I posted an interesting email below. Well its been around for sometime, but its always good to read it again sometime, it realli reminds us of our old days and the generation gap between us and the youth today. Things that used to excite us, have now been taken granted by our younger generation. The same goes to our parents, stuff tat used to excite them, has now become a norm to us.
This is perhaps why the older generation like to boost how tough they were in the past, how life can be so difficult, and how they manage to overcome it, and scold us becoz we take things for granted all the time. Our response are usually annoyed and feel they are too naggy. Its especially true now due to the fast changing technology. Social values and technology just change at such a pace that many ppl couldnt catch up with. Soon we will reach our parents age and soon we will have our own kids, this cycle is bound to happen again, and its our kids turn to remind us how naggy we are.
Its very hard to prevent this, so as a parent, one should be understanding towards their own parents, understand why they nagged so much, and try to tell them u appreciate their advise and admire their ability to overcome the difficulties.
One should also be more understanding towards the kids, coz they simply lack of experience, try to understand their needs, what is happening ard them, treat them as buddies and ask them bout their frenz, advise them but not the naggy way, listen to them and dun always make negative remarks or scorned at their innocent way. Always remember u have been stupid and innocent as well, and u dun like it when ppl laugh at u. Last but not leasts, no one ever say its easy to be parents, just go and ask ur parents and u will noe.
P/S: watch the moive "I not stupid too", it realistically reflect how selfish and how insensitive we are becoming.
>Signs that you are a 80s' baby:
>You grew up watching G-Force, He-man, Transformers, Thundercats,
>Silver Hawk, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks and Mickey Mouse. Not to
>forget Ninja Turtles, Mask, Smurfs and Voltron too.
>
>Girls watched Japanese cartoon like My Little Pony, "Xiao Tian
>Tian", "Hua Xian Zi" etc.
>
>You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in primary school after
>recess time. You squatted by a drain with all your classmates beside
>you, and brushed your teeth with a colo urful mug.
>
>Remember the days when the school nurse, comes with a list for the
>dentist appointment, the sound of the drilling when your friend has
>a fill in his tooth.
>
>You remember the packets of milk we get in primary school to
>encourage us to drink more milk. (It is only cost 30 cent per pack)
>
>In secondary school, girls go to the library to borrow their
>favourite romance storybook.
>
>In secondary school, girls altered their school skirt to shorten it
>and guys will go to the school appointed school uniform tailor shop
>to tailor make their school
trousers to the then fashionable "baggy
>pants"!
>
>During primary school days, the teacher will punish you using a
>ruler to hit your palm.
>
>A bowl of noodles soup cost only 30cent in primary school days.
>
>When you were in primary school, girls like to go to the bookshop to
>buy cute stuff such as animal erasers, various shape sharpeners,
>colourful notebook etc.
>
>Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favourite hangout for
>families dur! ing weekends.
>
>In secondary school days, you buy the Bata BM Turbo or Pallas Jazz
>school shoes.
>Some guys like to wear those china made ankle high shoes. Some even
>like to wear those very thick socks with their school shoes.
>
>Internet? E-mail? What the hell is that?
>
>So you thought a decade or more
ago, your friends don't have pagers
>or handphones in school.
>
>CDs? What's that? Cassette tapes were the norm. Movie tickets used
>to cost less than $5 last time.
>
>The goodies from Mama shop used to be Chickerdis, Mamee , Kum Kum,
>UFO, O-Ya, Ding Dang chocolate balls with toys in the box, colourful
>hard "egg", "cigerette" bubble gum, KIKI Bubble Gum, pink bottle of
>bubbles c/w a small tubes with yellow sticks to blow "more lasting"
>bubbles that you can pop more air in or slam it on.
>
>You never forget 'Ti Kam'.
>When exams are over, the board games (e.g Monopoly, Donkey,
>Transportation Comparison Card) & held ! video games will be all
>over the class room.
>
>Your favourite sound is the bell! For it's the homemade ice cream
>man. The cream that tops Haagan
Dazs!
>
>And the other peddler you love is the old lady who sells juicy Muah
>Chee and thick olden syrup rolled in a balloon the tip of a
>chopstick stick.
>
>Another bell is the recess bell, a time to get away from school work
>and to eat.
>
>Another time when there is no bell but all guys will anxiously wait
>for it...The PE time (time for football)
>
>Your favourite childhood games were playing "gu li"(marbles), five
>stones, five bottle cover, zero-point, catching, "Pepsi-Cola one two
>three" and/or "Police & Sentry"!
>
>The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colourful ice
>tubes you can buy from provision shops for only 10 cent. To eat
>them, break the tab and suck while holding the freezing tube!
>
>All gals have a girl doll/strawberry
shortcake/my little pony/pound
>puppy, while all boys have a soldiers figurine (combat) or a rubber
>band catapult that shoots folded paper!
>
>Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valueable items, then
>came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights.
>
>Some boys made their own guns from wood, and used 'Bacali' as the
>bullets.
>
>Some even used matches to shoot and burn kids'lanterns during
>MoonCake Festival.
>
>And your favourite holiday was Lunar New Year! New clothes, Ang
>Pows, shopping, junk food and family outings!
>
>Let's see, the majority of students in universities today were born
>in 1987 / 88.... They are called "youth".
>
>For them, they have never heard of the song "We are the World, we
>are the Children..." And the "Uptown Girl" they know is
by 'West
>Life' but not 'Billy Joel'.
>
>For them, there have always been only one Germany and only one
>Vietnam.
>AIDS exists since they were born.
>CD exists since they were born.
>Michael Jackson is already whitened.
>John Travolta is always round in shape and they can't imagine how
>this fat guy could be a god of dance.
>They believe that Spiderman and Incredible Hulk are just new films.
>They can never imagine a black and white screen for a computer.
>They never know what is Atari or 'Game & Watch'.
>They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and
>they don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.
>
>And they never understand how we can go out without a mobile phone
>when we were in university...
>
>Let's check if we're
getting old...
>1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
>2. Most of your secondary school friends are getting married.
>3. You are always surprised to see small children playing
>comfortably with computer.
>4. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
>5. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends
>daily.
>6. When you meet your old friends from time to time, talking about
>the good old days, repeating again and again all funny stories you
>experienced together.
>7. Lastly, having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it
>to some other old friends. You think they will like it too.....
>
>Hahaha!.... Yes! U are getting old too...........
>Brings back old memories huh?
>
>Cheers to the 80s
babies!!!
continuous
melodic
motions
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