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saw something on the web that i simply had to put up on my blog.


The Good old Days:

1. You grew up watching Power Rangers, MASK, Transformers, and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles, My Little Pony, Carebears and Smurfs, too.

i was definitely a HUGE fan of power rangers, i had all the megazords. i spent my childhood on zordon, rita repulsa, lord zed, alpha 5, tommy, kimberly.. etc.

"its morphin tme!!"


2. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You would squat by the drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a colourful
plastic toothbrush.The teachers would also constantly remind you to brush each side 10 times.

i dont recall doing this though. but i do remember getting called to the school's dentist every few months for checkups. i think i'm weird but i love going to the dentist. i loved especially that sterical smell. hahahah!

3. You know what SBC stands for.

yeah man. remember when we had an extra channel for sports. also, prime 12 and premiere 12. then got mediaworks, channel i.

4. You find your friends with pagers cool in Secondary school.

i remembered begging my dad for those mtv pagers that can have messages displayed on the pager. and i didnt get it. you should have seen how bad i sulked. hahaha!! in he end they relented and i got it. but after 1 week i got bored.

5. 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.

i remembered this. red leather seats and remember those bells at the ceilings and beside the sliding windows?!

6. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.

isnt he that pink elephant?!

7. You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.

i remembered always going to my sch's bookshop to see whether the new issue is out. i still have the constable acai book. hahaha!!!

8. 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 and swinging on the handle bars like a little monkey.

i dont recall the mrt much. i did take the bus a few times but mostly, my father droved.

9. 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.

i loved ding dang. i hated the chocolate biscuits it came with though. i was more into push pops rather than ring pop. haha!! anyone remembers Hiro chocolate cake. i used to love that!!


10. Hardy Boys, Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest story books you ever thought you have read. Even Babysitters' Club, Sweet Valley High and Malory Towers.

i loved enid blyton books. i had shelves of these dumbfuck stories about pixies and fairies. i also loved these books called Goosebumps. haha!!


11. Catching was the IN thing and twist as the magic word.

i looked forward till the end of school so that i can play block catching with my friends!!

12. You used 'PETS' textbooks that had these cute animal mascots on the front cover.

omg!! yes!! and PETS worsksheets. i remembered got a squirrel one on the cover.

13. Barney was your best friend.

Barney was god and i piously sang his hymns!!!


14. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck with colourful straps and a must everywhere you go.

didnt u guys buy that ugly strap that attaches to the top of your recycled plastic coke bottle's head. i didnt use it for long though. i used Tupperware.

15. Boys loved to play soccer with empty plastic bottles in the basketball court, and the girls would cheer them on from the sidelines.

i'll let u guys in on a little secret k. i used to love playing soccer with my friends at the void deck. yes!! i know!! surprising right? i bet you all thought i never knew soccer existed until beckham married a spice girl.

16. Hopscotch, five stones, chapteh, hantam bola and zero point were all the rage

i remember stealing chalk from my class blackboard and using it to draw the hopscotch thingy at my corridor and play with my neighbour.

17. Science was fun with the hydrilla and the angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fish.

now that i recalled, yes. angsana was definitely the 'IN' tree.

18. Who can forget Ali, Bala, John and Mary, forever eternalized in our minds from the textbooks and worksheets.

dont even get me started on my PETS colleagues.

19. We carry out experiments of our own to get ourself badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.

i didnt. but i remembered planting cotton plants and balsam plants in my ecogarden.

20. Every Children's day and National day you either get pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or 'Happy National Day 1994'.

sometimes a file or sometimes pencil box as well.

21. In Primary 5/6, you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother.

i didnt.

22. We wear BM2000, or BATA, whoever heard of Converse and Kappa then?

i wore jazz and us master.

23. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor quality.

oooo. i remember this one. smooth plain white paper were rare. hahaha.

24. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.

1.30 usually and 12.30 on fridays.

25. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.

i had to buy those blue 25cents notebooks especially for these. i loved spelling.

26. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.

i got $5. hahaha!! that was probably why i was fat.

27. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.

i didnt have that holding hands fiasco. i did usually sit at the front of the class though.

28. We would squat by the drain after a downpour in the fields and catch tadpoles

not exactly something i did.

29. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for kids, boys especially, and exchanging those boxes of erasers with national flags on them.

i collected those 10cents flag erasers and challenge with my friends during class. then my teacher will confiscate. then during recess i'll go to the bookshop and buy another one. hahaha.

30. Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friend like you, hard to forget".

i do remember doing that in primary 6 after PSLE cause all of us might be going to different schools.

31. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"

nah. i was a good boy. i remembered being picked to be a prefect but i didnt want cause i hated going for camps.

32. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried, and there was a period of time when trolley bags were IN.

i had power rangers mostly every year until pokemon came by. the trolley bag definitely didnt last for long though. haha!!


33. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.

i didnt. i actually had one of the lightest bags cause i leave my books under my table.

34. We played games like pac man... the munching game on computers, and the coms were black and white then

yes!!! hahaha! Pac man was like so IN man.

35. Centre parting was the most funky hairstyle

i was a side parting student.

36. The pencils had scents on them, smelling like fruits/ berries of sorts

i dont remember pencils having scents. but i do remember pens and erasers having scents.

37. After the exams, we would bring games like monopoly, scrabble, UNO and played hangman in class

i didnt!! i did have a gameboy but i never had board games when i was young. when i asked my mum to buy for me monopoly, she asked me, 'who are you gonna play it with'. and obviously i had no reply.

38. For science lesson, we had to drop ink and wierd stuff on mealworms that were disgustingly harder than earthworms

i did not do that. i remembered my science teacher was agatha ang and a bald guy called mr heng. very nice ppl.

39. Exchanging stickers was a common love amongst girls, with the popularity of Sailor Moon cartoon then, and all the furry stickers, pop up stickers, glittery ones, glow in the dark...

i didnt know what girls did back then. i was stucked in a boys school for 10years.

40. Animaniacs, Power Rangers, Duckwing Duck, Betty Boop, Sonic the Hedgehog were cartoons shown during 11am just before the metal school buses come and ferry students in the afternoon session=)

i never took the schoolbus before. i loved pinky and the brain. hahahaha!!!





oh how much do i definitely miss my childhood days.




toodles