the young ones...

the things we did when we were young..

we carried umbro bags to school.

we bought 3 sweets for 10c.

snacks like "bee-bee", "kaka" and flavoured "sng-baos" (aka ice packs" after school.

a bowl of noodles in the tuckshop costs about 30c.

"maggie" was the only instant noodles brand we knew.

bus fare cost 25c.

you can purchased a movie ticket for $3.50

drinks in the coffeeshop came in glass bottles instead of cans.

we wore bata shoes, layered with "white liquid"

we used white chalk to "colour" our dirty shoes in class.

our boards in classrooms were green and we used chalks.

we played "zero-point", 5 stones, one-leg, catching, hide and seek during recesses.

we rode our bicycles to catch spiders.

we shared silly ghost stories about the top floor toilets in school that were never true.

the bespectacled wore think glasses.

we sat on wooded chairs and used wooded tables which occasionally saw some warsps building some nests inside the nails.

we exchanged "idol-cards" and sold shiny ones as well.

we rushed home to watch cartoons at 6:30pm after school.

our public phones were orange.

the dunkin-donuts at fengshan CC was the "in" place.

"elle" was considered branded.

your dad poured your milo on the porcelain tray for you to drink.

shouts of "ma peew po" were heard in the evening along the corridor. (young lads selling newspaper)


until more memories flood my mind..those were the days...
Sunshine ; Thursday, July 23, 2009