island tales #17

i dont know if it's just me, but i have a tendency to associate time periods/events in my life with whatever song i happened to be playing at the time. utterly strange, but perhaps not unsurprising, since i tend to listen to mp3s when doing work, since it somehow helps me absorb information faster. or in the case of coding, keeps me entertained during the endless stretches of repetitive tasks.

anyway, here are some examples:
i) form four/five: my very first mp3 downloaded was 'vertical horizon - you're a god' (yea yea, blasphemous title, but it was nice k..), so i listened to that for ages. and when i went for the surveyor's competition thingie (with roy, rom, martin, victor.. i think. anyone else??), i brought along some richie ren songs, so listening to those brings back memories of that time. ahhh.. secondary school.. an endless depository of bad memories there... the surveyor's finals was one of the better times. :P

ii) first year first sem: when i first entered uni, i had this cd full of emil chou's songs, so those hot, lazy afternoons in tronoh were spent listening to that cd on my creaky old 450 MHz computer (it is now, uh, inactive) on those plastic old speakers (currently used by my dad, who seems to inherit our electronic hand-me-downs). since gordon lived next door with fong, i had a cd of jay chou's songs as well. the jay chou songs (fantasy album) are especially connected to... morbid's era. :P

iii) first year second sem: a plethora of darker songs here (heh). also continued listening to jay and friends, but the addition of an extra thousand songs to the playlist disassociated the period with any particular song.

iv) second year-third year, aka carrot's era. several songs do stand out here, haha, mostly coz they were my sms companions. suitably jiwang collection... and added some songs that my bro downloaded. playlist populated with more english songs (mostly pop-rock fluff. what can i say, im the Average Consumer), and less chinese song updates. also lots of songs connected to movies i watched with carol. I AM NOT A ROMANTIC! i deny all accusations on the contrary.. :P

and this morning i heard avril lavigne's "nobody's home" on the radio, which is DEFINITELY associated with the previous semester in uni and all its glory: dota games, the edx montage (was listening to that from 4 to 5 am thanks to the sleepless nights), basketball, the project-after-project month, mamak nites, the tests-where-i-havent-read-anything-before, and my adorable rmate, Mr Mato. haha... one of the best times of my life.. :) all associated with the song, since my rmate had a tendency to blast songs when stressed, and this was one of them. found it nice and adopted it as the anthem for that semester..

hehe. but i cleaned out my mp3 collection recently, it was getting a bit bloated. hm. oh and as a sidenote, i freely admit that i dont understand girls. at all. and i cannot ever remember the colour of people's clothes in my memories (including my own)... hahaha...