Hear n’ There

Went to a beach last night which is quite close to the hostel where we  live.  Varun, Muzzu, Nishant, Benji, Niaz and Jake reached there before me and cartoons were being dramatically discussed. Eight eighteen year olds not talking about Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham or David Beckham; the Iraq war or how American capitalism sucks or engine failures in F1 but cartoons of all things! Since I entered the discussion late I had no idea how it started but all sorts of cartoon names and characters were being tossed around. ‘Do you remember Swat Cats? ‘Yeah came right after Centurions‘ ‘Heck, the flying guy there was my favourite’.  Captain Planet (He is the hero), Caveman, Moby Dick, were the group of toons for the starters. Then the next course included Dexter’s Laboratory, Popeye, Power Puff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Jetsons, Flinstones, Richie Rich and others.

Yeah the bunch of programs which were on Zee TV followed. Ducktales, Tailspin, Gummy Bears, Chip n’ Dale, Little Mermaid. Then there was the Sony-time. Bewitched, I dream of Genie (or something like that), Dennis the Menace (Did I spell that right? I am sure could have done that the correctly about ten years back )  Phew! Finally the Cartoon part ended with the Small Wonder’s episode where there is another robot guy and singing of the title song by me. How Disney channel sucks and how Cartoon Network has screwed things up by creating kid-zones and dad-zones….

You would think that all this would be enough; discussing Superman’s love interest along-with Batman’s lack of ’Super-Hero’ skills and our favourite character; but we had just started. Then there was this discussion how Prince of Persia and Alladin had similar themes and story lines. ‘Shift + L ‘ was a cheat to get to the next level. Of course Road-Rash’s ‘XYZZYSPOON[shift+1]’ Nitro Boost was way cooler, though no general consensus could be reached on whether Sierra Nevada was a better map than City.  After wondering why Road-Rash 1,2,3,4,5,6, 6 Special Edition did not come out we moved on to other games. There was Dave and there was Pac-Man and Wolf-3D was plain kick ass! Could the video games be left out? Contra ( Does anyone even have a count how many different types of them are there? ), Mario ( Hmmm. What’s the last level in that? ) and that racing game where you change lanes (with oil slicks and fuel stations) and so many others.

It is hard to be your age. So much harder to behave like you are ten years older, but so much easier to behave like you are ten. That was pure concentrated fun. Now the word undiluted only reminds me of Acids and Bases. How Dexter was so cool that I wanted to be a scientist (Or was it that I wanted to be a scientist and I liked Dexter’s). Those two hours were fultoosh fun. Reminding that I used to come from school and eat my food for at-least 90 minutes so that Mom wouldn’t ask me to go and sleep and hence I would be able to watch TV. I made sure my drawing classes were after 7:00 pm so that I could watch those cartoons. It was a nice change from talking about performance hungry games whose graphics look lame the next year; and which themselves end up in the thrash-can three days after you install them. I said it was easy to behave like a ten year old but impossible to be one.

 Just then someone’s Mom calls and tells him to improve his grades. Yeah and yeah then we all had this thing  about responsibility, expectations, capabilities, happiness, careers and of course - money. Things which are no fun to write about. About which you already read, hear and talk all the time.  The bubble burst. It always does, that is why it is called a bubble.

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