Poh Ling Yeow

Which I kind of love.

You know, you've piqued my curiosity on the other side.

Yeah.

I mean, like the thing is with music, like smells and all the things that are related to the senses, they're incredibly potent.

Like they really transport you, you know.

So I've picked songs that just really give me that, that just really take me back to a very, yeah, vivid moments in my life.

Well, you nailed it because that's what Take 5 is all about, sensory memory, those triggers that take us back, sometimes in good ways, sometimes in sad ways.

Yeah.

But always in a deeply threaded and woven way into your life.

There's songs that attach themselves to memory and that's what Take 5 is all about.

Your first choice is a beautiful ballad.

It's from the Bee Gees.

It's that whole era of filmmaking and that whole era was when I was little in Malaysia.

My dad was really into music.

He's like an ex-muso, so we always had lots of records and the Bee Gees was one of his favourites.

I don't know, up to that point in Malaysia, I was a pretty lonesome kid.

Left my own devices.

Felt very beamed in from somewhere else, even though it was a place that I was born.

Probably had some kind of learning difficulty at school, so felt like totally...

Like I didn't fit anywhere and I was sort of always in some kind of cloud of confusion at school.