A recollection, a whole transformation from “hamara bajaj” to “definitely male” – Bajaj Pulsar.

For those who are now in late teens and early twenty's, this must be true for most of us:

• Unlike our younger siblings, we know how to read and write our mother tongue.
• The way to choose who played first was In-pin Safety pin.
• We would run to the terrace as soon as we hear a helicopter/aeroplane engine chugging.
• Veerappan - We know who he is and what he is.
• We know what the Asian sky shop is.
• If Pickles were not home-made they were 'PRIYA Pickles'.
• The school principal was someone to be afraid of.
• Like talking to a girl, but we feared the last bench shouts.
• William Shakespeare ruled the English text books.
• School bus was the longest way to reach the house.
• History was always a mystery.
• We knew how to make boats and airplanes with paper.
• We started experimenting our signature, we hoped to use when we grew up.
• We loved and feared the view atop the giant wheel.
• The pink candy at exhibitions and fairs was the tastiest thing on earth.
• A 5 story building could easily be the tallest edifice in our town.
• April Fool was done by showing a lizard which wasnt there.
• Cricket matches were held in sharjah also.
• It was mandatory to be awake until midnight for newyear.
• Sales of Babool gum and Boomer were due to the free tattoos that came along.
• We played WWF and Bigfun cricket cards atleast once.
• People came from nowhere and pulled our cheeks and asked if we remembered them.
• The only way to drive away mosquitoes was “good-night” mats.
• Titanic/Jurassic Park/Spider Man was the first English movie we saw.
• Popcorns in theatres and éclairs in groceries were mandatory.
• We definitely don’t know what a smiley means :P
• Shahrukh khan movies were watched atleast twice.
• If Amrish Puri is in a movie then he is the villain.
• Tom and jerry Rocked. We imagined ourselves as popeye eating spinach and saving Olive Oil from Bluto.
• We wished we had Alladin's genie and magic carpet kaleen.
• Mowgli and his jungle was mandatory every sundays.
• Unlike daily sops we had to wait one whole week to watch our favourite program.
• Chitranjali is one program on DoorDarshan we didn’t miss.
• A Sunday evening movie on DoorDarshan, gets our entire Family together.
• We created a Yahoo Id to use the chat rooms.
• If he has a Mobile Phone, he is rich.
• Parents restricted us from Watching TV, since that gets our grades down.
• Teacher was the only Guru unlike wiki/google/Internet.

Well ... this goes on .... :)

Inspired from a blog written by my senior Zahid.