![]() ![]() I wasn’t in any sort of sports in school and even when I ended up playing tag with either my friends or my siblings and cousins, I sucked. I would love to be a little more athletic than I was while growing up. But every time she used to go out to the market she came back with some silly items, either an extremely expensive magazine, a cassette of our favorite band’s album or some lame snacks to munch on and the next thing I knew all my money were spent on some stupid hobbies which were more of her hobbies than mine. So naturally I was always wealthier than her on any given day. O that woman was a spender or what? She had me fooled for God knows how long I was big on savings and she was the exact opposite. If I were to go back and be a kid again, I would make sure I didn’t make my sister my pocket money’s caretaker. I had a broken arm once which resulted in some more painful nights minus the sleep. It still didn’t hit me that the fact he’s 9 years older than me and hence bigger, I could sustain some serious injuries. If I could I would change the fact that I loved to wrestle with my brother. The gist is, I wish I hadn’t given up to her tyranny and had spent some more peaceful nights. She would wake up immediately and start throwing off tantrums. She had some spider senses which would start tingling in case I snuck out of bed in the middle of the night and turned it off. God only knows how I spent those childhood years struggling to fall asleep in that annoying flickering lights. I would really like to somehow man up my sister and convince her that there were no monsters in the closet and we could totally sleep without bedside table lamp on. But just some minor changes here and there wouldn’t hurt. I would still make the same choices, I would still choose the same heart breaks and turmoils and I would probably make more or less the same mistakes. Well guess what? You’re wrong! Boo Yeah! As I mentioned earlier that I was reminiscing, my new found hobby so that got me thinking if I could turn back time and got a chance to grow up all over again, what would I do differently? Or if given a chance what would I want to change about my past? Upon given an opportunity, I definitely wouldn’t want to make any huge changes in my past. As you can presume by now that probably I don’t have anything solid on my mind right now, I’m just beating about the bush. And one of the disadvantages of being on a vacation is that nobody pisses you off, no pain in the ass colleagues, no annoying work schedules, hence less likely for you to come up with a rant post. Partly because I couldn’t think of anything to write about and so as a last resort I started replaying my life in my head so that I could come up with something to go about. One of the advantages of being on a vacation is that you can dwell into the past and feel nostalgic almost whenever you like. (16) Another annoyance is that the rewind and fast-forward buttons latch until you press any other button.I was sitting like an idle sack of idleness and reminiscing once again. (15) After the movie was over they just let the tape rewind in the machine while talking. ![]() (14) This means if I want to jump back ten seconds I have to look down to find the correct rewind button. (13) Astor could ignore someone beside him mouthing words without sound and muttering impatiently whenever he had to rewind the tape. (12) Hitting rewind on the tape recorder verifies that those were, in fact, his words. (11) The rewind often failed, so we had to do it by hand. (10) Well you need to rewind the tape back a couple of years to when the ecology became part of the agenda for the bishops committee that focused on social justice. (9) Push in the direction of the plus or minus icons to change the playback volume, toward the rewind or fast forward icons to track skip in the appropriate direction. (7) Upon reading this I really wish I had a rewind or erase button, don't you! (8) Once Sara was back to sleep, it was like the rewind button had been pushed. (6) Luckily there is a nifty rewind and undo feature that lets you take back bonehead moves when playing against the computer. (5) Then simply rewind the tape and transfer via FireWire to your PC. ![]() (4) Those days when we got to know the rewind button on our tape decks too well, while the kids we really wanted to be out playing with were busy. (3) I had successfully managed to push all negative feelings to the back of my mind, and here they resided, silent ghosts, awaiting me to hit the rewind so that they could reappear, be resurrected. (2) Flying Virgin Atlantic back from Boston to London on Saturday, I noticed that the phone-shaped handset wired to the armrest contained both a rewind and a pause button. (1) She pressed the rewind button on her tape player. ![]()
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