green bamboos and red cherry blossoms

i just watched 'goodbye boys' by bernard chauly
eggsellent
they had all these songs
which we used to sing in school
well..in the pathetic attempt at the music education that they gave us
and all the songs
that we used to chant under the blistering sun before sports day
:)
damn nice la
all those memories that we have tucked away, that never come up unless provoked
i nearly cried :)

so i can only hope that these songs wont be replaced
by kids downloading songs onto itunes
and humming away anti-socially whilst trying to block the outside world

because at the end of it
you realise that its the people and the experiences that have made us what we are today
the "selamat pagi cikgu's" in the morning
and the "terima kasih's" at the end
the sweat that was poured before air-cons were installed
the broken chairs and the desks that threaten to give way
at every single fat text book that we cram inside
instead of taking them home to do our homework
and us, running to school in the morning
to copy from the smartest kid in the class
and the teacher, failing to pick up why, each of us have the same answer

im glad that i grew up here instead of somewhere else
cos you realise that at the end of it
that we cant compare our upbringing to what they have in movies
or what enid blyton has written in her books
that we only had what was passed down to us
from the generations before us
and to that, im thankful for

xL