Båseline SG British comedies like "Mind your Language", "Blackadder" and this fella who dons various roles (can't remember his name) makes the bulk if English entertainment. Jing Qu Long Hu Bang (Mandarin version of Top Ten Songs) on the weekends. Every few months or so, I would go down to this shop (which sells CDs and Casettes) to dub the latest Top Ten songs in a Casette for a small fee. There was the time where Motorola pagers were quite common that when it sounds off in a bus or plcae... u can see many ppl chking their pockets and bags to see if it's theirs. haha. I missed A&W, their Root Beer Vanilla Float was good. Curly fires also not bad either. Ti-Kams and those black coloured plastic bags (The items inside again wrapped by newspaper). Can buy Dunhill ciggs by sticks. Mama shop stocked those cylinder tins filled with these. It was also a boom time for Japanese Drama serials. San Ren Shing, The Volleyball one, The Ultraman series (Man, I love those stage sets. hahaha) and many others. Playing cards with themes (Aircrafts, Submarines, Sports Car). Players slugged each other out by outplaying ya opponents with bigger or smaller data, depending on the data one call out for. Singtel was the only Telco. Carrom. Usually played in CC around my old estate back then during the weekends. Players need to declare which errr... seed to hit. Remember..."No sound no count?" "backstroke"?? hahaha
Båseline SG Nowadays Nike and Adidas were commonly seen. Back then, Lotto...Ascott...Diadora...New Balance had quite a following too.
Båseline SG I oni seen the FIRST one min of it's intro and it's indefinately in my list of banned programme.
AE86tofu SG still remember thoe chinese dramas shown on ch8 had rediculously recorded sound effects like the firing of the gun etc and all the actors voices were dubbed back then i there was still this brand of TV called "ITT" and if u owned one of those...biggest TV at tt time...
Båseline SG No such thing as Online Booking for Cinema back then. U were oni given a pink slip (Can't rem got other colours or not. hahaha) with vaguely written seat number. U damn Sat Sat if you own a 21" TV back then. It's a pain renting HK Drama serials... all in video cassette tapes and in bagfuls!
ndmmxiaomayi SG Then every time have to top up, the auntie will say "Your card spoil liao, buy new one!"
ndmmxiaomayi SG I'm borned after 1985, have experienced most, except seeing live chickens in the market. Still missed playgrounds that have merry-go-rounds, see-saws and swings. Nowadays, playgrounds are not filled with sand....
toll123 SG Channel 5 n 8 started boardcasting at 3pm to midnight rather than 24 hours Chinese news was at 8pm rather than 10pm Radio operates from 6am to 12am/2am rather than 24 hours also not forgetting the 20cents idol cards in which you can get your 4 heavenly king's idol card after inserting a 20cents coin n turning the knob
alwaysdisturbed SG lunch break b'tween end of final period in sch and remedial lessons, will go to these playgrounds and play xia yen mao...
