FOND MEMORIES OF THE 80'S

23th July 2009

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 duringrecess 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. Kopi-O is not just a kind of beverage to you but also a popular television serial.
6. Pagers are the in thing and numeric numbers are encoded with sweet lovey dovey messeges.
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..There are colourful tickets forTIBS buses. The conductor will check fortickets 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'sVinny 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 thescenery.
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. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that serve food in plates with bottled ketchup and chilli sauce and also their metal forks and knives.
16. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
17. CDIS were your bestfriend.
18. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.
19. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go.
20. Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic balls in the basketball court.
21. Teng-teng, five stones, chapteh, hentam bola and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too...
22. Science experiments includes incubating an egg and watching it hatch into a chick before a fully grown chicken
.23. Kids would be donning black, huge and nerdy looking plastic glasses to school.
24. Drinks cost 10 cents and food was only 50 cents in the school tuckshop.
25. The bookshop does not only sell books but colourful pencils and pens, badminton rackets, balls, marbles, erasers with country flags on them etc.
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, XiaoMing and John, eternalized in our minds from the 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 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 youfind a dry spot in the school to sit down, dry your feet, and wear yourdry 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 $2or more for pocket money everyday.
38. You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall and principle's room.
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 those gross fighting spiders.
41. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.
42. Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", andsmall poems like "Bird fly high, hard 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. The worse you would do to a friend was get another friend to stop befriending him/her. "Don't friend him/her."Do you still remember, i do...Spread this heart warming message around, you don't get something like this very often. ;)
47.You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the schoolto sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.
48.Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN thing, and twist was themagic word.
49.Writing lines and caning hands were common, esp if you failed chinese spelling (caning was actually allowed. no shit).
50.You’ve probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who’s Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
51.You were there when they first introduced the MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.
52.You bought tidbits called beebee (20 cents per pack, 10 cents in MGS), and mamee (30 cents), that had a different sticker in it every time.
53.You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again.
54.The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellized characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you math.
55. All students have to buy a recorder for music classs.
56.You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable.
57.You saw Wee Kim Wee’s face in the school hall.
58.Everyone’s wallet used to be the velcro type
59.Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickeststory books you thought you would ever read.
60.The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS ‘chicken pie’…you just couldn’t bring yourself to say the hokkien translation.