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I’m suddenly in a mood for all those retro hits. Can’t help but boogie when I have Earth, Wind & Fire playing on my iTunes. Undoubtedly the coolest band ever to exist.

Got into this whole retro thing tonight ‘coz of that Madagascar soundtrack website that I was surfing earlier on. That movie, I tell you, does something to you. The story isn’t great, jokes are okay, but somehow it just sticks to your brain.

Especially THAT song. You’d go: “oh my god I can’t believe they used that stupid song!”, but then later you’ll realize those lines of “I like to move it, move it” are seared to your brains, and you catch yourself in mid-step of a bit of that lemur rave party dance sequence. It’s not a great song, but it’s so silly and fun at the same time it makes you wanna boogie like those half-crazed lemurs.

Well, if you’re up to it for another dose of THAT song, you can go listen to it here. There’s a playlist and you don’t have to pay to listen. If you truly hate THAT song, I’d say skip on to the Earth, Wind & Fire, and BeeGees selection on that soundtrack.

Retro disco definitely rocks. Always works in lifting my spirits up a bit. Especially when I miss my darling and had nothing to do for the entire day. Was feeling kinda restless the whole day, and realized that I have a habit of stuffing myself with all forms of media consumption to cure boredom. Watched Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Jim Carrey overdid it this time: his Ace-Ventura antics don’t belong in this dark whimsical film), continued reading Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!, spents hours combing through the Star and the Malay Mail (I hate this tabloid but I was bored), surfed the net and hung around online… etc etc.

Well, I’m feeling much better now after managing to place a call to Tokyo.

Hotel frontdesk: *highly animated voice talking full speed in Japanese in really lo0ong sentence* “blablabla..”
Me: (Totally forgot that they’d be speaking in a different tongue there) *what happened to “mushi mushi”?*
Me: “Er, Hel-lo. Can I have room x-x-x-x please?” (slowing down and enunciating those numbers real well)
*long pause*
Frontdesk girl: *garble garble in something but I don’t get it* “blabla room xxxx?”
Me: “Yes yes room xxxx! Thanks!” *JOY!*

The line connected to the room, and I totally forgot about using those Japanese phrases I know like konbanwa and arigato gozaimasu. Damn. But I was happy the call went through.

I think I’ll try saying arigato tomorrow night. Meanwhile, it’s back to boogie-ing with my music!