Hey guys, my name is Bongo (Don't ask about the name, its just a nickname I got) and all I can say is,
lets get started!Now before I talk anymore, I would like to say I do tend to write long, LONG posts and paragraphs, so I don't accept the excuse of TL;DR (Too Long;Didn't Read), so bare with me
Now lets see, it all began back when I was four years old. Ah the memories. It was a simpler time when parents talked to you in three word scentences, the 'nutritional' baby food tasted like garbage, and T.V. was so bright and colorful it hurt your eyes. I used to watch a ton of movies back when I was four years old. One of them being Don Bluth's The Land Before Time. Since everything good about the film has been said, all I will say is, it changed by life forever. When I was little, I saw it for its action and witty characters. As I got older, I got to appreciate its story, visuals, and heart warming moments. When the second movie came out, I naturally bought it. It sucked in my opinion.
Third came out. Same thing. Fourth; Fifth; Sixth, yeesh
. I stopped at film number 9, Journey to Big Water. I don't know if it was my biased opinion, but I just did not like the movies. True, I used to like them as a kid, but when I got older, most of it is either so-so or bad.
After the ninth movie, I entered a sort of
hibernation state, where I moved on fromThe Land Before Time because, due to my age, thought it was 'uncool' and 'a silly children movie' and forgot about it for
NINE YEARS!
! That is right! Nine years I have been away from Land Before Time! What have I done in those nine years I was away? Well, I did school, got friends, saw the new entertainment coming out at the time, and was (and is still working for that) graduating from College, getting into a good university, and finding a degree in either the Medical or Engineering field, and then work on from there.
However, once I got out of my 'tween age' (Ages 9-12); the 'tween age' was a time when I considered old stuff boring and childhood memories a thing for babies;, well, anyways, once I got out of my tween age and reached being an early teenager. My teenage years was like a renaissance to my childhood. At that age, I started to stop listening to what people have to say about me and what I should do and started to think for myself. While in my tween years, what someone said was cool, Ithought was cool. If someone didn't like what I liked, I changed what I liked to what that person liked. However, once I reached my teenage years, I began to think and ponder about other people's opinions. It suddenly flashed to me that it is my opinion and no one is going to change it!
*Cue dramatic adventure music
* I hurried up to my attic. So many years of nostalgic feeling stood up there, cold, alone, and abandoned. Up there, I was searching for anything from my old past; a record player my dad used to own, old and classic vinyl records, old toys I used to play with, computer games, movies, pictures, anything! I embraced it al like a long lost friend, and then I started to appreciate the past. (Not the PAST-past. Just the past, like around 1900s to today), so I started liking anything old, especially from the 20s, 50s, and 80s.
Then, jump back two weeks ago, on January 8, 2011. I got Netflix for the first time, and I started using the Instant-Play feature on the website. I watched classics such as The Terminator, The Wizard of Oz, and many more. Then I came across a title that I have not seen in a long time;
Don Bluth's The Land Before Time. I dismissed it quickly (Shame on me
) remembering the corny musical sequals. A week later, I began to think about the movie. The original, the one created by Don Bluth, the one that has touched the hearts of many children.
Finally, overcoming whatever went though my mind, I made a bag of popcorn and grabbed some Coca-Cola, and sat in front of my computer , watching 70 minutes of my good childhood flood back into my brain. It was like taking something that makes you feel good without the bad side effects of that thing.
Then I remembered the sequals. I knew they were out there on the internet, but I felt a tingle on the back of my neck that said "No! Akwardness! Remember the akwardness!", so instead of watching the movies, I did the next thing I could do; find the Wikia Page and read about it. So I typed up 'Land Before Time Wikia', and I landed on the Land Before Time Wiki, and MAN, have things changed! Last thing I remember was Mo and Littlefoot's adventures to get him back to the ocean! Now we have these other dinosaur thrown in! Thanks to the Wiki, I learned about as much as I could from what I missed from my nine year hybernation. Then, I discovered The Gang of Five on the wiki, so I lurked around the forums and then finally decided to join the forums today on January 22, 2011
Now for a little bio of myself, I am 15 years old, and don't let my age fool you. Just because I am a teenager doesn't mean I am like the rest. I tend to be on the more mature side and like to let my creativity and nostalgic past flow freely. I am also Asian. Philipino in fact, from the great third world countryof the Philipines! Strangly enough, in all my years of living in the United States and living in a Philipino family, I never really learned tagalog (my homeland's language)
. Also, I leanred that in my family tree, especially my father's side, the men tend to be Marines. Yes, my Great Grandfather was a mechanic repairing vechicles, my Grandfather fought in the Pacific during WWII and even survived the Bataan Death March, and my father just did training. He was about to be shiped off to war in the Middle East, but then I came along
. Strangly enough, I am the last person in line of my family. Thats right. My mother and father only had one child; me. I know I make my own future for myself, but it is strange to know that your family has been a Marine Family for generations and that you are not going to be a Marine. Plus, my parents always joke about "Ok son, it is your turn to pass on the <INSERT LAST NAME HERE> family genes". No joke! I traced my family tree, and I am the last hope for my generation to be passed on! kinda makes you think, doesn't it?
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Well, now that I am here, and wow, it took me 45 minutes to write this post! And this is just the HELLO forum!
! Well, I guess I will try and post my upcoming story on the FanFiction section, even though FanFiction.net is starting to bug me with all these regulations
(Can't they just let most of our creativity roam? Isn't that what writing is all about? Sure, we ahev to have rules, but we also need creativity) and I hope on having a productive time here on the forums!
Needless to say, its great to be a fan with LBT again! Woohoo!
PS: If you said TL;DR, then all my work has gone to waste
