Maybe it was due to my family's superstition, or to the values of Christianity which my father upheld ,and still does, so much during his life. Or maybe it was because my family considered Frank Sinatra and co.

By the time I was finishing junior high, I had a firmly established belief about God, life and the universe. The first one definitely existed and the other two were his creations. My family being quite religious had a very big impact on how I viewed things back then but they weren't some kind of religious maniacs, I liked what I believed.

Miniature trains, action figures, board or console games and LEGO. You gave me one (or more) of these during my birthday and you had both my soul and my undying gratitude, of course ,with time being a very contorted concept when you are a kid, by undying i mean the relatively small period of time before i got bored of the gift.

Music, as we all know, is a form of art, it soothes even the savage beast and has acted as means of revolution throughout human history. Of course, when you are a teenager, music is just another way for you to act cool and form close-knit groups to feel special. It sounds a bit cynical I know, but once you break it down a bit, it always comes down to this.

In junior high, life is simple and usually extraordinarily good, you find happiness in simple things, you grow hyperventilated with the slightest provocation and in general, you are a bother to everyone except yourself and your friends, who, excluding very rare paradoxes, are almost always comprised by males. Girls are strange and weak and that’s it, so very neat and clear.

Arguing with your parents is usually a big part of your teenage life. Nowadays I guess kids argue about iPODs, online RPGs & TIVO. I used to spend a ridiculous amount of time and energy arguing about the now forsaken good old VCR.

It was black and shiny. It had lovely curves and fancy cables. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. I was 7 years old (if I remember correctly) when I got my first ever video game console as a present. My own, my love..my precious Sega Master System. And it had Sonic the Hedgehog preinstalled in its meager memory.