CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE1940's, 50's, and early 60'sFirst, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate century eggs, salted fish, salt eggs and bean Curb, raw egg products, Sardines sliced pork from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
We never washed hands and never had soap for hand washing and had never heard of SARS, HiN1, HiN2 or H1NN!!
We eat cockroaches, spider, swallowed new borne mice… we did no get stomach trouble.
We go beach learning swimming alone, we did not get drowned, I Went to Kowloon City to watch the drugs addicts on how to “take” their opium and heroin, and I did not get on it.
We ate rice with lark and soya sauce in winter, a lot of eggs, but seem we had no cholesterol problem. Probably we did not have KFC, MacDonald, Pizza Hut, or Burger King too much at that time.
We ate butter not plastic as we put a lot of butter onto the bread, a lot of sugar into the milk tea but we did not have any diabetes. May be we had a lot of walking and a lot of sweat all day outside the house.
I walked to School everyday about loom from Ngai Tau kok to Mongkok Queen Elizabeth School in order to save 40 cents to buy toys, only till now I know that was a great training to my heart and cardiac system.
As children, we would hardly have experienced ride in cars at all till I was 20, we had not seen any car accidents as we had no air bags.
We drank water from the park hose and NOT from a bottle. As we did not buy water in bottle in that time, No one I know bought water, we went to toilet in the park and drink like a fish after the game.
As I did not know what Supermarket or Seven Eleven as we did not have. Only we could go home for boiled water. That took half an hour on foot.
We ate a lot of moon cakes, no one stops us and no one get problem after the moon cake, Nowadays, no one can afford to take 2 double yolk Moon cake a day We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight.
because......WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our hand made go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the road at Caine Road, only to use our foot as the brakes. We went up hill catching spider for collection, never afraid of being bite.
We went to the Big World Cinema for watching movie at HKD0.2 a movie Sunday Morning. I can still remember all the stories of the movie, though it was black and white but we find a lot of excitement. Now you can watch any movie at home VOD, of DVD, but seems that is too easy to get and too easy to forget!
We did not have Play stations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no video/dvd films, No mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside to the gathering places and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were noLawsuits from these accidents.We eat a lot of oily stuff in the Chinese New Year but never filled enough, we were hungry as we played a lot.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
We went to Peddler Street to watch other school girls real underwear and bet the colour for ten cents, Not like those stupid chap that watch it on the monitor sceen on internet...nowadays!
We poured water and stuffed used battery cells into cars exhaust pipe and watched from far and see how the water jet and smokes would be generated! Especial treat to thought who drove a big car with a Star in the front.
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like Chloe, Kitty, Yuki Victoria…but father in church assigned us names with Peter, Paul, Mary and Sandy!
Mother went to church for milk powder and raised a family of 2 boys and two girls! We did not feel shame as that was very Delicious milk drinks.
We had public exams and we had no one go for suicide for unexpected result. I was happy to go for technical school as I did not feel shame not able to enter The University of Hong Kong and programmed to be lawyers, Doctor and or Architect after three years.
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
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