Haha, this post is just for me to relieve stress while the pressure of the upcoming exams is building up. Nah! with the bulk of rubbish already cleared now I would just have to study why banks are the biggest leeches around in the world today, sucking people of their monies by credit cards and asking people to buy unit trust funds or stocks or financial products when the market is clearly going down down down due to the sub prime mortgage crisis in US. Funny how my Prof actually said in class that if only all investment bankers were lawyers then less people would get cheated. So lawyers are not that bad after all, bankers are worse. hahaha. Anyway back to the topic, old school cartoons.
First up there is MASK or Mobile Armoured Strike Kommand which talks about how this millionaire's wife got killed by some villians and this guy traumatised by the ordeal set up a vigilante group to fight against the evil VENOM. But the key attraction is the vehicles that can change from one thing to another. Jus like the transformers, think this was the period where anything that can "transform" would attract the attention and affection of boys. hahaha. My fave toy was the vehicle of the bag guys' boss, a fighter jet that can change into an attack helicopter. hahaha why do they always give the fighter jets to the bad guys.
Second, there is capt planet, which is really quite a stupid show but dunno why I love it so much. Perhaps it is becos of how the 5 planeteers have the power to control certain elements of nature. And they had to choose 5 people of different colours to subtly insert the message of racial equality into such cartoons.
Then there is mighty mouse whereby a small little creature always saves the day, teaching children that sometimes it is not form tat matters but the substance.
There are so many things that I remember in my childhood days that are no longer existent already. First up we had soft drinks in glass bottles and chewing gum could be bought from provision shops. Then there was toyo and ding dang which are chocolate balls with toys included in the box. Then how could I forget A & W that serves superd coney dogs with lots of onions and invented the concept of the root beer float and curly fries. Too bad it is no longer in existence in Singapore.
Hahah and it was the time when there was no handphones and pagers were a rarity still. Neverthless, someone would actually get a pager and a voicemail account and then allow everyone to use the voice mail account so that people who are late for appointments or cannot make it to the appointment can make last minute calls. But gone are the days and with the proliferation of internet, kids are exposed to much more rubbish and knowledge these days.
