random nostalgic distraction

While, as most people who read this would know, i don't really care much for most things Chinese, one exception is with regards to some of the old Channel 8 SBC shows. When i was in primary school especially, i'd watch them all the time. At one point in time, there was something called 'one plus one' (yi jia yi), with two shows back to back, but then later it changed to one seven o'clock and one nine o'clock show. And i've concluded that if i were not interested in these shows, i probably would have flunked my Chinese all the way through primary school to PSLE (and goodness knows how things may have turned out if that was to be the case, but as usual, that's another story)

Yeah so anyways, one of these shows was Crime and Passion - i'll always remember it for teaching me that oleander is a poisonous plant. That's cos Zoe Tay's character killed her hubby midway through the show by using oleander branches to skewer meat and serve him satay. Just as well, cos she pre-empted him trying to kill her by mixing insecticide into her salad dressing. Totally random, i know...



There was another show (among many others that i found) which i had almost forgotten about, but when the theme song started playing i realised i still more or less remembered it (music + lyrics - the latter not being much of a stretch since much of it is aiyoaiyoaiyaya). Thought it was quite cool that i could still remember so much of a song from 1991 though...