australia
At some point of time I got so excited to blog about my thoughts at the spur of the moment… but blogger just wont work. Everything else worked but this bloody @#$%^&* website. I don’t know why. And I had so much excitement in me, but it faded.
I was going to say that sometimes its not about the song itself but the timing at which you first heard the song that would frame your mind about the experiences associated with that song. And this song that I just heard just reminded me about my time in Australia. It was the summer of 2003 and it was just months before I was going into the army. And I had some free time and so I decided that I was going down under to look for my bro. And this song was playing I don’t know from where. Probably on my very limited MP3 player that could probably hold like 40 songs or something. And I kept playing it coz I liked it a lot. Obviously a guy like me who proclaims that I tend to like songs performed by guys more since it mostly wrote about ‘man’ stuff. So liking Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful’ was something of a rare event. But still it clinged onto my mind like any other songs that would have been termed as classics to me.
And so begins the framing of the whole experience. ‘Beautiful’ to me means a time of being carefree. A time of really starting to interact with people on the ‘adult’ level since bro’s frens were all his uni frens. It also meant to me a time when I was away from Singapore. It was almost the first time I travelled on my own on the airplane. And I totally enjoyed the anticipation of not knowing who you’d sit with on the plane etc. I ended up drinking with an Aussie lad on the way back to SG.
The song reminded me of a time when I was free but had a fictitious someone back in SG. The feeling of meeting back that someone and not knowing if she’d still be there for me when I am back kinda appealed. but honestly I cant remember much about the specifics of those ‘love’ moments. I remembered more the carefree and chill times I had in Aussie than anything else. Like going to this café in Brisbane that was called Little Paris and had was like a mini Eiffel Tower in the middle of the city, drinking what would be my first ‘sophisticated’ cocktails with sophisticated names. And of course the fish and chips and the numerous visits to the those china town cafes for Chinese students in what they would term as ‘Cha Can Teng’, or probably just a term in the group since Bro’s girl was a Hongkie back then. And of course tasting the cookings of my bro, with some noodles and beef balls kind of thing going on. This is kinda my first idea of what it would be like if you were to 出国留学，in the words of my mother. Ahah. And of course I guess its these anticipations that I bring with me to Denmark I guess. Of course I demanded more.
I was going to say that sometimes its not about the song itself but the timing at which you first heard the song that would frame your mind about the experiences associated with that song. And this song that I just heard just reminded me about my time in Australia. It was the summer of 2003 and it was just months before I was going into the army. And I had some free time and so I decided that I was going down under to look for my bro. And this song was playing I don’t know from where. Probably on my very limited MP3 player that could probably hold like 40 songs or something. And I kept playing it coz I liked it a lot. Obviously a guy like me who proclaims that I tend to like songs performed by guys more since it mostly wrote about ‘man’ stuff. So liking Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful’ was something of a rare event. But still it clinged onto my mind like any other songs that would have been termed as classics to me.
And so begins the framing of the whole experience. ‘Beautiful’ to me means a time of being carefree. A time of really starting to interact with people on the ‘adult’ level since bro’s frens were all his uni frens. It also meant to me a time when I was away from Singapore. It was almost the first time I travelled on my own on the airplane. And I totally enjoyed the anticipation of not knowing who you’d sit with on the plane etc. I ended up drinking with an Aussie lad on the way back to SG.
The song reminded me of a time when I was free but had a fictitious someone back in SG. The feeling of meeting back that someone and not knowing if she’d still be there for me when I am back kinda appealed. but honestly I cant remember much about the specifics of those ‘love’ moments. I remembered more the carefree and chill times I had in Aussie than anything else. Like going to this café in Brisbane that was called Little Paris and had was like a mini Eiffel Tower in the middle of the city, drinking what would be my first ‘sophisticated’ cocktails with sophisticated names. And of course the fish and chips and the numerous visits to the those china town cafes for Chinese students in what they would term as ‘Cha Can Teng’, or probably just a term in the group since Bro’s girl was a Hongkie back then. And of course tasting the cookings of my bro, with some noodles and beef balls kind of thing going on. This is kinda my first idea of what it would be like if you were to 出国留学，in the words of my mother. Ahah. And of course I guess its these anticipations that I bring with me to Denmark I guess. Of course I demanded more.
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