If you are Msia's 80s baby,read through this, we grew up watching Transformers, Thundercats, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks, Mickey Mouse, Jem, Mask, Ninja Turtles, Voltron, Baja Hitam, Ultraman and not forgetting POWER RANGERS and BUGS BUNNY!!! McGyver ?
We had to brush our teeth during recess at primary school? Had to hold plastic cups, line up with your classmates side by side and start brushing our teeth at some open area -- or maybe near some drain?
Do you remember that we had dentist rooms where we had to have our teeth checked out?
Not to forget our 'Program Minum Susu' in primary school where everybody is suppose to buy cartons of milk that costs 30 cents each and you would see everyone drinking it everyday for the next month.
Days when teachers would punish us with those 1 meter long yellow rulers. Hitting our palm.
A bowl of mee-hun soup or some soup only costs 50 cents at the school canteen.
Going to some sundry shop near the school or to the 'roti' man waiting outside our schools so that we could spend what little cash we had on junk food like chickedees, mamee, ding dang with some toys in it, 'Ti Kam', ice-cream and we would play games like monopoly, UNO, old maid, and all other card games like that.
Of course, who wouldn’t remember Pendidikan Jasmani (PJ in short and PE in English). The boys would play football while the girls would play netball. It’s as if we were in the World Cup. We would give everything we got on the pitch.
But of course, the best would be main guli, batu seremban, bottlecaps, ice-cream sticks, 'Pepsi Cola one-two-three', Cops and Robbers, main kejar-kejar duduk, getah, one-leg. The young nerds would fancy 'book games' where we would use buku latihan to draw and ask our friends to play.
Do you remember the Ice Pops, those sausage-like ice-cream tubes which are actually ice with syrup that are sold for 10 to 20 cents a pop. The colourful ones where you usually bite off the top to gulp it down.
What about days when we felt like doing naughty things such as folding papers so small to make 'lastik' and shoot each other... how about throwing chalks and frog folding to see who’s paper frog can jump higher.
Back then, Michael Jackson is still turning white while churning out albums after albums in cassettes. Back then CDs were still in its embryonic stage and costs a fortune, we were listening to tapes that sold for RM9.90 each. And piracy was still about a one eyed hook-wielding dude that captains a ship.
In computer class, we were still using black and white monitors learning DOS and played 'Atari' maybe SEGA or NINTENDO if you’re from a richer family. Buying those 1000-in-1 games that are actually only 10 games but repeated with different name like Super Mario Brothers to Mushroom 3000.
Well, are we all getting older or what?
Now…
We have friends from school that are already married...some blessed with beautiful children.
We shake our heads every time we see high school students fussing about who has the better phone or better features in their hand phones in school. Indulging themselves in SMSes when they are just a few meters apart. Whatever happened to good ol yelling.
I think…
What happened man?
Did we grow up too fast? Or have we taken for granted too much too often.
And what’s up with kids these days? How did they become so vain, materialistic and fussy? Jeez.
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