MEMOIRS OF A CEDY WANNABE

PRECAUTION:

Citizens of the dawning age of senesence, please step aside. I’m pretty sure you will not relate with all the youngster crappiness of an arithmaticless wide-foreheaded pimple-farmer like me. Bwehehehe.

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I was really really addicted to cartoons. Addicted so much, I nearly stowed away because of not allowing us to watch if we can’t make ’siesta’ (noon shortnaps). I was questioning all the mothers out there–

Why the hell force us to sleep during your adult unholy hours? We were born to be young and rabid and playfully magulo all the time. Don’t pull us to share the same afternoon drowziness. You almost killed us!

Enough.

Before, TV networks used to showcase valuable and worth-watching animated series which eventually turned blockbuster hits in the late 1990s. They sky-rocketed Camille Prats and Tom Taus. Their cuteness and fame brought the insecurity out of me, thinking, “Why these kids had the opportunity to have passports and shoot abroad while me, the apparent white-skinned anemic PreComputer 2000 wizard Caloocan slum kid, tries to be contented to Star City and domestic Philippine Airlines flights?”

With their Tagalized series and ear-catchy Tagalog soundtracks, no wonder kids of those years can still recall every single (or at least a bigger percentage) lyric of the opening theme songs of those Japanese cartoons derived from fairytales, novels, and short stories from Europe and China.

And to test how I was proficient in Tagalog in my non-erectile yester years, I listed all the songs I can remember–from the time I can’t distinguish the difference between volcanic ash and sand, until I realized masturbation doesn’t help me improve mentally.

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I can’t sort these chronologically. Hope you don’t mind. ^_^

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Can you remember the titles of the animes with these OSTs? And oh, I intentionally obscured cue words to make them more puzzling.

Can you sing this?

1. Maglalakbay ako patungo sa kawalan
Upang hamunin ‘tong pangarap sa buhay
At susuungin ko itong kadiliman
Makita ko lang ang liwanag ng katarungan…
Chenchedenchenden cheden (then the logo shows up)

Or this?

2. Habang nabubuhay, manalig ka
Lagi kang may kasama, may kaibigan ka
At kung ikaw ay nalulungkot
Kung ikaw ay natatakot
Wala kang gagawin kundi ako’y tawagin…

Ako si ____
Sa bawat oras nariyan,
Tutulong sa nangangailangan
Ako’y maaasahan sa lahat ng bagay….

Hmmm, this one:

3. Kami’y narito asahan niyong magtatanggol
Makikipaglaban para sa kapayapaan
(chenchererererenchen cherereren chererererereeurrnn–)
Ang lahat ng nilalang dito ay may karapatan
(Sa magandang bukas)
Kung mayroong gumugulo ay wag mag-alala
Kami ang dakilang tagapagtanggol niyo sa lahat ng oras
Handa kaming tumulong
Ang aming mga kapangyarihan alay sa karapatan…
Kami’y narito asahan niyong magtatanggol
Makikipaglaban para sa kapayapaan at kaayusan
Kami’y asahan niyo hanggang sa dulo ng mundo.

How about this one:

4. Waksin niyo na ang iyong luha
Pilitin tawanan ang problema
Habang bata ay magsaya
Makulay ang mundo basta’t mangarap ka
Sa bawat pagsubok na makikita
Huwag mong hayaang madapa ka
Tibayan mo ang loob
Pagkatapos ng unos, ligaya ang dulot
Sadyang ganyan ang buhay, kailangang magsanay
Mapaglarong tadhana susubukin ang tibay
Kaya’t kumilos ka’t mag-isip, mag-aral
Magandang bukas, sa yo ay nakalaan…

Perhaps this one:

5. Sino nga ba siyang nakasuot pula
Hila ng mga usa
Puti ang balbas niya, siya’y mataba
Lahat ng bata’y naghihintay sa kanya
Namimigay siya ng mga regalo
Tuwing sasapit ang araw ng pasko
Mula sa araw na ito, maghihintay kami sa ‘yo
Saan ka ba nagmumula?
Sana doon kami kasama mo
Nais naming makita kung pa’no ginagawa
Mga regalong pinamimigay mo
Nais namin…
Laruan! Libro! Damit na pamasko!
Uli— (censored from the clip. Damn you, ABS)

I loved this one:

6. Ngunit hanggang kailan, hanggang kailan
Ito mananatiling panaginip
Sabik na ko, sabik na ko sa iyong
Yakap at halik…

And this one

7. Humayo ka kaibigang _____
Maglakbay kung saan mo man naisin
Anong (censored from the OBB)

—-ehh…
Sige ___, Humayo ka
Humayo ka’t maglakbay pawad
‘Wag kalilimutan kami…

Or this very special ‘tribute for moms’:

8. Aking ina, mahal kong ina
Pagmamahal mo aking ina
Yakap mo sa akin, hinahanap ko
Init ng pag-ibig, kumot ng bunso
Sa kita ng pagkakahimbing
Yakap mo ang gigising.

Try this:

9. ____, ____,
Anakpawis ka sa kabundukan
____, ____,
Tahanan mo ang kalikasan
Luntiang parang, nasisikatan ng gintong araw
____, ____, tahanan mo ang kabundukan

____, ____, (Endless ___ with yoodle tune)

My sensualities aroused because of this:

10. Nakita ko ang larawan mo
At muling nagbalik sa akin ang lahat
Ang malambing na tingin at ako
Ang nagbibigay ng musika sa mundo
Sinabi mo ako ang himig ng iyong byulin
Mga __ at rosas na ginto
At ikaw ang yugto ng aking daigdig
Libutin natin ang mundo at bahaghari
Lalalala….
Rosas na marikit, bigay sa iyo mahal
Lalalala…. (unintelligible lyrics… err, damn you ABS)

I almost forgot about this:

11. Si ___ at ____
Kambal ng tadhana
Di susuko sa pagsubok…

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All these shows were shown on ABS-CBN many centuries ago. Just testing if my neurons are not gravely affected by excessive…