Playing Favourites: My Favourite Song

I thought for awhile before deciding what I was going to talk about next. My Favourite Memory came as an easy first choice since I often think back about that day, especially when I see sunsets. So, I thought of My Favourite Food. That sounds easy enough, everyone knows I am a foodie. However everyone also knows I love fried chicken. So, not much of a revelation there. I didn't really have a favourite drink and neither do I have a favourite dessert. Hmmm 

While organizing some CDs during the weekend, the idea came to do My Favourite Song. In fact I love this song so much, its a no brainer that this is my all-time favourite. I never tire of listening to it and I never tire of humming it. So spit it out, what is my favourite song you say? Its La Vie En Rose, the Louis Armstrong version. I've always loved Louis' gravelly voice. It's perfect for jazz and love songs and it makes me think of a time when men were gentlemen and women were ladies. Romance was a journey you took towards wooing the partner of your dreams and love was alot less complicated.

I first heard La Vie En Rose while watching Love Me If You Dare with a classmate when I was about 17 or 18. I was mesmerised by the tune and immediately declared in the theatre "I think I just found my wedding song!" Over the years, my taste in music fluctuated from wanting to be oh so cool alternative, angsty rock and mindless pop but I never forgot my first musical love, jazz and blues and of course, La Vie En Rose. 

I know this song is synonymous with Edith Piaf and I love Edith too. Who can forget her dramatic performance in Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien? It always brings tears to my eyes when I watch her belt out the last verses.

However, I prefer the slower tempo and gentler swing of Louis Armstrong's take. I also really like how the song first starts off with the trumpet, that really lets me soak in the music before the lyrics come in. 

So, click on the video for my favourite romantic lullaby, La Vie En Rose. Waltz along to the tune and keep the romance alive!

Playing Favourites: My Favourite Memory

I love old movies. Roman Holiday is my favourite because the old-fashioned storyline gets me everytime and because when you watch the movie, you understand why Audrey Hepburn was born to be a star and why Gregory Peck is the ultimate gentleman. 

Yesterday, I watched The Sound of Music again (I can memorize the lyrics to almost all the songs in the movie) and inspired by Maria and her favourite things, I shall blog about one of my favourite things weekly for the month of October. Here's my first entry!

My Favourite Memory

When I was 22, my husband or boyfriend at that time brought me to Europe. It was the first time I ever travelled out of Asia and it was on this trip that I found one of the greatest loves of my life, travelling.

We were still in the beginning of our trip, at Santorini in Greece and were strolling around on our first afternoon on the island. I can't remember if we decided to follow a crowd but we soon found some people waiting by the water for the sunset. This was apparently touted to be the best sunset watching spot and everyone was eagerly waiting, camera in hand.

We could have waited there with the rest but knowing us, we snuck off onto somebody's rooftop and there in our own private space (or rather someone else's private space), I saw the most breathtaking sunset I ever saw in my life.

The magical moment

As the sun slowly dipped into the horizon of the sea, the waters became really still. For a moment, I could almost believe that I would be able to walk over the water on my tippy toes and touch the sun with my finger. It was that still and it was our magic moment. For when that moment passed, I knew that it was so special and that I would never be able to capture that again. I actually told myself to remember this moment and to remember how we felt, watching this magnificent sunset together. I also secretly thought that if we ended up together we would go looking for the best spots in the world for sunsets as magical as this one. We ended up together alright but we never went sunset hunting.  :)

I am not sure why the water went all still during the sunset, probably an optical illusion? But it seemed to me like it was holding its breath waiting for the sun to touch it. And that, is my all-time favourite memory, our first time to Europe together, our first sunset and the most beautiful moment of our entire holiday.