Tale as old as time
Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Singing In the Rain, Breakfast at Tiffany's, yeah... that's about the old english/ American films that come to my mind. That's probably because I don't belong to my mother's generation whose all time classic films link to these and these sort. Nevertheless I never felt weird or incomprehensible towards their favourite movies as I do agree without a doubt that these films boast with an exceptional and remarkable star quality that prevails through the test of time. The Sound of Music is a testament to that fact-ask a 5-year-old and she'll sing to Do Re Mi flawlessly imitating Julie Andrews!
See, there's a distinctive feature among us, to treasure something of our youth or childhood that never fade from our hearts no matter how matured and different we become. In context with movies and tv shows that we have watched ages ago but still hold dear to, no one is an exception. If those are for my mother's era, then we kids have so much more that we may have forgotten about but still able to laugh and smile reminiscing those old times. I mean the back to back cartoon series from the only channels we were ever bothered to venture namely Disney Channel, Cartoon network and Nickelodeon. Just the other day, a few of my classmates were getting hyper and laughing out loud talking about lost memories of their favourite shows and then humiliating themselves singing those cheesy theme songs. It was CRAZY and HILARIOUS!! It started of with Pokemon, a huge phenomenon among little kids we were back then, then it went on to Digimon, Power Rangers, Ultraman, Batman, Superman, Spiderman( gosh, I'm making these up because I can't really remember. There were too many!) and then skipped to Kim Possible, American Dragon, Powerpuff Girls, Dave the Barbarian and on and on and on. (It's okay if you are not from this generation and wondering what's up with shows like these and their odd titles) Yes, not forgetting the seven Disney princesses! My, my, you can't even imagine how much time we spend talking about who's the most beautiful princess and the least beautiful, not to mention singing those timeless princess fairy tale songs!(Perhaps I should tell that this princess stories applies to the girls only...but I never know..) My personal favourite song is Reflection in the princess movie, Mulan and I have a feeling that my friends think I'm crazy when I start "passionately" singing it in class.
Boy, this has been fun to write. It brings back a flood of good old memories. I can't wait till I am older so that I can have more funny stories to share with my friends, about how I lived my youth with silly shows that still remain as invaluable treasures in my life!
i spent a lot of my younger days watching P. Ramlee and Badul re-runs because at that time that was all we had. They were pretty good even though we might find the cinematography and audio to be less superior compared to now. Then too there were no videos yet.My favourite cartoon was Scooby-Doo and Flash Gordon and stuff like that. The Sound of Music and Mary Poppin has remained evergreens! Not to forget Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street!
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