sec school experience in the 90s
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did u like it?
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the good old days
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NO!
It totally sucked for me. I consider my sec school days to be worst phase of my formal schooling days. The fact that I joined NPCC and was not allowed to quit totally ruined my sec sch life.
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at that time, i was in kindergarden and early pri school leh
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thOriginally posted by angel7030:
at that time, i was in kindergarden and early pri school leh
The 1990s (1990-1999) is called the Golden Age of singapore. A great time to enjoy modern style living , fashion and entertainment. We had more free time and no political whining made by people. Salaries were higher and HDB flats built during this time were bigger and spacious. Music was better too, and so was local Tv. Dot com bubble. Internet went mainstream. Businesses flourished. And so did people.PAP kept its promises, It delivered the Swiss standard of Living in the 90s. There upgrading and building of new modern flats. Commercial areas sprung up very fast like Orchard, Suntec City. It was a period of rapid development which dwarfed the 80s. In the 80s, development occured out of necessity, In the 90s, development occured for cosmetic reasons.
Since the 2000s, all has went downhill
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tis email is about pp born ard 80s and grew in the 90s era
From: Lyn
Subject: Those born in 1974 to 1980... fond memories
To:
Date:School During Our Time (very touching esp for those born 1974-early 80's) brings fond memories back...
Please forward this email to any of your friends who born within these years...
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1. You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silverhawks and Visionaries. Not forgetting, 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 popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1 about schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called Meoro Attack and another one called Oshin or those 3pm chinese drama serials on ch8 with the likes of aileen tan, zoe tay & cherie lim.
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 for TIBS 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) or those lame bookworm gang bookz.
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 a mere $3.50.
12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
13. Missing Sesame Street or The Electric Company was a mortal sin.
14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka, Tora and Ding Dang, 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. And chewing gum was not banned !
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 and you get a free pirate plastic hat everytime you ate at Long John Silver.
18. The most vulgar thing you said was idiot or stupid and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.
19. Playing 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 coulourful small plastic balls in the basketball court.
25. Teng-teng, batu lesung, hopscotch, hentam bola, one-leg 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 of course.......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 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. We wore Panda, BM2000, BATA or Pallas shoes then moved on to Paichi & US Masters in sec school.
32. Your form teacher taught you maths, science, english, social studies & health education.....oh and sometimes PE too.
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 & play goli (no kissing, no sound no count).
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. And remember those Bodypac & High Sierra bagz.....yeah....
50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.
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Originally posted by Bangulzai:
tis email is about pp born ard 80s and grew in the 90s era
From: Lyn
Subject: Those born in 1974 to 1980... fond memories
To:
Date:School During Our Time (very touching esp for those born 1974-early 80's) brings fond memories back...
Please forward this email to any of your friends who born within these years...
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1. You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silverhawks and Visionaries. Not forgetting, 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 popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1 about schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called Meoro Attack and another one called Oshin or those 3pm chinese drama serials on ch8 with the likes of aileen tan, zoe tay & cherie lim.
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 for TIBS 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) or those lame bookworm gang bookz.
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 a mere $3.50.
12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
13. Missing Sesame Street or The Electric Company was a mortal sin.
14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka, Tora and Ding Dang, 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. And chewing gum was not banned !
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 and you get a free pirate plastic hat everytime you ate at Long John Silver.
18. The most vulgar thing you said was idiot or stupid and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.
19. Playing 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 coulourful small plastic balls in the basketball court.
25. Teng-teng, batu lesung, hopscotch, hentam bola, one-leg 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 of course.......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 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. We wore Panda, BM2000, BATA or Pallas shoes then moved on to Paichi & US Masters in sec school.
32. Your form teacher taught you maths, science, english, social studies & health education.....oh and sometimes PE too.
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 & play goli (no kissing, no sound no count).
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. And remember those Bodypac & High Sierra bagz.....yeah....
50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.
nice
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This age is over already or probably an utopian ideal for singapore's present realities?
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good old days
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ah that was life, Less crowd more space and more adventure places plus not everyone had a computer and everyone is a neighbour kid.
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I had not much friends during my secondary school days. Im an introvet and much like a gaming freak.
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think these days the school lives of kids must be super stressful...
long school hours...
extra remedial lessons.
so many CCAs
extra talent classses like ballet, dance, swimming, piano, computer....
got time to breathe meh?
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In the 90s, no internet (at least no affordable internet) yet so just hang out at shopping centres, talk on phone and then page each other. 177155-4 and 6006-9.
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Thnx Bangulzai, they really bring back the memories!
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Originally posted by gamerx:
NO!
It totally sucked for me. I consider my sec school days to be worst phase of my formal schooling days. The fact that I joined NPCC and was not allowed to quit totally ruined my sec sch life.
lol!the exact same thing is happening to me now...must wait for next year than can get out of the CCA
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Originally posted by Plastic Bag:
In the 90s, no internet (at least no affordable internet) yet so just hang out at shopping centres, talk on phone and then page each other. 177155-4 and 6006-9.
they had it since 1993.
By 1996 28.k and 33.6k internet became widely available .
Broadband 128K, 256K, 512K came available by 1997.It was called singtel magix.
By 1999, 56.6 K internet was common..
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tt era was called ECA
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Originally posted by FireIce:
tt era was called ECA
Extra became Core
means compulsory to join liao... not optional anymore... -
me is a 风云人物 in my sec sch!
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good old days sia
pri sch every time recess go catch spiders
sec sch harass people
poly play laptop all day
woooooo
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I missed shows like Jui Ho Yi Ge Da Xia (The Last Hero)...we don't make good shows anymore it seems.
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Originally posted by Gabriella:
I missed shows like Jui Ho Yi Ge Da Xia (The Last Hero)...we don't make good shows anymore it seems.
I LIKE 8 IMMORTALS LEH
then when mediacock broadcast the show again
i find it sucky
i dunno why
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Originally posted by gamerx:
NO!
It totally sucked for me. I consider my sec school days to be worst phase of my formal schooling days. The fact that I joined NPCC and was not allowed to quit totally ruined my sec sch life.
yeah
i also npcc
after a few years later everyone eventually knew that quitting is possible.........
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LOL, maybe they can only make shows which appeals to < 10 year olds.
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Originally posted by Worldlybusinessman:
they had it since 1993.
By 1996 28.k and 33.6k internet became widely available .
Broadband 128K, 256K, 512K came available by 1997.It was called singtel magix.
By 1999, 56.6 K internet was common..
i had something called ISDN.