hi! all
i just received a mail from a friend as below. It really remind me those old days when i was in Primary & Secondary School

Are you one of them too????
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h&E

>THE GOOD OLD DAYS . .
>
>1. You grew up watching He-man, Transformers, Silver hawk and Mickey
>Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles and Smurfs too.
>
>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 brush 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 were there when the first Chinese serial, the Awakening was
>shown on TV.
>
>5. Internet? What the hell is that? So you thought a decade or more ago.
>
>6. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary
>school.
>
>7. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of
>wood and the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEEP! when
>pressed. There are colourful tickets forTIBS buses. The conductor will
check
>for tickets by using a machine which punches a hole in the ticket.
>
>8. Your favourite actor and actress is Huang Wenyong and Xiangyun.
>Next is Lee Nanxing and Zoe Tay and the Aiyoyo woman.
>
>9. You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's Vinny
>the little vampire and Acai the constable.
>
>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 are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
>
>13. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
>
>14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka(20 cents per pack), and Ding
>Dang(50 cents per box), that had a toy in it 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 Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5
>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. The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST
>EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just couldn't bring yourself
>to say the hokkien relative.
>
>19. Catching was the IN thing and twist was the magic word.
>
>20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that
>was smooth and yellow.
>
>21. CDIS was your best friend.
>
>22. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised
>characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.
>
>23. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere
>you go.
>
>24. Boys loved to play soccer with small tennis balls in the basketball
>court.
>
>25. Hopskotch, five stones, chateh and zero point were all the rage with
>the girls and boys too...
>
>26. Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the most
>important plants of our lives.
>
>27. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds
>from the textbooks. Even Mr Willy.
>
>28. You did stupid exercises like seal crawl and frog jumps.
>
>29. Every children's day and national day you either get pins or pens with
>'Happy Children's Day 1993' or dumb files with
>'Happy National Day 1994'.
>
>30. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big
>sister and brother.
>
>31. Chinese teachers were always old, boring and damn fierce looking.
>
>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
>find a dry spot in the school to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your
>dry and warm socks and shoes.
>
>35. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.
>
>36. There would be spelling tests 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. During class gatherings, parents always tag along in case someone
>gets lost at Orchard Road.
>
>39. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to
>height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.
>
>40. Handkerchiefs were a must for both genders
>
>41. Collecting notebooks and all kinds of stationery was a popular
>thing.
>
>42. Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", "Forget
>Me Not", and small poems like "Birds fly high, hard to catch.
>Friends like you, hard to forget".
>
>43. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write
>your name ah!"
>
>44. There were at least 40 people in one class.
>
>45. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.
>
>46. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one
>thing called the timetable.
>