Throwback Thursday: More Treasures!

I have been sorting stuff again the past few days and I was thrilled to find more things from my childhood and school days. Long forgotten items, but precious nonetheless.

I found a few of my "artworks" from sixth grade. It's pretty ugly since I don't read know how to draw. I did find a "Little Women" project I did in 6th grade. It's a comic strip of a chapter. I got an Outstanding grade for it and probably why I kept it (haha). 

I also found precious letters my classmates sent me. Back then we would communicate via snail mail during summer. I was curious and read one. It was a letter from my grade school best friend. She was updating me about their family's plans to migrate to the US and how annoyed she was with her sister because she refused to play "pretend bus" with her. Ahh, how simple life was back then!

I didn't find any stuff from high school in this haul, but found copies of my college and masteral thesis, haha. 

I can't imagine how I wrote those back then (they're both very thick!). I burned a lot of eyebrows writing those papers. That's also probably why I've degerated now to writing daily vlogs about mundane stuff, haha. I'll probably have a kick out of reading old posts in the future.

#BeKind #StaySafe

Video City (the movie and memories)

Back in the day when watching movies and TV series/shows online wasn't available we'd rent videos from stores. There was ACA video, Video City and other mom and pop stores where you can rent. At first you'd rent Betamax tapes, then VHS tapes then eventually VCDs and DVDs. To be able to rent you had to become a member of the chain or store. The fee was pretty inexpensive (I just don't remember how much). 

Miggy and I used to rent videos weekly. We'd borrow movies and whatever he liked. When he grew up we enjoyed watching horror movies. Eventually cable TV became available, so we rented less and less. Buying your own VCD/DVD also became cheaper. I just remembered about that time because we recently watched the movie, "Video City, Be Kind, Please Rewind".

The movie brought us back to the 90s when the main character, Han (Ruru Madrid), time traveled to the 90s. He re-appeared inside of a Video City store and met Ning-ning (Yassi Pressman). It was fun to see how a video rental shop looked like back in the 90s. Rows upon rows of video tapes. I remember me and Miggy would go around the shop to look for interesting films to watch. 

I used to collect VCDs and DVDs. I kept it in a small tower that doubled as a picture frame. It was a really cute cabinet. Unfortunately, it went under water during typhoon Ondoy together with all my CDs. Since then I have collected sparingly. I've given away those I bought post-Ondoy. I just have some favorite shows from the 90s which I found in Australia (#budol).  

If you have time for some nostalgia, watch "Video City: Be Kind, Please Rewind" on Netflix. 

#BeKind #StaySafe