He..he ... Listened to it six times allready today ! :)
James sucks ... he is standing over my shoulder .. looking at the monitor ... sigh .. weirdo . Luckily for me he isn't some gay bugger drooling at me (looks behind and checks ... phew)
Ok now that he has left I am free to write again ...
Where was I ....
oh yeah .. Mamula moon .
I was so piqued by the fact that the song is exactly the same as our beloved Negaraku that I did some background check ...
It seems the Negaraku was NOT taken from Mamula Moon , not exactly ... it's taken from a popular song called Terang Bulan which was very popular at the time in Indonesia, Tanah Melayu and Singapura ( you can download the song from http://blog.menj.org/index.php/2005/09/19/terang-bulan/ , the direct link is : http://blog.menj.org/wp-content/terang_bulan.zip ) of course if you listen to it you'll notice that both songs have a lot of similarities. In my opinion , Terang Bulan was either copied or inspired by Mamula Moon.
The origin of our national anthemn is directly linked to the State Anthem Of Perak. The song Terang Bulan was first used as the state anthem of Perak ! During the coronation of Queen Victoria (1888), Sultan Idris visited England. When he arrived there his aide-de-camp was asked to produce the state anthem as protocol required that the state anthem be played when the Sultan walks into the coronation hall. The aide-de-camp, the quick witted Raja Mansur realised that it would be an embarrasment to admit that there WASN'T a national anthem. He told the representative of the Queen that in the hurry to pack they forgot to bring along the sheet notes for the anthem but he said if he could get a few minutes with a musician he should be able to produce it. He whistled the tune for Terang Bulan which was very popular amongst the Perak people and for the first time in England, when the Sultan walked into the coronation room, Terang Bulan was played as Perak's State Anthem ...
Interesting . Smart guy :)
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On a different note , finished watching the First Season Of Babylon 5 , brings back old memories when Babylon 5 was THE thing to talk about in school . Every Thursdays the staircase gang (James, Me , The-Great-Evil-Dark-Lord Navin and sometimes Ram) would discuss it on our usual morning lepak place , The Throne Of The World. Damn, I miss the good old days when our only worry was if we could sneak into the computer room for a solid few hours of gaming (we are well connected people in school :P).
Miss all of you from St Paul's (and the entire La Salle convention people)
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Watched Swing Girls last weekend , totally got me hooked on Jazz again ... looking for my Nat 'King' MP3s now .... Highly recommended movie . Japanese movie about a bunch of girls falling in love with music and starting their own 'Big Band' jazz group .. one really nice movie. I wish people will make more like this ... The movie is by Shinobu Yaguchi and uses his standard formula (think Waterboys) , really entertaining (yeah, I know I am raving about this movie.. but IT IS REALLY GOOD !). The actors actually perform the music themselves and they really rock at it ! Classics like Take The A Train , Coming Through The Rye, Make Her Mine and such was played with full feeling ... ah made me want to dance :) (fortunately that disaster was averted)
Now go and find the movie ... if you can't contact me , i'll figure out something :)
Oh yeah , the reason for the long post today :
I'm taking a day or two off from blogging .. Deepavali preparations.
Love ya all ,
Carpe diem ! |
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