From Youtube: This is the original never used demo of Someday sung by Heidi Mollenhauer you can find on the German DVD of HoND and on the laserdisc
From Youtube: The segment on this show Williams conducted was famous theme songs from movies in general, not just those he scored.
SONGS: Warner Brothers Theme, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, 20th Century Fox Theme, Star Wars, The Sea Hawk, Spellbound, Titanic, Psycho, Jaws, The Pink Panther, Exodus, Out of Africa, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on The River Kwai, Patton, Rocky, The Magnificent Seven, The Natural, Cinema Paradiso, The Godfather, E.T. and Gone With The Wind.
This segment was from a CBS special "Movies Rock". John Williams and Orchestra performing famous movie theme songs. This special aired on December 7, 2007.
Mum: Son, where are you now?
Son: I on Orchard
Mum: What are you doing there?
Son: Watching movie.
Mum: What movie did you watch?
Son: I-on Man.
Mum: Have you ironed your clothes?
Son: Yes I i-on already.
So the four of us – Ronghan, Thow, Miaohui and myself – are supposed to watch ‘Public Enemy’ but discover that it is difficult to get seats for the 6-plus-pm shows; the next shows take place at 9pm and that is a little too late for us because, by the time it finishes, we would all be running for the train. Or we might run and then miss it. And then we would have to cab home. You might probably suggest, ‘Take the Nightrider!’ Unfortunately meritocracy is not in the vocabulary of the bus companies and you don’t get twilight bus services to your area if it happens that, for one, SMRT (the company that operates the Nightrider) does not dispatch any of their buses to these areas in the first place. That includes areas where SBS Transit – the other major player in the provision of public bus services – dominates the supply of rail and bus services to your area.
Enough about trains and buses; anyway I shall finish the backdrop as to how we come to end up on Orchard Road and later Ion Orchard – wait, we are ON Orchard anyway. What I-ONIC-sense is this?
Right, to summarise once more before we move on properly: we are supposed to watch a movie entitled ‘Public Enemy’ but the cinema halls are not big enough to accommodate another four of us, so we decide to simply hang around and talk. (And I just realise this is a new chapter in the narration. Moving on…)
So we decide to check out the newly-opened Ion Orchard. Yes, the much-hyped Ion Orchard on Orchard Road.
Goodness, that place is like a clone of Palais Renaissance, which stands a little further up Orchard Road, next to the Thai Embassy. Enter the ground floor and you are greeted by shops with names that would put your tongue to shame in an oral examination. Seriously we could have a competition whereby the contestants would prattle off the names of shops found in Ion Orchard.
One of our observations tells us that this is the epitome of window-shopping. The reason being: the passageways are crowded but the stores are starkly empty…
We decide to check out the basement. There’s an express escalator that brings you all the way down to the lowest of the basement floors. As we descend through the underground atrium, we get a glimpse of the shops. Aahh, greater familiarity – shops we actually know whose names are pronounceable!
This building has become a metaphor of class: lower class on the lower levels; upper class bling-blings on the upper levels.
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I see that my mum had received this from some source over the Internet, printed it out and then posted it on our fridge. Whether or not these methods really work, there’s no harm in trying them out because most likely nothing is going to be seriously damaged as a result of experimentation. And if you face success you could broach credibly to your contacts: ‘I’ve tried it, and it works! Try it too!’
Beneficial Things in Daily Life
When ants become pests in the household…
Place the skin of cucumbers near the trouble spot(s) or ant hole.
To get pure and clean ice:
Boil water first before freezing.
To make the mirror shine:
Clean with spirit.
To remove chewing gum from clothes:
Keep the cloth in the freezer for an hour.
To whiten white clothes:
Soak the clothes in hot water with a slice of lemon for ten minutes.
To add shine to one’s hair:
Add one teaspoon of vinegar to the hair, and then wash it.
To obtain the maximum amount of juice out of lemons:
Soak the lemons in hot water for an hour, and then juice them.
To avoid the smell of cabbage while cooking:
Keep a piece of bread on the cabbage in the vessel while cooking.
To get rid of the smell of fish from your hands:
Wash your hands with a little apple vinegar.
To avoid tears while cutting onions:
Chew gum.
To boil potatoes quickly:
Skin only one side of a potato just before boiling
To boil eggs quickly:
Add salt to the water and then boil the eggs in this solution
To remove ink from clothes:
Put a generous amount of toothpaste on the inked spots, let the toothpaste dry completely and then wash the affected clothing.
To skin sweet potatoes quickly:
Soak in cold water immediately after boiling.
To get rid of mice or rats:
Sprinkle black pepper in places where you find mice or rats. They will run away.
Joker who spends his free time milling around NUS pretending to be a student...