Johann Low

水曜日, 8月 11, 2004

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Why do people have a distinctive liking for old things especially things which trigger back memories of their childhood ? The feeling of nostalgia, how can one explain it ? Old things are always better, the past always seem to be better. Recently when I listen to the radio, I find the songs played from FM958 are nicer than those "yoyoyo,check it out, yo check it out man, yo du teo gui du teo gui" hip hop rap which almost every Taiwanese and HK singer wanna imitate - Think Chen Xiao Chun who went hippy hop, wearing ultra baggy pants singing hiccup hop shit.Some of the mid eighties or early nineties songs really can bring back fond memories or trigger a series of emotions. I could almost felt how it was like when I was in pri sch, doing those revision
workbooks while my dad played the radio.

The touch of quietness, peace while the music played suddenly resurfaced, as if I am brought back to a time of innocence, where my world only revolves homework, grades and probably nothing else. Life was simply and could not be simpler enough. songs of the early nineties brought back memories of my sec sch days.

Days when every Sat I will be going to my grandma's house. Every Sat evening my dad will fetch my cousins home.The trip when I will sit at the front seat, switching radio stations,sometimes while the wind is blowing through the front window and the music playing from the radio. I miss the peace and quiteness - so much. I certainly miss the days when my grandma was still alive,how lively her terrace house would be like
during Chinese New Year, how my cousins and I would be playing together, lighting mini fireworks, laughing,making noise and jolly. I missed the Saturdays afternoon when I will be taking 165 or 166 from AMK interchange to her house in Thomson, how I alighted from that bus stop, how I would cross the over head bridge to the ex Yao Han (Thomson plaza). How I walked up the slope, how I would pass my ex-"neighbours", how I would
walk pass the house where lived a little gal whom I always held her hand when I was in kindergarden when returning to my grandma's house. (I just heard she would be getting engaged this year) How i would walk pass the house where lived a gal whom I always fought with when I was in kindergarden.

How the old rusty gate would sound when I opened the gate. How the little puppy would scurry around me, how I would envy my cousins when they bought new gadgets or new computers. How would I have A Maths tuition from my cousin when I was in Sec 3.I kinda missed my late grandma's dishes,like her dark soy sauced fatty pork, her mian fen guo. Yes my grandma cooked mian fen guo,not sure who invented it but there was virtually no such stalls then.Older things are better and they often last longer. Back in AMK, we were still watching a over 15 year old Sierra color TV,70s cabinet style. TVs of those type were considered the plasma equilevent
today? haha..

My mum's National rice cooker is still working since 1979. My mum's small TDK fan is still churning wind since 1985. My lousy Phillips stand fan could not even last 5 years.I guess some people prefer nostalgic stuff because they bring back fond memories of the good times they once had. Its their feelings they have for such objects, the objects which they associate with since they were young. Its probably is the same for me and maybe for everyone else.

Now are the days of Jay Chou,Sun Yanzi, David Tao, S.H.E, F.I.R, Ayumi Hamasaki,Jolin Tsai. Who still remember the 4 Heavenly Kings,The Grasshoppers,Wu Qi Xian ?

elow at 12:33 午前 |

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