film with fun and music, but as you grow older you start to realise that there're so many, many more levels to the book or movie to be explored.
The theme of love runs deep in The Sound of Music. The quality of emotion is strangely simplistic in modern terms, a governess falls for her impossible charges, then falls in love with their father, who strangely enough loves her too. But there's also patriotic love, because the story is set during the Nazi regime, and Captain von Trapp is dead loyal to his country, Austria.
But if I lived in a country as beautiful as Austria in those days I think I would be darn proud of her too.
I actually feel a little envious when I watch Captain von Trapp sing Edelweiss with such enormous emotion and affection. I know of course that he's just acting (he's Christopher Plummer by the way, and you might have caught him as Keanu Reeves' dad in The Lake House), but it makes me sad that I will probably never will have a national folk dance to be proud of, a beautiful national song that everyone can sing with pride and in unison, snowy mountains or luscious hills to remember my hometown by or even to have a ethnic costume boast of for that matter.
Not that there's anything about Singapore to complain about. In fact Singapore's a wonderful place. The roads are safe even at night, the air is fresh and clean (and I really do appreciate it after Hong Kong), and most people are innocent, kind and helpful.
Perhaps its because of globalisation - people can go anywhere they want to go, or disinterest, or even a greater disenchantment with life, people just don't feel all that charged with emotion when we talk about nationality anymore. t's sad, but I guess it's true to a certain that we'll probably never love our country as much as we love ourselves anymore.
It's such a wonderful film, so timeless and perfect. It's like George Orwell's Animal Farm, when you read or watch it for the first time in your childhood, it's just a book or film with fun and music, but as you grow older you start to realise that there're so many, many more levels to the book or movie to be explored.
The theme of love runs deep in The Sound of Music. The quality of emotion is strangely simplistic in modern terms, a governess falls for her impossible charges, then falls in love with their father, who strangely enough loves her too. But there's also patriotic love, because the story is set during the Nazi regime, and Captain von Trapp is dead loyal to his country, Austria.
But if I lived in a country as beautiful as Austria in those days I think I would be darn proud of her too.
I actually feel a little envious when I watch Captain von Trapp sing Edelweiss with such enormous emotion and affection. I know of course that he's just acting (he's Christopher Plummer by the way, and you might have caught him as Keanu Reeves' dad in The Lake House), but it makes me sad that I will probably never will have a national folk dance to be proud of, a beautiful national song that everyone can sing with pride and in unison, snowy mountains or luscious hills to remember my hometown by or even to have a ethnic costume boast of for that matter.
Not that there's anything about Singapore to complain about. In fact Singapore's a wonderful place. The roads are safe even at night, the air is fresh and clean (and I really do appreciate it after Hong Kong), and most people are innocent, kind and helpful.
Perhaps its because of globalisation - people can go anywhere they want to go, or disinterest, or even a greater disenchantment with life, people just don't feel all that charged with emotion when we talk about nationality anymore. t's sad, but I guess it's true to a certain that we'll probably never love our country as much as we love ourselves anymore.
Friday, June 01, 2007
Back from HK!
Yay I'm back frm Hong Kong!! It was a darn good trip and we had tons of fun laughing, shopping every single moment, immortalising every minute of the trip with our cameras and of course as the rest of F5 would know blocking the way.
Hong Kongers are a really impatient lot, and though we met tons of nice people on the trip who went out of their way to help us out, like the concierge at Cosmo Hotel, there were many people who probably thought we were too slow to be bothered about us. There was this waitress even who stormed off because we were too slow in ordering our food. People were also generally not as friendly as I imagined, like the guy who glared at me because I accidentally touched his foot on the MTR even though I apologised but ok that was probably not his fault.
But overall it was a darn good trip. Even though our hotel was facing the cemetary (haha!) and we were dead tired (note the pun) most of the time, we still had tons of fun in the hotel room, celebrating beabea's birthday and listening to ass talking about her love life and watching Jackie Chan and his ridiculous Hollywood movie. I'm so gonna miss them all, especially when nat and E fly off and I fly off.
We bought tons of things too, like 1000 bags and shoes and stuff. We'd literally go to a store and buy like half of their goods away! Especially places that sold tidbits. We bought like 14 boxes of krispy kremes at Times Square, and we couldn't even fit into the cab, even though it was meant for 5 people.
Lots of memories to share, hope to upload the photos here when I get them! We took photos like every waking moment because we just love ourselves so much haha!! But I didn't take many photos cos I thought it'd be quite unnecessary to load 5 of the same photos. F5 if you're reading this quickly upload them to shutterfly!
Ms Wang's wedding tomorrow, looking forward to meeting Welco!
Hong Kongers are a really impatient lot, and though we met tons of nice people on the trip who went out of their way to help us out, like the concierge at Cosmo Hotel, there were many people who probably thought we were too slow to be bothered about us. There was this waitress even who stormed off because we were too slow in ordering our food. People were also generally not as friendly as I imagined, like the guy who glared at me because I accidentally touched his foot on the MTR even though I apologised but ok that was probably not his fault.
But overall it was a darn good trip. Even though our hotel was facing the cemetary (haha!) and we were dead tired (note the pun) most of the time, we still had tons of fun in the hotel room, celebrating beabea's birthday and listening to ass talking about her love life and watching Jackie Chan and his ridiculous Hollywood movie. I'm so gonna miss them all, especially when nat and E fly off and I fly off.
We bought tons of things too, like 1000 bags and shoes and stuff. We'd literally go to a store and buy like half of their goods away! Especially places that sold tidbits. We bought like 14 boxes of krispy kremes at Times Square, and we couldn't even fit into the cab, even though it was meant for 5 people.
Lots of memories to share, hope to upload the photos here when I get them! We took photos like every waking moment because we just love ourselves so much haha!! But I didn't take many photos cos I thought it'd be quite unnecessary to load 5 of the same photos. F5 if you're reading this quickly upload them to shutterfly!
Ms Wang's wedding tomorrow, looking forward to meeting Welco!
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