50 things you ought to know if you were born in the 1970s/1980s
1. You grew up watching He-man, Captain Planet, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony and Smurfs too..
*yupz, my fav was Captain Planet.. i used to memorise how to sing the song... haha*2. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You will squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug.The teachers said you must brush each side 10 times too.
*opPs, i didnt brush my teeth after eating wor... my time not 流行... haha*3. You know what SBC stands for.
*how cld i forget, Singapore Broadcasting Centre... haha*4. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.
*yupz, i rem i wld sometimes scrimp and save to buy the milk... i love the chocolate milk!5. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary school.
*i guess mobile phones was a coOl thing cos i had a pager in Sec schoOl... haha*6. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats aremade of wood and the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEP! when pressed..
*yah, so were Trans-island buses... now known as SMRT*7. There are colourful tickets forTIBS buses. The conductor will check for tickets by using a machine which punches a hole in the ticket.
*my time is already the yellow colored one... hm... but i rem the bus ride only 35cents...*8. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.
*yah, always asking for Donation during Children's Day... humph*9. You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
*i know Acai the constable... but vinny...没什么印象。。。*10. You were there when they first introduced MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.
*haha, tink my first ride was in the underground part... so i didnt do that i guess...*11. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.
*hm.. i was a 'stay-at-home' girl til primary 5 or 6... dont think tickets are so still so cheap then...*12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
*yupz, barbie dolls and masak-masak... used to play with sOph...*13. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street .
*nope.. i dont watch them... haha... i only know coOkie monster, ernie and big Bird!*14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka (20 cents per pack), and Ding Dang (50 cents per box), that had a toy in it and it changes every week. Not forgetting the 15 cents animal crackers and the ring pop, where the lollipop is the diamond on the ring.
*i get sick of that.. i longed to buy the 20cents Mamee...heez*15. You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
*not a cartoon watcher when i was young...*16. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest story books you ever thought you have read. Even Sweet Valley High and Malory Towers .
*yupz, read them before... but wasnt a faithful reader....*17. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that serve food in plates and let you use metal forks and knives.
*is it, i didnt know*18. The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'... you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.
*?? i guess we used all these terms like nobody's business...? i love those days... carefree!*19. Catching was the IN thing and twist as the magic word.
20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
*nope, i guess by my time already quite gOod quality*21. CDIS were your bestfriend.
*hm... dont tink so wor...*22. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised characters in 16bit colours walking about trying to teach you maths.
*hm... cant rem le...*23. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go.
*hm... i dont sling them anymore since upper primary*24. Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic balls in the basketball court.
*i guess so... *25. Teng-teng, five stones, chapteh, hentam bola and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too...
*my sisters' times*26. Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fish.
*yah... but i hate science... such a bother*27. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds from the textbooks. Even Mr Wally & Mr. Yakki. What abt Miss Lala??? And Zaki and Tini in Malay Textbooks?
*yeah.. i rem them*28. We carry out experiments of our own to get ourself badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
*this is angelia's and benjamin's time*29. Every Children's day and National day you either get pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or dumb files with 'Happy National Day 1994'.
*yah... i miss those days... can some1 offer me gifts for Childrens' Day and National Day...?*30. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother.
*shake head*31. We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
*yah..*32. Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
*yah, exactly... i can think of Mr Menon.. haha, though he doesnt teach Science... but he does English, PE and Health Ed?*33. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor quality.
34. 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.
*so off-beat.. i didnt do that... wet wet lor...*35. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.
*yah.. so goOd...*36. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.
*i love doing that... so i dont find a chore*37. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.
*yah.. tink so...*38. You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall.
*hm.. cant really recall how he lOoked like.. tink my time was the late Mr Ong Teng Cheong le..*39. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.
*hm.. only in Kindergarden... not anymore in primary sChoOl.. but i always pray the cute guy wld hold my hands.. haha*40. Boys like to catch fighting spiders.
*in lower primary i guess?*s41. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.
*in primary scHOol?*42. Autograph books were loaded with "BestWishes", "Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high, hard catch.Friend like you, hard to forget".
*true... i still have my primary schoOl autograph bOok...and sec scHool's perhaps*43. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"
*yah.. teachers' pets*44. There were at least 40 people in one class.
*yah.. my class had 41 or 42 i guess...*45. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.
*cant really rem...*50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.
*hm.. luckily, i wasnt so stupid... *
