86,400 seconds in a day...Idle time?

Look up the definition of the word HOBBY and this is what you will get on Wikipedia – a spare time recreational pursuit. Essentially it is what one likes to do in their spare time. One could either be fond of watching movies, dancing, playing some sport, anything. There are various types of hobbies – indoor activities, outdoor games, creative hobbies and many more. Like reading, collecting stuff, dancing would form a part of indoor hobbies. Any kind of sports or shopping, traveling etc would constitute outdoor hobbies. And creative hobbies are like cooking, pottery, knitting, glass painting, etc. It keeps one busy and occupied (meaning the same thing). I have lots of hobbies and since childhood they have been changing. At the moment I enjoy watching movies and reading, perhaps even writing. However, as a kid one of my hobbies was collecting stamps.

Speaking of which, I wonder if anyone has ever watched this movie or for that matter even heard of it. It’s called - ‘Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveler’. It’s another one of my favorites. As kids, many of my friends and I had a hobby of collecting stamps. It’s very interesting to collect stamps of different places. It was a hobby which we all grew out of eventually. Then, there was this movie which was released in the late 80s. It is about a few friends and their fascinating summer adventure. Tommy, who is a stamp collector, gets one of his friends, Ralph to trade him a stamp from his father’s precious stamp collection. From fear of getting into trouble for it, he and his sister (Nancy) try to buy the stamp back from the local store; however they are handed over a stamp collection in exchange. This contains a letter from a little boy named Charles. The letter contains magical rhymes, on reciting these rhymes, the person shrinks and he/she is then able to travel around the world on various stamps to different places. During Ralph’s journey, he finds out that he needs to get to Australia since a rare collection of stamps awaits him. And what happens next is something that even I don’t recall very well and to refresh my memory I will have to watch the movie again.

It’s an amazing movie and truly hilarious, which gets you laughing all the way till the end with the dragons, kangaroos, boomerangs, stamps and postcards. The chase, the suspense, the adventures are absolutely mind blowing and will certainly sweep you off your feet. One needs to watch the movie to figure out what I am saying. If memory serves me right, it also had a sequel. Something like - ‘The Return of Tommy Tricker’. I tried really hard to find more clips of the movie but this is all I could get. Check it out…