{"id":955,"date":"2007-09-21T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladysuki.net\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2007-09-21T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T08:45:00","slug":"if-you-were-born-in-the-80s-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladysuki.net\/blog\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"if you were born in the 80's in Singapore.."},"content":{"rendered":"

keke.. recap from Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

You would remember:<\/p>\n

You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers<\/span>, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja turtles<\/span>, Carebears<\/span>, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs<\/span>.<\/p>\n

You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time.<\/span> You would squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug.<\/p>\n

You hated or loved the school nurse (she was either pretty or mean).<\/p>\n

You know what SBC stands for.<\/span><\/p>\n

You paid 40 cents for cartons of Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.<\/p>\n

Everyone’s wallet used to be the velcro type<\/p>\n

It was cool to have pagers in primary school<\/p>\n

SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushionwere red. The big red bell gave a loud BEEP! when pressed.<\/p>\n

There were still bus tickets and bus conductors would come up to check them.<\/p>\n

Envelopes were given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children’s Day.<\/p>\n

You’ve probably read Young Generation magazine.<\/span>You know who’s Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.<\/p>\n

You know what PETS are and the hidden animals in all the text pages. You hated penmanship.<\/p>\n

Writing lines and caning hands were common<\/span>, esp if you failed chinese spelling (caning was actually allowed. no shit).<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gals were fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.<\/span><\/p>\n

You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again.<\/p>\n

You watched TV2<\/span> (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.<\/p>\n

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew<\/span>, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven<\/span> were probably the thickest story books you thought you would ever read.<\/p>\n

KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates and had metal forks and knives.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN thing, and twist was the magic word.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.<\/span><\/p>\n

You came to school 15 mins before the bell every morning just so you could copy someone’s homework.<\/p>\n

CDIS was your best friend.<\/p>\n

The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellized characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you math.<\/p>\n

Waterbottles were slung around your neck and a must everywhere you went.<\/p>\n

Boys loved to play soccer with small stones or tennis balls in the basketball court.<\/p>\n

Girls played five stones and boys played with marbles.<\/p>\n

Science was fun with the Balsam and the Angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fishes.<\/p>\n

Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, immortalized in our minds from school textbooks.<\/p>\n

We conducted experiments of our own to get badges for being a Young Zoologist\/Botanist etc.<\/p>\n

Every Children’s day and National day you either got pins or pens with ‘Happy Children’s Day 1993’ or useless plastic files with ‘Happy National Day 1994’.<\/p>\n

You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.<\/p>\n

Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.<\/p>\n

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.
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There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday (you hated them).<\/p>\n

Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $2 or more for pocket mone everyday.

You saw Wee Kim Wee’s face in the school hall.<\/p>\n

Boys liked catching fighting spiders, earthworms or tadpoles.<\/p>\n

Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.<\/p>\n

Class monitors and prefects loved to say, “You talk somemore, I write your name ah!”<\/p>\n

You got booked for muddy shoes in class.<\/p>\n

There were at least 40 people in one class.
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You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable.<\/p>\n

There was a pro-yo\/bumblebee, digimon craze at some point in time.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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