MY TOP 100 FAVOURITE SONGS

Dominic Shum’s TOP 20 30 60 100Songs of all Time (his time anyway)

         Song                                                     Singer       

Hotel California                                     Eagles

Leader of the Band                                Dan Fogelberg

One Day in Your Life                              Michael Jackson

Longer than                                           Dan Fogelberg

Close to you                                           Carpenters

Bohemian Rapshody                               Queen

Casablanca                                            Bertie Higgins

Sad to Belong                                         England Dan & John Ford Coley

If                                                           David Gates

Reason to Believe                                   Rod Stewart

Everything I do                                      Bryan Adams

Please Forgive me                                 Bryan Adams

25 Minutes                                            Michael Learns to Rock

Vincent                                                 Don McLean

Just tell me you love me                        England Dan & John Ford Coley

American Pie                                         Don Mclean

Memory                                                 Barbara Striesand

I just can’t stop loving you                    Michael Jackson

Earth Song                                             Michael Jackson

You are not alone                                  Michael Jackson

Woman In Love                                      Barbara Striesand

The Rose                                               Bette Midler

Heal the World                                      Michael Jackson

You Needed me                                     Anne Murray

Broken Hearted Me                                Anne Murray

Have never been Mellow                        Olivia Newton John

I Honestly Loved you                              Olivia Newton John

Sometime When We Touch                     Dan Hill

Imagine                                                 John Lennon           

My heart will go on                                Celine Dion

Yesterday                                              Beatles

Hey Jude                                               Beatles

And I Love Her                                       Beatles

Woman                                                  John Lennon

Two Less Lonely People in the world      Air Supply

Lost in Love                                            Air Supply

Here I am                                               Air Supply

All out of Love                                        Air Supply

Let Me Be There                                     Olivia Newton John

Hello                                                      Lionel Ritchie

Just when I needed u most                    Randy Van Warmer

Chiquitita                                              ABBA

Slipping through my Fingers                  ABBA

I have a dream                                       ABBA 

i just can’t fight this feeling any longer Reo Speedwagon

In my dreams                                         Reo Speedwagon

Don’t give up on us                                David Soul

Castle in the Air                                     Don Mclean

I dream a dream                                    Susan Boyle

It must have been love                           Roxette

Have I told you lately                             Rod Stewart

You’re in my heart                                Rod Stewart

Ships                                                     Barry Manilow

I don’t want to talk about it                   Rod Stewart

Hero                                                      Mariah Carey

I want to know what love is                   Mariah Carey

How Deep is your love                           Bee Gees

First of May                                           Bee Gees

I started a Joke                                      Bee Gees

Words                                                    Bee Gees

Alone                                                     Bee Gees

How do I mend a Broken Heart               Bee Gees

Rest Your Love on Me                             Andy Gibb with ONJ

Don’t throw Away Your Love                  Andy Gibb

Everlasting Love                                     Andy Gibb

Arms of an Angel                                    Sarah McLachlan

You be in my heart                                 Phil Collins

Can’t stop loving you                              Phil Collins

What Can I do                                         The Corrs

So Young                                                The Corrs

Runaway                                                The Corrs

Hold On                                                  Wilson Philips

You’re in Love                                        Wilson Philips

Can’t you feel the love tonight                Elton John

Candle in the Wind                                 Elton John

Calling Occupants from Interplanetary Craft       Carpenters

Somewhere  out there                            James Ingram/Linda Ronstadt

Circle of Life                                          Elton John

Beauty and the Beast                             Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson

Tears in Heaven                                     Eric Clapton

Right Here Waiting                                 Richard Marx

Hazard                                                   Richard Marx

Nothing Compares to You                       Sinnead O’Connors

Its All Coming Back to Me Now               Celine Dion

Homeward Bound                                  Simon & Garfunkel

The Boxer                                              Simon & Garfunkel

Scarborough Fair                                  Simon & Garfunkel           

It had to be you                                     Ray Connick Junior

Fly me to the Moon                                Frank Sinatra

Magic                                                    Olivia Newton John

Suddenly                                               ONJ and Cliff Richard

Summer Holiday                                    Cliff Richard

Theme for a Dream                                Cliff Richard

To Sir with Love                                     Lulu

Bachelor Boy                                         Cliff Richard

Careless Whisper                                   George Michael

Turn Back the Clock                              Johnny Hates Jazz

Africa                                                    Toto

True                                                      Spandau Ballet

Kissing a Fool                                         George Michael

Let me have your thoughts please...the songs are linked to YouTube..so you can experience it as well

Social Networking

The way society communicates have changed beyond recognition from say 20 years ago. I still remember then the only electronic communication I knew was the electronic messaging that was available to me in my alma mater's computer lab. We only could use it on the dumb terminals connected to the university's main frame. Back then there were no internet and mobile phones.

Today, not only the internet and mobile phones are available publicly, the two media has been converging rapidly and is fast becoming a seamless entity! For example, we can use GMAIL, TWITTER , FACEBOOK etc on our mobile now and the phone is looking more and more like a personal computer albeit with a smaller screen. This has invariably changed the way society communicates and interact.

If we are to get ahead in society or be in the know, we cannot ignore any more the utility that such communications tools provide us. We should fully embrace such blessing but at the same time be careful not to get caught in the web of deceit and also the alienation from society that addiction to the electronic media might bring. The human race has always produced inventions that in both useful and destructive. For example, nuclear power and nuclear bombs.... Electronic media is also a double edged swords. Scandals can be spread instantly with clicks of the mouse and politicians have use the internet extensively to their selfish gains.

Lets look at the bright side though. The convergence of the internet and mobile networks allows us access to information and electronic mails even when we are thousands of miles away from home. We can talk to our family members as well over the phone across thousands of miles and do our banking from any where in the world. The question therefore remains ; are we paying too high a social price to utilise the benefits of the electronic communications age?