Gotta miss the old times

My boss and I had a good lunch yesterday (his last day of work) at Secret Recipe. We had a good talk about the organisation. My studies have really given me a very much better appreciation of the management’s perspective, and coupling with what I myself feel as a ground level worker, I seem to get the feel that I can better evaluate what I think of my organisation.

My colleagues and I will all miss him. One day he’ll come back – but to bring us along his path to greater success (and $$$ I hope). Haha!

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The oldies. Don’t you love ‘em? I do. I was just reminiscing about the old TV shows and music.

Last night I watched (between commercials on CSI) a documentary about Dean Martin. It seemed to be more of a showcase of clips of his show where he sang and sang and sang. He sounded wonderful. Reminded me of some musicals I used to watch on TV. Catchy and easy tunes to sing, yet when you put them together they can form a story all on its own. So simple and clean.

Thank goodness for Gold 90FM ‘cos my parents listen to it in the car. The music they play on the weekends are the best. I still listen to the regular pop-ish stations so I don’t get left behind on what’s on radio now. I don’t want to be 23 and have the brain of a 50 year old, ya know?

As for TV… Once upon a time, I had the privilege of watching re-runs of “I Love Lucy”, “Bewitched” and “I Dreamed A Genie”. They actually showed them on afternoon TV. Then at night, there were the ever exciting “Mission Impossible”, “Macguyver”, “Quantum Leap”, and many many others. There were movies like “Herbie” (now in cinemas as a remake), and the numerous musicals.
During the weekends we had cute and innocent characters like the “Gummy Bears”, “My Little Pony” and the “Care Bears”. Oh. And “Rainbow Brite” too.
Then there were the animated-musicals like “Beauty & The Beast”, “Anastascia” and “The Little Mermaid”.
[Speaking of which, if there were never a worse song to be sung in another language it’s “Under The Sea” by Sebastian the Crab in The Little Mermaid, being destroyed by being sung in Mandarin. What the hell…. Sung by Jolin Tsai some more…. I think it’s just WRONG.]

Gosh, I miss all these shows.

I think I miss sitcoms the most for TV, and musicals for movies. It’s so difficult to get laughs out of a good script and acting. We now have to make do with laughing at the expense of others (read REALITY TV).

I have always loved musicals and always do. I have always deeply envied how those on screen could act, sing and dance all at the same time. Plentiful on stage I’m sure, but not that many do come to Singapore. And when they do, they usually cost a bomb.

Moulin Rouge and Chicago proved to be mega successes, but will there be any more? Are there any more movie-musicals? [Was “The Producers” ever on film? If yes, I’ve really gotta do a search on it.] What I’m afraid of is the need to import these things in. Argh… Sure, there’s always bittorrent, but how many weeks do I have to leave the computer running to get ONE movie?! I’d rather own the DVD.

Even piano scores also can’t get in Singapore. Must import. Argh…… Thank goodness for the internet.
I still miss my piano. I don’t even bother looking around for piano scores any more ‘cos there’s nothing to play on.

I’ve got so much and yet I’m still complaining. Well, this is what this blog is for isn’t it? At least “listening” to my lamenting is optional now.

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So many things to do, so little time.........
Can I have more annual leave pleassssse?