Singapore got swa teng (countryside).
My relatives lived in the "country" took hours to get to, grasses
by the roadside were taller than me.
Their houses were 1 storey, big, but dinghy, with zinc roofs.
Huge yards with durian trees, rambutans, papayas, soursop,
etc.
Ran around and lit small fire crackers - don't know how they got
that.
Time seemed to pass slowly.
The days were long and everyone spoke Hokkien.
We seem to do whatever we want.
There were no shopping malls.
The first like real departmental store was this Chinese Emporium in
Queenstown.
Telephones were rotary dial - that is if you knew what one
was.
There were only 5 digits or was it 6 digits to remember.
Man always ate before women and children in my grandmother's
extended/clannish household.
Cambridge GCE 'O' level was like a university degree today.
Passing PSLE meant that you were a genius.
There were real multi-party elections.
All kids had 5-cents and 10-cents marks on their legs from bug
bites.
Everybody just lived, what global competition?
Little boys were Lords of the household - favoured more?!?
There were no showers, you wash with a pail and water
scoop/bucket.
When you had mumps - you get someone who was born in the year of
the Tiger to write the word "Tiger" on your cheeks.
Singaporeans were just invented.
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