What would you tell your grandchildren?

Kuali Baba SG · 2005-03-16T22:49:06+00:00

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Kuali Baba SG

Let's say you do get married and have children, and they have children of their own. Looking back at the events in your life and the events in history which took place then, what would you say to them?

Let's have a template like this: "In my time/When I was your age/A long time ago..."

Kuali Baba SG

My contribution:

Back then...

(Politics)
...people could travel anywhere they wanted without getting molested by immigration officers.

...civil servants wasted newspaper space with their non-replies to public queries.

...our descent was called 'race' and it was listed on our ICs.

...people worked five-and-a-half day weeks.

(Society)
...there were also many attrocious S'porean drivers.

...COEs could cost $50.

...we could not buy chewing gum here for a while and were ribbed for it constantly by foreigners.

...we had pretty pictures of ships on our notes and they were replaced by the face of a man from a time to forget.

...we took 4/5 exams a year and even project work and speech were examinable.

...people celebrated when you got 11 A's but nobody wanted you even if you're a fantastic footballer if you had rubbish results.

...we could get a good meal for 2 or 3 dollars.

(Sports)
...F1 engines produced 900bhp.

...I watched Michael Schumacher win his 7 (currently) world championships, and the dogfights between him and Häkkinen/Montoya/Räikkönen/Villeneuve.

...goalkeepers could receive backpasses (until the mid-Nineties) and players could take off their jerseys to celebrate.

...I watched Ronaldo, Schmeichel, Zidane, Shearer ply their trade.

...many of us didn't watch the S-League.

...Leeds United were a great team, and then they collapsed.

...some of the world's best bowlers were S'porean.

disneymetal SG

in my days:
(politics)
vlaams belang where gaining vote's at an alarming rate
there was a war between Israel and Palestina
(sports)
Bart Wellens became world champion cyclocross
François Duval became World Champion rally (I hope that's gonna happen Razz )
(society)
the games only costed like 50 euro's back then
the miss universe election was still about beauty and not about intelligence

Danisdead101times SG

i will tell them....(your ah gong me~~ last time surf sgforums one leh~~ got time you all also must go~~) Mr. Green

laurence82 SG

goodie, i noticed a lot of things happened when i was born, in 1982...

Shocked

but to list what happened during our time, challenger crashed in 1986, columbia in 2003, the twin tower came down in Sept 11 2001, berlin wall came down in 1989, singapore goes into recession 1985 and 1999, millenium celebrations in 2000, sars 2003, lewinsky gives good blowjob 1999, dessert storm 1990, iraqi freedom 2003, afghanistan women threw away their burka 2002, entered sgforums 2003, ord loh! 2003....

theTelepath SG

back when I was young, George W Bush was merely the President of the United States, not the world's Greatest Terrorist and Enemy of Mankind.

back when I was really young, we used to write letters on paper and mail them to our friends in other countries.

There was a time when nobody had a cellphone and you had a pager if you were really important.

If that damn condom didn't break....

Kuali Baba SG

When I was in Primary 2, multiple-choice questions were still hand-marked. At that time too, my school was still a single-session school. Windows 3.1 had only just appeared, and viruses were found in the air and in the soil, not in virtual reality.

CSpencer SG

When I was your age..........money was always on my mind, i nv thought i

would find ur grandmother, played football every fri at a basketball court and

get into trouble with the poilce cuz the bball players call the police(but later compromise wif the bballers that fri...the bball court is not a bball court but a soccer court)...

exams are the only time to study and aim to get to next semester witout failing a module....

dream almost everyday bout owning my own dream car..

was a very active little boy...track, football, table tennis, badminton, golf, tennis...u name it, i prob tried it b4

dream of talking to my grand children Neutral

laurence82 SG

i met a forumnite called kuali baba….

LazerLordz SG

When I was young, cars still ran on petrol.Your grandmother was still natural and not a genetically engineered supermodel.Orchard Road was actually a road and there was no such thing as democracy.You children have it good, you know, me and your grandmother had to write tons of essays in Uni and we still did not have free notebooks given to us.Be thankful for the fuel-cell car your father gave you for you 18th birthday Mark, at least you have a car.In my time, I had to buy my own car after starting work and saving up.Oh yes, there was something called lard in that dish called Fried Kway Teow.And, yes, who could forget Osama and Bush, they were the villains of our time and we were really relieved when Bush was impeached for lying to the nation during his last term in office.Osama was caught by the British after he carelessly used a cellphone.

EvilDead SG

Lmao!!!!!!

EvilDead SG

I would tell my grandkids ” when I was your age I wasn’t a grandpiano….i mean a grandfather”

FireIce SG

oei! how can dun mention me?!?!?!?!

Kuali Baba SG

Did you meet Ah Lau in person too? *kaypoh/plays nosey Parker*

EvilDead SG

gets translator out

skid SG

where do you keep him?

Kuali Baba SG

I think it’s a machine rather than a person. One that still runs on punched cards.

ssomeone SG

I would say that they smell like... Shocked

Faye Valentine SG

tell my child how his/her parents met Razz

jusgal SG

Laughing