Blasts From The Past

June 18th, 2009

it’s been one of those months where i have been building up a deluge of thoughts and ideas in my head, but remain far too much of a perfectionist to pen them down. mostly i’m just waiting for the right, quiet moment to sit down and organize all of my mental hodgepodge so that i may communicate them clearly — but i should know by now these moments always take too long to come.

i am currently alone in singapore, in a hotel overlooking clarke quay. i could get used to such a life of solitude, fresh white towels and curry puffs from old chang kee nestling happily in my stomach; but real life calls. and i’m still not getting any writing done. dont know which to expel first — my thoughts on twitter and plurk, my thoughts on (insert adjectives: Malaysian, famous or pseudo famous) bloggers and the sociology of the blogosphere, or my thoughts on the recent proposal for a compulsory pass in English for SPM. or how i’m becoming jaded? or how i really need to learn how to fly (literally)?

i’m shattered right now — both physically and emotionally. the former can be dealt with by a good night’s sleep, but i’m not so sure about the latter. and so to make myself feel better i want to share some videos of three cartoon movies from my childhood that i was very thrilled to have found on youtube.

1. this is Swan Princess. pretty popular with the kids, this one. if you are a fan of Harry Potter (specifically the Draco/Hermione ship) AND you have watched the Swan Princess, check out this video. it’s impossibly adorable!

2. this is an anime version of Jack and the Beanstalk. i was very surprised to know that so many of my friends have watched this! i’ve embedded the part of the movie where the princess sings as she sits on a cloud (skip to 7:10); that’s the part that everyone seems to remember the most. i recall being extremely frightened by the wicked witch — she gave me the most chilling nightmares. old Japanese anime can be so deliciously dark.

3. this is Little Nemo. i have yet to find a single person who’s watched this movie, but i believe i’ve just been asking all the wrong people. this movie was also very dark and disturbing to me as a child; sometimes i dont know how i made it out of my childhood dreams alive. when i was younger, i was so in touch with my own fabricated worlds that i didnt realize until i was much older that this movie was all about the state of dreaming. i think i also thought squirrels could talk and were all petulant, prickly things.

hands up, people who have watched any of the above three movies!

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  • 1. Firdy  |  June 18th, 2009 at 2:37 am

    yay! cartoons

    i love them!

  • 2. sach  |  June 18th, 2009 at 3:36 am

    oh Swan Princess!!!! :D I used to watch this again and again when I was younger. I remember how I would sing along to that song haha

  • 3. carol  |  June 18th, 2009 at 3:37 am

    swan princess! only because i fell in love with that clip you put up on plurk….

    one of my all-time favorite cartoons is…. PETER PAN :D

  • 4. lyssa  |  June 18th, 2009 at 4:43 am

    SWAN PRINCESS IS LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    far longer than foreverrrr… ;)

  • 5. kiasu andrew  |  June 18th, 2009 at 5:19 am

    do you know i havent even watched the fish nemo.

  • 6. foreverjas  |  June 18th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    me me me ! :D i <3 swan princess a lot !!!! enjoy your hols !

  • 7. kayl  |  June 18th, 2009 at 8:44 am

    swan princess <33!

  • 8. nom de plume  |  June 18th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    ur posts off late sounds really sad …..really hope that u’ll get better soon… take care pinkpau…

  • 9. cher wee  |  June 18th, 2009 at 9:07 am

    u seem quite sad lately (sorry, i just guess), please take k.

  • 10. Ping  |  June 18th, 2009 at 10:02 am

    I <3 the Swan Princess. I even have the OST cd and once a while will listen to it, because the songs are quite cute and nice beat :-)

  • 11. Lily  |  June 18th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    I love love love swan princess. :) Hands up for all three! XD XD XD

  • 12. ann  |  June 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    i’ve watched little nemo! the movie was also a bit disturbing to me as a child, what with the “nightmare castle” and the “forbidden door”. but i remember liking the princess and the part where nemo got his lessons to be a prince (or something along those lines)

  • 13. Shira  |  June 18th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    Swan Princess was one of my favourite cartoons as a child. I think a lot of other people remember watching it as well, it was quite popular.

    And omg, I’ve watched that Jack and the Beanstalk cartoon! Totally forgot about it until you mentioned it =D

  • 14. JustiN  |  June 18th, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Jack and the Beanstalk! ive watched that too. The witch was damn creepy laaarh. especially when she died.
    Never heard of Little Nemo before though.

  • 15. KY  |  June 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    why you so emo wan miss lim su ann!?

    btw I <3 tom & jerry!

