Memories

For old people like me, probably in the
early 80s.
Do you still remember this.

1. You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, Carebears, Dragonball 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. Kopi-O is not just a kind of beverage
   to you but also a popular television serial.



6. Pagers are the in thing and numeric
   numbers are encoded with sweet lovey
   dovey messeges. EG. 69-Good Night 512-I
   Love You 532-I Miss You etc.



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. You collect your ticket for bus
   ride. The conductor(White Mouse) will
   check for tickets then tear a bit of 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, Acai the constable and BOOKWORM!



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. KFC used to be a high class
    restaurant that serve food in plates
    with bottled ketchup and chilli sauce
    and also their metal forks and knives.



16. Your English workbooks was made of
    some damn poor quality paper that was
    smooth and yellow.



17. We were also introduced Singapore
    1st Phonecard with a value of $1 in it.



18. The only computer lessons in school
    involved funny pixellised characters in
    16 colours walking about trying to teach
    you maths.



19. Waterbottles were slinged around
    your neck and a must everywhere you go.



20. Boys loved to play soccer with small
    plastic balls in the basketball court.



21. Teng-teng, five stones, chapteh,
    hentam bola and zero point were all the
    rage with the girls and boys too.



22. Science experiments includes
    incubating an egg and watching it hatch
    into a chick before a fully grown chicken.



23. Kids would be donning black, huge
    and nerdy looking plastic glasses to school.



24. Drinks cost 10 cents and food was
    only 20 to 50 cents in the school tuckshop.



25. The bookshop does not only sell
    books but colourful pencils and pens,
    badminton rackets, balls, marbles,
    erasers with country flags on them etc.
    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.



26. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei,
    XiaoMing and John, eternalized in our
    minds from the textbooks.



27. We carry out experiments of our own
    to get ourself badges for being a Young
    Zoologist/Botanist etc.



28. Every Children's day and National
    day you either get pins or pens with
    'Happy Children's Day 19' or dumb files
    with 'Happy National Day 1990'.



29. In Primary six you had to play buddy
    for the younger kids like big sister and
    brother.



30. We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.



31. Your form teacher taught you Maths,
    Science and English.



32. The worksheets were made of brown
    rough paper of poor quality.



33. 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.



34. School dismissal time was normally
    around 1 pm for morning session and 6pm
    for afternoon session.



35. There would be spelling tests and
    mental sums to do almost everyday.



36. Your friends considered you lucky
    and rich if your parents gave you $2 or
    more for pocket money everyday.



37. You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the
    school hall and principle's room.



38. You freak out when the teacher tells
    you to line up according to height and
    hold hands with the corresponding boy or
    girl.



39. We, boys like to catch those gross
    fighting spiders in between the sticky
    leaves.



40. Collecting and battling erasers was
    a pastime for boys.



41. Autograph books were loaded with
    "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and
    small poems like "Bird fly high, hard
    catch.Friend like you, hard to forget".



42. Class monitors and prefects loved to
    say "You talk somemore, I writeyour name
    ah!"



43. There were at least 40 people in one
    class.



44. Large, colourful schoolbags were
    carried, normally follow the trend of
    cartoons.



45. The worse you would do to a friend
    was get another friend to stop
    befriending him/her. "Don't friend him/her."



46. Having a 'mechanical' pencil box,
    when you press one of the buttons,
    something will pop out.



47. Idol cards and dragonball cards in
    normal colour or in GOLD are popular.



48. We used INK ERASER! Not liquid paper.



49. Lastly only TEACHERS beat STUDENTS ,
    unlike nowadays kids!

Interesting huh... hehehe.... This bring a lot of memories back.... ("P)