Turn Back The Clock

I think I can probably speak for most people when I say, that as we grow older we tend to look further back at our younger years. I've been doing more of that these days.

People born in my era are placed into a period conveniently named as the Generation X. Like the X-Men, Gen-Xers are misunderstood, most of the time. And, like the X-Men, Gen-Xers hardly grow old. Well, most of us don't anyways.

It's not easy getting used to the notion of being old when you are a Gen-Xer. Gen-Xers are often stereotyped as "alienated, over-educated, under-achieving slackers with body piercings, who drank franchise-store coffee and have little regard for traditional values". But try to fit a "middle-aged man" or "matured lady" into that same sentence, and suddenly the X just becomes Zzz...

So, this is really my not-too-exciting way of keeping my youth - to make people around me remember how old they really are.

Remember these?
1. When Ngee Ann City was still an open space for caroling performances every Christmas
2. Park Mall was known as Supreme House, and there was a roller-disco at the basement level
3. C K Tangs was a big square building and not the Marriott Hotel it is today
4. Car learners drove a Datsun 120 and not a Nissan Sunny or Toyota Corolla
5. Hardees and Wendy's were among fastfood choices
6. Movie posters were actually hand-painted
7. TCS was known as SBC, and 欢乐缤纷 was on at 8.30pm every night
8. TV programming was not 24-hours and you anxiously watched the colour-test screen, counting down the seconds so that you could watch Sesame Street every Saturday morning
9. Pagers were in, and the number code 1-177155-4 meant "I miss you"
10. School shoes had to be white and they were painted with white "shoe paint" regularly.