Call Me Old Fashioned

Have you ever met a person, who still keeps their stuffs from a long time ago (15 or 20 years ago or more perhaps)?? Well I guess I have and moreover I am a kind of person that hard to throw away something. So, believe it or not, till last year I still had my test paper from my first year of elementary school (that's like from 18 years ago, or 17 years for last year). Those papers, books, and everything else from my elementary school was sure bring nostalgia. But I had to discard those for cleaning up my house. Beside that, there is a pencil eraser which I still use till now that was bought in my sixth year of elementary school. My pencil case and ruler have been being with me since 9 and 10 years (respectively) ago. My bicycle is 12 years old, still in a good condition, and my only one vehicle.

Those kind of stuff are oldies, but still can be used perfectly and sometime add something invaluable. But of course, pencil eraser, pencil case, ruler, and bicycle, more or less, stay the same, from 20 years ago till now. But how about this one??

The Oldie Camera - At my Little Studio

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Taken at 16th February 2009

The camera (maybe around 25-30 years old) once belonged to my mom, and about two weeks ago I suddenly remembered about it and I ask it for me to my mom. Well, when I was a little boy, I had used this camera and now I'm craving to use it. But, to properly use a camera, I have to do some experiments.. and experiments with this kind of camera mean much money. What part is I liked from this camera anyway?? I should say the camera smells old and nostalgic to me. Then I like the sound of the shutter release and when you manually roll your film. And when you use this camera, it sure bring magic and mystery that were eliminated by digital camera. When you capture a picture by this camera, you wouldn't know the result until you print it, whereas with digital one, you could see the result right away from the LCD screen. This magic and mystery bring a new excitement in using this camera, but this doesn't mean I hate digicam, I love both. But now, other than a really good DSLR, I'm really craving to use this camera.

The Oldie Typewriter - At my Little Studio

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Taken at 16th February 2009

This 14 years old manual typewriter is belonged to my brother. In my last year of elementary school and my junior high school time I sometime used it to type some school assignment or just for some fun (in that time I felt that typing with this typewriter was fun, and the material I typed were some short stories or articles from magazines). And it is still fun to use it now, cause I like the mechanical sound when the machine hammering the paper when we type something. And the sound will keep us to type more and more for the sake of continuing the sound. But recently, when I tried to use it, I found more discomfort than excitement, because I type too fast for this typewriter now, so the typebars were sometime entangled in the middle, and the typing had to stop a while to fix this. And of course it is still pained my little finger a lot.

Heap of Letters - At my Little Studio

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Taken at 16th February 2009

In my high school time, cell phone, computer, and internet have been a common sight among the students. But at that time, I didn't have any cell phone and internet connection but a computer. When it became common to text someone with cell phone or sending e-mail and chatting via internet, I still found enjoyment with writing and sending a letter. Well, writing is more time consuming than typing, but when you can't compensate the pleasure feeling when you read someone handwriting, because it feels more human. I still like writing letters or cards, but now I find it hard to find someone who like this also. But maybe when I have a girlfriend, I can send her heap of letters *grin*

I still find enjoyment with some things that lack of recent technologies because those things sometime had an intangible and invaluable value within it. That intangible and invaluable value just can't be exchanged with any technology at all. And this doesn't mean I don't like a high tech stuff.

Well.. are you "old fashioned" too??