I was really inspired inspired by one of mom's earlier post about 'December' babies...how one has grown and the other ones journey just beginning...etc etc...So I was flipping through some old photographs...and I was just taken by how much things has changed over the years...plus I found pictures that I never even seen before...you know what they say..."everyday is a new adventure". I know I know, there are tons of pictures when me and my siblings were younger…looks like a cheap plow to get people to read my blog…but hey…my blog my rules…besides…it’s fun
So I present to you...the new old and improved 'Multimedia Digital Retrospective Presentation'... Enjoy...
P.S: Wini…I searched high and low and still can’t find this mysterious knee high socks of which you speak of…I beginning to doubt the existence of these pair of garment (for the feet…to the knees)
1) The kids change...
I really like this picture...it's the first time I've seen this picture...I like how the boys are carry a tommy gun and a rifle, while the girl is holding a barbie doll...the only question is...was this picture taken spontaneously...or was it staged...
I actually vaguely remember this one...I think it was some of the nick-knacks from the Christmas eve celebration gift bag...Zorro was huge at the time...not kidding...
This one was taken in Ranau...hot springs i think...correct me if I'm wrong...although...I'm never wrong...anyway...still no sign no knee high socks...
This one actually had a date...which meant I was 16 at the time...aaahhh....to be young...we became much larger...maybe even larger than life...we always seem to think so...
We used to be good mates at the time...we used to hang around and play after school...that was until I realized she was a girl and she realized I was a boy...harsh reality of life...
After years and years apart...since she had her life...and I had mine...we collaborated once again to host/emcee my sister wedding...needless to say...it was a success...thanks to the sharp improvisation skill of the emcees...
There used to be a hill in front of our old house...but to us...it seemed like a mountain...during some evenings...before we were allowed to scale the 'mountain' ourselves...our dad would hike up the hill with us carrying his trusty pocket knife...he would then carve objects upon our request from mudstones...we would say something like "Papa, can you make me a boomerang, a gun, a horse, a dog....etc etc..." and he would...although thinking back....they all curiously looked like 'L's.....hahahahaha....although...through a kids' imagination...nothing is impossible...good times...
Well...today...the hill was flatten to make way for a new luxury condominium...ironically, the boy in the red car had something to do with it...talk about preserving childhood memories...
This was our old Christmas tree...it looked pretty 'lightweighted'...lacked omph...although it more than made up with the sheer amount of gifts under the tree...these days...the tree is replaced by a much larger, more life like version (refer to previous post)...sadly...the gifts have somewhat extincted over the years...
This was our old living room...those days...it had a 20 inch?? TV that had to be controlled manually...which meant someone had to go up to the TV and changed it themselves...that job usually fell to me...it also had a VCR and a single deck cassette and radio player...the two decorative plates at the back were brought back from my father from England as a souvenir from his time there...it was later broken by the kids who were playing ball in the house when it was strictly prohibited...bottom line...nobody follows rules...
Today...it is replaced by somewhat state of the art technology...32 inch flat screen TV, DVD player, double deck cassette, triple VCD and CD player with build in radio with surround sound... also a VCR and...satellite TV...How technology has raced through time...
Fresh grad...the year was eeeerrr 197_...this was the look that defined a generation...the fairly straight/ wavy shoulder length hair coupled with the thick rim,ed glasses....ahhhh, so full of hope.
This one....eeerrr don't really know what that is...but best describe as a motorcycle helmet with fringes...I'm aware it sounds a tad bit insulting...but most of the 70s and early 80s was ( i was born mid-80s)...hahaha, kidding...if someone knows a better way to describe that, then do enlighten...anyway...having said that...it was a good long...i think it'll still pass as a good look today...again...you be the judge.
This one I call the Marge Simpson perm...Why? because this hairstyle definitely defies gravity.
Then came the return of the shoulder length straighten hair...but the thick rimmed glasses were left in the 70s...along with Carol Carpenter...
This...this is a cross between the straight and the perm...and the rest is history...mom pretty much kept that hairstyle from here on out...albit minor modifications here and there...so there you go...a picture of a jet-setting socialite mom with 3 kids....
First came the clean shaven and short hair look...fresh out of university...the year was 197_ +1. Dad graduated a year after mom...
Then came the addition of 2 children and a moustouche and the side parting the the right...other wise known as the Ringo or Lobo look...minus the long hair of course...Legend has it that Moses was responsible for that hairstyle...
Another kid rolled into the frame...but the moustouche was long gone ...the parting though, stayed...guess the Israelites haven't made their way across...
Then...eeeerrrr...well, you get the picture...when you have a winning look...you keep it...