I think only Mr Tay will understand why this song strikes a chord with me.

Angie Baby (Alan O’Day) (Sung by Helen Reddy)

You live your life in the songs you here
on your rock and roll radio
and when a young girl doesn’t have any friends
it’s a really nice place to go
folks hoping you’d turn out cool
but they had to take you out of school
you’re a little touched you know
angie baby

lovers appear in your room each night
as they whirl accross the floor
but they always seem to fade away
when your daddy taps on your door
angie girl are you alright?
tell the radio goodnight
all alone once more angie baby

Chorus
angie baby
you’re a special lady
living in a world of make believe
well maybe

stopping at her house is a neighbour boy
with evil on his mind
cos he’s been peeking in angies room
at the night through the window blind
I see your folks have gone away
won’t you dance with me today
I’ll show you how to have a good time
angie baby

( angie baby ) (angie baby )

when he walks in the room
he feels confused
like he walked into a play
and the music’s so loud
it spins him around
till his soul has lost it’s way
and as she turns the volume down
he’s getting smaller with the sound
it seems to pull him off the ground
no more the radio is bound
never to be found

the headlines read that a boy disapeared
and everyone thinks he died
except a crazy girl with a secret lover
who keeps him satisfied
it’s so nice to be insane
no one asked you to explain
radio by your side
angie baby

Chorus
angie baby
you’re a special lady
living in a world of make believe

I have a new battery for my MacBook! My MacBook is old. In techie terms, four years is horrendously old but I truly love it. More than the other previous really lousy laptops I previously owned. They could not have been worse. They were also reflective of the times, crap boyfriend, crap laptops. Heh. Well, awful times are bad so I have to settle for a new battery than a new laptop. But it’s ok, I still love the MacBook with the Panda DJ spinning skin and a orange Speck cover.

Wonderful Tonight was on the radio this morning on my way to Sunday Morning yoga. It was one of the first songs I learnt to sing by heart. I was a toddler and the old walk up apartment in Novena’s toilet was rife with problems, especially the light. I used to be afraid of flushing the toilet because of the horrendously loud noise it makes so I would pull the flush handle down and rush out of the toilet for dear life. Sometimes, the light would go off and I would have to be in the toilet in darkness so the door would be open. When I sat on the toilet, I would listen to the radio (it was so loud) and one of the songs was this song. It was only later I learnt the gist of how the song came about but then I memorised it out while doing my business. Heh.

Wonderful Tonight
by Eric Clapton

It’s late in the evening; she’s wondering what clothes to wear.
She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair.
And then she asks me, “Do I look all right?”
And I say, “Yes, you look wonderful tonight.”

We go to a party and everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady that’s walking around with me.
And then she asks me, “Do you feel all right?”
And I say, “Yes, I feel wonderful tonight.”

I feel wonderful because I see
The love light in your eyes.
And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don’t realize how much I love you.

It’s time to go home now and I’ve got an aching head,
So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.
And then I tell her, as I turn out the light,
I say, “My darling, you were wonderful tonight.
Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight.”

The Beatles once sang that money can’t buy you love. But it can definitely buy you momentary happiness. The Laney passed me my birthday present early. I have not opened the shrink wrap yet, I will wait till my birthday.

The Beatles Remastered in Mono Box Set! True original LP sound. But as the Beatles did not record Yellow Submarine and Abbey Road (the horror) in Mono so they are not in my Mono Box Set. This makes me sad. Heh. I will have to have the Stereo Box Set too then.

Love that they put my two favourite Beatles in front and my least favourite behind.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was sitting in my hall room. I always listened to Gold 90.5 on the radio with all the music that I have grown up with. I usually know most of the songs and almost all the words to those songs. I do not know how I remember all the words but I do. ‘Don’t Cry Joni’ came on the radio that day and he sang along. Wide eyed, I stared at him. No one I knew knew that song and definitely no one I knew knew the words. To add more blow to the damage, he knew the words ‘Strangers in the night, exchanging glances.’. Old Blue Eyes’ Strangers in the night. Of course I fell that night. ‘Lovers at first sight.’ Funny how songs always get to me and render me helpless. Only those songs from a long time ago.

Don’t Cry Joni
(Conway Twitty)

Woman- Jimmy please say you’ll wait for me
I’ll grow up someday you’ll see
Saving all my kisses just for you
Signed with love forever true.

Man – Joni was the girl who lived next door
I’ve known her I guess ten years or more.
Joni wrote me a note one day.
And this is what she had to say.

Woman-Jimmy please say you’ll wait for me
I’ll grow up someday you’ll see
Saving all my kisses just for you
Signed with love forever true.

Man- Slowly I read her note once more
Then I went over to the house next door
Her tear-drops fell like rain that day
When I told Joni what I had to say.

Man- Joni, Joni please don’t cry
You’ll forget me by and by
You’re just fifteen and I’m twenty two,
and Joni I just can’t wait for you.

Man – Soon I left our little home town,
Got me a job and tried to settle down
But these words kept haunting my memory,
the words that Joni said to me.

