Chalo lekar apni Tobu Cycle. Welcome.
When Gold Spot was the zing thing, Rabbit was a sythentic gum, Pepsi Cola was flavoured ice in a little cylindrial plastic bag, Made In India was a hit song, Kachh-limbu was the kid who was weak at sports, Chacha Choudhary's brain was faster than a computer and Mithunda was a hero....that was the time I grew up in...the 80s and 90s.
This blog is basically a compilation of my childhood days, a lot of which is inspired by articles, blogs, web sites, forums, music and photographs of the 80s and 90s that I have been come across over the last couple of years.
I've been reminded of so many interesting tidbits of those times and always thought of putting all those memories down in one place. This is the beginning of what I hope becomes....well i don't know what....probably just a trip down memory lane, to start with.
Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.
-The Wonder Years (TV Series)
When Gold Spot was the zing thing, Rabbit was a sythentic gum, Pepsi Cola was flavoured ice in a little cylindrial plastic bag, Made In India was a hit song, Kachh-limbu was the kid who was weak at sports, Chacha Choudhary's brain was faster than a computer and Mithunda was a hero....that was the time I grew up in...the 80s and 90s.
This blog is basically a compilation of my childhood days, a lot of which is inspired by articles, blogs, web sites, forums, music and photographs of the 80s and 90s that I have been come across over the last couple of years.
I've been reminded of so many interesting tidbits of those times and always thought of putting all those memories down in one place. This is the beginning of what I hope becomes....well i don't know what....probably just a trip down memory lane, to start with.
Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.
-The Wonder Years (TV Series)
posted by HawaHawaii at 3:25 PM
28 Comments:
Also, a common player in cricket was the guy who got to bat frm both sides...ironically, no one liked being the common player cuz that meant u sucked at the game!
nice blog!! ha ha!
just today i was thinking of buying a music cassette of Faana and how in the golden days like an idiot used to buy EVERY music casssette that hit the market! :)
btw, even i have that Dil , Aashiqui music cassette with Jhankaar Beats :p
who says we grew up?
i never did ... :-)
A. im an electronics engineer
B. i remember the ad fondly , jus asked outta curiosity as to whether u identified wid dat cute lil kid in da ad ..
may u never grow up ... ever
KEEP ON BLOGGING IN THE FREE WORLD
Hey mate!! great blog this.. one of my friend refered me to this site and i loved the concept!!! Keep blogging....
wish to talk to u on a few things... here is my id: maneesh.nitt@gmail.com
hit back... seems it will be fun to talk to u... esp. after i saw ur orkut profile...
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@ maneesh - whatever are the few things that you wish to talk about you can mail them to me on my email id given in post no. 2 of this blog.
Man ya site rocks...80s/90s rocked bigtime...ur blog jus brought some bitter sweet memories back.
dude u should mention abt dd serials esp ones like Giant Robot..and Sigma (indian star wars) and also abt superhit hit trax by hasan jahangir /dr.alban..
man i can go on and on....
anyway XLNT BLOG. CTRL D
Deepak Nair
poetic.ammo@gmail.com
blackwash.cjb.net
@blackwash - thanks for visiting my blog. read post no. 2, i've mentioned about DD serials and why I left them out. also read post 3 (90s dance music), you'll find Dr. Alban there :)
you are way too good, and though I know U hate hearin this... but I am having kind of crush on U.... LoL
*NO OFFENCES*
Jokes apart(none of the above is a JOKE)..Your blog is a beautiful journey to our childhood(i dare say our bcoz i was child in the same time period).... Keep Posting... God Bless You!!!
hehehaoouuaaaa......
