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50 things you ought to know if you were born in the1970s/1980s:

>1. You grew up watching He-man, Captain Planet, 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 find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary
>school.
>
>6. 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 BEEP!
>when pressed..
>
>7. 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 16bit 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, five stones, 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
>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 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 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.
>
>50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was
>one thing called the timetable.
>
>
>Spread this heart warming message around, you don't get something
>like this very often. ;)