Childhood Memories brought to life again with Disney

I was surfing youtube when I came across this Disney songs medley cover by Alex G and Peter Hollens. I did not know who are they initially but I thought that it looked interesting and whoa, I was surprised at the quality of the video and song! It was amazing how they combined Circle of Life (Lion King), A Whole New World (Aladdin), Colours of the Wind (Pocahontas), Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid), Beauty and the Beast and dressed in costumes. :) Brought back memories of how I loved Disney movies, songs and stories when I was growing up and on hindsight, it had really impacted me deeply because even as I'm listening to this medley now, it brings goosebumps.

My favourite Disney princess used to be Pocahontas & Mulan, though they were not exactly princesses, I felt they exude confidence and a wild streak which I saw in myself! Despite the stories always brought in a Prince Charming, which always made the story end 'happily ever after', I could feel a connectivity with the characters. In fact, I once dressed up as Pocahontas for some school dress-up competition! hahas..

A profile of Disney princesses on Thought Catalog :)

This was one funny article about Disney Prince Charmings.

I do hope they would do another set of medley of Disney songs! :D

After listening to that song, I thought of trying to listen to Disney songs sung in other language, just for fun and curiosity and this is what I managed to find:

Reflections (Mulan) sang by Coco Lee in Mandarin, Coco Lee is actually one of my favourite Chinese singers. Originally sung by Lea Salonga/Christina Aguilera. Below shows the Korean version by Lee So-jeong & there's another one officially sung by Lena Park.

Next up - Colours of the Wind, originally sung by Vanessa Williams but here in Chinese by Coco Lee, Cantonese by Amanda Li and Korean by 신동희 (Shin Dong-hui). I thought it was interesting how the Chinese version changed the flute in the introduction to the dizi (Chinese flute), added a nice touch to it.

A whole new world originally by Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle. Here in Korean, Nam Gyeong-ju & Lee Jeong-hwa sings the song. However, this time I feel that the english one is still the best.

Do you find any contrasts to the songs of different languages?
Pretty cool stuff there, I did enjoy the songs :) Goes to show that Disney movies are pretty universal!

Just another packed weekend! :)

I'm always looking forward to the weekends now, especially when I'm working so I can sleep and rest more but strangely I'm always ending up more tired due to the hecticness of my weekends when it's back to work on Monday :O

Well, last weekend was spent in race preparation (trifactor run 5k) was on Sunday so I had to spend the Saturday resting but in the end, I could not bear to lock myself at home and decided to do a solo brick session at Sentosa (800m swim+ 5k easy run) just to get the blood pumping for Sunday's race. I won't say that the race on Sunday was "just another race". Although it was only a 5k (a distance which people don't exactly look up to nowadays with all the long distances and puke-inducing runs), it was an event important for me. I was out to win those Oakleys shades and make a comeback for 5k races, which I have not been doing since Singapore Aquathlon, I think! However, sadly, Denise Chia was present in my category and I knew at my current level, I was nowhere near to her standard so my only way was to stick as close as possible to her throughout. It was tough, she was going faster and faster and in the end the gap was 1min. Wasn't my PB but I guess it was the best for now - settled for a 2nd placing and got an Oakleys cap, Banana Boat sunblock, Cloth tube.. :/ Dennis, my aquathlon junior was 2nd too! :) Yays for NUS Aqua! I was glad to see familiar faces at the race too - Dwayne, Dennis and Jayanta, who made my event a lot more interesting.

me, dwayne and dennis

After my morning race, Debs gave me her slot for Splashdown! So I rushed to Woodlands after church and although I was late, I still managed to swim 7km in about 2h 40min, with many breaks, but just right to redeem the Arena towel, the most valuable item on the list. I must say it was an interesting experience, swimming with about 50people in the same lane. Going fast is a no-no, I really don't know how my teammates like Sherlynn, CP and Jon Ma were able to swim above 10k in 3h to place in 2nd and 3rd. Respect.

NUS AQUA peeps after the swim with 3 podium-finishers!!

#theregs

Well, that was last weekend. Now to this weekend: Basically, Saturday was so choked full with activities that my Sunday was spent recuperating :) But it was great, made up for my horrible Wednesday and Thursday. Thank God ..

First thing in the morning was a loop in Macritchie with the aqua team :)), after a long 200x7x2 at 40-42s the night before, my butt was pretty much SORE, though it wasn't half as bad as Sunday's Macritchie run. Its really cos of them I'm willing to sacrifise my mornings and its really worth it. Then we went for brunch (me, Debs, Chunnie, Kenley, Baris, Sara and Eden) at Thomson Plaza, followed by shopping and Fitness Expo visit. We headed to Chunkfest at the Promenatory and were a little disappointed that you had to pay for ice cream :( Lastly it was Nike training Run at AVALON :D

The pacers consisted mainly of the aqua people (Yinghao, Jon Tan, Aaron, me, Debs, Chunnie) and Jolene, Ruimei, Glenn, Ernest and Charmane. We had hiphop, pop and dance gear from Nike. However, I felt that it was weird running 7k  in those sort of clothes -__- Hopefully we can pull in more Aquathlon people..hahahas :D