The 1990s
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i like to read this when i was young
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Originally posted by playboy_1985:
School time and growing up during the 80's to 90's
1. You grew up watching He-man, MASK,Transformers, Silver hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles, My Little Pony 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 pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.
5. You watch a very popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1 about
schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called Meoro Attack.
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. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's
Day
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 as the magic word.
20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that
was smooth and yellow.
21. CDIS were your bestfriend.
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 plastic balls in the basketball
court.
25. Teng-teng, batu lesung, chapteh, hentam bola 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, guppies and swordtail being the most
important fish.
27. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds
from the textbooks. Even Mr Wally & Mr. Yakki. What abt Miss Lala??? And
Zaki and Tini in Malay Textbooks?
28. We carry out experiments of our own to get ourself badges for being a
Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
29. Every children's day and national day you either get pins or penswith
'HappyChildren's Day 1993' or dumbfiles with Happy National Day1994'.
30. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big
sister and brother.
31. We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
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. You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall.
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. Boys like to catch fighting spiders.
41. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys
42. 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".
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.haha no. 43 oso got when the teacher is not around in class,he/she will ask the moniter to go to the whiteboard and write the names of those who were misbehaving (X sometimes oso got (name)x2 LOL
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In the 1990s, lo and behold.
Cigarettes must've been $2.50 a pack.
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Originally posted by xunmeng:
i like to read this when i was young
Man... the book worm short stories.
Smarty, edison, mimi... and that bad boy with only a strand of hair what was his name again?
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sam seng
still got fat ani, louie, porky, simone....
later got kokku
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Originally posted by Maith:
haha no. 43 oso got when the teacher is not around in class,he/she will ask the moniter to go to the whiteboard and write the names of those who were misbehaving (X sometimes oso got (name)x2 LOL
White board? What happened to black board and chalk?
Whenever it rained, I remember half the class had to move away from the windows because the rain got so heavy it came in from the grills that lined below the ceilings. It was lovely and everyone of us loved it.
It meant shuffling the tables and chatting with friends.
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Yeah sam seng. Perhaps derived from "sam seng kia?"
That's so freaking lame! There's bala as well, the malay kid.
One short story, "Porky the procrastinator." That was how I learned that word.
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i found a shop selling hiro cake
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Originally posted by Maith:
haha no. 43 oso got when the teacher is not around in class,he/she will ask the moniter to go to the whiteboard and write the names of those who were misbehaving (X sometimes oso got (name)x2 LOL
lol.. yar. but me pri sch last time is use chalk and blackboard.but one thing bery irritating is after teacher use the chalk and write, den hand all chalky and when she punish those notti students by slapping them on the cheek, always got the white hand-marked on the face. u know what i mean.
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Anyone remember SBST 1998 refurbishment programme? I was too young then. That is the time when they convert their NAC buses to CAC buses.
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Originally posted by SBS2695H:
Anyone remember SBST 1998 refurbishment programme? I was too young then. That is the time when they convert their NAC buses to CAC buses.
I think you just post this in bus forum , here is chit chat , not bus forum , not many chit chat members here knows anything on buses , so pls proceed to the bus forum and post there.
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dun forget the dragon playgrounds! anybody know where still got these playgrounds? hard to find now.. think only at those old hdb blocks...
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Miss Goon
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now still got playground with sand ma?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
now still got playground with sand ma?
I think Old Boon Lay area still have, not sure have they renovate or not.
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Originally posted by Oxide:
Miss Goon
bookworm the teacher? lol.. -
90s life so relac....
now so stressful...simi sai oso raise.
high blood pressure oso raise liao.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
now still got playground with sand ma?
Think sand playground not that good bah ... very dirty
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Originally posted by xunmeng:
i like to read this when i was young
how much ah? i think $5 one book is it -
Originally posted by Volvo Olympian:
Think sand playground not that good bah ... very dirty
i remember all the kids would urinate in the samd, the cover...
there was one afternoon me and my brother have nothing to do, so go down and dig a biggg hole infront of the slide, depth is around 1 4-5 yrs old child height, purposely choose that height.
after digging, cover the surface with some newspaper, and watch the teacher from the nursery bring the 2-3 yrs old kids play playground, DAMn nice to see children falling in the hole.
come to think of it, should have fill water, or cement...
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wah seh.. .reminicsing the 90s.
Still rmb Moses lim is tan ah teck, koh cheng mun is dolly, andrew lim is paul~~ and nicholas lee is rhonnie, vaneeta lopez is denise! the singapore funniest family!
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last time i will rush home to watch Under One Roof
who got keep the "farecard" as momento?
i rber i got keep one leh, but dunno disappear to where liao
I dig my drawer but cannot find -
scratch off the ugly print on the farecard then on it..
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Originally posted by jay_rocks:
wah seh.. .reminicsing the 90s.
Still rmb Moses lim is tan ah teck, koh cheng mun is dolly, andrew lim is paul~~ and nicholas lee is rhonnie, vaneeta lopez is denise! the singapore funniest family!
hahaha.. i miss tt show too..
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remember last time want get NDP tickets must queue up at stadium and or army camps. best is overnight with ur family there. i still remember i watched a1998 world cup match at the yishun stadium while overnight there for the tix. damn fun.
now want get NDP ticket can only go thru online balloting or win those stupid contests sian...