  • 16. tamago  |  June 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    pinkpau dont be sad *hugs* i feel so bad i wish i could do something for you! do be happy and take care!

  • 17. ShaolinTiger  |  June 18th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Write about all those topics, I wanna read k. Faster blog properly laaaa.

  • 18. vonx  |  June 18th, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    wow u’re in Singapore?holidays? go shop.. many sales now!

  • 19. mabel  |  June 18th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    i’ve watched little nemo! my dad bought the LD. and it was the scariest cartoon ever. O_O i had nightmares after watching that because of the part where he opens the double doors into the gooey dark shadowy room thing, that’s the part i remember most.. and it still gives me the chills when i think about it.

  • 20. k0k  |  June 18th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I’ve watched Little Nemo, on the good old VHS. I didn’t think it was about dreaming either. I remember the walking bed, the golden key and little else.

    It gave me more than a few good nightmares, but I watched it several times because it was such a kickass flick.

  • 21. melissa  |  June 18th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    oohers pinkpau I’m in singapore too! I commenced my journey of unlimited destressing after A Levels already heee. :) I’m heading back to KL today though. anyhoos enjoy your time in singapore! :)

  • 22. Zeek  |  June 18th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    Old Chang kee has the bestest curry puff ever and TCC has the best coffee in SIngapore. Ur making me very hungry pinkpau!

    and JATB is the first cartoon given to me by my aunt from London. So yea. Nice cartoon.

  • 23. Jen  |  June 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    i think i still have little nemo on video tape! gosh. can hardly remember the storyline now but i think it was very kancheong wan right?

  • 24. jaecywong  |  June 18th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    me love anastasia though~

  • 25. RuYi  |  June 18th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    I’ve seen them all. Nemo was such a nice movie, I haven’t seen it in years. It was so nice to see a bit of it again.

  • 26. fatcat  |  June 18th, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    oh nooo. I haven’t watched any of them! I think Spirited Away disturbed me a lot when I was younger. :/

  • 27. Gin  |  June 19th, 2009 at 12:55 am

    meeeeeeeeeeeee!! *waves hands in the air*

  • 28. taufulou  |  June 19th, 2009 at 1:27 am

    hi hi cecelia chung~ :D

    haihs…don know why my company block your blog url also..
    too sensitive key work d i think..

    me me me!! i got watch ah~

  • 29. isa.  |  June 19th, 2009 at 5:24 am

    PRINCESSES ONN PARRRRAAAAAADE.

    holy shit, blast from the past indeed.
    i love that movie.

  • 30. crissy  |  June 19th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    I watched Little Nemo. For ages I was obsessed with tucking myself into my sheets really tightly for fear that my bed would go zooming off somewhere.

  • 31. Mandy  |  June 19th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    Omg! I love little nemo, been watching that over and over again when i was a child.

  • 32. jimmy  |  June 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    omg did u get H1N1!???

  • 33. Michelle  |  June 21st, 2009 at 8:35 am

    I’ve read bronte’s wuthering heights. It’s very dark. It makes you think of victorian-goth…

    I think I’ve read Jane Eyre went I was a little girl but I can’t remember much.

    I’m currently working on Milton’s Paradise Lost. It’s a very difficult thing to read.

    I’ll be back soon, is there a number I could call?

  • 34. lishun  |  June 21st, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    i’ve watched little nemo! i think it was last year or something that i rediscovered it on youtube and went into a frenzy looking for every single available video! haha.

  • 35. Jason  |  June 22nd, 2009 at 1:42 am

    only watched swan princess and jack and the bean stalk..lol..those were the days when i was a little hyperactive kid..

  • 36. Jenny  |  June 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    I prefer old time cartoons better those now. It seems to me that they take away all the fun (and creativity) when the cartoons are in 3D.

    Hey…if I’m not wrong, there is another old version of swan princess. I’m trying to that version but am still unsuccessful. haha..any idea where I can get it?

    p/s: too young to remember what year that was even (for that swan princess)…LOL

  • 37. penelope (manila)  |  June 23rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    i had fun reading your blog. you are, without doubt, a gifted virtual conversationalist who weaves good text with context.

    ps: i saw little nemo lotsa times. lol.

  • 38. Alvin  |  July 7th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    Thanks for the great links..

  • 39. Celine  |  July 18th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    I used to enjoy the Swan Princess and Little Nemo a lot back then. I do agree that Little Nemo can be a bit disturbing. Also the for Sleeping Beauty, the part where she was walking in the dark with a candle.

    Those were the days. :)

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