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Remember the year of the Macarena?

The year when Mariah Carey and Boys II Men topped the charts with One Sweet Day, which remained at the peak for a record-breaking sixteen weeks? (My then-bf and I selected this song as ‘our’ song…kinda begging for our relationship to be doomed right from the beginning, weren’t we?!?)

The year when No Doubt sang Don’t Speak?

When Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams sang the song that probably became one of the more popular ‘wedding entrance songs’…I Finally Found Someone?

Remember the year when the song, Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion shot to fame after the movie, Up Close & Personal (starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer) was released?

The year Toni Braxton said you’re making her high, and asked you to un-break her heart?

When R. Kelly believed he could fly?

Well, that was the year I turned 18…

And embarrassingly enough, among the whole list of songs listed here in that very year, the above were the only ones I remember, and probably can still sing along to…

The Rules

1. Go to www.popculturemadness.com
2. Select the year you turned 18
3. Get all nostalgic over the songs of the year
4. Write about it
5. Pass this tag onto 5 others

And the (un)lucky five are…*taps fingers ala Mr. Burns from the Simpsons while looking through blogroll*…

1. M from Pitter Potter coz I’ve been waiting ages for her to get a blog so that I can tag her…*evil laugh*
2. Boon from Letters From The Equator
3. Geekchic from…err…Geekchic
4. Carrot from Counting The Days
5. Kuan Siew from Siew Says

Err…I’m assuming you guys do memes, else just ignore me…

…is to sink your teeth into one that is ripe, sweet and has just been taken out from the fridge while standing at the kitchen sink with mango juice running down your chin on a hot hot day.

*slurps*

Photo credits: Eating Mango Yes Papa (II), originally uploaded by Sunil Kashikar

Call me slow, but I never realized that the drawings, prints, etc. at deviantART were for sale! Some are really gorgeous too…*starts looking around for wallet*…

Well, looks like using a translator helped!

Conversation between hubby and myself before the winner was announced…

“Who do you think will win?”
“Dunno…probably Korea or Brazil…they’re the most presentable ones…”
“Why, what’s wrong with the others?”
“Venezuela looks so old. The other two look like aliens…”
“Well, it IS Miss Universe. They might need alien looking people to represent us among all the other universe…”
“Ya hor…if Ms World then maybe Korea or Brazil can win…”

And then Miss Japan won…

I was just watching the 50-something Miss Universe (can you imagine how old the first winner would be now??) and it’s now down to the top 5 finalists: Miss Korea, USA, Japan, Brazil and Venezuela and the famous 30-second Q&A session.

Four out of the five contestants needed a translator. While watching, I asked hubby…would a translator be able to capture the subtle nuances of the answer and be as eloquent and passionate as the contestant herself?

Right then and there, Miss Japan walked out and picked her question. She was asked ‘what would be the one lesson that she learnt as a child that she still remembers till today’ (something along those lines la). She launched off into a long and probably very eloquent answer. And her translator, this short weird looking man, translated her whole sentence to, say, five words.

Something like:

She said: “When I was a young girl growing up in a beautiful village in Japan that had trees where gorgeous pink cherry blossoms bloomed during spring time…”
He said: “I was young.

We burst into laughter…

Talk about butchering an answer…