Old School
For all those out there who still remember the good old days.(I extracted the best bit which is most relevent to our time)You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles, My Little Pony and Smurfs too.
You know what SBC stands for.
You find your friends with pagers handphone cool in Secondary school.
Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.
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.
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.
Catching was the IN thing and twist as the magic word.
Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.
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.
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?
We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall.
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 brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.
desong was shot at Tuesday, February 27, 2007