Thursday, December 28, 2006
A Look Back At My Younger Days
Just today, I was thinking about my life when I was putting up that post on Sanjiv's 21st birthday. If you haven't seen it, click here. It's kinda funny how, when I was 10, I always envied my cousins who were celebrating their 21st birthday. Now that I am nearing that stage, and since sangeetha was telling me about how old I am getting, it amazes me how I so badly want to go back to my younger days. And speaking of younger days, here are 51 things that will remind you of your younger days. You are ageing if:
1. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk some more, I write your name ah!"
2. You were brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You will stand by the sink with all your classmates beside you and brush your teeth with a coloured mug.
3. You know what SBC stands for.
4. You paid 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.
5. You watched a very popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1 about schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called Meoro Attack.
6. You found your friends with pagers and handphone cool in secondary school.
7. SBS buses used to be non air-conditioned. Seats were made of wood and cushions were red. The big red bell gave a loud beep when pressed. There were colourful tickets for TIBS buses. The conductor would check for tickets by using a machine which punched a hole in the ticket.
8. Envelopes were given to you to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.
9. You've probably read Young Generation magazine. You'd know who Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable are.
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 were fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
13. You learned to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
14. You longed to buy tidbits called Kaka (20 cents per pack) and Ding Dang (50 cents per box) that had a toy in it that changes every week. And also Ring pop where the lollipop is the diamond on the ring. Or even push pop for that matter.
15. You watched TV2 (aka Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
17. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served 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' which you just couldn't bring yourself to saying the hokkien relative.
19. Catching was the 'in' thing and 'twist' was the magic word.
20. Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
21. CDIS was your best friend.
22. The only computer lesson in school involved funny, 16 bit colour, characters walking about trying to teach you maths.
23. Water bottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go.
24. You loved to play soccer with small plastic balls in the basketball court. Mine came in the form of a rock or, even worse, coconuts coz my friends were so into Pele becoming a good footballer because he juggled and headed coconuts. But heck, now this how Singapore got a footballer.
25. Teng-teng, Batu Lesung, Chapteh, Hantam Bola and Zero Point were all the rage with the girls and boys.
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 fishes.
27. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds from the textbooks?
Even Mr Wally & Mr. Yakki.
28. We carry out experiments of our own to get a badge for being a Young Scientist. I got hammered till I got all 12 badges.
29. Every children's day and national day, you either get pins or pens with Happy Children's Day 1993' or files with Happy National Day 1994' written on it.
30. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother. I was with this beautiful Hindi gal. She was smokin'. (Now I'll have to pray my girlfriend ain't reading this)
31. We wore 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 always found a dry spot in the school to sit down and dry your feet and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.
35. School dismissal time was normally around 1pm for the morning session and around 6pm for the afternoon session.
36. There would be spelling tests, dictations 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 freaked out when the teacher told you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.
40. You liked to catch fighting spiders.
41. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime.
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. When something goes wrong, everyone would "HOR HOR" in harmony.
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.
51. You were awarded stars whenever you got full marks for tests.Labels: Younger Days
Praba
- 5:59 PM
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