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Take a trip down memory lane.
Bitched on: Sunday, October 22, 2006
Time: 10/22/2006 02:20:00 AM
To those of you born in the 1970s or 1980s, take a trip down memory lane... Time: 10/22/2006 02:20:00 AM
You would remember 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 some coloured mug.
The teachers said you must brush each side 10 times (vertically, not horizontally).
You paid 40 cents for a packet of Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.
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.
SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats were made of wood and the cushion was red. The big red bell gave a loud BEEP when pressed. More importantly, bus fares barely reached 50 cents.
There used to be colourful tickets for TIBS buses. The conductor will check for tickets by using a machine which punched a hole in the ticket.
Envelopes were given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.
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'.
You grew up watching He-man, Captain Planet, Transformers, Silver Hawk, Kimba the White Lion and Mickey Mouse. Not forgeting Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, Gummy Bears, BananaMan, Power Rangers (the dinosaur ones), Gloworms and Smurfs too...
You've probably read Young Generation magazine.
You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
And you solved the mysteries of the Bookworm gang with Smarty, Mimi, Simone and Samseng.
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickest story books you thought you would ever read. Even Sweet Valley High and Malory Towers.
There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.
Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper.
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.
We carry out experiments of our own to get ourself badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John (eternalized in our minds) from the Mathematics textbooks?
You barely bat an eyelid when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl. Either that or you protest violently and call the other girl or boy smelly, wet, disgusting or all of the above.
There were at least 40 people in one class.
In Primary Six you had to play 'buddy' to the younger kids like big sister and brother.
Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"
Lets face it, they were all bullies who were good at sucking up to teachers.
Speaking of teachers, teachers hit you... hard... and parents encouraged that. Public caning was a norm.
School dismissal timings were normally around 1 pm for the morning session and 6pm for the afternoon session.
After school, you longed to buy tibits called Kaka (20 cents per pack), and Tora (50 cents per box), that came with a toy which differs every week. Not forgetting the 15 cents animal crackers and the ring pop, where the lollipop is the huge 'diamond' on the ring.
Forget card games, 'catching' was the game you can play anywhere, anytime (even on the school bus).
Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic balls in the basketball court.
Or catch fighting spiders and battle them with friends.
If spiders were too 'scary', we substitute them with rectangular erasers with flags of some exotic countries.
Zeropoint and fivestones were a hit with the girls.
There was once the craze for Tamiya cars and toy dispensers where you had to slot in a coin and twist the knob, while your other hand anticipated the toy to appear.
20 cents for colourful rubber balls (that are super bouncy) and 50 cents / 1 dollar for toys in plastic egg shells.
Colourful waterbottles (with some distorted Disney cartoon characters) were slinged around your neck and it was a must-have everywhere you go.
We wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
Large, colourful schoolbags (around the same size as lil' you) were carried around (and then passed on to your mummy to carry for you after school).
You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.
Cute, isn't it?
Bloggers Note: Courtesy of Suhaila, with my own editing.
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