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starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2012-01-15 11:19 pm
starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2012-01-15 11:19 pm
TO ALL PINOY KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's!
down memory lane ini!.....
TO ALL PINOY KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's!
First, some of us survived being born to mothers who did not have an
OB-Gyne, smoked and/or drank San Miguel Beer or Syoktong, while they
carried us. The manghihilot was the cheapest way to deliver babies. Dinala
ka ba ng nanay mo sa pediatrician for DPT? While pregnant, they took cold
or cough medicine, cortal or medicol, ate isaw, and didn't worry about
diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after all that trauma, our baby cribs were made of hard wood covered
with lead-based paints , pati na yung walker (andador )natin, matigas na
kahoy or rattan at wala pang gulong.
We had no soft cushy cribs that play music, no disposable diapers (lampin
lang), ( noon cloth or rattan duyan lang tied to the posts or ceiling,
babies fell asleep sa sobrang hilo ) and when we rode our bikes, we had no
helmets, no kneepads, sometimes wala pang preno yung bisikleta.
Take-out food was limited to Ongpin's pansit or Aling Toyangs pre-cooked
ulam in kalderos. No pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway, Jollibee; and,
coffee was just kape hinde ga-mahal as in Starbucks.
As children, we would ride in jeepneys libre pag kandong, hot
un-airconditioned buses with wooden seats (yung JD bus na pula), or cars
with no airconditioning & no seat belts (ngayon lahat may aircon na)
Riding on the back of a carabao on a breezy summer day was considered a
treat. (ngayon hindi na nakakakita ng kalabaw ang mga bata) Did you make
your own saranggola and pasted bubog on the strings?
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle purchased from
711(minsan straight from the faucet or poso) walang 711 noon, sari-sari
store ni Mang Akong to buy sarsi, suntan, RC cola or choco-vim.
We shared one soft drink bottle with four of our friends, and NO ONE
actually died from this or contracted hepatitis.
We ate rice with star margarine , pampatangkad daw , took raw eggs straight
from the shell, and drank softdrinks with real sugar in it (hindi diet
coke), but we weren't sick or overweight kasi nga .......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, and get back when the
streetlights came on. Sarap mag patintero, tumbang preso, habulan at
taguan.Tandaan mo ba PIKO, step-no-step- yes, trumpo, garter & mala-ahas sa
haba na goma? Kung naulan, jackstones, pick-up sticks or sungka,
bahay-bahayan, tinda-tindahan, titser-teacher- an or swimming sa baha or
kangkungan.
No one was able to reach us all day (di uso ang cellphone, walang beepers).
And yes, we were O.K. Sipol lang ni tatay ang meron noon!
We would spend hours building our wooden trolleys (yung bearing ang gulong)
or plywood slides out of scraps and then ride down the street , only to
find out we forgot the brakes! After hitting the sidewalk or falling into a
canal (sewage channel) a few times, we learned to solve the problem
ourselves with our bare & dirty hands.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
no 100 channels on cable, no DVD movies, no surround stereo, no IPOD's, no
cellphones, no computers, no Internet, no chat rooms, and no Friendsters,
Facebook. MSN etc. ........ ...WE HAD REAL FRIENDS and we went outside to
actually talk and play with them! TV viewing was a treat, kilala mo ba si
Popeye, Gumby, Betty Boop & followed the bouncing ball in Melody Tunes?
That was karaoke then, LOL!
We climbed walls and trees (to get aratiles and catch salagubang & tutubi -
tied them on the neck with a string), fell out of trees, got cut or
"bukol", broke bones and teeth and there were no stupid lawsuits from these
accidents. The only rubbing we get is from our friends with the
words..masakit ba ? pero pag galit yung kalaro mo,,,,ang sasabihin sa
iyo..beh buti nga !
We played marbles (jolens) in the dirt , washed our hands just a little and
ate dirty ice cream, fish balls & inihaw na baga. We were not afraid of
getting sick or germs in our stomachs.
We had to live with homemade guns, gawa sa kahoy, tinali ng rubberband ,
sumpit , tirador at kung ano ano pa na puedeng makasakitan, pero masaya pa
rin ang lahat. We made up games with sticks (syatong), and cans (tumbang
preso) and although we were told they were dangerous, wala naman tayong
binulag o napatay... paminsan minsan may nabubukulan lang.
We walked a lot, rode bikes, or took tricycles to a friend's house and
knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them to jump out
the window!
Mini basketball teams had tryouts and not everyone made to the team. Those
who didn't pass had to learn to deal with the disappointment. Wala iyang
mga childhood depression at damaged self esteem ek-ek na yan. Ang pikon,
talo.
Ang magulang ay nandoon lang para tingnan kung ayos lang ang mga bata,
hindi para makialam at makipag-away sa ibang parents.
That generation of ours has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers, creative thinkers and successful professionals ever! They are the
CEO's, Engineers, Doctors and Military Generals of today.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had failure, success, and responsibility. We learned from our mistakes
the hard way.
You might want to share this with others who've had the luck to grow up as
real kids. We were lucky indeed.
And if you like, forward it to your kids too, so they will know how brave
their parents were.
PS - The big letters are because your eyes may not be able to read this if
they were typed any smaller (at your age!)
