ryan and my nokia 5800 xpm
These days whenever Ryan tells me, “Ah yi, I want to play piano!”, I know that he is referring to the Touch Screen Piano application that I had installed on my Nokia 5800 XPM.
So happy!
That keeps him entertained for 10 minutes or so. As someone who internally struggles to tolerate noise other than that of my own making, I am pretty thankful that it is not a real piano. I doubt we’d be living together by the time he’s old enough for lessons 
Be grateful for small mercies! I love this app
Even then I have every faith that his mom wouldn’t let him practise at a real piano at 6.30 in the morning or 10.30 at night. Well, someone living near me is allowing his or her kid to do just that. By now, I can probably tell you how many ways one can fuck up “Ode To Joy”.
The other day at my eldest sister’s place, Ryan watched the trailer for ‘The Dark Knight’ about a dozen times. The kid learned how to press the ‘Play’ button on the phone to start playing the clip all over again.
Engrossed
While looking at him meddling with all these technology, I started thinking of cassette tapes. Of how he’d never use one, and how he’d never understand the thrill of pressing the ‘Record’ button at the start of a song on the radio, then stopping it just in time as the song ends — before the radio DJ begins the compulsory yakking.
Sungguh bergaya
Not to mention messing with all the reel! I was real happy with CDs, and now I’m a lot happier with HDD. I wonder what’s next.
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When we used to babysit for our kinda “Godson” back in the UK, Y would buy toys that he could keep at our house for when he came over.
At Y, and at the new toy! With a rather dismayed look.
As he was learning to walk, one of the first things she brought home was a rolling, old-style lawnmower type, toy which helped with balance as he stood and held onto it, and could push it around the room.
Unfortunately (for me, and probably the neighbours), it was a “musical” lawnmower, which emitted a cacophony of “musical tunes” when rolled. It also had a drum-type arrangement at either end of the cylinder, for banging on when he sat down with it.
I just stared in horror!
And, of course, he loved it! And pushed it everywhere around the front room until he was tired, then sat down and proceeded to bang loudly on the drum part. For hours.
He loved it! Aural feedback from just playing around. Such fun!
Aaagh!! The noise still rings in my head when I think about it!
Me to Y – “Next time, something that makes *no* sound, OK, NO sound at all!”
Cassette recorder. I still has a mini compo at home that I used to listen to the radio. The cassette player spoiled.
i have mix tapes that i made when i was 11. =) remember staying by the radio waiting for the right song to be played? haha.
this is an awesome phone that can keep you entertain no matter where u r. LOL
Next? 3d images burn right into ur iris!
I still have some cassette albums left over from my teenage years. It was a good mix(not) of Britpop, Eurotrash and British boy bands XD
I would also borrow albums from friends and copy it without their consent lol
I suppose we’re lucky we never had to wait for the vacuum tubes of our radios or tellies to warm up first before we could start listening or watching. Then and again, those days not many people owned audio-video equipment. Technology progresses, cool stuff gets cheaper.. and more fun
Grant: hahaha oh man I sympathise!
Simon: the ‘record’ button always rosak the fastest
lishun: haha oh yes! just waiting and waiting. our fingers must have been trained to be quick eh
horng: haha wait till you see the video!
ky: hmm i’m not sure if i want that
z: we used to do it at the music shop. until one day they refused to do it for us anymore, because the record companies were clamping down on illegal mixed tapes heh
suertes: i don’t even know 8-track
i never had a walkman when it was all the rage. then in came the discman, which i never owned either. so a hi-fi set was the next best thing i had to play music and admit it, MTV was still watchable at that time
My girl likes cassette tapes too:
http://chowfookcheong.blogspot.com/2009/02/cassette-tape.html
Z: i never had my own walkman. nor the discman. all passed down from my sisters. but i loved what i got
mtv was great. now.. bleargh . but maybe we are a bit older also lah…
chow fc: haha ouch! you still have cassette players ar? my cassettes all grow fungus already