Bad Company - The Beginning and Rock Anthems

England's Bad Company was formed in 1973 during the classic rock era, when Paul Rodgers decided to start anew after the breakup of the legendary band Free. He met up with Mick Ralphs from Mott The Hoople to form the new band. They recruited Boz Burrell from King Crimson and then add drummer Simon Kirke to form Bad Company.
Their self titled debut album went platinum immediately, featuring hits like "Can't Get Enough", "Movin" On" and rock anthems like "Ready for Love", "Rock Steady" and "Bad Company"

 Tracks from "Bad Company" (1974)  

Can't Get Enough

Rock Steady
Ready For Love
Don't Let Me Down
Bad Company
The Way I Choose
Movin' On
Seagull

 

"Bad Company" downloaded from Youtube

 

"Bad Company"

Company, always on the run
Destiny is the rising sun
Oh, I was born six-gun in my hand
Behind a gun I'll make my final stand
That's why they call me

Bad company
And I can't deny
Bad company
Till the day I die
Oh, till the day I die
Till the day I die

Rebel souls, deserters we are called
Chose a gun and threw away the sun
Now these towns, they all know our name
Six-gun sound is our claim to fame
I can hear them say

Bad company
And I won't deny
Bad, bad company
Till the day I die, oo yeah
Till the day I die, oo

Hey
Bad company
And I can't deny
Bad company
Till the day I die

And I say it's
Bad company, oh yeah yeah
Bad company
Till the day I die, oh yeah

Tell me that you are not a thief
Oh but I am bad company
It's the way I play dirty for dirty
Oh, somebody double-crossed me
Double-cross, double-cross

Yeah, we're bad company

 

"Rock Steady" live downloaded from Youtube

"Rock Steady"

Well, when I want to rock steady,
I know, I got to get ready
Close my eyes and I let myself go.
Listen to, oh, baby, let the music flow,
Turn on your light and stay with me a while
And ease your worried mind,
Turn on your light, now babe

And stay with me a while and rock steady.
Yeah, oh, now rock steady,
Yeah, rock, rock steady.
When my love gets a little bit too heavy,
She's mine an' I got to get ready.
Close my eyes and let myself go,
I listen too, yeah, and I let the
music flow.
Yeah, it's flowing now.

Turn on your light and stay with me a while
And ease your worried mind,
Turn on your light
And stay with me a while and rock steady.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Turn on your light and stay with me a while,
And ease your worried mind; turn on your light,
Stay with me a while
And rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock,
Babe, turn on your light
And ease your worried mind,
Yeah, turn on your little light,
Oh, and rock steady.

"Ready for Love" Live downloaded from Youtube

"Ready For Love"Walkin' down this rocky road

Wondering where my life is leadin'

Rollin' on to the bitter end

Finding out along the way

What it takes to keep love living

You should know how it feels, my friend

Ooh, I want you to stay

Ooh, I want you today

I'm ready for love

Oh baby, I'm ready for love

Ready for love

Oh baby, I'm ready for love

Now I'm on my feet again

Better things are bound to happen

All my dues surely must be paid

Many miles and many tears

Times were hard but now they're changing

You should know that I'm not afraid

Ooh, I want you to stay

Ooh, I want you today

I'm ready for love

Oh baby, I'm ready for love

I'm ready for love

Oh baby, I'm ready for love

Oh, for your love

 

Life after Retirement 2014

After about a month of doing 'nothing', the routines of reading papers, going for breakfast, collecting My Paper and Today from the distributors at the MRT station, reading the whole newspaper by morning and further reading on NLB books, it was getting depressive as contact with the pupils and personnels in the school was minimal. One tends to miss them after 38 years of daily connections. So the urge to go back to school is very strong.
Fortunately, after a week of uncertainty, I was finally back to the education system on 10th Jan 2014. The new routines formed a significant uplift to the retired years.......

