Nostalgia Manila
URL: http://nostalgiamanila.blogspot.com/

Nostalgia comes from two greek words: nostos (returning home) and algos (pain). So that nostalgia is the pain a person feels when he wants to return to his home. Nostalgia is being homesick.

In an age where the world was huge and leaving your native land on a boat to travel elsewhere means never coming back to see it again, then nostalgia makes real sense.

But in our present age where the world is increasingly becoming smaller and smaller due to modern technology, nostalgia is about remembering with some tinge of sadness a past that can never be brought back anymore.

But that very same technology (happily) helps us remember. And NostalgiaManila capitalizes on this. Nostalgia Manila is for those “who remember the way we were” and want to go back.

I first learned about NostalgiaManila when I found that it had a collection of the Thundercats series, one of my ultimate favorite cartoon shows when I was growing up. After discovering the site, I’ve come back to it regularly when I need my nostalgia fix.

Its series on Nostalgia Lists contain various fun memories from the 60’s to the 80’s. Remember when:

1) You competed with your friends to get the highest score in Game & Watch?

2) Reading Choose Your Own Adventure books were your favorite past time?

3) There was an YCO Floorwax basketball team in the PBA and their first five were: Webb, Tolentino, Gomez, Reyes and Canent?

4) Danny Javier, Boboy Garrovillo, and Jim Paredes of Apo Hiking Society were part of “Co-Ed Blues” in RPN 9?

5) You used a rotary phone and you had to share your number with a party line?

6) You got to watch Alma Moreno and other actresses in a Shampoo commercial for Dazzle (“Dazzle, ang shampoo ng mga artista!”)

7) The first time you saw a tandem bike was in Burnham Park in Baguio?

8 ) You drank Cortal when you had a headache?

9) You used Sebo de Macho on your wound?

10) You were so impressed by a Walkman with an auto-reverse?!

And do you remember the popular Jingle Songhits, which is a booklet of song lyrics and guitar chords? Well, the site also has an online Songhits. It is a virtual trip down memory lane with episodes of Silver Surfer, The Three Stooges, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Daimos and Voltes V, lyrics of your favorite tv shows and commercials like Eat Bulaga, Ever Emporium, Fibisco, Iskol Bukol, among many others, and even a series of features about Bruce Lee which it calls Days of the Dragon.

For everyone who remembers the way we were, and for those who don’t but would like to know how we lived, what made us laugh–or cry, what we loved and how simple life was, AngPeregrino Recommends Nostalgia Manila.

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