Working Girl

I had to stay back at work today, which is not very common in our office. Most of us gets off work at 6pm (Yep, lucky us! :)

So I was strolling to the station and saw a familiar face from a distance at the train station. I had to make sure and walked closer. Yep, she is the wife of a friend whom I go to mission trips to Sarawak with in PC. She was making gestures with another person, frowning at some point, and then goes back to talking again.

So I went over to tap her on the shoulder and both of them turned. As usual it's "Aaayyy!!" followed by exchanges of smiles. The other lady is also from PC. So the first thing we did was to check out how each other has been doing and such. It was a short reunion as we have to part ways because of the different train directions that we are taking, but it was nonetheless a nice "bump", which was followed by me smiling away and feeling all happy on the way home. And, a song was ringing in my head the whole time when I walked home...



This is the theme song for the movie "Working Girl", starring Meredith Griffin. I am not going to offer spoilers, so if you are interested, go read up the movie at imdb.com, and wikipedia.

I am so surprise to be able to find the music video off Youtube.com, as I was only thinking of downloading the song for radio.blog. It's one of those songs that draw tears to my eye (I am not asking you to cry, so don't worry :).

I remember when this song was played, Tess has just stepped into her new role in the corporate world and feeling all confident, that she has finally broken out of her mould/background and moved up the social ladder. She was strutting in her new office suit, and enjoying her new achievement. I'll always remember that scene, it reminded me that the opportunities are out there, just don't give up. :) I love the tagline pulled out in Wikipedia:

For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying.

Hmm... maybe I will go look for the movie and rent it :)

By the way, while looking for "Let the River Flow", I found this web page, that documents the winners of the movie soundtracks in the Oscars. Pretty interesting, you'd never know that those movies were made THAT long time ago... :)