Music Monday - Meet Me Halfway

To be in love with love itself once made me truly happy in my heart, in my mind and I think it affected everything around me so much that all things went well.This was during the 80's - as you can guess by now I'm a huge fan - I love this song because it reminds me of a classmate in high school and all the memories that go with it of all our classmates. I can't say anything more, but it's kind of related to a popular post here about the high school I went to. Turns out this time I have a good friend after all. Smile! Life goes on...

P.S. This entry I posted because of August 27. It's a memory game for me if I can remember each important date in my friends' lives :)
get the mp3 version here

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Music Monday - The Way You Look Tonight

Wasn't sure if this fits Music Monday today, but allow me please to post it as such. It's still a song from an unforgettable scene in My Bestfriend's Wedding.

Brought tears to my eyes the first time I watched it. I think it was very honorable of Julia's character not to let her feelings known. I can imagine that her heart must have beat like a drum, as she was contemplating whether to say or not to say that she has loved him after all those years.

"If you love someone you say it,...
you say it right then, out loud,...
or the moment just... passes you by."

"The Way You Look Tonight"

Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight.

You're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fears apart
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
Touches my foolish heart.

Yes you're lovely, never, ever change
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it?
'Cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fears apart
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
Touches my foolish heart.

Yes you're lovely, never, ever change
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it?
'Cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight.
Just the way you look tonight.
Darling
Just the way you look tonight.

Ever experienced a moment like this? Share it as a comment, would love to know your story :)

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Christinchen of the 80's - Top Songs of 1988

(this is still the partial list of songs from 1988 yet I can't wait to share)

Oh, dear, I know I jumped plenty years ahead to feature songs of 1988 first instead of beginning from 1980. But I so like 1988 best of all, reason why I'm featuring them now. 1988 was my best year by far,here's why: on the average 8 out of 10 prayers answered... problems breezed through as if nothing happened... topped 6th at the dreaded NCEE... got accepted in 3 colleges... surprisingly did well in math that year (yeah, Physics, Algebra and Trigonometry) ... it was a great year... awesome friends even the "bullies" in my class didn't bother me much... well, prayers about love life were not really answered, but it turned out in the end (hahahaha, as if I had a love life!)... well you get my drift ;)

So here's a quick look at the 100 of the most striking, singular tunes from 1988 that I'm sure people my age would appreciate- I hope! haha... some pop hits are pretty lame but still makes you go nostalgic. Enjoy the download, will just add more. And, yeah, any suggestions to add please?