Woman- Jimmy please say you’ll wait for me
I’ll grow up some day you’ll see
Saving all my kisses just for you
Signed with love forever true.

Man – I packed my clothes and I caught a plane
and I had to see Joni. I had to explain,
how my heart was filled with her memory
and ask my Joni if she’d marry me

I ran all the way to the house next door
but things weren’t like they were before
My tear-drops fell like rain that day
When I heard what Joni had to say.

Woman- Jimmy, Jimmy please don’t cry
You’ll forget me by and by.
It’s been five years since you’ve been gone
Jimmy, I – (married) – your best friend John.

This is a good driving song. Why do people build their world around other people? In the end, they will have no control when their world comes crashing down.

(Stevie Nicks)

Took this love and I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
Till the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
And can I sail through the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Oh oh I don’t know, oh I don’t know

Well, I’ve been afraid of changing
‘Cause I’ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older I’m getting older too
Yes I’m getting older too, so

I’ve been afraid of changing
‘Cause I, I’ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I’m getting older too oh yes
I’m getting older too

So, take this love, take it down
Oh if you climb a mountain and you turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring you down, down
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills

Well maybe the landslide will bring you down
Well well, the landslide will bring you down

FUNNY FUNNY – Sweet

I am so excited that it’s Friday today!

I am so excited that I am a concert whore this month:-
1. Kumar at the Explanade on 20 March (with the work girls)
2. Duffy at Indoor Stadium on 22 March (with Jupes and Shue)
3. Coldplay at indoor Stadium on 23 March (with Missy Teo and Cherry Bomb)
I would have watched 3 concerts in the span of 4 days! Granted Kumar may not sing but he is a performance in his own right.

I am so excited that I may finally be going to Hawaii. If it happens, I will work every Saturday and Sunday and save every penny until my ass gets on that plane to Hawaii en route Narita.

It was the Post 15 April party on Friday night at the Beach Hut at East Coast Park.

Sharonie and I hitched a ride with Uncle and arrived at ECP extra early. Therefore, we went around trying to find a KTV place but to no avail. Uncle just kept on pulling out a fresh cigarette every 3 minutes. He is a chain smoker. Sharonie and I rented a tandem bike and we rode, with her in the front as usual and me at the back because I do not move at all except pedal (or so she likes to think, teeheehehee.) When we switched and I went in front, let us just say it was a disaster.

The food was yummy yummy. Beef, Daphonaise (spelling) potatoes, whole little sotongs. There was free flow of booze but I stayed away because I do not need alcohol to feel high. No sir, all I need is good old music. And the band at the Beach Hut provided just that.

I danced because the band played all the music that I wish clubs would play. They played the Beatles ‘Can’t buy me love’ ‘I should have known better’, Elvis’ ‘All shook up’ ‘Return to Sender’, The Eagles, America. But when they started the beginning strains of the Hollies’ ‘Busstop’, I never been so happy. I could have danced, danced, danced all night long.

When I am in the car and the radio plays something upbeat and cheery in the morning, I love to sing along. The soundtrack of your life. Have you ever thought about it? If you could sum up your life in 12 or 15 songs, what would they be? Yes Kimmy, I am thinking about you.

I’M INTO SOMETHING GOOD
(Gerry Goffin / Carole King)

Woke up this mornin’ feelin’ fine
There’s somethin’ special on my mind
Last night I met a new girl in the neighbourhood, whoa yeah
Somethin’ tells me I’m into something good
(Somethin’ tells me I’m into somethin’ )

She’s the kind of girl who’s not too shy
And I can tell I’m her kind of guy
She danced close to me like I hoped she would
(she danced with me like I hoped she would)
Somethin’ tells me I’m into something good
(Somethin’ tells me I’m into somethin’ )

We only danced for a minute or two
But then she stuck close to me the whole night through
Can I be fallin’ in love
She’s everthing I’ve been dreamin’ of
She’s everthing I’ve been dreamin’ of

I walked her home and she held my hand
I knew it couldn’t be just a one-night stand
So I asked to see her next week and she told me I could
(I asked to see her and she told me I could)
Somethin’ tells me I’m into something good
(Somethin’ tells me I’m into somethin’ )
(Somethin’ tells me I’m into somethin’, ahhh)

I walked her home and she held my hand
I knew it couldn’t be just a one-night stand
So I asked to see her next week and she told me I could
(I asked to see her and she told me I could)
Somethin’ tells me I’m into something good
(somethin’ tells me I’m into somethin’ )
Somethin’ tells me I’m into something good
(somethin’ tells me I’m into somethin’ )
To something good, oh yeah, something good
(somethin’ tells me I’m into somethin’ )
To something good, something good, something good

Gwen gwen gwen. I do not listen to popular music. But how could I miss out on Gwen Stefani’s Sweet Escape tour? I remember when No Doubt came in uni and of course I did not go. Debbie went I remember!

She sang and danced her heart out. It was unreal. She was fit beyond belief. A hot mama indeed. It was fab fab fab-ulous!

Harajuku girls wannabe.


Front of the Gwen T-shirt I got with all the dates of her Sweet Escape (Asian?) tour dates.