Those where our childhood, those were the days!!School During Our Time (very touching esp for those born 1974-early 80's)brings fond memories back...School-life during our time....
01. You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silverhawks andVisionaries. Not forgetting, Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony and Smurfstoo.
02. 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 besideyou, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug. The teachers said youmust brush each side 10 times too.
03. You know what SBC stands for.
04. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.
05. You watch a popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1 aboutschoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called MeoroAttack and another one called Oshin or those 3pm chinese drama serials onch8 with the likes of Aileen Tan, Zoe Tay & Cherie Lim.
06. You find your friends with pagers and handphone coo l in secondary school.
07. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of woodand the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEEP! when pressed.There are colourful tickets for TIBS buses.The conductor will check fortickets by using a machine which punches a hole in the ticket.
08. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day
09. You've probably read Young Generation magazine( you know who's Vinnythe little vampire and Acai the constable) or those lame bookworm gang bookz.
10. You were there when they first introduced MRT here. You went for thefirst ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.
11. Movie tickets used to cost a mere $3.50.
12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
13. Miss ing Sesame Street or The Electric Company was a mortal sin.
14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka, Tora and Ding Dang, that had a toyin 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.And chewing gum was not banned !
15. You watched TV2(also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5never had enough cartoons for you.
16. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and SecretSeven 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 letyou use metal forks and knives and you get a free pirate plastic hat everytimeyou ate at Long John Silver.
18. The most vulgar thing you said was idiot or st upid and THE MOST EXTREMEWAS 'super white'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.
19. Playing catching was the IN thing and twist as the magic word.
20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper thatwas smooth and yellow.
21. CDIS were your bestfriend.
22. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised charactersin 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 coulourful small plastic balls in thebasketball court.
25. Teng-teng, batu lesung, hopscotch, hentam bola, one-leg and zero pointwere all the rage with the girls and boys too...
26. Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the mostimportant plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most importantfish. Hai....
27. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our mindsfrom the textbooks. Even Mr Wally & Mr. Yakki. What abt Miss Lala???And of course... ... Zaki and Tini in Malay Textbooks... ...
28. We carry out experiments of our own to get ourself badges for being aYoung 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 wore Panda, BM2000, BATA or Pallas shoes then moved on to Paichi& US Masters in sec school.
32. Your form teacher taught you maths, science, english, social studi es &health education.....oh and sometimes PE too.
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 $3or 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 heightand hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.
40. Boys like to catch fighting spiders & play goli (no kissing, no so und no count).
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 to catch. Friend like you, hard to forget".
43. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I writeyour name ah!"
44. There were at least 40 people in one class.
45. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried. And remember those Bodypac &High Sierra bagz... yeah...
50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was onething called the timetable.
