For anyone who grew up in Pakistan in the 90's...

paki boy · Sep 20th, 2007, 12:45 PM

You know you grew up in Pakistan in the 90's when:
• Evenings on STN/NTM were the highlight of your day.
• The Jetsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Captain Planet were your favorite shows.
• If you were lucky, you had a dish, and you'd watch Disney Hour dubbed in Hindi on Zee TV and write to the host Vishaal. And you never missed "Hum Paanch" (Pa-Pa-Pa-PAANCH! ) or Tu Tu Mein Mein either.
• You played "King King" in school (the game where the first person to yell "King" would try to step on someone's foot. Then that person would try to step on someone else's foot and so forth).
• Guys only ever played cricket and football, depending on what world cup was going on at the time.
• The only co-ed sport that was ever played was dodgeball (called Dodge the Ball)
and girls were actually pretty good at it.
• You played Oonch Neech, Chor-Sipahi and Chupan Chupai.
• You decided conflicts not by rock-paper-scissors , but by Pugan-Pugaai, In Pin Safety Pin, or Akar-Bakar-Bambay- Bo.
• 5 words: Assoo-Panjoo- Haar-Kabootar -Doli.
• Anyone owning a real Barbie or Hot Wheels was a source of envy and
admiration.
• "Bil Patori naasa chori aadhi mithi aadhi kori I'm sorry I'm sorry" means something to you. As do "ZAAAAAYYYMEEENAAAA !!!" and "Mein kon hoon, mein kya karoon, mein kiss ko khaaon" and "Ulloo ulloo hello, ulloo ulloo hello."
• You wished you were Imran or Moattar from Ainak Waala Jin.
• You had nightmares about Bil Patori and Haamoon Jadoogar.
• You drank Frost juice with Super Crisp chips. And then when you were done, you'd chuck the juice box on the floor and jump on it to burst it.
• "Pagal," "Gadhay" or "Badtameez" was your first cuss word.
• There was never a line at the canteen. Instead everyone drove the canteen wala mad by screaming at the top of their lungs.
• You picked out only the chips from your mum's Nimco.
• You remember RC Cola and how no one liked it.
• It was taboo for guys to drink Mirinda/Fanta because it was a GIRL's drink.
• You idolized Imran Khan even though he was retired when you were 7 or 8, and wiped your face with your Pepsi bottle or Frost juice because he did it in that ad.
• Wasim Akram's "mein cigarette nahi peeta" ad made half ur generation vow to never smoke (the other half just missed out on good stuff).
• You had to ask "Sir/Miss may I come in" before entering a class, and you had to stand up to answer questions during a lesson.
• You begged your parents for a walkman and then bought tapes of Junaid Jamshed, or if you were really cool, Junoon.
• You went to a Junaid Jamshed concert in a PAF building or a Junoon concert in PC.
• You remember Fakhr-e-Alam hosting the Top Ten on NTM and his "Bhangra Rap" was always #1.
• #2 was "Jaadoo Ka Charagh" by Awaz and #3 was "Dohlna" by Shehzad Roy.. #4 was "Mann de Moaj" by Hadiqa Kayani, the only cool female-singer in Pakistani (and that was her only song for a long time, till she sang Dupatta Mera Malmal Ka.")
• You remember waking up early in the morning on Saturdays and Sundays (back when they weren't weekends) before school to watch English cartoons
• You shafted Polka Ice Cream when Walls became popular. And yes, admit it, you used to wait for the Ice Cream wala in the afternoon and bought Paddle Pops from him.
• Cartoon Network showed good stuff like Johnny Bravo and Johnny
Quest before crap like Cow and Chicken ruined everything.
• You had signs for "kutti" (pinkie finger) with your enemies and "sulli" (dosti) (index+middle finger) with your friends.
• Your childhood was over when they made you stop using pencils and start using fountain pens. And you always made a mess filling the ink.
• You were on the top of the food chain if you were made monitor (and you very easily abused the power too, by chucking chalk and dusters at people).
• Sit/Stand, Murgha, and sitting in the bad-kid section was the usual punishments.
• The good girls would sit with the bad boys in a vain attempt to civilize them.
Ah.......those were golden days!!!