1. You grew up watching He-Man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk, and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony and Smurfs.
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 brushed 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 paid 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.
6. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary school.
7. SBS buses used to be non-air conditioned. The bus seats were made of wood and the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEP! when pressed. There were colourful tickets for TIBS buses. The conductor would 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 read Young Generation magazine. You know who ‘Vinny’ the little vampire and Acai the constable is.
10. You were there when they first introduced MRT here. You went 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. Strawberry ShortCake and Barbie Dolls fascinated Gals.
13. You learned to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
14. You longed to buy titbits called Kaka (20cents per pack), and Xiao Ding Dang (50 cents per box), that had a toy in 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 Channel10) cartoons because SBC 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. Catching was the IN thing and twist was the magic word.
19. Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
20. CDIS was your best friend.
21. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.
22. Water bottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go.
23. Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic balls in the basketball court.
24. Teng-teng, five stones, chapteh, hentambola and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too.
25. 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.
26. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds from the textbooks. Even Mr Wally & Mr. Yakki. What about Miss Lala??? And Zaki and Tini in Malay Textbooks?
27. You carried out experiments of our own to get ourself badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
28. Every Children’s day and National Day you received pins or pens with ‘Happy Children’s Day 1993’ or dumb files with ‘Happy National Day 1994’.
29. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother.
30. You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
31. Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
32. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor quality.
33. You went to school in slippers and 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.
34. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.
35. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.
36. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.
37. You saw Wee Kim Wee’s face in the school hall.
38. You freaked out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.
39. Boys liked to catch fighting spiders.
40. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.
41. 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”.
42. Class monitors and prefects loved to say, “You talk some more, I write your name ah!”
43. There were at least 40 people in one class.
44. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.
45. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.
