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You would remember:

You grew up watching He-man, MASK,
Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey
Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears,
Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs.

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

You know what SBC stands for.

You paid 40 cents for cartons of
Chocolate or Strawberry milk every
week in class.

Everyone's wallet used to be the
velcro type.

It was cool to have pagers in primary
school.

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.

There were still bus tickets and bus
conductors would come up to check
them.

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

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

You know what PETS are and the hidden
animals in all the text pages. You
hated penmanship.

Writing lines and caning hands were
common, esp if you failed chinese
spelling (caning was actually
allowed).

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.

Movie tickets used to cost only
$3.50.

Girls were fascinated by Strawberry
Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.

You learn to laugh like The Count in
Sesame Street.

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.

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three
Investigators, Famous Five and Secret
Seven were probably the thickest story
books you thought you would ever
read.

Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN
thing, and twist was the magic word.

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

You came to school 15 mins before the
bell every morning just so you could
copy someone's homework.

CDIS was your best friend.

The only computer lessons in school
involved funny pixellized characters
in 16 colours walking about trying to
teach you math.

Waterbottles were slung around your
neck and a must everywhere you went.

Boys loved to play soccer with small
stones or tennis balls in the
basketball court.
Girls played five stones and boys
played with marbles.

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.

Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and
John, immortalized in our minds from
school textbooks.

We conducted experiments of our own to
get badges for being a Young
Zoologist/Botanist etc.

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'.

You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas
shoes. Your form teacher taught you
Maths, Science and English.

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.

There would be spelling tests and
mental sums to do almost everyday
(you hated them). Your friends
considered you lucky and rich if your
parents gave you $2 or more for
pocket mone everyday.

Boys liked catching fighting spiders,
earthworms or tadpoles. Collecting and
battling erasers was a pastime for
boys.

Class monitors and prefects loved to
say, "You talk somemore, I write your
name ah!"
There were at least 40 people in one
class.

a bulletin posted by my friend in friendster.
The Count is my favourite!
sesame street rocks!