Ang Peregrino Recommends 20: Nostalgia Manila

Nos­tal­gia Manila
URL: http://​nos​tal​gia​manila​.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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