You would remember:
You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs. (Check!)
You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You would squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug. (Check!)
You hated or loved the school nurse (she was either pretty or mean). (Check!)
You know what SBC stands for. (Check!)
You paid 40 cents for cartons of Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class. (Check!)
Everyone's wallet used to be the velcro type (Check!)
It was cool to have pagers in primary school (Check!)
SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushionwere red. The big red bell gave a loud BEEP! when pressed. (Check!)
There were still bus tickets and bus conductors would come up to check them.
Envelopes were given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day. (Check!)
You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable. (Check!!!! SUPER NICE!!!)
You know what PETS are and the hidden animals in all the text pages. You hated penmanship. (Check!)
Writing lines and caning hands were common, esp if you failed chinese spelling (caning was actually allowed. no shit). (Check!)
You were there when they first introduced the MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery. (Check! Was born on the year MRT opened, but i vaguely remember i did kneel on the seat on my 1st few ride! So.. Check!)
Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50. (Check!)
Gals were fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls. (Check!)
You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street. (Er... No I Didn't!)
You bought tidbits called beebee (20 cents per pack, 10 cents in MGS), and mamee (30 cents), that had a different sticker in it every time. (Check!)
You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again. (Check!)
You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you. (Check!)
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickest story books you thought you would ever read. (Check! Enid Blyton too!)
KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates and had metal forks and knives.
(Plastic Yes, Metal No.. But Check!)
The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'chicken pie'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien translation. (Check!)
Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN thing, and twist was the magic word. (Check!)
Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow. (Check!)
You came to school 15 mins before the bell every morning just so you could copy someone's homework. (I arrived 30mins earlier instead, Check!)
CDIS was your best friend. (Check!)
The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellized characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you math. (Check!)
Waterbottles were slung around your neck and a must everywhere you went. (Check!)
Boys loved to play soccer with small stones or tennis balls in the basketball court. (Check!)
Girls played five stones and boys played with marbles. (Check!)
Science was fun with the Balsam and the Angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fishes. (Check!)
Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, immortalized in our minds from school textbooks. (Check!)
We conducted experiments of our own to get badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc. (Check!)
Every Children's day and National day you either got pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or useless plastic files with 'Happy National Day 1994'. (Check!)
You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes. (Check!)
Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English. (Check!)
You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the school
to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes. (Check!)
There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday (you hated them). (Check!)
Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $2 or more for pocket mone everyday. (Check!)
You saw Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall. (Check!)
Boys liked catching fighting spiders, earthworms or tadpoles. (Check!)
Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys. (Check!)
Class monitors and prefects loved to say, "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!" (Check!)
You got booked for muddy shoes in class. (Check!)
There were at least 40 people in one class. (Check!)
You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable. (Check!)
There was a pro-yo/bumblebee, digimon craze at some point in time. (Check!)
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Never fail to bring a smile to my face, the good old days!
20th century boys is the 1st of a trilogy... fyi, i have never read the manga before.... the storyline is pretty good... the way it flashback on a specific history that is relevant to a current event is also pretty interesting... hence there are alot of flash back!! e.g. when the lead was talking to another guy about a common friend; the scene will flash back to the scene they initally make friend with the guy... anyway, the final scene is kinda weird... too rush... i dunno man... de way they make the movie is not what hollywood or singaporean would do... very weird imo... anyway.. it's pretty ok.. but dun think is worth gg back to the cinema for the 2nd and 3rd time... i guess..
DAMN!! THIS IS 1 OF THE FUNNIEST SHOW I EVER WATCH FOR SOMETIME ALR!!! GOSH!! BEN STILLER IS GREAT!!! before the movie was shown, there's a short "trailer" on the movies the frictional actors have done before... love the robert downey jr's SATAN ALLEY! tobey maguire cameo!! omg! the gay scene!!! this show parody alot of other movies, especially obvious during the front half of the show... very crude jokes ... some of the jokes are very americanized... u really need to watch quite abit of american comedy to understand them... anyway; it's super highly recommended!!
