Unlike children of today, I didn’t have a computer, cell phone, tablet or even internet access until I was a teenager. And guess what? I am not complaining. I consider myself lucky to grow up in an age when there weren’t that many entertainment options. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t love to read as much as I do now and consequently, my English would not be good enough to churn out posts like these.
During my kindergarten and early Primary school years, the highlight of the afternoon was those one hour re-runs of some SBC (prior to TCS and Mediacorp) serials which included my all-time favourite 早安! 老师. After that, there were no more programs until like 7pm. Zilch. That’s what happens back in those days with only 4 or 5 channels. (Those one-hour cooking shows catered specially for housewives like my Mum were torturous.)
I was only left with two choices: read or sleep. Since ......