new age kids

kids are so lucky nowadays.

im not trying to act old or anything...i wont ever want to.
but i'm sure most of you can relate to what i mean.

10 years ago (gosh this feels old), the only gaming device i've encountered was what, a gameboy?
my parents wouldn't buy me one...i only got a chance to play with it every sat, where my relatives would all gather at my grandparents and i'll snatch it from my older cousin.

i can't rmb exactly when, but he didn't even have gameboy colour at that time.
once, he asked my aunt to buy him a "cartridge"...i said i wanted one too.
he laughed at me and said, "what for? you dun even own a gameboy..."

i guess i was too young to know what a cartridge was.


oh i rmb there's an even older gaming device.
i do not know it's name...but it's black and white too.
and there are similar controls to a gameboy i think...the up-down-left-right button etc.
but there are only a few games in there...one of them being tetris.
i think it's still available in those value$ stores.


but nowadays, if you walk past a primary school, no one would be surprise if they are playing iphone games.
it evolved from gameboy to gameboy colour/ advanced/ sp then came the playstation 1/2/3/p then xbox and what's the latest? wii?

i can't even keep up. ok i guess i do not keep up cos i know my parents would never give in and buy us one.
imagine how "cool" i was in school.
i wouldn't have anything to add if my classmates are talking about games. i do not game at all.
not even today. except maybe tetris on fb and viwawa. not to forget neopets too.
i've played lan only twice? cs and l4d.
kept screaming cos it's damn scary to get killed suddenly.


but i guess it was a good thing. while people were wasting their money buying acash for maple/audition, i watched dramas online for free.
i've a classmate who spent over a thousand sgd on maple.
how many meals i'd have to skip to save that amt.


i've also gotten sick of seeing kids throwing tantrums in the toys department so their parents would relent and buy them the toys they fancy.
such brats! i might have pulled that stunt once or twice when i was younger, a few times succeeding while majority of the time, i'd have successfully landed myself a beating at home.
but as i grew older, i gained some smarticles and a sister too.
so whenever i wanted something, i'd just entice her with it so she'll be the one asking my parents to purchase it instead.
and she, being the youngest and the only daughter, gets pampered the most and gets what she wants most of the time.


i guess i really cant compare my childhood with the one kids are having these days.
the amount spent on their contraption can seriously last me a month of food...or perhaps a few trips down orchard.
but of course, if i were to compare my childhood to that of the sixties etc, it'll appear much better off too.