*Oya, let me take you to memory lane*


1. Gone are the day when you will buy a phone and the manual that will come with it will be like you want to study for Cambridge+Masters+PhD.

2. Don't tell me you've forgotten that era when fluorescent bulbs were used as antenna, to get a clearer picture on your screen, you just have to go to where you installed it and rotate the bamboo you used to errect it. Show ti clear? ( is it ok?) you would ask while rotating it.

3. Days when there were video clubs that rent out VHS cassette at N10

4. Era when our only hope of watching foreign movies (Chinese films, Indian films, or American films) fell in the hand of because (Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State), Ibadan(well, if you lived in Ibadan and its environs) after network news, at 10pm.

5. Tell me, do you remember these names? Cyril Stober( I would laugh extensively when the man mentioned his name, because the name would sound funny to me back then), Kehinde Young Harry, Bimbo Oloyede, Ruth Opia, Vienne Allwell-Brown, Sola Omole, and Moji Makanjuola. They all worked for NTA news.

6. Many will still remember the soap opera, "I Need to Know". A sensitization TV series on HIV/AIDS. I guess Funke Akindele started her career with the program.

7. When we were young, we used to say EESOBEY (thought it was a salute), it was later I personally realised it was actually " Apes Obey". Too bad...!

8. What about some TV sets that those past generations saved their hard earned money to acquire. TV set that has a shelf with sliding door, you just need to drag and lock to prevent unauthorized users.

Those black and white TV sets whose the control is like a knob, you will hear *prapapa* when changing the channel.

9. What about that evil manual clipper, only those who used it can describe the pain the clipper used to inflict. I won't forget Baba barber(as we used to call the old man), he would just give us a dirty knock when we fail to sit put.

10. The list is long, but one more before I draw the curtain. 3-musketeers I call them. *COCONUT, DIGESTIVE, SPEEDY(they are biscuits for those indomie generation)*, few will still remember these trio...well, my favourite then was Coconut, I could manage Speedy, but I will never go for Digestive for any reason.


*PS:* If you don't have idea of any of these, please try and show me some respect whenever you come across me.