. . . unfortunately i wasnt able to copy the original post kaya iisa lang
ang size & style ng font . . . (via Butsch Portento)
TO ALL PINOY KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's!
First, some of us survived being born to mothers who did not have an
OB-Gyne, smoked and/or drank San Miguel Beer or Syoktong, while they
carried us. The manghihilot was the cheapest way to deliver babies. Dinala
ka ba ng nanay mo sa pediatrician for DPT? While pregnant, they took cold
or cough medicine, cortal or medicol, ate isaw, and didn't worry about
diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after all that trauma, our baby cribs were made of hard wood covered
with lead-based paints , pati na yung walker (andador )natin, matigas na
kahoy or rattan at wala pang gulong.
We had no soft cushy cribs that play music, no disposable diapers (lampin
lang), ( noon cloth or rattan duyan lang tied to the posts or ceiling,
babies fell asleep sa sobrang hilo ) and when we rode our bikes, we had no
helmets, no kneepads, sometimes wala pang preno yung bisikleta.
Take-out food was limited to Ongpin's pansit or Aling Toyangs pre-cooked
ulam in kalderos. No pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway, Jollibee; and,
coffee was just kape hinde ga-mahal as in Starbucks.
As children, we would ride in jeepneys libre pag kandong, hot
un-airconditioned buses with wooden seats (yung JD bus na pula), or cars
with no airconditioning & no seat belts (ngayon lahat may aircon na)
Riding on the back of a carabao on a breezy summer day was considered a
treat. (ngayon hindi na nakakakita ng kalabaw ang mga bata) Did you make
your own saranggola and pasted bubog on the strings?
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle purchased from
711(minsan straight from the faucet or poso) walang 711 noon, sari-sari
store ni Mang Akong to buy sarsi, suntan, RC cola or choco-vim.
We shared one soft drink bottle with four of our friends, and NO ONE
actually died from this or contracted hepatitis.
We ate rice with star margarine , pampatangkad daw , took raw eggs straight
from the shell, and drank softdrinks with real sugar in it (hindi diet
coke), but we weren't sick or overweight kasi nga .......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, and get back when the
streetlights came on. Sarap mag patintero, tumbang preso, habulan at
taguan.Tandaan mo ba PIKO, step-no-step- yes, trumpo, garter & mala-ahas sa
haba na goma? Kung naulan, jackstones, pick-up sticks or sungka,
bahay-bahayan, tinda-tindahan, titser-teacher- an or swimming sa baha or
kangkungan.
No one was able to reach us all day (di uso ang cellphone, walang beepers).
And yes, we were O.K. Sipol lang ni tatay ang meron noon!
We would spend hours building our wooden trolleys (yung bearing ang gulong)
or plywood slides out of scraps and then ride down the street , only to
find out we forgot the brakes! After hitting the sidewalk or falling into a
canal (sewage channel) a few times, we learned to solve the problem
ourselves with our bare & dirty hands.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
no 100 channels on cable, no DVD movies, no surround stereo, no IPOD's, no
cellphones, no computers, no Internet, no chat rooms, and no Friendsters,
Facebook. MSN etc. ........ ...WE HAD REAL FRIENDS and we went outside to
actually talk and play with them! TV viewing was a treat, kilala mo ba si
Popeye, Gumby, Betty Boop & followed the bouncing ball in Melody Tunes?
That was karaoke then, LOL!
We climbed walls and trees (to get aratiles and catch salagubang & tutubi -
tied them on the neck with a string), fell out of trees, got cut or
"bukol", broke bones and teeth and there were no stupid lawsuits from these
accidents. The only rubbing we get is from our friends with the
words..masakit ba ? pero pag galit yung kalaro mo,,,,ang sasabihin sa
iyo..beh buti nga !
We played marbles (jolens) in the dirt , washed our hands just a little and
ate dirty ice cream, fish balls & inihaw na baga. We were not afraid of
getting sick or germs in our stomachs.
We had to live with homemade guns, gawa sa kahoy, tinali ng rubberband ,
sumpit , tirador at kung ano ano pa na puedeng makasakitan, pero masaya pa
rin ang lahat. We made up games with sticks (syatong), and cans (tumbang
preso) and although we were told they were dangerous, wala naman tayong
binulag o napatay... paminsan minsan may nabubukulan lang.
We walked a lot, rode bikes, or took tricycles to a friend's house and
knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them to jump out
the window!
Mini basketball teams had tryouts and not everyone made to the team. Those
who didn't pass had to learn to deal with the disappointment. Wala iyang
mga childhood depression at damaged self esteem ek-ek na yan. Ang pikon,
talo.
Ang magulang ay nandoon lang para tingnan kung ayos lang ang mga bata,
hindi para makialam at makipag-away sa ibang parents.
That generation of ours has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers, creative thinkers and successful professionals ever! They are the
CEO's, Engineers, Doctors and Military Generals of today.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had failure, success, and responsibility. We learned from our mistakes
the hard way.
You might want to share this with others who've had the luck to grow up as
real kids. We were lucky indeed.
And if you like, forward it to your kids too, so they will know how brave
their parents were.
PS - The big letters are because your eyes may not be able to read this if
they were typed any smaller (at your age!)
. . . unfortunately i wasnt able to copy the original post kaya iisa lang
ang size & style ng font . . . (via Butsch Portento)