Clinging onto old things

Clinging onto old things


Is anyone still using hotmail.com as their address? Seriously? I remember when we had just finished university and were busy  nike air max 90 trying to get with the game. We were all trying to get ourselves mobile phones, jobs and email addresses. So everyone was either on hotmail.com or yahoo.com.

More than 10 years or so down the road and I wonder if anyone is still using hotmail. Well I have a friend or two who does, but this address seems so yesterday. Yahoo has stood the test of time and now we have gmail, yahoomail and whatnot. But hotmail? It will soon be a thing of the past!
And what about radio cassettes? I love my music which means I love my CDs, songs on my PC and the laptop at home and take care of all this instruments with care. I mourn for my cassettes though. A few days ago, I was going through some of my old things and came across a box of my cherished radio cassettes.

How I loved them. Some were original and others were not. Some had funny colours (a sharp bright blue). I could barely tell what the others were, since the writings had come off. I smiled a bittersweet smile. This is because I remembered the time a friend told me cassettes would   women handbags
be a thing of the past. CDs were coming in fast and furious and were getting cheaper by the day.

I swore that I would never leave my cassettes. He argued that soon, radios with cassette components would stop being manufactured. I held on to my cassettes. But now, if you ask me, I hardly listen to CDs themselves. As soon as we have downloaded the songs onto the laptop and iPod, we safely tuck the CDs away. Some of them have not been listened to in over three years!

The one thing I am hoping will not die away though is the watch. This beautiful thing that makes a statement (I still hope to buy a Rolex someday), or adds to our jewellery collection is no longer the prized possession it used to be when I was in school.

Back then, the kid who had a watch was greatly admired. Part of the criteria for one to become a time keeper or prefect Led lamp was having a good solid watch. Whenever anyone came back from the holidays with a new watch, they were admired.