Consolidated congrats for all posts ,I could just read the first few actually, which actually is not bad since I read all the posts in the Orkut group for Ms. Henderson... and which is where I got here from... and I dont know how i got there..
lol a little more, I jus remebered the 'Khaled' cassette i bought for FORTY bucks.. to never listen to it again..
puneet is burgeoning by the day
puneet is unable to > compete
puneet is a member of uash
puneet is damn handsome
puneet is behind the murder
puneet is gay (How I wish !!)
puneet is sleep
puneet is around
puneet is a darling
puneet is winnie kamal ?!
love, peace. (maybe some weed too.. he he)
the changes have been administered...please accept my humble apologies for disregarding the detailed analysis of the english dictionary as conducted by your modest self.Further correspondence will be dealt with urgency and future inclusions for the blog will be approved by your modest self....haha...i cant believe i wrote this shit...
Don't know if I mentioned that the two cute kids in the Tobu Cyclein ads were shaan and sagarika...
really?? damn i want to see the ad again! i had a huge crush on shaan until he began appearing on the horror of a tv show called saregama
why there are no new posts for such a long time... u should know that we positively wait for them.... :)
hi...who is this???
u are of course welcome to visit my blog at any point and leave comments..but i like to know who visited...is this aditi from ethi?
This is very disappointing to find no more addition to this very intersting blog...
Hi Aditi.....
Amazin blogs..........I so relate to them.......thoroughly enjoyed your site........i mean its been ages since i saw phantom ciggies and the other stuff you've written about...being a bombayite myself and having lived in Ahmdbad for 2 years (teenage) in between. Need a favour....could you give me/email the lyrics for Aa beena, super sina, bing bong, lazy girl.... and
Uma Joshi ye ye ye, my mother she told me a sixty years ago...... please?
I used to love these songs but can't get hold of the words...
Thanks,
Bunny.
bunnyluv_7@hotmail.com
Hey Complan Girl!
Great blog, although I was a bournvita boy myself. also thank you for saying such nice things about my site. ;-)
I chanced on your blog while researching music videos from the 90s. I enjoyed it, your memory's very detailed :)
I too am around the same age as you are .. I was born in 1981 in Pune. It almost brought a tear to my eyes reading some of the posts and relating with a lot of things that have happened since "I grew up".
Keep blogging, it brings many a memories back.
i dont know you but somehow i guess i relate to you, u tag line of tobu cycle is used till date by me as it is too irresistable to forget, and so are so many other things, imagine using the smae tagline in front of a group of vp's :) anyways keep up the good work.
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hehe!!.. i grew up in New Delhi around the 90's.And all the stuff including the DD shows and the bus waale bhaiyas that u have talked about brings back those nostalgic memories.One thing I distinctly remember that got really popular was "Tandarusti ki Rakshaa Karta Hai Lifebuoy ___________(fill in the blanks)".Not sure if anyone is cheap and (un)classy enough to remember "raj comics", super commando dhruv and nagraaj. And also if people can still recall the title song of "jungle Book",Sunday 10 Am, everything used to come to standstill in my "colony" and when sometimes they wouldn't show it cos some stupid cricket game was on, me and my friends would complain while playing cricket ourselves in a place we used to called "gallery" for no particular reason(it was just some vacant space that seperated one block of flats from another).We would only complain for a little while until someone's mom would shout out, betaa!! ghar aa jaao, India ki batting aa gayi hai.
Hi,
nice blog..you write very well...i could relate myself to most of what you mentioned here...
Haha growing up in the 80s & 90s wasn't that bad if seen in retrospect...we all get nostalgic :) Lovely blog...brilliant posts...will be a regular visitor now on... well even I blog on similar topics at regular intervals though...present also needs some mentions sometimes ;)
Thank you all for the comments! I know I haven't updated this blog in AGES.. but please do keep commenting and adding your memories.. I get very thrilled when I open my inbox and see wonderful comments still coming in even though I haven't put up a post in a long long long time!! :)
I promise I will update it soon..no guarantee when.. but I will :)
Do keep coming back whenever you need to go down memory lane!
I can Just say one this for this blog!! It Really Rockz!! I just love the originality of this blog!!
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