"I Can Love You Like That" by All4One is now playing... this station plays all the slow numbers.. has lullabying effects to some people, but to me they're my all time favourite songs, and have been my companion when I was studying for my Higher Level School Cert.
Truth is, I never listened to any other stations other than Light & Easy, at least when I am in control of the radio channel. Some people say 105.7 is for old people, well, whatever people want to say.
I even heard "All Kinds of Everything - AKOE in short" on this channel a couple of days before . (When Will I See You Again is now playing). AKOE was one of the songs I sang in primary school, for the school choir, I remember that I really liked that song, simple sweet melody. And even the look of the music sheet, yellowish in colour, a bit old. So when I heard this song, it was the first time I hear someone singing it (recorded version)! Sounds really old, perhaps original version? Not that I've heard any other versions, anyway..
My primary school days... I love my music teacher, Mrs. Mak, I wonder where she is now. She plays the piano beautifully, and I love being in the choir under her guidance. Then some other teacher took over and played the piano not-so-nicely campared to Mrs. Mak.
The earlier years of my primary school, music lessons were all taught by Pn. Rahimah. She would play the cassette with all the songs, and we would copy the lyrics on the board and sing according to the radio. I still keep all my small music notebooks from Primary 1 till Primary 3. And I still remember for some songs where "burung terbang pulang ke sarang/rumah" meaning birds fly back to their nests, Pn. Rahimah asked us to "fly" around the classroom, in imitation of the birds! She did lots of those things, asking the class to do actions according to the songs.
Those days, we need to wait and sit at the corridor half of the year before we start our classes in the afternoon. So on the days when we have music lessons, we will sing while sitting at corridor. Quite boring, supposed to stay quiet (at least not noisy) and the prefects would take care of the students' discipline. We would also play the "batu delima", tic tac toe, bingo, writing the names of things that start with a particular alphabet (then calculate the scores based on how many people writing the same answer, I just discovered that this is actually game theory), etc...
My primary school, Purple Primary School (2), shares the school with Purple Primary School 1, and my goodness, we were "enemies" with the Purple Primary School 1 girls though we never meet any of them. (Rhinestone Cowboy playing) We will be cursing them if they leave any bit of rubbish in the desk, if after any school events they left gold dust on the tables. Same thing on the other side, they didn't feel "friendly" to us either. All these childish enmity gone when we joined the same secondary school, Purple Secondary School. :D
(Now & Forever by Richard Marx playing). Richard Marx's Right Here Waiting, the first ever English pop song I heard (as far as my memory could tell me), and the first ever pop music piano book I bought, was chosen because of this song being one of the songs inside the book.
Just now some New Age song is playing. My Christian roommate once told me that Christians (perhaps only applicable to some secs) are not allowed to listen to such music, e.g. Yanni, Kitaro, because they are Satan's music? By now, I think perhaps these music makes you feel so relaxed that you will lose yourself in the music, and that might be the reason why she said the music is not good?
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