Songs feature quite, quite prominently in my memory.

Many a time I may have lamented having an excessively efficient memory that systematically, dutifully, faithfully inscribes and etches almost every little thing that I've experienced before in the recesses of my mind in the most elaborate audio-visual sensory experience ever manageable by the human mind--because it makes it so difficult for me to forget, to get over, things that I don't want to remember.

Yet, I guess there are perks too--like how even the smallest, littlest of things around me can remind me of the happiest, most joyous of moments past, and give me that little bit of motivation to move on, to carry on with whatever the onerous task ahead of me.

And songs, are amongst those things that trigger off memory playbacks in my mind--because of my music listening habits of putting my favourite songs of a particular time on repeat, and because, I guess, of the radio too.

I'm sure you've experienced that before, too? Hearing a particular song, from a particular time, and being reminded of a particular incident, a particular period of time?

Like All Star United and those crazy, manic-depressive, yet ironically love-filled, heady, light-headedly depressing days half a decade back (wow); like 五月天, how you introduced me to the band, to the world of Chinese pop and the magic of 摇滚音乐; like 周杰论, his second album and crazy mugging, his third album and acting all stupid over people who didn't deserve that sort of attention and emotions while shutting myself up and mugging away like clockwork, like a crazed steam engine for the As and ultimately running away from it all with grades that stunned even myself, and then 《回到过去》and once again being stupid but quite unfairly to the both of us involved, and then 《东风破》 and 《晴天》 and trekking from City Hall to Kallang and back all alone, taking photographs along the way, and a reunion with an old buddy who suddenly become so much dearer than she ever was.

Ah. Memories.

But, we live for the present.

I can feel life flowing back into my veins already, even if only in small trickles; let's hope it comes back in force soon.

Hopefully.