10 Jan 2014 First day in new school : the dawn

As the day brightens.... the field

it gets brighter.....the canteen block

                                              pupils start to gather for the morning assembly

as more pupils gather....

view of the grandstand

Bukit Teresa Singapore

In the early and mid 70s. I was introduced to a serene part of Singapore, far from the concrete place that I lived in. This was the place my wife and her family lived : Bukit Teresa. It was a big kampong which stretched all the way to Radin Mas, before the HDB flats took over in the 1980s. The estate is now known as Bukit Purmei.
In this area, there is a road which leads up to the Teresa Villas condos. It starts from the present Kellock Convent. The Carmelite Monastery where the Carmelite Sisters lives is right up the hill.

http://maps.singaporeexpats.com/map-details.php?query=CARMELITE%20MONASTERY

The Carmelite Monastery

 

The road leading up down to Bk Teresa Rd from Monastery

Entrance of the Carmelite Monastery

http://www.catholicnews.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1294&Itemid=86

Read more about the Carmelite Sisters from the link above

 



Gate to the Monastery

Road up to Carmelite Monastery

Footstep entrance to Monastery

Kg Bahru Singapore

Kampungs are rare in Singapore. There are remnants of it around some parts of Singapore. One such rare sighting can be found in Radin Mas or Kg Bahru or Bukit Purmei and it was not highlighted until recently. This small area, a hillock, beside Block 102, Bukit Purmei cannot be seen from the main road. It has a few old graves, believed that they belonged to some Malay royalty. The graveyard is flanked by one zinc roofed wooden house, remnants from the Radin Mas kampung days. It brought back the good old days when the air, space and greens were free and plentiful.
Below are the pictures of the house.

Frontage of zinc roofed house

Stairs leading to house from concrete path

Side of the house

Side view of the house, graveyard at the left area

 

View of house from Block 102

Parvenu

Just finished reading 'Men in White -the Untold Story of Singapore's ruling Political party' during these days of doing nothing.

On Page 361: Ong Pang Boon lamented that Singapore is a PARVENU society where if a person was not successful, he would be forgotten and neglected. "Thus, the Old Guard members, once they retired, were often neglected as 'losers'. Their contributions would be buried and forgotten," he lamented.
This feeling more or holds true for me. Time and tide waits for no man. When someone in school tells you to 'keep in touch' it sounds hollow because many of them would not do so!!!!. The service, let alone the school will not remember you. Don't expect anything or anyone to be different. Just move on taking your past along.
Below is the appreciation certificate given out to me during the staff meeting at the end of December 2013.

Thanks, 'Cher

Thanking 'cher
Most pupils seldom express their gratitude except on certain occasions like Teacher's Day or during Chinese New year when they come back to visit their former teachers. It is not that they are ungrateful. Their day-to-day business ensured that they have no time to reflect in anything else, least to thank teachers who seemed to be 'monsters' or slave drivers in class. There were also times when we met former pupils outside school years after they left the school many years ago. Usually they would forgot about the 'bad' times. Rather, they would speak about memories in a positive mood. One pupils even pointed out to his 4 children that I was the Discipline Master when he was a pupil and that they should always behave in school or else....... Some remembered the caning, the haircuts, the scolding, etc but in the end, it seemed that they appreciated the effort of teachers.

 The messages from my last Sec 4C class of 2013.

 Message from a former pupil of 2009 who still visits the school during Teacher's Day every year.

From a pupil of Class 2010

2nd January 2014
First day of unemployment after 38 years of waking up at 0500 hrs daily. The following photos on my place of work were taken on the last day at Jurongville Secondary, 30 December 2013.

The workroom where I spent much time doing my work in peace and quiet. The AYE can be seen out of the small window, with breeze coming through.

The view from the 2nd level of the Garage is quite serene, with views of the football field, the expressway and a small garden

 The views of the Garage and the store room.

  The empty spaces in 2011 when we first moved into after PRIME