You know you are a Goan born in the 1970s or 1980s or 1990s,
if you can relate to any or all of the following:
(Compiled by Sebastian Noronha)
1) *Rice = KoKo
*Fish = MeMe
*Beef = Maashu
*Chicken = KokKok Maashu
*Pork = Piggy Maashu
2) Getting a remark in school was as bad as getting
charge-sheeted by the law.
3) You have at least one scar on either of your
knees, or on the shin, or on the elbow, or on the
chin. If you have scars on all the above mentioned
places then during your childhood your probably
were a rock star amongst your group.
4) The funniest joke you may have heard and cracked was
asking someone to say "What" and replying by saying "B**kant
Bot".
5) Owning a colour television was no less than like owning an
Audi Q7. And a VCR was like the Bugatti Veyron.
6) "Playing with girls" meant playing real games like Catch
'n Cook or Hide 'n Seek, or even soccer. It never meant
playing with their emotions.
7) Jealousies were generally because the other boy
is wearing a better pair of football studs. Fights
and rivalries were because of simple things like
"he touched my bicycle".
8) Showing up in class with a "phoren" pencil case made you
the most-talked-about and popular guy or girl in school.
9) If your father was a sea-farer you referred to it as "my
daddy is working on the boat", never the ship.
10) All chocolates and candies were known as 'Cadbury'.
11) Your time-pass was collecting Gold Spot bottle caps in
view of winning The Jungle Book.
12) Any alcohol was called "Kuttu".
13) The only cola drink you knew of was Top-Cola.
14) "Hanging around" meant, well... hanging around just like
that was never a thing. There was always something
interesting to do.
15) Adventure sports were riding the bicycle to the nearest
hillock in search of cashew nuts, kaandam, chiuram, and other
seasonal wild fruits.
16) Having a boyfriend or girlfriend meant being
"friendly". And being friendly was only limited to
standing at such an angle at mass from where you
could see each other and blush. Holding or even
touching hands was way advanced, and sacrilegiously
orgasmic.
17) There were no formal greetings like Good Morning, Good
Afternoon, etc. Okay, Good Morning was there, but:
*Good Day = Nistem kitem ghetlam aiz?
*Good Afternoon = Jeulim?
*Good Evening = Chau pielim?
18) Food was compulsorily rice and curry. Eating anything
else,no matter how wholesome and healthy, just didn’t cut it.
20) Seeing a kissing scene on TV, especially in the presence
of your parents, was scandalous and made you feel impure.
21) *Saturday meant Chayageet.
*Sunday meant Chitrahaar, movie, Famous Five, and
Baabaji Ka Bioscope.
*Night entertainment was Hum Log and Nukkad.
22) Tinkle and Chandamama were your unofficial text-books and
encyclopedias.
23) Reading Archie comics meant you were "spoiling your
English".
24) Writing with a ball-point pen in school was almost a
punishable offense.
25) Running-hand writing was the only correct way to write.
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