Something You should have a look at :)
Shantanu Shrivastava
Hi Everyone,
First of all Sorry for sending a forward on this mailing list. But I thought maybe you guys can relate to it :) .
I'm not really a fan of forwarded mails or smses, but came across the following list on such a mail and just had to share it. You'll understand why if you grew up during the 90s :
1) You know the words to ‘In-pin-safety-pin’ and ‘akkad-bakkad’ by heart
2) Cricket is almost a religion for you, and you idolize at least one of Rahul Dravid/Sachin Tendulkar/Saurav Ganguly
3) You have read at least some Chacha Chaudhary or Tinkle comics
4) You’ve watched Shaktimaan on TV at least once in your life. And you can
immediately recognize the character when you see him.
5) You have some ‘NRI’ relatives.
6) You couldn’t wait for it to be December so you could have the Toblerone
chocolates your NRI relatives brought you
7) You watched Cartoon Network, and then the late night movies on TNT that came
after Cartoon Network ended.
8) You watched corny dubbed versions of Small Wonder, Silver Spoon, and I Dream
of Jeanie
9) You were THRILLED when McDonald’s opened in your neighborhood (or even eight
kilometers away)
10) A visit to Pizza Hut used to mean a special treat
11) You have seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun at least 5 times
each
12) You still remember the theme song of Hum Paanch. (Hum Paanch, Pam Pam Pam
Paanch!)
13) You have played hours upon hour of running and catching, chor-police,
lagori, saankli, ‘Doctor, doctor, help us!’, ‘Lock and key’
14) You have seen girls play ‘Amina Super Sina’ more times than you can
remember. (And you still don’t know what it means!)
15) Dog ‘in’ the bone was your favorite co-ed game.
16) Much of your free time in school was spent playing UNO.
17) You collected trump cards of wrestlers, cricketers, and airplanes, and did
not quite understand why your younger siblings were obsessed with Pokemon and
the other Japanese trends that followed.
18) Your summer vacations were often synonymous with visiting your grandparents
or cousins
19) Your parents, at some point, told you ‘Dark Room’ was a bad game to play.
But you still loved playing it.
20) Bole mere lips, I love uncle Chips!
21) You know the song ‘Made in India’ by Alisha Chinai
22) You have seen many many many episodes of ‘Antakshari’ on Zee TV and know
the only thing constant in the show is Annu Kapoor.
23) Many evenings have been spent watching little kids gyrate vulgarly on
Boogie Woogie on Sony.
24) You were the coolest thing in class if you had a computer in your house
while it was still the 90s.
25) You learnt LOGO and BASIC in school!
26) You couldn’t wait to start 4th standard so you could start writing with
PENS instead of with pencils!
27) You often used terms and phrases like ‘two-say’, ‘same to you, back to you,
with no returns’, and ‘shame shame, puppy shame, all the donkeys know your
name.’
28) You most probably saw Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge at the cinema at least
once. You also fantasized about singing songs in mustard fields as in the
movie.
29) You have seen David Dhawan and Govinda movies and laughed at them.
31) You have said ‘haw’ or ‘yuck’ when you saw people kissing in English
movies. (nowadays kids are used to it!)
30) Titanic was your FIRST favourite english movie.
31) You thought seeing English movies and speaking English made you the coolest
thing ever.
32) You remember the Gujarat earthquake very clearly and could possibly tell
everyone EXACTLY what you were doing when the earthquake occurred (yes, this
happened in 2001, January 26, 2001, to be exact — but this group is about the
things that Indian kids that GREW UP in the 90s remember and identify with).
33) Barbies for girls, and GI Joes for boys were the ultimate status symbols.
You just wanted more more more and more. And how can I forget Hot Wheels, for
both boys and girls?
34) You thought ‘imported’ clothes were definitely way better than ‘made in
India’ clothes (never mind that a lot of clothes brought from overseas by NRI
relatives were actually made in India, before ‘Made in China’ started appearing
on EVERY existing thing)
35) "Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai Pata Chala Hai! Chaddi Pehen Ke Phool
Khila Hai Phool Khila Hai!" You watched "The Jungle Book" every
Sunday morning at 9.a.m" and just loved mowgli, bhalu and bagheera. A few
years later, you watched Disney Hour, which had cartoons like Aladdin, Gummy
Bears, Tail Spin, Uncle Scrooge!
36) At some point or other, cool was your favourite, and therefore, most
overused word.
37) Captain Planet was your first introduction to environmental consciousness.
38) You have tried to convince people around you to not burst crackers on Diwali,
and then gone straight back home and burst them yourself.
