Rainbow and Under the Canopy of Love

I’m now addicted to ‘Under the canopy of Love’ which is being shown on NTV 7 at 11.00pm from Monday to Friday. Impatient people would go straight into buying the DVD if it is available, but I am more for taking it one episode at a time. What’s the hurry?

I was attracted by the tarot card predictions and the destiny of two former schoolmates. The girl was the one who fantasized and actually looked forward to meeting the boy at the bus stand at the end of every school day, and would be terribly disappointed if he wasn’t there.

One day, she cheated in order to treat him and when found out, he admonished her and advised her not to do it again. Soon after, the boy was transferred and she got the impression that he took the blame and was disciplined and she felt guilty for it ever since.

As predicted by a fellow trader at a shopping complex, they met when they accidentally knocked against each other while she was like Alice in Wonderland gazing at the canopy of the complex. With the aid of film wizardry, an image of a white horse was displayed moving across the canopy. But it took many chance meetings before they realised they were schoolmates. At one stage, she was paranoid that he was stalking her!

She was asked to help out at her alma mater for a charity. When the lady told her about an ex-student who gave a talk, she was thrilled that the name was the boy she fantasized before, but then he had just left. She rushed out to the road and was surprised to see him, the supervisor whom she had met ‘accidentally’, was also the guy she had been looking for all these years!

Anyway, while I am in the mood for reminiscing, I wish to show the lyrics of the song I used to serenade to my wife:

Rainbow
by Russ Hamilton

(Intro): Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow

I'm saving my money to buy you a rainbow
A rainbow, to fit on your finger
And after I've gone and bought you the rainbow
I'll go out and I'll buy you the moon

When we go walking side by side in the moonlight
We count the stars as we go strolling by
Maybe one day we'll own those beautiful diamonds
That glisten like the teardrops from your eyes

You know how I feel on a moment like this
When hand in hand when we reminisce
Your eyes seem to glow when you whisper low
I really love you

(Verse 1 again)

[Instrumental Interlude]

And after I've gone and bought you the rainbow
I'll go out and I'll buy you the moon
I'll go out and I'll buy you the moon

(Outro): Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow

I used to strum the tune in the key of ‘C’ but the original is in ‘D’. It was a pity because I would love to strum along with the CD playing but what I can remember by heart are the chords in ‘C’. It is simple to change the chords but to me, it is not the same, not my own version!

Btw, I have yet to get those diamonds.