backwards

Some days I just want to listen to 80’s music, not the new wave stuffs from China Crisis or Modern English. I just want to burn my ears with Whitney Houston, Madonna, Boy Krazy, and Go West, to name a few. Music that is usually performed by live show bands of today… songs that Sharon Cuneta, Alma Moreno, and Vilma Santos used to sing and dance to (I used to watch Alma Moreno’s and Vilma Santos’ variety shows on TV, my mother was a fan of those two actresses). Thank God for the Internet, my craving has been cured. I was able to download the following songs via Multiply.com (plugging multiply here?):
1) Best of My Love by The Emotions
2) King of Wishful Thinking by Go West (i think this is included in the Pretty Woman OST)
3) That’s What Love Can Do by Boy Krazy
4) Holiday by Madonna
5) Heaven Is A Place On Earth by Belinda Carlisle
6) I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston

I am still looking for Houston’s How Will I Know. Anyone who has an MP3 of that song, I hope you are kind enough to share it. Hehe

Anyway, these songs sort of transport me to days when I was still in grade school. I had a happy childhood, with my six formative years spent in Calinog, Iloilo. How I miss having Safari, squid Rings, Pritos Rings, White Rabbit, Serg Chocolates, and RC Cola or Coke for recess. And whenever I got sick then, my mother would fix me a bowl of maggi noodles with egg or buy me grapes and Fita biscuits. Weekends and after school were spent in front of the TV, watching Voltron, Voltes V, Thundercats, or Uncle Bob Lucky Seven Kid’s Club — did I get the program’s title right? (and drool over toys being advertised during breaks)… and Superbook or Flying House. And watching Tanghalan ng Kampeon and the Vilma Santos Show during Fridays. Or watch the Regal Stories, Magic Kamison, and some other shows that Regal Films produced for TV then on channel 12 (13 here in Manila). Oh yeah, That’s Entertainment, who could forget that. I love their Saturday contests - you know, when each group would have a presentation with a theme. There’s this pre-Holy Week presentations, etc. 

And most of all, rainy days would mean buying cute umbrellas with whistle or a raincoat and frolicking in the rain with kids in the neighborhood. And wearing USED miniskirts or pencil cut skirts paired with converse sneakers (not chuck taylors). How about you? Do you still remember how you were during the 80s?

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