the year I turned legal

tagged by imp, I flipped through the musty pages of my mental diary, reminiscing on some of the classic moments in that year. Am afraid these 5 songs are very pop, very commercial. But they still hold their weight in my heart, and I still happily hum and sing along whenever they come on the radio. And yup, they are still on my iTunes, and make me smile at the memories. :p

18 in the vintage of bemusedtots is when she::
studied at one college, but was seen more often at another. had her first serious relationship. scrambled at the last minute over the dreaded A levels, after close to 2 years of slacking. taught chinese for three months to pre-schoolers. passed her Grade 8 in plonking keys. got accepted into her dream course in uni. worked 15-hour days at a temp job. went on her first tour to HK with two other gal pals.

And here are the songs on my list. Don't laugh. :p

1. Flying without Wings by Westlife
What would the 90's be without Boy Bands?? While I wasn't one of those who went crazy over them, I think I liked Westlife the most (for their songs - I can hardly tell them apart!), and this song from their debut was my favourite. Loved the lyrics.

2. How Do I Live by Leann Rimes
Yes, the Love Song of my time, I think. Overplayed it may be, but never fails to turn everyone all sappy and singing along.

3. Crash and Burn by Savage Garden
I realise I'm really into all these 'love yourself, have faith in yourself' songs. Trivia: oh, I remember a certain radio personality got herself into hot soup for playing this song right after reporting on a plane crash tragedy. *snigger*

4. Someday by Sugar Ray
A perfect song to listen to while bumming on the beach. It's just has this lazy breezy feel that I heart.

5. Angel by Sarah McLachlan
This was my personal favourite by her. While I do agree with Imp that she can border on whiny, thought she sounded good in this, the way she effortlessly hits the high high notes. Power.


The Rules

1. Go to www.popculturemadness.com

2. Select the year you turned 18

3. Get all nostalgic over the songs of the year

4. Write about it

5. Pass this tag onto 5 others

And this tag goes out to: yuling, aokisan, enirrac, winnie-t, blame-less. :)

typically strange

Tagged by Imp, this list turned out to be harder to conjure than I thought - not cos I'm too normal, but more because these quirks are so much a part of me that I had trouble identifying those that would be perceived as 'weird'! Haha. :p

Ok here goes..

1. I am anal about tags.
I just cannot stand having the price tags on my things - especially on my stationery and books! I would painstakingly remove the tag the soonest I can, after making the purchase. Seeing them there just feels.. not right.

2. I'm obsessive when peeling prawns and eating shellfish
When devouring my favourite seafood, I would take pains to peel the entire prawn so as to keep it as intact as possible - even the tips of the tail that are hardest to get. In fact, especially that! Same with shellfish - I would carefully scrape the entire piece off the shell, leaving the entire thing clean, with not a single remnant left.

And for this reason, I'm usually happy to peel my own prawns. Haha.

3. I suffer from reading infidelity.
At any one time, I'm usually reading at least two, or three books. They are usually of different genres (think chick lit and fantasy, or romance and serious fiction), appealing to different sides of yours truly. Somehow, I seldom find myself just reading one book at a time - and I attribute this to my Gemini nature of the tendency to be easily bored or distracted.

4. I have a pretty good memory - for the most unconstructive things!
I have a knack for amazing others with my memory of details like what happened at gatherings or events, who said what, entire storylines and conversations in books read, song lyrics! So much so that I used to be a walking 'lyrics dictionary' to my friends in school last time (Chinese pop only though).

And this started when I was an ickle pre-schooler, memorising entire story books meant for primary sch kiddies that my mum read to me. According to her, I marched into bookstores, picked out the exact books and read them aloud from cover to cover, impressing the aunties in there! My showing off must have been quite embarrassing. :p

5. I have conversations with toys and imaginary beings.
The sis and I are convinced that there is an elf residing in our room, who loves stealing our stuff then putting them back in the wrong places - which is why our things often mysteriously disappear, only to be found in a place that we swear we never put there in the first place.

And we have entire conversations with our stuffed toys as well - the mini zoo on our bed, comprising a monkey, a dog, a cow, a kangaroo and a bodyless turtle.

6. I clear my plate item by item.
This is perhaps the most boring of the lot - I have to finish the different food items on my plate one. by. one. Eg. I have to finish all the salad/vege, before I eat the chicken, then the fries.

And I save my favourites for the last.

And I tag jyaisu, nottozlady, winnie-t, YL, blame-less and itzjuzme! :)