Back in time

I am a person who enjoys remembering the good old days, well who doesn’t? Remembering back the past, no matter how good, bad or ugly things were, it would always make you laugh your heart out. Tonight I got to relive my childhood a little.

I finally found the movie Aladdin from Disney (1992). It was my most favourite Disney cartoon I guess! Remember back then when we used to watch shows on big, heavy and boxy TV sets? In that time, there was no Astro yet and not even CDs have come along, let alone DVDs. The luxury us kids had were the cable channels and VCRs! Can you recall the black rectangular boxes that have film inside? Those were tapes! Anyway, I had an Aladdin tape and as a kid, I would always play it to watch the cartoon when I was bored. Cartoons back them weren’t adorned with those fancy terms like 3D or HD. They were drawn movement by movement by the Disney animators with good old pencil and paper. The colours were all done with watercolour! Being much older now, I can truly appreciate the works and effort the dedicated animators put into the film.

I was really, really impressed at the detailed facial expressions the animators have drawn out for each characters. Every twitch, wink and blink was not left out. Well, Disney wouldn’t be Disney without their eye for details eh? And of course there are the fun and catchy songs in the movie that goes “Prince Ali, fabulous he, Ali Ababwa!”. Who can also forget the most classic love song, ‘A whole new world’? Yes the story is for kids and life isn’t as easy as it seems in cartoons, but they still portray important and valuable moral lessons like always be true to yourself and others, love and kindness is more important than status and wealth and that brain is always better brawn!

If you people out there are ever free, do find some time to look for your old classic Disney cartoon!!

After that, I finally found the name to an old song that I always hum to! It’s ‘Seiring dan sejalan’ by Shahrifah Aini and Broery Marantika! My goodness, finally I know the name of the song, thanks to my friends who searched for it!!! I think it was the first malay song I heard! I remember that I used to be the first to wake up in the morning to watch the morning cartoons. Of course I usually wake up too early and ntv7 would just put some music videos before actually broadcasting shows of the day. They usually start with this song first and being catchy and happy as it is, I really liked it and I still remember the tune till this day!

Ahh, those were really the good old days of my life! Well, the best is yet to come! Enjoy the song! Lalalalalala~~ :D