1. Faith, George Michael

2. Need You Tonight,

3. Got My Mind Set On You, George Harrison

4. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley

5. Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns N' Roses

6. So Emotional, Whitney Houston

7. Heaven Is a Place On Earth, Belinda Carlisle

8. Could've Been, Tiffany

9. Hands to Heaven, Breathe

10. Roll With It, Steve Winwood

11. One More Try, George Michael

12. Wishing Well, Terence Trent d'Arby

13. Anything for You, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine

14. The Flame, Cheap Trick

15. Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car, Billy Ocean

16. Seasons Change, Expose

17. Is This Love, Whitesnake

18. Wild, Wild West, Escape Club

19. Pour Some Sugar On Me, Def Leppard

20. I'll Always Love You, Taylor Dayne

21. Man In the Mirror, Michael Jackson

22. Shake Your Love, Debbie Gibson

23. Simply Irresistible, Robert Palmer

24. Hold On to the Nights, Richard Marx

25. Hungry Eyes, Eric Carmen

26. Shattered Dreams, Johnny Hates Jazz

27. Father Figure, George Michael

28. Naughty Girls (Need Love Too), Samantha Fox

29. A Groovy Kind of Love, Phil Collins

30. Love Bites, Def Leppard

31. Endless Summer Nights, Richard Marx

32. Foolish Beat, Debbie Gibson

33. Where Do Broken Hearts Go, Whitney Houston

34. Angel, Aerosmith

35. Hazy Shade of Winter, Bangles

36. The Way You Make Me Feel, Michael Jackson

37. Don't Worry, Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin

38. Make Me Lose Control, Eric Carmen

39. Red Red Wine, UB40

40. She's Like the Wind, Patrick Swayze

41. Bad Medicine, Bon Jovi

42. Kokomo, Beach Boys

43. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That, Elton John

44. Together Forever, Rick Astley

45. Monkey, George Michael

46. Devil Inside, INXS

47. Should've Known Better, Richard Marx

48. I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, Chicago

49. The Loco-Motion, Kylie Minogue

50. What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield

51. Make It Real, Jets

52. What's On Your Mind, Information Society

53. Tell It to My Heart, Taylor Dayne

54. Out of the Blue, Debbie Gibson

55. Don't You Want Me, Jody Watley

56. Desire, U2

57. I Get Weak, Belinda Carlisle

58. Sign Your Name, Terence Trent d'Arby

59. I Want To Be Your Man, Roger

60. Girlfriend, Pebbles

61. Dirty Diana, Michael Jackson

62. 1-2-3, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine

63. Mercedes Boy, Pebbles

64. Perfect World, Huey Lewis and the News

65. New Sensation, INXS

66. Catch Me (I'm Falling), Pretty Poison

67. If It Isn't Love, New Edition

68. Rocket 2 U, Jets

69. One Good Woman, Peter Cetera

70. Don't Be Cruel, Cheap Trick

71. Candle in the Wind, Elton John

72. Everything Your Heart Desires, Daryl Hall and John Oates

73. Say You Will, Foreigner

74. I Want Her, Keith Sweat

75. Pink Cadillac, Natalie Cole

76. Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

77. Electric Blue, Icehouse

78. The Valley Road, Bruce Hornsby and The Range

79. Don't Be Cruel, Bobby Brown

80. Always On My Mind, Pet Shop Boys

81. Piano In the Dark, Brenda Russell Featuring Joe Esposito

82. When It's Love, Van Halen

83. Don't Shed A Tear, Paul Carrack

84. We'll Be Together, Sting

85. I Hate Myself for Loving You, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts

86. I Don't Want to Live Without You, Foreigner

87. Nite and Day, Al B. Sure

88. Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?, Steve Winwood

89. One Moment In Time, Whitney Houston

90. Can't Stay Away from You, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine

91. Kissing a Fool, George Michael

92. Cherry Bomb, John Cougar Mellancamp

93. I Still Believe, Brenda K. Starr

94. I Found Someone, Cher

95. Never Tear Us Apart, INXS

96. Valerie, Steve Windwood

97. Just Like Paradise, David Lee Roth

98. Nothin' But a Good Time, Poison

99. Wait, White Lion*

100. Prove Your Love, Taylor Dayne*

Special thanks to Top 100 Hits of 1988 for the list

STHS 88 Reunion ~ Our High School Reunion !!!

CAPTION: Photo above? we were still waiting instructions from our batch coordinator, Florence Nipales. "teka teka.. ganito..." Ang gugulo namin kasi, as usual, and we were hard to handle... I'm here 7th person sa third row...Kita pa ba ako?

It was an exciting event talaga, my asawa and I woke up early to get there at 7 AM. A few of us batchmates met at the quad waiting for the others and getting our shirts and bandanas. Well, well, red is my favorite color... and the bandana sure helps as I'm always having a bad hair day! Suot ko kaya siya the first day til afternoon.

Ouch though, I agree the batch coordinator was having a difficult time at first because almost all of us were so makulit and "regressing" to our high school-ish ways.

And I kept on overhearing that we were the pasaway batch and we still are.....

1- only a few of us attended the mass...( don't ask me, I'm not Catholic)

2-instead of going there, we were at a room having a briefing of the events and we were loud

3- kaya, when we were at the motorcade event, our truck had a flat tire! It happened when I decided to move to the left side and hold on to the railing. Ang taba kaya namin sa side na yun kasi.... bwehehe!

4-we had no designated room - of all things ( because the school principal thought we were having our get-together elsewhere) so when we decided to stay, they gave us the library terrace. Enjoy! Kaya my friend, Maurice, kept firing his pasabog na pang-bagong taon (he's the guy holding the blasted thing there above)

I'm glad that I went, despite all the odds. I'm glad that my hubby went also, though at first he was hesitant. Yup, ka-batch ko siya but when we were in high school we just met there simply as "magkakilala" only ...that's another story ha. A few of our batchmates, especially those who've been away from our town for so long, are surprised na kami ang nagkatuluyan.

I'm happy that I went there to meet them again. Though my closest friends were not there, I still had fun with the others and traded stories and jokes and what-have-you's. Sooo many stories talaga. And plenty of photo ops.

And we also observed a moment of peace for our departed batchmates, napa-emo ako when Florence mentioned my friend, Gemma, who passed away when she was 22. I was emo also when I heard one named Leopoldo who committed suicide over CE, our classmate. I was emo also when we gave a moment of peace to our classmate who died in a motorcycle accident kasama ang isa pang batchmate, Rustico - bless him, he got out of it alive.

We also viewed our powerpoint batch presentation at the library na lang because it was late already and we all had to call it a day, and yeah.... I was just kidding then, but I said most of 'em were so drunk already they cannot make it past the stage where the presentation will be held.

My hubby and I went to every event there is. We even went to the Family Day, next day, together with two of our boys, Charlie and Jayson. Our batchmates brought their spouses and kids too. Meron pang mga palaro for the kids. My "friends" and I had a moment to reminisce the naughty things they did to make the teachers, some classmates and other pipol cry

And we also went to the Alumni ball that night. It almost ruined the evening because of the rain. All of a sudden I was laughing to myself because four of us took shelter under the Mangaldan Auditorium and we were right there in the middle... hehe at least natupad ang dream naming tumuntong sa stage! So when the rain finally stopped, we went to our designated places and chatted the night away. Hinayang nga raw ang asawa ko because he never learned to dance ala-ballroom kaya ayan taga-butas na lang daw ng upuan...

All in all, it was a wonderful experience going back and renewing friendships. Looking forward to the next reunion in 2013! Mabuhay batch 88!