Fond memories For those who born in the 70s and 80s.1. You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and
Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles, My
Little Pony and Smurfs too.
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.
3. You know what SBC stands for.
4. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.
5. You watch a very popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1
about schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called Meoro Attack.
6. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary school.
7. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made
of wood and the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEP!
when pressed. There are colourful tickets forTIBS buses.The
conductor will check for tickets by using a machine which
punches a hole in the ticket.
8. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every
Children's Day.
9. You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's
Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
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.
11. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50. &@%#$*@#$^*!@#&^$
12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short
Cake and Barbie Dolls.
13. You learn to laugh like The Count in
Sesame Street.
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.
15. You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because
Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
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.
17. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that
serve food in plates and let you use metal forks and knives.
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.
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.
21. CDIS were your bestfriend
22. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised
characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.
23. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck
and a must everywhere you go.
24. Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic
balls in the basketball court.
25. Teng-teng, five stones, chapteh, hentam
bola and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too...
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.
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
28. We carry out experiments of our own to get yourself badges for
being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
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'.
30. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the
younger kids like big sister and brother.
31. We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
32. Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
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.
35. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.
36. There would be spelling tests and mental
sums to do almost everyday.
37. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if
your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.
38. You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall.
39. You freak out when the teacher tells you to
line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl
40. Boys like to catch fighting spiders.
41. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.
42. Autograph books were loaded with "Best
Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and small
poems like "Bird fly high, hard to catch.Friend like you, hard to forget".
43. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I
write your name ah!"
44. There were at least 40 people in one class.
45. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.
46. You brought every single book to school, even though there was
one thing called the timetable.
