....carT00n FEvER....

I was in the library today for 10½ hours straight. I have a paper to hand in, in a few days and I was in desperate need for some time to work on it, so I was doing that in the library and reading for 10 hours straight, a ½-hour break in the middle to grab a sandwich. Well, either all that reading has taken some sort of serious toll on me and I've gone balmy or I just want to rewind my life 13 years....I really want to watch cartoons. I just realize how much I miss watching them. My daily favourites were: Felix the Cat, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Tom & Jerry, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Woody Woodpecker, Sesame Street (ok, not exactly a cartoon, but who cares, I loved it anyway!), Kids' Songs (these kids singing these nice songs like 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands' and dancing around in cute clothes), the Looney Toons series, and cartloads more. Wherever I went, they used to play us kids cartoons and somehow, we just lost ourselves in those tiny frames of animation. I never really knew I loved cartoons so much until today. The cartoons of this day are nothing like what we used to have back in the 90's when I was a kid. My dad's colleague presented me with a VHS with some amazing cartoon movies like Disney's Cinderella and Bambi. When I watched Bambi for the first time and all the times after that, I never really understood where Bambi's mother went and why he was so weirded out when he saw this other full-grown male deer watching him from a distance. But, just a few years ago, when I happened to watch the movie again, I realized that the movie had something deeper to convey than just deer running around in the wild. Bambi's mother had actually been killed in the stampede and I could feel his pain when he realized that she was gone and his helplessness at the time he finally found his mother and couldn't do anything but stand and watch her die in pain. All the poignance depicted in that 'cartoon' film reduced me to tears. Looking back, I think that was some movie!!
Also, the sight of the male deer he got was actually the spirit of his dead father. It is strange how cartoons were so symbolic of so much more at that time and it was such a beautiful way to convey so much through all those lovely Disney movies which were just beginning to become a rage then. The cartoons these days are seriously nothing like what we had then.
I also had so many crayons and coloured pencils, and colouring books.
My friends also had so many and our favourite way of modern day 'hanging out' at each other's places would be drawing and painting, we would also ask someone to judge our drawings and tell us whose was better. There were so many of these jumbo-sized colouring books which were really thick and had so many pages, but when me and my friends used to colour those pictures, we used to be so mad when the pages used to tear. Now I know why, they were all made out of cheap, recycled paper. I also miss those lovely beanies and goodie kits they used to hand out to kids on flights. I really miss those. Even now, when I see any of the steward(esse)s handing out any of those goodies to kids, I seriously keep wondering why they don't notice me. I want one of them too!!
Boy, you kids, am I jealous or what!! You have all the lovely discounts, all the goodies, all the cartoons, all the....