If there was ever a league in moping, i’d definitely come out on top today. It’s the perfect weather to stay at home and facebook, tweet, catch up on some online shopping and write a post or two. Blisss! :P

So for a while now, i’ve been contemplating reclaiming lost treasures from my childhood. Sometimes, parents just do the most childish things and get rid of your stuff without telling you. Sometimes they give them away to a distant cousin or maybe toss it into the charity bag. Bottom line is by the time you end up realizing that you are missing your stuff, its usually twenty years later on a gloomy cloudy day like today. You are lost in your thoughts waiting for your girlfriend to call on Skype and suddenly the moment of euphoria dawns upon you followed by a reminiscing smile as you spot on etsy the exact same item you used to own as a child. Written next to it in medium bold – Now available for a limited time only for 15$. Shipping within 6 working days! Kachhing!! 

Oh how beautiful that feeling :) Ladies! (this one in particular) – a word of advice. Boys love their toys (take it as you like it) :P So scavenging through the deepest crevices of my memory bank, etsy, amazon and by the power of Google i compiled the following list of my sheer yearning delight. Hope you find joy in my memories too.

The Classic ViewMaster. I used to have one of these red ones with a reel of images from Paris and Rome. I still remember being mesmerized by the millions of windows on the Colosseum and the tiny people walking in and around the Eiffel Tower.

The Sony Walkman from the ‘My first Sony’ series. This was my favorite thing in the whole world. On the reverse side of the walkman, you could see the inner workings, cogs and springs of this wonderful music machine. Countless hours of Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Michael Jackson and Mix Tapes on repeat.

My first ever Atari console. Countless hours of fun. Summer vacation hours spent wide eyed in front of the tele with a joystick in hand (you perverts! i know what your’e thinking :P )

The infamous ‘Tip and Strip’ Pen. I vividly remember how this item alone turned the class geek into a class hero. Nothing like a pair of boobies to get the attention of impressionable minds :P

The Vintage Flik Flak 1988 Quartz. One of my favorites that mysteriously disappeared while moving house :(

This blog has seen its fair share of inactivity and has been subject to periodic bursts of inspiration, mood swings and heartbreaks. All this while it has been made empty promises to be written to more regularly and all along hopeful assumptions have been made that there may still be a soul or two that still visit this familiar place :P This blog.Current Population: ‘us’

Think its time i come to terms with the fact that i am only going to post stuff here when i fear coming across as too presumptuous on Facebook and/or when i feel like ranting to myself and/or when i just feel the need to periodically document the events of my life in the hope that perhaps one day an offspring will find it magical to bask in the revelation that his/her procreator was just trying to figure out life as it happened.

So that brings me to the present. Toronto Toronto Toronto. Love the city. Love its energy. More over love the fact that almost everyone is happy in their constant Diaspora state of mind. They all speak with an accent! Mom! No more mockery or mimicry of how my r’s roll or my a’s last longer. i feel at home! (so far)