School time and growing up during the 80's to 90's
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 BEEEP! 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, batu lesung, 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 ourself badges for
being a
Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
29. Every children's day and national day you either get pins or
penswith
'HappyChildren's Day 1993' or dumbfiles with Happy National
Day1994'.
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.
haha no. 43 oso got when the teacher is not around in
class,he/she will ask the moniter to go to the whiteboard and write
the names of those who were misbehaving (X sometimes oso got
(name)x2 LOL
