So things to proove that you are a singaporean lao chiao
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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's Bin(1) Fen(1) Ba (1) San(1) is all
about.
4. You know what SBC stands for.
5. You were there when the first chinese serial, the Awakening was
shown
on TV.
6. Internet? What the hell is that?
So you thought a decade or more ago.
7. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in
Secondary school.
8. 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 for TIBS buses. The conductor will check
for tickets by using a machine which punches a hole on the ticket.
9. Your favourite actor and actress is Huang Wenyong and
Xiangyun.
Next is Lee Nanxing and Zoe Tay and the Aiyoyo woman.
10. You've probably read 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.
12. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.
13. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie
Dolls.
14. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
15. 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.
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 story books you ever
thought you have read.
Even SweetValley High and Malory Towers.
19. Civics and Moral Education was "Hao3 Gong1 Min2".
20. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that serve food in
plates and let you use metal forks and knives.
21. The most vulgar thing you said was ******* and idiot
and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just couldn't bring
yourself
to say
the hokkien relative.
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
pixellised characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you
maths.
26. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere
you go.
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 all
the rage with the girls and boys too...
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 Willy.
31. You did stupid exercises like seal crawl and frog
jumps.
32. 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'.
33. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger
kids like big sister and brother.
34. Chinese teachers were always old, boring and damn
fierce looking.
35. Your form teacher taught you maths, science and
english.
36. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor
quality.
37. 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.
38. Famous Chinese singers were only Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau,
Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai.
39. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.
40. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do
almost everyday.
41. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your
parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.
42. During class gatherings, parents always tag along in
case someone gets lost at Orchard Road.
43. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up
according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.
44. Handkerchiefs were a must for both genders
45. Collecting notebooks and all kinds of stationery was a
popular thing.
46. 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".
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
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wow!
i got tt in my email like.......almost 10yrs ago........ -
what about xiao tian tian? i like that show.
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Oh man...i remember those stuff.....
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Cool, I qualify. Not true Strawberry Shortcakes was that hot. Their main contender during the same era was the Cabbage Patch Kids.
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i think u missed out on road sides stalls and food prices were still in cents..LOL
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can anyone remember xiao DD?
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those things were still the case when I was a kid...
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aiyoh get in your email doesn't mean cannot re post again mah . . .Originally posted by FireIce:wow!
i got tt in my email like.......almost 10yrs ago........ -
Thier toys came in small purple boxes and a small pack of lousy tasting chocolate coated rice puffs. A free toy in every pack. There was once I only took the toy out home and didn't buy the chocolates. The shopkeeper didn't find out, but my grandma did.Originally posted by 798:can anyone remember xiao DD? -
damn cool the same email can circulate for 10yrs........
let's see if my son gets to read this in his email -
hahaha wrong answer lah.... what he mean is the chinese drama lah.. not the box chocolate lah hahahahah... that stupid xiao DD robot lah... hahahOriginally posted by ditzy:Thier toys came in small purple boxes and a small pack of lousy tasting chocolate coated rice puffs. A free toy in every pack. There was once I only took the toy out home and didn't buy the chocolates. The shopkeeper didn't find out, but my grandma did.
BOOOO!!!!! BOOOOO!!!!! BOOOOO!!!!! v -
that is ding dang chocolate right? came with toy included.Originally posted by ditzy:Thier toys came in small purple boxes and a small pack of lousy tasting chocolate coated rice puffs. A free toy in every pack. There was once I only took the toy out home and didn't buy the chocolates. The shopkeeper didn't find out, but my grandma did.
i still remembered there was jiajia too.
jiajia costed 20 cents while dingdang costed 50 cents -
cool...really describe well...
compare to last time...kids nowadays really are so "xing fu" sia... -
i think last time more xing fu more fun lehhhhhOriginally posted by Lethargic@@:compare to last time...kids nowadays really are so "xing fu" sia... -
Cummon u old brudders and sizters....
No use thinking about the past and posting it here lah..u think this is what 80s and 90s huh? This is 2005!!!!!!
Anyway u ppl forgot to post some important things:
1) Jurassic Park....This movie cant be forgotten when i was also like early teenager at the time
2) Playstation, Sega Saturn , Super famicom
3) SBS Farecard...only need to press 60 cent play cheat
4) New hdb estates with better design and colour
5) Liverpool Man-U craze......fans are like eternal enemies and our own Singapore-Malaysia Cup
5) Baggio and Romario soccer players
6) branded goods craze among teenagers
7) Grunge rock
Informer song and techno -
i still remember that last time i had to play buddy buddy with juniors when i was p4,5 and by the time when i was p6,i was like "damn it......disturb me somemore and i stuff ur face in ur food of meesiam"
and i still rmember the times ehwn u are in P6,prefects are such pushovers that i solded fuk when i was P6 and was send to the principal tiwce cause i made 2 prefects cry
and how long was that ago? 6 years i guess -
6 years ago still close to start of the mlillenium...u call that nostalgia?...wake up dei........by then things got pretty advanced already....Originally posted by StarPuppy:i still remember that last time i had to play buddy buddy with juniors when i was p4,5 and by the time when i was p6,i was like "damn it......disturb me somemore and i stuff ur face in ur food of meesiam"
and i still rmember the times ehwn u are in P6,prefects are such pushovers that i solded fuk when i was P6 and was send to the principal tiwce cause i made 2 prefects cry
and how long was that ago? 6 years i guess
Yur time was not as good as ours......late 80s and early to mid 90s -
damn this was the 80s...u are freaking old brudder!!Originally posted by 798:that is ding dang chocolate right? came with toy included.
i still remembered there was jiajia too.
jiajia costed 20 cents while dingdang costed 50 cents -
last time we ginahs will go out to play goli or go and catch tadpoles in a ditch at our side fields. Then we still have the mini wrestling matches on the monkety bar.
wonder if ginahs still do such things or not. -
Anyone remember "kang" spider fights?
can catch them in the bushes....that black spider with a luminous green pattern on its back and long fangs -
I still remember playing computer games on my lingo 128. Screen only had green colour. Only thing it ran was the flappy floppy disks. Only game I had was lode runner.
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their time now is PS2, XBox, GBA...blah blah blah...
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My next game machine was an atari, only had the game asteroids to contend with.
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u actually remembered games u played so long ago?Originally posted by ditzy:My next game machine was an atari, only had the game asteroids to contend with. 