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This is an email sent to me, which I find it a must to share and reminisce with you guys. Thus I have discarded my golden rule of ‘No recycling material on thy Blog’. Here it goes:
Fond memories for those who were born in Singapore during the 70s and 80s~
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..
Ash: And not forgetting Captain Planet!!!
‘Wind! Fire! Water! Earth! Wind! Heart! With your powers combined, I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!!!’
Oh Oh! And Care bears~
‘Care Bears... SHINE!!’
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.
Ash: Yeah man.... I remembered vividly that in my mind~ synchronised brushing teeth ritual.
‘Left, upper row now. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... 10! Now move a bit to the right. Again... 1, 2,3....’
3. You know what SBC stands for.
4. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.
Ash: I always went for the Chocolate flavour, downed it in less than 1 minute and ran to the school bus for home. And got sick in the stomach. Bus auntie came well-prepared with a plastic bag for me...
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.
Ash: So were those with Branded paperbags and Sonia Rykel... Hmm..
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 BEEP! when pressed..
Ash: Once, there was this guy who kept pressing the bell continously till the bus driver got fed-up and drove past 4 bus stops,without stopping. All passengers and schoolkids turned white in the face... anxiously estimating the distance and time needed to walk back to their stops....
8. There are colourful tickets forTIBS buses. The conductor will check for tickets by using a machine which punches a hole in the ticket.
Ash: YA! Love that. Love that!! Always like to observe the bus conductors clipping the tickets away. Actually, it inspired me to be a bus conductor, so I can use that puncher and clip those colourful tickets.
9. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.
Ash: Do they still have that?
10. You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
11. 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.
12. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50. 12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
Ash: NOT ME
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.
Ash: When I was 9, my mum used to buy a huge bag of biscuits for me and sister to bring to school for snack time. I thought of this business idea- to sell them to the schoolkids~ 10cents per piece. It was a great success- but to a short period. Mom got suspicious of the increasingly heavy purse of mine... and closed my Mamashop business by giving me only 2 biscuits per day....
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 .
Ash: Oh please... My ‘Magic Faraway Tree’ was as thick as the thickest dictionary...
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.
Ash: Erm.. My most lethal abusive language in Primary school~ ‘GO AND DIE LAH!!’
19. Catching was the IN thing and twist as the magic word.
Ash: So was Blind Cat... Awww.. Had loads of fun playing Blind Cat chasing Mouse in class chalets...
20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
21. CDIS were your best friend.
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, five stones, chapteh, hentam bola and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too...
Ash: I was a champion at most of them~! (But could no longer jump higher than shoulder level for the Zero point now....)
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.
Ash: And I have thought guppies were the most beautiful fish in the whole wide world...
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?
Ash: Used to wonder why all characters have the same name....
28. We carry out experiments of our own to get ourselves badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
Ash: Never ever completed one successfully.... Mum complained that I only know how to buy the cards and waste her money.
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 wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
Ash: Mine... was Panda Brand...
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 every day.
37. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money every day.
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.
Ash: HEY~ For girls too! Or rather... I did battle with ‘Lubber’ and made a boy cried by winning 10 of his precious ones... Muahahahaha
42. Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high, hard catch. Friend like you, hard to forget".
Ash: ‘Roses are red, Pens are blue and my friend is you’ *Cringe~
43. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"
Ash: HURHURhurhur... Although I was a prefect, my name appeared on blackboard for numerous times.
44. There were at least 40 people in one class.
45. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.
Ash: It was a World inside for us, man....
50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.
Ash: HAhahaaa... That’s what large schoolbag for~!! And all kids walked like old men with hunchbacks!
