School life during our time

[iceman]

School-life during our time....

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 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.

3. You know what SBC stands for.

4. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.

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.

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 BEEEP! when pressed. There are colourful tickets forTIBS buses.The conductor will check for tickets 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's Vinny 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 the scenery.

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. 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.

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.

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

20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.

21. CDIS were your bestfriend.

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, batu lesung, chapteh, hentam bola and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too...

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 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?

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 'HappyChildren's Day 1993' or dumbfiles with Happy National Day1994'.

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 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 everyday.

37. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or 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 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

42. 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".

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.

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

[mabro]

Those were the days

Now? Stress with work and children

Also stress with my tanks' water parameters.............

[flamey]

gosh!! totally agree with ur points... damn i missed those days...

4. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.

love the strawberry milk..

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

hw bout 'tikam'? the black coloue packet with a qustion mark on it!

but seriously reading your thread makes me think back to the good ol primary school days....

thanks for bringing it up bro!

[AquaRa]

haha i experienced some of these in primary school.

[zorden]

i am feeling nostalgic.

now working...harder and harder and need to attend night class so that the BUSINESS card have a BSC or maybe CPA.

life tough.......

[NavIgatoR]

yeah hav to agree wif tat ....the times was fresh in my memory about the fighting spider...those who own a big spider sure hav big luck...haha

[Seng]

51. " Par Goor Li" ... playing marbles was my fav !!! bunch of marbles for 20 cents, one circle and at least one other male fren. Girls are 'eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' ...

52. When my elder bro started playing Dungeons and Dragons wif his frens ... using guidebooks and 20 sided dice etc etc. i joined in .. more fun than some D&D based PC games.

53. Other than spider, have fighting fish too. ..

[FuEl]

yeah hav to agree wif tat ....the times was fresh in my memory about the fighting spider...those who own a big spider sure hav big luck...haha

Big spider? Check this out

Singapore blue tarantula

Haha...marbles..Still remember..from 10 marbles I ended up with I think 10-20kg of marbles. Mostly won. Can't remember where I stuffed them now..

[barnacle]

i feel so old.......

still remember cumi ciki...mat yoyo

still remember paying 10cents bus fare

and those mini blue bus that went to orchard..

[flamey]

used to put the "kang" spider in either a matchbox or a cassette holder and put some leaves(i used pandan leaves ).. i have friend who put in red chilli to make the spider more garang! after a battle usually will get a "boo"(female) spider for the "kang" to get rid of its lust! nw thinking back i feel like the boo is being raped.. and im an accomplice! (sorry to all animal activists in this forum.. take not that im only abt 9 yrs old when i committed this crime.. pls refrain frm flameing me )

used to draw a circle and each of us put 20cents coin into the circle and half buried it in the sand.. objective is to throw a marble at the coin to get it out of the circle.. if the coin is out of the circle its yours.. anyone played it before?

and who can forget the chapteh!

[daimy068]

How about using playing with bottle caps (even modified your own bottle cap so it could flip over your opponent's)?

Also, using the big iron core goh-li to break your opponent's normal glass goh-li.

Another- making your own layang and lining the tail streamer of your layang with glass powder and resin so you can cut your opponent's layang string.

Those were the days!

[daimy068]

Just thought of another one!

Remember when your teacher had his/her own variety of canes in his/her cupboard and asked you to choose which one you wanted to be caned with?

After selecting, he/she will just let loose, caning you on your legs so the marks would show.

Then you go back and your parents ask why the cane marks and you get second round?

[flamey]

Another- making your own layang and lining the tail streamer of your layang with glass powder and resin so you can cut your opponent's layang string.

actually that is hw the kampung ppl have layang2 competition in the olden days... last layang2 standing(or should i say flying WITH string) wins...

[flamey]

oh ya.. n my teacher used to love pulling those baby hairs at the back of ur head or along the sideburns... damn painful!

[lightningstrike]

i am from that era 2........

[weileong]

wow really bring back memories.... I guess I am pre no.1 lol

[lightningstrike]

wow really bring back memories.... I guess I am pre no.1 lol

dun bluff. u old man liao.

[weileong]

lol....

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

I very guilty for that pengz.

[weisoon]

lol....

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

I very guilty for that pengz.

WL, I believed you went to those open air cinema right? Those with seats.

How about a bowl of noodles with extra fish cakes for 20 cents?

[weileong]

I remember every year near the lunar 7th month, my father will bring the long DIY wooden stool put in front of the opera stage to "chop" the good location lol......

[andysho]

Hmmm

Wat about first love in sch?

No worries about money, work ,

just hold hands and etc

[darren]

my biggest investment prior to primary 3 was the erasers that we used to "fight" with. those nasty little erasers which had country flags printed on them. i remember USA as my "1st king", UK was "2nd king", Singapore "3th king" and so on...

bought an entire box(cost $4 plus) which was a shitload of money for a young boy back then. i was so scared my mum's gonna find out! lol

[ervine]

my biggest investment prior to primary 3 was the erasers that we used to "fight" with. those nasty little erasers which had country flags printed on them. i remember USA as my "1st king", UK was "2nd king", Singapore "3th king" and so on...

bought an entire box(cost $4 plus) which was a shitload of money for a young boy back then. i was so scared my mum's gonna find out! lol

Oh yeah!! I was quite good at that.. haha...

I remember catching fighting spiders at the school garden... then making them fight with other kid's spiders in the school bus on the way back home...

Even remember catching nice big juicy ants for the spider to feed on.. haha

[daimy068]

WL, I believed you went to those open air cinema right? Those with seats.

How about a bowl of noodles with extra fish cakes for 20 cents?

Remember going to a concert at the National Theatre just beside Van Cleef Aquarium! That one also open air. Was so stuffy I was getting restless and ran abt the seats.

[Chris]

So many thing so familiar. I am also from that era.

My first love with fish started at Van Cleef.

My aunties everyday listen to Liu Wenzhen songs.

I buy Cha Kway Teow must bring egg from home.

There is only 1 KFC in Signapore at Kallang and I get to eat there once a year.

Outside Tao Payoh Swimming pool, a few old ladies sells delicious po pian for 30 cents.

At night, go to fountain outside Toa Payoh library and look for fish in the fountain area.

Love those colourful bus tickets. Somemore got 4 numbers to buy 4D but too young to buy.

I cried when President Sheares death was announced in class.

Wa lao liao.