39) You have had endless packets of Parle Gluco G biscuits, and of Brittania
Little Hearts biscuits.
40) You loved licking off the cream from the centre of Bourbon biscuits.
41) There were no Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Puma- Bata and Liberty was the way to
go for your sports shoes.
42) You have probably consumed more Frooti in your lifetime than there is oil
in Iraq.
43) You watched Baywatch on Star World when nobody was home even though (or
because) your parents said you shouldn’t watch it.
44) You bought packets of potato chips for the specific purpose of collecting
Tazos. And you had Tazos depicting everyone from Confucius to Daffy Duck to
Daffy Duck dressed as Confucius.
45) For the longest time, the Maruti 800, the Premier Padmini, THE Fiat, and
THE Ambassador were the only cars you saw on the road, and the Contessa was
cool because it was bigger.
46) You would literally jump up in excitement if you ever chanced upon an
imported car (Oh my gosh, is that really a MERCEDES?)!
47) You spent a good part of 1998 drooling over the Hyundai Santro and the
Daewoo Matiz , debating which one was better.
48) You used to Fuzen gum. You also chewed Big (big) Babool and/or Boom Boom
Boomer chewing gum. They were bright pink and disgusting tasting, but you loved
them for the temporary tattoos.
49) Talking of temporary tattoos, you sometimes had contests with your
classmates about who had more tattoos on their arm, leg, knee, hand, forehead,
wherever.
50) You thought Mario and Contra were the coolest things ever invented,
especially if you were a boy.
51) You knew that having the latest Hero or Atlas bicycle would make you the
coolest kid on the block.
52) You can imitate Sushmita Sen’s winning gasp to perfection.
53) You have, at some point of time, worn GAP clothes (real or fake) like SRK
in KKHH.
54) Seemingly senseless acronyms like SRK, DDLJ, DTPH, KKHH actually make sense
to you..
55) You have at some point debated who was more beautiful- Aishwarya or Sushmita.
56) Baskin Robbins ice-cream was THE thing to have!
57) You know what Campa Cola is. And you also knew that Coca Cola was THE
drink.
58) You would watch WWF keenly every evening/afternoon and loved Bret Hart
"Hitman"! really thought Undertaker had seven lives and he made an
“actual” appearance in the Akshay Kumar- starrer Khiladiyon ka Khiladi.
59) When all backpacks (or ’schoolbags’) and water bottles and tiffin boxes had
strange cartoon characters that were hybrid versions of seven or eight
different characters, and you still bought them, because a green man wih a
water pistol, boots, a jet-pack, Johnny bravo hair, a rajasthani mustache,
gloves, and underwear (long johns) over his pants, called ‘Mr. X’ was OBVIOUSLY
a status symbol.
60) You remember the Nirma tikia jingle.
61) You remember the Nirma girl.
62) You remember the ‘doodh doodh piyo glass full doodh’ ad and also the ‘laal
kaala peela, gulabi hara neela classic hai badia bristles wala’ and 'roz khao
ande' ads.
63) You grew up reading, if you read at all, some or all of Nancy Drews, Enid
Blyton books, Hardy Boys, Babysitters Club, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley
series, Judy Blumes, and Tintin, or Archie comics. Because naturally, reading
foreign authors made you much cooler than reading Tinkle.
64) Towards the late 90s (1998-99) at least some of us started our Harry Potter
obsessions!
65) You absolutely HAD to go to Essel World if you were with cousins! “Essel
World mein rahoonga main, ghar nahin nahin jaaonga main!” (I never went but
always dreamed of going there!)
66) You watched the Bournvita Quiz contest on TV pretty religiously. The
smarter ones amongst you actually took part in it and had your entire school
and your entire extended families watch you on it!
67) Maggi 2 Minute Noodles = ultimate snack (and tiffin, lunch, dinner)!
68) If you grew up in the early 90s, you recall the nation’s obsession with
Mahabharata on TV
69) In the later 90s, you religiously followed Hip Hip Hooray on Zee. Maybe
Just Mohabbat on Sony too
70) You remember parzan dastur sayin "JALEBI!!!!" in the Dhara Ad
71) You eagerly awaited Friendship Day, so you could give friendship bands to
all your friends, and get bands from them in return. Then, of course, those
with the most bands loved to show them off.
72) Backstreet Boys' "Quit Playing Games" was one of the first
english songs that you LOVED!
73) Andaz Apna Apna is and most probably will always be your favourite comedy
flick!! "Aila Jhakaas!!!"
74) This list made you smile.
And I miss that age, it was sooo awesome!
BTW This has been taken from a blog :-
guess an achievement.
