Life Was A Dream When I Was Young
Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
by Hilda Cang
When I was young I'd listen to the radio, waiting for my favorite songs, when they played I'd sing along, it made me smile. Those were such happy times and not so long ago, how I wondered where they'd gone. But they're back again, like a long lost friend, all the songs I loved so well................................
This is one of my all and old time favorite songs by The Carpenters. Back then, I would listen constantly to my favorite songs on my radio. Radio was a means of entertainment or pastime if you didn't have a black and white TV. Color screen was not on the menu yet.
Life then was really simple but not as uninteresting. There were lots of things and games to do and play. Just that it was not as technologically advanced as today. When you don't have a computer, you will make use of the library and the post office to communicate with others. Some houses didn't have phone line so no land telephone or TV was a common thing to most people back then, when I was young.
In the 1970's, We enjoyed writing pen pals letters when we were students until a photo had been exchanged and each found out the looks were not so pleasing to the eyes of another ( just a blank guess ) the reply would stop gradually.
However, one ridiculous incident remains in my memory when I turned 18 that year, shortly after my final year exam. Lilian, ( even the name belongs to the 1970's ) one of my good friends and classmates who hailed from Hong Kong with her family to settle here, said to me one day. " Hey, my distant cousin brother is interested in you. he said you can be friends first. " I said " what are you talking about ? " She said "actually, he's looking for a wife. He likes you. "
OMG ! I almost dropped to a coma. Me ? A wife ? Never heard of. I was just 18. My mind was full of future dreams, future unknown strangers to get to know and to fall in love with, places to see and explore elsewhere. But this man just downsizing me by creating a nasty illusion. What was he thinking anyway ? Me to be his WIFE, out of the blue ? My mother must be terrified especially when I still had 2 unmarried elder sisters and 2 unmarried older brothers.
My friend Lilian deliberately arranged a date to meet so I was miserable the whole afternoon when that guy took several pictures of us together at the park on a famous hill. ( as a farewell token ) I never heard of him anymore after this. He had received the message.
So, those were the days when I was young. I couldn't possibly write the whole lot of events or development of the town in a jiff but one thing for sure is, we are blessed to be living to this time, surrounded with friends from around other parts of the world, easily connected in the comfort of our homes by one click of the keyboard, and it's done !
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Great that you knew what you wanted.Haha.... Elle, Thanks for your comment and read. We belonged to that era and I have read other writers' articles, what I found was there were similarities to one another's environment in those days.
Yes Hilda, we seem to cling to memories of our past.haha... David, some past really hurt while some didn't. I choose to let go if possible.
Nice of you to drop by.
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