Remember those fads that we went through when we were little?

Those good ol' times where you were so occupied every recess & lunch, slamming that goddamn tennis ball like Nadal in a Grand Slam, your orgasmic screams of ecstasy (its frequency enough to rival Maria Sharapova's high-pitch, glass-shattering shrieks) ringing throughout the playground as you progress from one square to the next, and the tears of joy that well up in your eyes, much like Roger Federer, as you land on Ace while the bell rings - signifying the high caliber of your handballing skills.

I think that handball is most perpetuating fad of all times. To put it simply, it cannot be merely labelled as a "fad." Handball is much like black dresses; it's a classic and will never be out of fashion. Just look at the Baulko quad at recess & lunch. At the ring of the bell, the playground is instantly transformed into a handball battlefield, with midget year 7 kids tolling their wheelie bags as they race towards the geometric squares to seize their territory. It's all business from there, the searing intensity ablaze in their eyes as they..


SMACK THAT, ALL ON THE FLOOOOR

SMACK THAT, GIVE ME SOME MOREEEEE

SMACK THAT, TILL YOU GET SORE

SMACK THAT, OH OH OH OHHHHHHHHHH

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And what about those unanimous chants of HACK IT HACK IT HACK IT HACK IT that waft throughout the playground? Unrestricted by yellow or red cards & the modern technology of Hawk Eye, it's often difficult to judiciously reinforce the rules of the game. However, this obstacle is quickly overcome through hollering of "YOU'RE OUT!" followed by a string of profanities by the players & the spectators (sometimes in Chinese - a emerging trend at Baulko). See the unifying effect of handball? Handball is what brings different cultures together, as evident in the multicultural nature of Baulko, and allows friendships to blossom. It's what ends wars & cures cancers.

Alas, yes. The inconvenient truth is that innately, we're all worshippers of handball. Can you picture that fateful day when handball was invented? The sales of tennis balls rising at a exponential rate & the shares of Wilson, Head & Rebel Sport skyrocketing to beyond imagination. You know what caused the Wall Street crash? Yeah, it's the unstoppable sales of handballs which caused the consumption of all other leisure materials to plummet into obscurity. Even John Lennon dedicated his song to handball;

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life playing handball...

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A few trends followed handball but none had the capacity to fill the shoes of its predecessor. The trading of Pokemon & YuGiOh cards as a commodity came and gone like seasons and scoobydoos?! (wtf were those fucking strings?) were no match for the dominance of Handball. I remember when my school imposed a ban on all YuGiOh & Pokemon cards as people began trading them for cash, an act which apparently gave birth to teenage gambling. However, the prohibition of Pokemon/YuGiOh cards weren't successful in stamping out the proliferation of card-trading, as it merely pushed those desperate kids into black market dealings, bribes & underground sex trade. Nah I'm just kidding, but once the teacher actually found some kid's cards & burnt them all. How scary! I was so scarred. ='(

And what about those plastic bands that we adorned on our wrists as a fashion accessory? Oh man, they were pretty big too. They were the symbol of "coolness" and defined the social hierarchy of school. There was this girl from my 'old school' that wore so many bands that it ran from her wrist all the way up to her elbows - what a investment to raise your social status. O_O

Aha right now, you're prolly thinking, what caused this onslaught of nolstagia? Well last night, with Daniel Goh's "brb dota" followed by "brb maplestory" & Trang being engrossed in her Minesweepers game, I was left wondering what the trends for little kids were. So here's my question to you (espcially to anyone who has brothers/sisters still in primary school):


WHAT IS THE FAD THESE DAYS?

WHAT'S "IN"?

WHAT'S THE HOT GOSSIP? ;)



(Whoever says G-Dragon or something along those lines are immediately subject to spontaneous combustion, so please refrain from doing so).



xx.

Betty.