Sound of Music

While I was going thru my movie collections yesterday wondering what movie to watch with my 2 little princesses, I finally decided to watch the evergreen classical movie of all time - The Sound Of Music. I watched this movie when I was little, can't remember how old but I think i'm about 10 or younger. There are few songs that I like but 2 songs that runs in my mind those days were Do-Re-Mi and Sixteen going on Seventeen. I'd sing the chorus and hum (can't sing the whole song ma!) the rest of the song happily but softly while playing with my friends.

I thought that since I, the rascal, likes the movie, my 2 little princesses would like them too. However, I was expecting them to watch the movie while playing with their "cooking" toys but it turned out that they watch the movie straight on and enjoyed them very much ... well technically, we stop twice ... VCD ma.... it took 3 VCDs to store the whole movie. So, we stop and do our stuffs before we continue to watch the next disk. Hmm... that reminds me that I should look for a DVD version.

When Julie Andrews and the kids sang Do-Re-Mi, my younger daughter were amazed, looked at me and say (with her twinkling smile) that her Kindergarten school also plays that song. I can see that she was humming along silently.

Here's my favourite chorus ...
Doe (Do) a deer, a female deer
Ray (Re)a drop of golden sun
Me (Mi) a name I call myself
Far (Fa) a long long way to run
Sew (So) a needle pulling thread
La (La) a note to follow So
Tea (Ti) a drink with bread and jam ...
that will bring us back to Doe, oh oh oh

Now, let's sing along




After the movie, my elder daughter, just like me when I was younger, also likes the Sixteen Going on Seventeen song, especially the chorus part - "I'm sixteen going on seventeen ... ". The word "sixteen going on seventeen" and the dance in the glass house was a very lovely encounter of 2 opposing sex. I guess all children like to be in that scene and can't wait to grow up. Either you want to meet the pretty girl or the handsome guy .... and of course the ever "curious" first kiss! Agree?



Sweet huh! I'll try to find a proper snippets of this part from YouTube. I actually found one but the owner dubbed it with his lousy singing voice. I'll replace this once I found it.

Anyway, this movie is definitely one of my favourite "collectible" musical movies.

On another note, I would love to hear "arrggh, S#@t, da#@, OMG, or some swear words" on the golf course. It's probably the better "Sound of Music". Why? That's the sound when someone hit a really bad shot! That's when I'll say ... music to my ears! :-) Khakakaka.

Here are the rest of the songs that I like from the Sound of Music.

So Long, Farewell

Edelweiss

My favourite things

I'm going to look for Julie Andrew's Marry Poppins. I don't really have a good and lasting impression about this movie but I remembered that my Sis love them.

My PMS?

I have not been feeling right recently, somewhat - something is missing. I am not depressed nor sad but yet felt miserable. I tried to motivate myself but my negative chi beat the hell out of me. Everything I do doesn't seems satisfied!

Tried to do many different things to change my "negativity" state but nothing seems to work permanently. I tried to watch movie, which is one of my favorite past time, and I bought "Night at the Museum 2". Although I had a good laugh and felt better but it was just temporary, I fell back to my negative state the next day.

I played golf and I was hoping that doing something I like would help to pick myself up but ended up making a fool out of myself and not to mention poorer me (got whack left, right & center!). I can't tee off, my short game sucks, and worst is that I took an average of 3 putting shots! Oh btw, in almost every hole, I had my shots either in the bunker, drain or OB!

I tried to jog but only manage to run for about 50meters and i fell flat. Cant' run at all. Tried the self motivational thingie but doesn't work. The only consolation is that I manage to walk about 2-3 miles. Felt a little bit better after the walk. Tried to blog but words, ideas and my thoughts doesn't seems to come out right - very messy.

However, I felt better since last weekend. I think spending time with "her majesty" and the 2 princesses helped me tremendously. I've completely forgotten and lost track about the "miserable" feeling. Going thru their homework, played tic-tac-toe, snake and ladder, watch my elder ride bicycle with her cousin, tried to teach my younger one to ride was quite joyful and delighted.

This is definetly one of the medicine I needed most but unfortunately, its Monday today! They have to go to school and work! Meantime, I'm still not 100% cured yet! I wish everyday is a weekday ... ;)

I need to find something else to help turn things around permanently leh. I need to discard this lousy state of mine. It's not healthy and certainly not productive being in this state for so long! I need something to stimulate and invoke my "long term" positive energies.

Anyway, things that I haven't tried but I think that can "pick" me up are the followings:-

1. To sit in a motivation session to get myself pump up. But Anthony Robbins not in town!

2. To hire a witch (if there is one in M'sia). Maybe they can put some positive spellcast on me?

3. To watch a stand up comedy show. Maybe they could cheer me up. They say laughter is the best medicine right? But I'm not sure if there is such a show in KL. Ada meh?

4. To get a good aromatherapy massage. hmmm - this option is more promising and easier to do as we have a few in Sg. Long. woo hoo... i'm already felt better!!!!

5. Eat durians? Tried. It worked but I cannot be eating it everyday right?

Any suggestions?

Oh, I wanna share this song with you ... listen to this little girl sing! It's definitely my favorite.