We are the 'uncle' generation

Today we went to eat out at a restaurant. There were a lot of kids at the place. My friend spotted a kid who was playing with the window curtains. At the end of the curtains were these small 'pom poms'. The kid was taking great pleasure by hitting his dad around the head with these. From our side we took great pleasure in watching this scenario and laughing our asses off. The boy's dad didnt seem to mind and my friend RAA asked me, whether I ever....ever.... had the balls to hit my dad on the head or anywhere for that matter, playfully or forcefully whatsoever !! I replied in the negative and RAA commented that if he ever showed the kind of 'arrogance' the kid was showing....his dad would've trashed him to his right senses !!! Not that I mean to be an uncle lending out wise words...but it just so happens that things are quite different from what they were when we were kids. You might argue that how we were was different from what our parents were when they were young also...but again it so happens that we are closer in mannerisms and obedience traits with our earlier generation than the kids today will be with us. Our world was quite simple. Go to school, listen to the teachers, or dont listen to them, they yell at you, even hit you if you go to the extreme of 'misbehaving'. And then kids crying their eyes out. Either from the physical pain of the hit or from the prick of the conscience !!! Lessons in life were learnt this way. Come recess and it was time to play and eat our tiffins. Not many of us had money to buy from the canteen. We ate from our tiffins. Whenever we craved for change, we ate from other's tiffins !! It was common for teachers to pass the lid of a tiffin around in class, so that every one would put something in it....and give it to a kid who had forgotten his. When school was over, we went home, ate whatever food mom gave us and went out to play. It was outdoor games all the time in the evening. We didnt sit in front of PS2s and xboxes all evening, although we might have enjoyed some afternoon sessions of video games and computer games, during summer holidays at someone who was 'privileged' enough to own a nintendo, atari or a sony 'box'. For those familiar with the TV games terminology, a 10 in 1 game cartridge used to cost around 200 bucks and the ones who had these games had to beg their parents for a new cartridge...who in turn used to tell them, how lucky they were to get the box itself and how one should be satisfied with the existing games that were bought for them. After the evening outdoor games like cricket, football, kho kho, catch and cook, poison medicine, hide and seek etc., we went home and had our dinner. My dad used to come late and when he did come home, he used to wear a very 'forbidding' look on his face. That look on his face was enough to drive us to our obedient best. The memory of that face was enough to scare us, whenever mom threatened to tell our 'deeds' to dad when we had misbehaved anytime during the day !!! We respected our parents and sure as hell, we were scared of them too !! At night we slept, comfortable with the knowledge that our parents were the world for us, and would keep us secure. There was no 'strong sense of independence' the kids of today have !! We were simple as kids, ready to be led in this big bad world, by our parents. After reliving all these memories, it seems almost unbelievable, that this kid had the 'audacity' to hit his father playfully !!!

Life in a Roller coaster !!

Recently went to Esselworld amusement park. Had a lot of fun...sat a lot of rides. Ones that go up and down...
ones that take you to the top of the world...
ones that make you go round and round....
ones that splash you with water....

The best part for me, will always be...the roller coasters...Exciting little rail carts...make you scream and shout...and give you a thrill of a lifetime...initially you are full of anticipation as the cart slowly starts of...then you are full of awe...at the height it gains....you start to wonder when it'll start giving you the thrill. Meanwhile it reaches its apex...you see the rails in front of you....declining sharply...the car seems to pause for a moment....and then....you r never prepared for what happens next...the coaster plunges down at breakneck speed and takes the following incline with equal speed.....you feel the exhilaration and can barely stop yourself from screaming....from excitement...of fear, of pure adrenaline rush or 'simply' from the odd unrecognized feeling of extremeness that it gives you !!.
The coaster then quietens down again....then thunders down another loop...darts around on a banked circle...zips past a loop...in which you're going to go round and upside down....comes to a top point again...and then just when you start feeling that the ride is getting old now ....it plunges down again....but the loop is ahead....so instead of slowing down after its plunge....it accelerates terrifically and takes you inside the loop and turns you upside down and right side up again....it happens so fast that you hardly have time..... to feel scared or to get used to it.
Either case...at the end of the ride you decide that it was so much fun....that you should ride it again !!!
Roller Coasters offer you the enthralling opportunity of going at speeds which are not possible when you are driving a car, or riding a bike. Bikes and cars can be driven fast...but of course, more than the thrill.......speed kills there...
In a coaster, the force of so many gravities means that you are 'almost' sitting in a fighter plane.

I had so much fun....that I have vowed to go to as many amusement parks as possible and sit on many roller coasters !!!