TO ALL THE THOSE WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's and 60's / early '70s............
I can identify with this.. can you?? :-)

First, we survived with mothers who had no maids. They cooked /cleaned while taking care of us at the same time.


They took aspirin, candies floss,fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrups and diabetes were rare. Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, and


As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/ motorcycles for 2 or 3. Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.


We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle.


We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seem to affect us.


We go to jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.


With mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game. With a ball (tennis ball best) we boys would ran like crazy for hours.


We catch guppy in drains / canals and when it rain we swim there.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually worry about being unhygenic.


We ate salty, very sweet & oily food, candies,bread and real butter and drank very sweet soft sweet coffee/ tea, ice karang, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet.WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!


We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.


We were never birthdays parties till we are 21,


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!


Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!


The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.


We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.


I must admit those were the good old days, life was so simple then. I remember growing up with my older brother and the few cousins, we used to climb trees and walk through the bushes behind our house. I also remember the time I was learning to ride a bicycle - mind you, I didn't have a BMX, it was my father's old bicycle!! Then there was the time when we played 'thieves and robbers' - we were so fit then!! Or the time when went fishing at the ditch behind our house, or digging earthworms for bait. I was such a 'tomboy' :-) We didn't have a computer, a playstation or an X- Box, we played games that involved a lot of running around. There was no telephone, let alone a mobile!! There was no Astro, or Foxtell as they call it here - the only channel we had was RTM one channel, until TV 2 came along. I remember watching 'The Waltons' and 'Little House on the Prairie' and the superhero was the 'Six Million Dollar Man' :-) I can still recall the black and white TV.. hehe.. thank goodness colour TV came along. Those were the days...gone but not forgotten!!