thenandnow

Then and Now
Just some observations between the past and the present

FOOD:

Breakfast:

Then: Plain rice, vienna sausage and two sunny side up eggs (whites taken out)
Now: Choice of cold pizza, a danish, a bagel, a muffin or no breakfast at all

Lunch:

Then: Plain rice, fried chicken Nanay Alice style
Now: Big Mac and fries

Merienda (Afternoon snack):

Then: Choice of Greenwich pizza, pancit luglog, spaghetti or pork barbecue sticks
Now:   Don't eat merienda

Dinner:

Then: Plain rice, pork chops
Now: Cereal (no, not really), spaghetti

Spaghetti:

Then: Sweet spaghetti
Now: Rather sour or bland spaghetti

Soft drinks:

Then: Pepsi (one glass only because my father didn't want us to drink too much soda)
Now: Coke or Kiwi strawberry Snapple

SCHOOL:

Then: Memorize everything and learn it later
Now:   Understand it now, memorize it later

Then: All girls school with uniforms
Now: Co-ed school with casual dress (Yay!)

Then: No walking out of class or talking back to the teachers ever
Now: Walking out of class once it becomes repetitive and asking the teacher to elaborate on confusing, contradictory points

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