You would remember:
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- You grew up watching G.I. Joe, He-Man, M.A.S.K., Ninja Turtles, Silverhawks, ThunderCats, Transformers, Robocop / Carebears, Mickey Mouse, 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 hated or loved the school nurse (she was either pretty or mean).
- 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 air-conditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushion were 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 Charity 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. no sh1t).
- 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.
- Gals 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.
- You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again.
- You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
- Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickest story books you thought you would ever read.
- KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates and had metal forks and knives.
- The most vulgar thing you said was a55hole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'chicken pie'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien translation.
- 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.
- You saw Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall.
- 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!"
- You got booked for muddy shoes in class.
- There were at least 40 people in one class.
- You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable.
- There was a pro-yo/bumblebee, digimon craze at some point in time.
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