Especially for us borned and raised in Malaysia esp. fond of then memory of
the Milo truck coming to school once in a blue moon to give away
free packet-chocolate- milk at school!). Miss the good old days -despite
its low-tech nature….
For your reading pleasure…some might be
true. Hope you will all enjoy reading it. This might bring you back the
old memory especially during those school days…..
Signs that you are
a 70s’ or 80s’ baby: You grew up watching G-Force, He-man,
Transformers, Thundercats,Silver Hawk, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks and
Mickey Mouse. Not to forget Ninja Turtles, Mask, Smurfs and Voltron
too.
Girls watched Japanese cartoon like My Little Pony, "Xiao Tian
Tian", "Hua Xian Zi" etc. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in
primary school after recess time.
You squatted by a drain with all
your classmates beside you, and brushed your teeth with a
colourful mug.
Remember the days when the school nurse, comes with
a list for the dentist appointment, the sound of the drilling when your
friend has a fill in his tooth.
You remember the packets of milk we get
in primary school to encourage us to drink more milk. (It cost only 30
cent per pack)
In secondary school, girls go to the library to
borrow their favourite romance storybook.
In secondary school, girls
altered their school skirt to shorten it and guys will go to the school
appointed school uniform tailor shop to tailor make their school trousers
to the then fashionable "baggypants"!
During primary school days, the
teacher will punish you using a ruler to hit your palm.
A bowl of
noodles soup cost only 30cent in primary school days.
When you were in
primary school, girls like to go to the bookshop to buy cute stuff such as
animal erasers, various shape sharpeners, colourful notebook
etc.
Hankyu Jaya, Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favourite
hangout for families during weekends.
In secondary school days, you buy
the Bata BM Turbo or Pallas Jazz school shoes. Some guys like to wear
those china made ankle high shoes. Some even like to wear
those very thick
socks with their school shoes.
Internet? E-mail? What the hell is
that?
So you thought a decade or more ago, your friends don’t have
pagers or handphones in school.
CDs? What’s that? Cassette tapes were the
norm. Movie tickets used to cost less than $5 last time.
The goodies
from Mama shop used to be Chickerdis, Mamee , Kum Kum,UFO, O-Ya, Ding Dang
chocolate balls with toys in the box, colourful hard "egg", "cigerette"
bubble gum, KIKI Bubble Gum, pink bottle of bubbles c/w a small tubes with
yellow sticks to blow "more lasting" bubbles that you can pop more air in
or slam it on.
You never forget ‘Ti Kam’. When exams are over,
the board games (e.g Monopoly, Donkey, Transportation Comparison Card)
& held video games will be all over
the class room.
Your favourite
sound is the bell For it’s the homemade ice cream man. The cream that tops
Haagan Dazs!
And the other peddler you love is the old lady who sells
juicy Muah Chee and thick olden syrup rolled in a balloon the tip of a
chopstick
Another bell is the recess bell, a time to get away from
school work and to eat.
Another time when there is no bell but all guys
will anxiously wait for it…The PJ (Pendidikan Jasmani), PE time(time for
football)
Your favourite childhood games were playing "guli"(marbles)
, five stones, five bottle cover, zero-point, catching, "Pepsi-Cola one two
three" and/or "Police & Sentry"!
The best thirst quencher of all
times is the yummy colourful ice tubes you can buy from provision
shops for only 10cent. To eat them,break the tab and suck
while holding
the freezing tube!
All gals have a girl doll/strawberry
shortcake/my little pony/pound puppy, while all boys have a soldiers
figurine(combat) or a rubber band catapult that shoots folded
paper!
Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valuable items,
then came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights.
Some boys made their own
guns from wood, and used ‘Bacali’ as the bullets.
Some even used
matches to shoot and burn kids’lanterns during MoonCake Festival.
And
your favourite holiday was Lunar New Year! New clothes, Ang Pows, shopping,
junk food and family outings!
Let’s see, the majority of students in
universities today were born in 1987 / 88…. They are
called "youth".
For them, they have never heard of the song "We
are the World, we are the Children…" And the "Uptown Girl" they know is
by ‘West Life’ but not ‘Billy Joel’.
For them, there have always been
only one Germany and only one Vietnam. AIDS exists since they were
born.
CD exists since they were born.
Michael Jackson is already
whitened.
John
Travolta is always round in shape and they can’t imagine how this fat guy
could be a god of dance.
They believe that Spiderman and Incredible Hulk
are just new films.
They can never imagine a black and white
screen for a computer.
They never know what is Atari or ‘Game &
Watch’.
They can’t believe a black and white television ever existed
and they don’t even know how to switch on a TV without a remote
control.
And they never understand how we can go out without a mobile
phone when we were in university.. .
Let’s check if we’re getting
old…
1. You understand what was written above and
you smile.
2. Most of your secondary school friends are
getting married.
3. You are always surprised to see small
children playing comfortably with computer.
4. When you see teenagers
with mobile phones, you shake your head.
5. You spend less and less
time talking on phone with your friends daily.
6. When you meet your
old friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating
again and again all funny stories you experienced together.
7. Lastly,
having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other old
friends. You think they will like it too…..
Hahaha!…. Yes! We are
getting old too………..
Brings back old memories huh?
Cheers to
the 70s n 80s babies!!!
hai~~~ cant say much liow, its all pass T_T and i still lucky enough to get 3rd placing with my bad games last nite 
just wish to add more OIL for the next time 
