You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs. [I used to have the he-man sword and of course, i still have robocop and ninja turtle toys from back then]
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.
You hated or loved the school nurse (she was either pretty or mean).
You know what SBC stands for. [SINGAPORE BROADCASTING CORPORATION! totally!]
You paid 40 cents for cartons of Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.
Everyone’s wallet used to be the velcro type [tee hee. guilty as charged!]
It was cool to have pagers in primary school [Memojazz, yellow in colour. I remember how i was so facinated at how fast my sister could type alpha-numeric with a house phone keypad.... until i could do it too. HAHA]
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.
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. [gosh, sharity. now how old is THAT!]
You’ve probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who’s Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable. [I loved YG... like, THE magazine for kids]
You know what PETS are and the hidden animals in all the text pages. You hated penmanship.
Writing lines and caning hands were common, esp if you failed chinese spelling (caning was actually allowed. no shit).
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.
Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.
Gals were fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
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. [I still buy mamee. oops! haha.]
You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again.
You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickest
story books you thought you would ever read.
KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates and had metal forks and knives. (I dont remember this, anyone?)
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.
Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN thing, and twist was the magic word. [Used to play Pepsi Cola EVERYDAY at recess. i still remember exactly where in the sch]
Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow. [Do you remember how the PETs worksheet used to be those tear off kind? like foolscap!]
You came to school 15 mins before the bell every morning just so you could copy someone’s homework.
CDIS was your best friend.
The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellized characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you math.
Waterbottles were slung around your neck and a must everywhere you went. [YARH! Those press the button then the cover flicks open and the 'white plastic straw' can be pressed in]
Boys loved to play soccer with small stones or tennis balls in the basketball court.
Girls played five stones and boys played with marbles.
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.
Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, immortalized in our minds from school textbooks.
We conducted experiments of our own to get badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc. [I was crazy bout this for a while. Get all those done for wad? spastik. haha but at that age, it was like our greatest achievement to get a badge]
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′.
You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
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.
There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday (you hated them).
Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $2 or more for pocket mone everyday.
You saw Wee Kim Wee’s face in the school hall.
Boys liked catching fighting spiders, earthworms or tadpoles.
Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys. [Totally. really.]
Class monitors and prefects loved to say, “You talk somemore, I write your name ah!” [Haha.. i used to be a monitor... and yes, that's SO true... to think we had power. haha]
You got booked for muddy shoes in class.
There were at least 40 people in one class.
You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable.
There was a pro-yo/bumblebee, digimon craze at some point in time [Guilty as charged. i had at least one of all of those mentioned... at diff times of course. hey, you forgot Tamagotchi! haha]
Stickers, stamps, erazers. The best were the stickers with fur, and those cheap erasers with flags printed on top. [I used to have a box of those flag erasers. then play that flick my eraser game... used to be so happy when my eraser flicked and landed on top of another. those were play for keeps days... loser loses his eraser! my fav was iceland. i dunno why, but it always won]
“ti Kam” things you can buy, ‘xiao ding dang’ which was sold for 50 cents and ‘tora’ at a buck!
