Sunday, September 17, 2006

1980s

Most of us grew up in the 1980s. If not the early 80s then in the late 80s. With each generation came a certain memorable event or show. Here are a few of those memories.

- The everyday cartoons, in the morning of every single day. Especially Friday cause TV started earlier by an hour.

- The opening of Kuwait channel 2 in the afternoon. Started with cartoons, then the regular sitcoms. Followed by an educational show. The news, then the late night movie :P

- Full House, Growing Pains, Family Matters, and many more.

- Running all over the place to find 100fils when you heard "bareeed, bareeed" just to rush after the guy outside to buy your favorite lulu, thahab, sandawicha, bo3elch!

- Playing hide n seek with e3yal el ferej.. the girls and the guys, the cute crushes as young as 6 yrs of age.

- Playing soccer two on two in the house, breaking the lights, and anything in its way.

- Going to the fer3, and yes buying all what you dreamed of with 1kd or even less (I had to mention it :P).

- Competing on who has earned the most in Eid, and of course, give me 1 ill give you 2 scam :P

- Pizza Italia, hungry bunny, hardeez (the good ol days.)

- Entertainment city was a whole day trip, it was our universe when we went. The house of mirrors was the most fun. Remember Showbiz? The machine with the Helium balloons?

- Buying the first Tape to play in your old Walkman, watching MTV and learning cool dance moves. (:P Yeah, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer were on that list too lol).

- Hanging out at Cinema Alsalmiya, especially on holidays when it was even harder to find a parking spot.

- Travelling every summer to Egypt/Europe, discovering Hide Park the squirrels, and Alton Towers, and the Pyramids.

- Swimming lessons, and when you first learned to swim. "Hold on to me and move your legs!" That is what they used to say, as you thrashed along the coast line/swimming pool.

- The uncountable number of torn backpacks from school!

What else..

- Mischief? Don't let me go there :P These are better buried in the past lol. We've all had our share, good moments and bad ones.

This post was influenced by Cuteberry's Childhood Memories post.

Memories are great to be remembered, not to be pondered on or make us feel sad about the present, with each growing moment we come across good and bad experiences. Let the good that happens today be a memory for the children of this age. One day they will grow up and remember Pokemon.. etc lol.

12 comments:

Cuteberry said...

LOVED IT! ;) Can I get bared bo 3elch now? Since I was the inspiration :P and this time I will be generous .. Give me one and I will give you 2 *giggles*

Angelo said...

WOW the instant rush of memories while reading your post is amazing. Thank you....for the memories :)

Anonymous said...

That was good to read. Fun times indeed and took me down memory lane for a few minutes. Thanks.

Didn't KTV2 have some drama show followed by the sitcom as well?

Transparently said...

Cuteberry,
Bared bo 3elch! Sure :P But what is that you want me to give you one of and you'll give me two :P

Fallen Angel,
Your welcome :)

Sabah,
Drama shows you mean like the Xfiles, Star trek? :)

Fayoora,
lol yeah the chicken pox! Oh the days.. what was with that sea water thing! But its a fact that it kills bacteria etc :p

Orange Juice,
:P yeah the good ol days! Now most ice cream cost 200 fils :(

The Krispy Dixie said...

abee 9aroooooookh! :P

ahh how i wish that those simpler days would return.... :(

MishMisha said...

lool omg those were the days.

the days the whole family would gather together and all the kids would go to the fir3..

the funniest thing was that my parents used to give me 1/2 k.d and i would still bring back some change LOL!

*sigh* good times.. thanks for reminding me of those days.

p.s i still watch full house sometimes.. :P

Transparently said...

The Krispy Dixie,
lol, yah 9arokh was quite the favorite amongs some :P Like you said, I wish those simpler days would indeed return.. especially where licking ice cream and having it drip on ur shirt was such an OK thing :/

MiSHMiSHa,
lol yah, 3ez gabel.. everything was cheap! :P Good times indeed, especially with full house! Eh the days.. :D

Unknown said...

xlant post ,,, I must do one of mine if you and cute berry dont mind...

You forgot very important thing .. jebnat glassat sandwich with pepsi in the bottle espacially after swimming

N said...

awwwwww.. i loved this trip down memory lane.. i have to say, i did allll those things u did in ur childhood,, do i know u? or does every kuwaity child go through this childhood phase? ;P

♀ L's brain ♀ said...

those were very 1980s things to say! loved ur post. what were ur fav cartoons? :) mine were, flona, hidy, lady elsaqera, bomboo and sally

Transparently said...

Blue Ice Envy,
in the street? barefooted? :P

mosan mosan,
I haven't checked your posts yet, I hope you did make your own list! And of course, Kraft spread cheese lol.. especially after swiming! This is a classic.

Prinseesa,
Maybe, Who's to know :P But it is true, nearly all of *us* go through it. It is basically a certain sub culture.. I guess nearly all bloggers/readers have in common and can relate to.

L's Brain,
Hey! Welcome back.. Fav cartoons, oh they're a lot. Bomboo, kabamaro, jomaro, sasuke, all mecha bots (grendaizar, jongar..etc), toota felmarekh, rana, ka3bool, flona, elsanafer, el shanakel.. lol! Yah, can't name them all.. I'm still into anime :P

Anonymous said...

Just to remind ou of a program on ktv2 Ghost Writer. I managed to learn decent english from that show