Min RE: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences

 

Well said Andrew. It’s a beautiful song  & beautifully sung by the schmoos.

Thanks for the memories & warmest(you need them where you are) regards,

Min

Mark Kan Re: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences - reply

 

my contribution : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKeXkhxiq6I&feature=related

for the lost youth...
this was hope !

alluring, enticing, soothing - the solver of ALL problems of life...
San Francisco is THE Mecca of :
love, free love, mind expanding drugs...
this together with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...
blew me away in our times...
the days of the Cold War...where either side had the power to blow up the world !

many times over !

the days of the "domino theory" !

IF Vietnam falls to communism than the rest of SE Asia is doomed...
hahaha !
and look what happened ?
the Almighty US of A - LOST !

the world still stands as is !

communism imploded on it's own !

think of the loss of lives, the sufferings of Indochina for decades !

still remember the image of the naked, shrieking girl - napalmed ?

OMG ! WOT A LIE it has all turned out to be !

i was invisible then...

juz a seeming hood from Ah Hood Rd...
altho i view me-self a slightly deeper thinker...
when Low Siew Tien, God bless his soul ( is he dead yet ? )
asked me to "get out of his class "...
i went to the front corner of the class to collect my crash helment...
might as well go down to Keok Rd for my favourite wanton mee lah !
the dry version "kon loh" one !  THE BEST in S'pore then !
and a couple of smokes after lah !

nothing much has changed !

hahaha !


incidentally, Scott Mckenzie also wrote one of me all time fav song :
" So what's the difference "
i am tryin to attach here - if i can find it !
i've failed...


so pardon my impaired memory...here's some glimpses of it :


" hey friend wake up ! i'm throwin rocks at your window pane...
  get out of bed, i got something to say...
  so what the difference if we don't go now...
  nobody'll know us in a year or so...

  nobody'll know us for the things we've been thinking...
  so wot's the diffrence if we STAY ? "


so i became a " quitter " in poor Goh Chok Tong's lingo...

his is damned rich no doubt - financially - aren't they ALL now
but poor that he was seat-warming AND
puppeteered from behind by the almighty Lee dynasty !

which is juz my guess...ok ?

no need to go the the ISD for dat !

i have connections there too - of my own !

hahahaha !

Rex Hu RE: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences

Hi folks, 

There's another less flattering but more flatulent version that comes to mind.....

How many beans are there in the jar 

How many beans can you see

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind.

Noor Quek Re: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences

 

Hehe indeed words did not mean a thing then and perhaps not even now except for Dont Worry be Happy. What's impt was and still is the song and sometimes the singer/singers. Remember the Shmoos?

Love

NQ

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Andy Liew Re: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences

 

Hi Rose,

Stop apologising!

Wat's important is that Blowing is a beautiful song, relevant then, relevant now, and relevant always.

Warmest regards from the what must be the coldest place in China (Tang-minus 16 degrees- shan)

Rose VAITHINATHAN Re: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences

 

er... and words, even if we didnt fully comprehend them...