8.8.10 Accompanied by the music of BFM 89.9FM in the background, I drove down the highway to Damansara as I drove down memory lane to meet up my school friends whom I have not seen for almost 30 years! (spare a few). Incidentally, BFM was interviewing an American DJ (a Carl Hemm @ DJ Carlito from Richmond, VA) who had endured half a globe's 25 hours' journey to visit Singapore and Malaysia to fulfil his ambition of meeting icons of the Malaysian 'Pop Yeh Yeh' bygone era and compile a DVD commentary. How appropriate! Me, down memory lane and a DJ going into the past! What coincidence. He was rattling off names of Pop Yeh Yeh artistes that even I, a Malaysian, have not heard of. (e.g. Adnan Othman, S. Mariam, Kassim Selamat* and the Swallows, Hornets, etc.) Amazing! It is just like a friend's daughter who is studying in Yale where some of her Caucasian lecturers would converse with her in Tamil as they had done Tamil literature or language. The irony was that my frie...
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