♥Relaxing ...

Friday, May 23, 2008Y

recently there's lots of publicity from the sg sports smthg tt calls children to go outside n play... and i thought, "you should have seen it coming.."

when i was in pri sch, everyone else played hop-scotch or skipping ropes or catching or any weird games anyone can come up with.. we loved the sch field, neighbourhood playgrounds with sand and even invented block-hide-and-seek, meaning we ran up and down the whole block, hiding in whichever storeys we like.. we'd go to the field and pulled at all the funny plants we see. and my proudest moment was when i caught a huge bright green grasshopper and presented it to my Form Teacher (until i stupidly put it in a glass jar and covered it with paper. it ate its way through in 5 seconds, hopping away with its butt laughing at me)

(ok i made dat up. i didnt see it run away with its butt laughing at me. but it did escape pretty soon.)

when i was in p3, trs started encouraging us to use computers. we had to do maths qns and type the sentence "the fox jumped over a log" or smthg lidat into the black screen with colourful dots and lines. we had to type /autoexec into the black screen whenever the program screwed up and the screen hung.

den p4 or p5, cant rem, someone brought a "CD-ROM" to sch and inserted into the sch library's newest computer. all of the student librarians (including me) squatted ard that man n watched as the screen started playing colourful animations like cartoons while teaching English lessons. It was like MAGIC! everybody fought arm and leg to be the next one to do the lesson on the computer. i felt excited even when i dragged the mouse over to click 'Next Question'. dat was how mountain tortoise i was o_o even so, everyone still much preferred a senseless chasing/running game at the playground to staying in front of the computer..

we oso used to read the YG (Young Generation) and followed closely the stories of Vinny the Vampire.. some of us even made pen-pals from the last section of the magazine, where ppl write things like "I am 8 and I like Barbie dolls/Power Rangers. Write to me at Blk 222, Street AAA, and be my pen-pal!" etc..

in p6 or sec 1, if not wrong, someone introduced the mIRC to us. we even know IRC stood for Internet Relay Chat. That's how obsessed we were, considering that some of us didnt even know wad does BKE stand for. we would go online to find someone to chat with almost everyday. this craze carried on till my JC times.. all of us had a cyber-fren, or cyber-girlfren or cyber-boyfren at some point of time. u could have a boyfren AND a cyber-bf at the same time, and u wouldnt be two timing. puleease, wad can u do online(at dat time)?

then we had ICQ, then MSN came along n devoured the whole world. but even with all this cyber-craze, guys were still crazy abt football after school, and girls were still going for ice-cream to have those 'girl-talks'..

but now, it's completely different. so many free and challenging games available online. parents want to keep their eyes on their children all the time anyway, so isnt it better to have them in front of the home desktop? "come on, only children with lousy parents will run around and shout wildly like some ill-bred brat in the public playground. I wouldnt want to be caught dead with a child like dat. my child will be perfect, coming home after sch everyday. juz need to get him one maple card every month. haha."

and now the haha is back at them. they are now playing ads on tv to get children interested in the outside world again. to use their real legs to run instead of hitting the directional buttons on the keyboard to move the RPG magician character, to play real football instead of the football game on the computer/PSP/Wii and maybe, get into a real physical fight instead of playing Warcraft. hahaha.

i mean, come on, you really should have seen it coming!

ends at 11:45 PM