Confessions of an Undisguised Drama Queen

Monday, February 06, 2006

Childhood memories

If you're familiar with the points in this list, we're of the same generation!
I reckon that we fit in neither the GenX nor GenY demographic group... just somewhere in between, in the transition stage.

50 memories for Singaporean (Pre/ Young) Adults

1. You grew up watching He-man, Transformers, Silver hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja Turtles and Smurfs too. (Hey what about Captain Planet and X-men?)

2. You used to brush your teeth with water and no toothpaste in primary school during recess time; squatting by some drain in line with your classmates, with a cute coloured mug in your hands.

3. You know what's Bin(1) Fen(1) Ba (1) San(1) is all about. (WTH?)

4. You know what SBC stands for. (There were multiple versions for this though... hehe)

5. You were there when the first chinese serial, the Awakening was shown on TV. (And the SONG...)

6. There was no such thing as the Internet and computers started up on DOS. Large floppy disks was the only software storage available.

7. Secondary school friends with pagers were darn cool.

8. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned with wooden seat frames and red cushions. You used to collect the bus tickets and the TIBS ones were way cooler because of their colour.

9. Your favourite actor and actress is Huang Wenyong and Xiangyun. Followed by Lee Nanxing , Zoe Tay and the Aiyoyo woman.

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

11. 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. (Hmm... really?)

12. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50. (Hoho... I never went to the movies till I was much older... by then the cost was way more than this)

13. Girls are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls (errr not all girls).

14. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street. (Oh yes... I even choked on a sweet once doing this)

15. You would to buy tibits called Kaka and Ding Dang, the one with a toy in
the box. The fancy lollipops then were Push-pop and ring pop. (My favourite snack was the long icy 10 cents popsicle, Sng Bao, that I used to share with my brother after his soccer games)

16. You watched TV2(also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.

17. All that you know about Cantonese is from the Hong Kong serials you watched on TV2.

18.Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest storybooks you ever thought you have read.

19.Civics and Moral Education was "Hao3 Gong1 Min2".

20. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates with metal forks and knives.

21. Stupid, idiot and shit were very vulgar words.

22. Catching was the IN thing and twist the magic word.

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

24. CDIS was your best friend.

25. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixeled characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.

26. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and had your name and class on it.

27. Boys loved to play soccer with small tennis balls in the basketball court or play something that uses tennis ball to hit other players known as "HUM TAM BOLA" during
recess /after school

28. Hopskotch, five stones, chateh and zero point were common past times.

29. Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the most important plants of our lives.

30. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds from the textbooks. Even Mr Wally.

31. You did stupid exercises like seal crawl and frog jumps.

32. You get crappy gifts from the school every Children's day and National day.

33. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids.

34. Chinese teachers were old, boring and constantly in a foul mood.

35. Your form teacher taught you maths, science and english.

36. The worksheets were brown and rough and you could easily create a hole in it when erasing mistakes.

37. You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained.

38. You are familiar with the 4 heavenly kings - the only famous chinese pop singers: Jacky
Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai. You favourite female singer is Vivian Chow.

39. School dismissal time was normally around 1pm.

40. There was spelling and mental sums almost everyday.

41. $2 for pocket money was considered alot.

42. You've been to the zoo countless times for school excursions.

43. You had to line up according to height.

44. You always carried a handkerchief in your pocket.

45. Collecting notebooks and all kinds of stationery was a popular thing.

46. Autograph books were decorated with colourful words like "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and short poems like "Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friend like you, hard to forget".

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

48. There were at least 40 people in one class.

49. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.

50. You brought every single book to school, even though there's a thing called the timetable.

[Time of Confession] 4:38 PM
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1 Comments:

Bizarre16 said...: Haven't visited ur blog for some time cuz was just so busy.

But its still as entertaining as ever!

Yeah, we're of the same generation! Super funny.
Gonna copy this "50 memories for Singaporean (Pre/ Young) Adults" from your blog ok?; 9:44 AM