Remember those 80s Stuff?
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Been kind of nostalgic these few days... maybe because of the new year...
Makes me think of the days when life were so much simpler...
Maybe some pple here will remember these things:
1) You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs.
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Life was better in the 1980-90s. After that everything turned to shit.
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well, been looking at an old site with an all 80s list... wonders if anyone still remember them...
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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I used to catch grasshoppers during recess time too.
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mi grow up watching xiao tian tian
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u mean this?
but that's for gers...
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so retro
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Teachers hitting knuckles for lousy handwriting
School's dentist will come and teach how to brush teeth, the school's dentist is an old aunty which everyone is scared of
At the corner of the classroom, there will be a TV with VCR, and of cos OHP
You like to clean the dust off the duster of the blackboard after every class
Discipline Masters will patrol the school holding a cane behind him and will scare the crap out of everyone
During recess everyone will be playing basketball, hopscotch, 5 stones
Your teacher will like to check your file every month
You used to act like a hero from a movie by swinging around the metal bar that hold the doors of the metal cupboard in place
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what about jackie chan movies like A project, police story 1 and 2, happy ghost and aces go places. really miss those old movies in the 80s.
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
what about jackie chan movies like A project, police story 1 and 2, happy ghost and aces go places. really miss those old movies in the 80s.
i just finished watching happy ghost 1 and 2 online recently again.. hehe those mei mei are cute.... but must be damn old by now.. -
60s is better.80s still have that pager which is not allow in libraries.
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those were the days when everyone can lead a simple life and yet be happy at the same time. miss them so much.
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miss those days alot. life was easy back then