Forward This!

You know you’re a kid of the 80’s in the Philippines when…

1.) You have scars on your knees and elbows
2.) You owned a bike
3.) You had a barkada around your neighborhood (all of you had bikes)
4.) You loved climbing on your house’s roof (and your neighbor’s roof as well)
5.) You went inside an abandoned house in your neighborhood just to it looks like inside
6.) You ate all the aratilis in your neighborhood
7.) You plucked all the Gumamelas in the area for soap bubbles
8.) Your parents forced you to take afternoon siestas with the threat that you will not be allowed to play outside.
9.) You are never found in your house in the afternoon. You are often found playing in the street with your neighborhood friends.
10.) You loved exploring vacant lots for hidden knick-knacks
11.) You just can’t resist jumping in a sand pile
12.) You know all the street games (Patintero, Agawan-base, Langit-lupa, etc.)
13.) You owned a family computer
14.) Your hand-to-eye coordination is terrific due to family computer
15.) You’d rather go outdoors in the afternoon than play family computer

16.) You gleefully boast that games today are so easy because of the character’s life bar (remember when we used to play Mario? we died the minute a goomba hit us)
17.) You know this code by heart UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A-B-A-START (select-start for 2 players)
18.) You owned a superhero costume (especially a superman costume)
19.) For the girls: You dressed up like Punky Brewster, Madonna and Debbie Gibson; For the boys: You dressed up like David Hasselhoff’s knight rider, David Bowie or had Clarke Kent’s little bangs. And now you think that the 80’s had the suckiest dress sense.
20.) You had a denim jacket
21.) You had a sticker book especially that Age of Dinosaurs sticker book.
22.) You were addicted to rainbow brite, carebears, my little pony, thundercats, bioman, voltes v, mazinger z, daimos, etc.
23.) You played pc games like tapper, moonbugs, alley cat and prince of persia.
24.) Ms. Word did not exist in your vocabulary but Wordstar did!
25.) You love 80’s music even if you don’t want to admit it.
26.) You’ve climbed up mango trees to catch salagubang, tie a string around its neck and let it fly around in frenzy
27.) You’ve spent hours in the afternoon catching tutubi…yellow-green red being a rare breed
28.) You used to take Flinstones vitamins (which you didn’t mind ’cause it was yummy) and Cod liver oil
29.) You know the cartoon show, Beverly Hills Teens
30.) You know Kuya Bodgie from Batibot

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