How did we survive our childhood?

Hmm... Im just thinking.... how we survive our childhood (Those born between 1980 to 1989) in the past? compared to the small childrens (Those born in after 1990) nowadays, our childhood is almost completely different leh...

I use to read a email that ask us to pass around to share how we survive our childhood before.. and it really makes me think back... lalala~~~

In the past:
There are hardly any air-conditioned buses around. The engines are very noisy and is very bumpy. Messy hairs inside buses was a common sight! There are also services with letters in them like CSS8 or CSS6
Now:
Almost all major services air air-conditioned. And the technologies are making the engine better and better... Letters that accompanied numbers are all those short working trips... and now u hardly see any brown coloured services. the only service left is 608

In the past:
There are very few minimarts around. Most of them are "mama-shops" man by some indian mans...
Now:
There are alot of great minimarts. One examples is I-Econ... And can i add in 7-11? there are over hundreds outlets islandwide now.

In the past:
Nitendo games dominate the world. People can be seen playing those cute games like supermario and some others.
Now:
Exclude computers lahx, X-boxes are the one dominating now... with good-graphic games like Halo...

In the past:
Only some rich families own a computer... Windows 3.1 summaw!!! only for gaming purposes.
Now:
Almost all families own at lest one computer now... and its now Windows XP advanced... whoah~~ and the highly multi-purpose usuage of microsoft word, powerpoint, and macromedia fireworks and flash. and there are this internet world where people can meet up for almost everything

In the past:
The best outdoor games are soccer and hop skotch! Children can be seen playing them almost everywhere
Now:
Outdoor games? Not for me~~ Except for some lahx... cos most of the children are indoors playing computer games!!!

In the past:
Main communicating language is chinese.
Now:
Some primary school childrens can speak better english den wad we are now!!!

In the past:
TV shows end very early (Around 11pm) and after that, what u see is just either the blank screen, or a highly coloured... round... "face... (???)" with a clock de screen... Or maybe just a rainbowed colored bars with a sharp long pitched sound.....
Now:
TV shows are 24 hours on... and there are way way way lots of good and nice shows...

In the past:
Handphones are very big and bulky (Da ge da) with all 12 dials very obvious.
Now:
Handphones comes in different brands and styles and patterns woth different functions or video recording and MP3 player.

In the past:
Radio was the main entertainment, or maybe later, CD player
Now:
MP3 was the main entertainment

In the past:
Construction sites are rare... hmm... in my opinion...
Now:
Construction sites are EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!

In the past:
Vehicles lisense plate number starts with E. (Eg: EE1234D) and are very small... yet big crowds of people like to squeese themselves into one small vechicle... Those plate that starts with SC are considered very new... (Eg: SCA3422D)
Now:
Vehicles are of high tech and spacious and plate starting with SG... (Eg: SGC122D) yet, crowds squeesing into a vehicles was pretty much a rare sight!

In the past:
Each house in a apartment block have their very own rubbish chute... and there are people who will come can collect the rubbish every dawn...
Now:
All apartments blocks have only one centralized rubbish chute. There are no people to collect them... Only garbage cars will come every so often...

In the past:
Every single vehicle like to chiong along jurong town hall road to play the sudden downslope there...
Now:
Most vehicles drives slowly.... if not traffic police come...

In the past:
The ground of playgrounds are made up of sand... and many small children would have dig out droppings from cats and dogs... and swings was the main plaything in a playground... See-saws was made up of wood...
Now:
The ground of playgrounds was made up of rubber ground... and the main plaything was... NONE!!! cos childrens nowadays oni play AROUND playgrounds and not IN playgrounds... And now, you can hardly find any swing, neither are the see-saws..

In the past:
Many children had invented many weird games like running around in circles and everything.
Now:
Catching with bases and twists... nuttin else~~ maybe i can add 3 blind mice...

In the past:
Lightings were either fluroscent white light or just simply orange light bulbs.
Now:
Spotlights... Rainbow lights... Neon lights... Cold lights... and the list goes on....

In the past:
Walls of a house was definitely painted white... and none others... there are even some that turns yellow!!
Now:
Yellow paint, blur paint, black paint, and even drawings and wallpaper!

In the past:
Crickets, terrapins, worms, mouse and some other creepy crawies are the main pets
Now:
Dogs, cats, hamsters, fishes and some other cute are the main pets.

In the past:
There is no central gas supplies... neither is there any central water heatings... everytime when the gas tank runs out, a call is made to order an additional tank. and before the person step into the house, he will yell out "GAS LAI LOHH~~!!" (Gas come already)
Now:
Although gas tanking is still pretty common, there is no such cute yellings liaox. and almost every house have at least a water heater.

Well... before i knew it, i had actually typed out SOOOOO much!!! there is some others actually... Does all these make u think back of the past? I wonder... How do we survive our childhood in the past? isnt it sweet? hmmm... so much for now..

Out!