Favourite song ...

[hoistman]

Well I see there is a thread for your favourite Thai song on here ... So thought I'd put my favourite song at the moment ... Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0

[yy]

I have many, but Do Ai is what I will call my favourite, if I have to choose a favourite. It is actually an old Vietnamese folksong but used as the theme song for a 1990s Vietnamese movie titled Three Seasons. I like the meaning of the song as well as its very strong Southeast Asian traditional feel. I'm sure we can't really choose, but given a choice to live all over again, I'm pretty sure that I will want to be born as a Southeast Asian again. There's something so unique and beautiful about Southeast Asian culture and even our natural environment as a whole that is quite different from the rest of Asia. That's why whenever my foreign friends ask about Asia, I always take pains to emphasise with pride that I am Southeast Asian, not simply generic Asian, and then happily cite our SEA specialness - usually our food, climate, our beautiful rainforests, and lastly our folksong and dance, and even our slightly smaller physical frame and darker complexion

This one gives the lyrics and comes from a very touching deathbed scene of the lotus girl singing this song (Do Ai) to the teacher dying of leprosy the song of his happy, long-gone childhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpdfhH-GUyE

This version of Do Ai is the one I enjoy very much - sad yet full of hope for the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haF74...endscreen&NR=1

[hoistman]

This video clip ... Well if I ever feel a bit down I watch this ... It was done by a British comedian Peter Kay ... Wont mean much to anybody outside the UK ... But have a look ... It was done for a charity night ... It always puts a smile on my face ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liAimpfH3k

[hoistman]

Oh well ... Just you and me YY .. Lol ...

Ok my favourite one hit wonder ... I have this song in the truck ... Must be getting on for 20 years old ... But I still love it ... Where have all the cowboy gone ? Well I know where a few went ... They built our shop !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPR108kwNo4

[yy]

Yes Maybe we should persuade Susana to jump onto the bandwagon and share hers with us...

Btw, I notice today that I thanked forum members here a total of 888 times thus far. 8 is an auspicious number in Mandarin (because of its similar propounciation to "strike it rich" in Mandarin), so 888 is an especially lucky combination. I hope to keep it this way, or at least, for tonight 5555

[djaidee]

Way back when I was young I was very much in R&B, HipHop and so on, one of my All-Times-Favourite from back then is

Regulate - Warren G feat. Nate Dogg

[Susana]

YY, my problem is that it is not in my nature to have just one favorite song (book, etc). I have favorite singers and bands, and favorite types of music. Some days my favorite song is the one running through my head when I awake in the morning.

I'll post one soon. Maybe two! Maybe more!

[yy]

Looking forward to your many songs, Susana, heehee..

(Meanwhile, I'm still holding onto the lucky 888 til after 9.30pm when I can bin my ticket for tonight's S$10million lotto draw LOL )

[hoistman]

Don't worry Susana ... I have loads of favourites .... I keep getting a red line when I spell favourite !!! But that's how we spell it in the UK ... Lol ...

Ok this is such a good song for the romantic evenings ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRo_CHSdt0

[djaidee]

O.K. for the Romantic Side, for a change nothing in English, it's a German Song by very famous German Group "Unheilig", Title: "Mein Stern" can be translated as "My beloved-one":