tis email is about pp born ard 80s and grew in the 90s
era 
From: Lyn
Subject: Those born in 1974 to 1980... fond memories
To:
Date:
School During Our Time (very touching
esp for those born 1974-early
80's) brings fond memories
back...
Please forward this email to any of your friends
who born within these years...
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1. You grew up watching He-man, MASK,
Transformers, Silverhawks and Visionaries. Not forgetting, 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 popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1 about schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in
volleyball called Meoro Attack and another one called Oshin or
those 3pm chinese drama serials on ch8 with the likes of aileen
tan, zoe tay & cherie
lim.
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 BEEEP! when pressed. There are colourful tickets for
TIBS 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)
or those lame bookworm gang bookz.
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 a mere
$3.50.
12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake
and Barbie Dolls.
13. Missing Sesame
Street or The Electric
Company was a mortal sin.
14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka, Tora and Ding Dang, 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. And chewing gum was not banned
!
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 and you
get a free pirate plastic hat everytime you ate at Long John Silver.
18. The most vulgar thing you said was idiot or
stupid and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just couldn't
bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.
19. Playing 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 coulourful
small plastic balls in the basketball court.
25. Teng-teng, batu
lesung, hopscotch, hentam bola, one-leg 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 of course.......Zaki and Tini
in Malay Textbooks.....
28. We carry out experiments of our own to get
ourself 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 wore Panda, BM2000, BATA or Pallas shoes
then moved on to Paichi & US Masters in sec
school.
32. Your form teacher taught you maths, science,
english, social studies & health education.....oh and
sometimes PE too.
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 &
play goli (no kissing, no sound no count).
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.
And remember those Bodypac & High Sierra
bagz.....yeah....
50. You brought every single book to school,
even though there was one thing called the
timetable.
