A trip to kids section in one of the departmental stores brought back the childhood memories and world of colorful pencil box, scented rubbers, sparkling colors, all kinds of pens and off-course the toys!!
When we were kids there were hardly any supermarkets , the shopping for all the necessary stationery was done from the small retail shops , the ones in the locality or the ones in dedicated market for books and stationery. There were routine visits to these shops as the stuff dad-mom got was never enough, we either lost the pens ,rubber etc or never got them back when they were borrowed.
Few times I got lucky and was handed over some money to make solo visits to these temple look alike and even with 70 rs or so I would feel I have acquired massive wealth and its time to splurge!!
It was such an effort and tough choice seeing all those interesting pen, pencil kept neatly n the shelf lurking me to buy as many as possible.
Pens fascinated me the most and with all the new ones being introduced I sometimes spent more then half an hour choosing a Pen! Choosing between a writo-meter and ones with colorful covers was TOUGH!
I made sure to have all of them even if I didn't use them. Did you do that?? Parker was a luxury then!!
I remember the most famous thing use to be one kind of Pencil Box , it had quite a few separate sections for different things like eraser, paper clip, sharpener etc and respective button for these sections. We would derive joy pressing those button and seeing those sections pop-up with the desired item, the innocence amuses me.
The double Decker Lunch box with all the attractive colors and the super delicious food cooked by a friends mom is still desired compared to cheese filled pizza.
The time after Summer break/ New session would be most crucial for all of us, we would flaunt whatever new we might have bought, be it a bag, a transparent water bottle( we didn't have Pokemon and Doremon , thank god for that) , new wooden pencil box or even a new handkerchief that had name of the day crocheted on it.
The first thing in morning even before the assembly was to share the new stuff that our foreign returned Uncles/Aunts might have got us and such was the innocence that even if it didn't belong to us it didn't kill the enthusiasm.
And though there were no efforts to hide the enthusiasm seeing a new kid getting all the new spunky stuff, there were constant harmless efforts to become friends with him/her!!
Lead pencil, clowned faced pencil covers, scented erasers , scented multicolor refill pen, were the newly introduced items and we would make sure to have at least one of those in our collection.
Brands were unknown to us ( at least most of us) , was only in 11-12th I believe we were exposed to few brands.
Kismi bar, Parle- G orange round candy, boomer bubblegum,Eclairs were top in the list of things our taste bud relished and we wouldn't leave a chance to spare 1 rupee change and give some comfort to the senses, birthdays would bring the joy of getting these eateries for free and we would wish and cross fingers hoping the birthday girl/boy choose us to go on a round of school and be the privileged one to get 1 more chocolate.
Its been more then 12 years since we stopped engaging in this kind of activity but I wonder the impression it made, I still seem to remember those times if not anything else.
I don't know how it is for the current generation , they probably cant cherish those little things neither can they relish the importance of one extra chocolate, scented paper , and colorful pencils as its been replaced by computer games and I don't know.!!
The time has gone , left us with loads of memories which seem to fade, even if we don't remember all this in few years time they will be with us for the lifetime making us smile now and then.
That was the age of innocence , purity and the first stage of becoming what we are NOW.
When we were kids there were hardly any supermarkets , the shopping for all the necessary stationery was done from the small retail shops , the ones in the locality or the ones in dedicated market for books and stationery. There were routine visits to these shops as the stuff dad-mom got was never enough, we either lost the pens ,rubber etc or never got them back when they were borrowed.
Few times I got lucky and was handed over some money to make solo visits to these temple look alike and even with 70 rs or so I would feel I have acquired massive wealth and its time to splurge!!
It was such an effort and tough choice seeing all those interesting pen, pencil kept neatly n the shelf lurking me to buy as many as possible.
Pens fascinated me the most and with all the new ones being introduced I sometimes spent more then half an hour choosing a Pen! Choosing between a writo-meter and ones with colorful covers was TOUGH!
I made sure to have all of them even if I didn't use them. Did you do that?? Parker was a luxury then!!
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I remember the most famous thing use to be one kind of Pencil Box , it had quite a few separate sections for different things like eraser, paper clip, sharpener etc and respective button for these sections. We would derive joy pressing those button and seeing those sections pop-up with the desired item, the innocence amuses me.
The double Decker Lunch box with all the attractive colors and the super delicious food cooked by a friends mom is still desired compared to cheese filled pizza.
The time after Summer break/ New session would be most crucial for all of us, we would flaunt whatever new we might have bought, be it a bag, a transparent water bottle( we didn't have Pokemon and Doremon , thank god for that) , new wooden pencil box or even a new handkerchief that had name of the day crocheted on it.
The first thing in morning even before the assembly was to share the new stuff that our foreign returned Uncles/Aunts might have got us and such was the innocence that even if it didn't belong to us it didn't kill the enthusiasm.
And though there were no efforts to hide the enthusiasm seeing a new kid getting all the new spunky stuff, there were constant harmless efforts to become friends with him/her!! Lead pencil, clowned faced pencil covers, scented erasers , scented multicolor refill pen, were the newly introduced items and we would make sure to have at least one of those in our collection.
Brands were unknown to us ( at least most of us) , was only in 11-12th I believe we were exposed to few brands.
Kismi bar, Parle- G orange round candy, boomer bubblegum,Eclairs were top in the list of things our taste bud relished and we wouldn't leave a chance to spare 1 rupee change and give some comfort to the senses, birthdays would bring the joy of getting these eateries for free and we would wish and cross fingers hoping the birthday girl/boy choose us to go on a round of school and be the privileged one to get 1 more chocolate.
Its been more then 12 years since we stopped engaging in this kind of activity but I wonder the impression it made, I still seem to remember those times if not anything else.
I don't know how it is for the current generation , they probably cant cherish those little things neither can they relish the importance of one extra chocolate, scented paper , and colorful pencils as its been replaced by computer games and I don't know.!!
The time has gone , left us with loads of memories which seem to fade, even if we don't remember all this in few years time they will be with us for the lifetime making us smile now and then.
That was the age of innocence , purity and the first stage of becoming what we are NOW.
Hmmm nice...
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