Those were the dayz..PArt 2

SOmething Nostalgic.......

Every student could lay claim to being a "musician", cos we all learnt to play the recorder and sang songs together in music class.

Michael Jackson was the biggest thing in entertainment. Period.

Young Scientist Cards: To attain the badges, we had to earn a certain number of "stars" by completing certain tasks. Most people, including me, always went for the Young Zoologist or Young Botanist badge, cos they were the easiest. The ambitious ones would go for the Young Mathematician badge.

Move over, Enid Blyton. Roald Dahl was the best writer in the world. Everyone was reading his books, e.g. BFG, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach.

Every now and then during class, we would be told that it was our turn to go down to the school dentist for a checkup. It was many student's most feared moment in pri school, esp of the drill.

The school bookshop (well, it was more like a bookstand as it was just a small counter) was a really cool shop which sold really cool stuff, e.g. fancy erasers, fancy pens, fancy paper, etc.

"The Shaker" was the coolest mechanical pencil ever made. If you had one, you were cool.

After exams, we would bring Uno cards to play in class during free periods. There were also other card games such as Happy Family, Old Maid, etc

WWF wrestling was actually believable. And Hulk Hogan still looks the same today as he did 15 years ago.

The telephone was our only source of communication after school. If we needed to ask our classmates something, we actually had to pick up the home phone to make the call.

We could order milk packets to be delivered to our classroom every day

Every guy wanted a "centre-parting" hairstyle, thanks to Aaron Kwok.

Pri 6 was an important year. We had our BCG jab, we collected our Identity Cards, and we had to take our first major exam (PSLE).

Teacher's Day was the day which we all did our best to show our love for our teachers, e.g. by making cards, gifts, etc. And it was also the day that our teachers tried their best not to scold any of us.

The most popular colour pencils to use were the Colleen brand ones (y'know, the ones with two colours per pencil - one colour on each end, and usually came in boxes of 24 or 48 colours?). And the beige colour end was always the most heavily used, because that was the colour we needed to colour humans.

The English Premier League wasn't as popular as it is today. But everyone knows who Man U (and Eric Cantona) is.

The school conducts weekly teeth brushing sessions along the school drain

The coolest pencil cases are those with lots of press-button 'spring-out' pencil sharpeners, magnifying glasses, etc. Or pencil cases that looked like a robot with compartments in the arms and legs.

We practised 'cursive writing' for English lessons

We use ink eraser, sometimes rubbing holes into the pages of our exercise books (no liquid paper back then).

You either 'friend' someone or 'dun-friend' someone

Handkerchiefs were a must for both genders, no one has tissue paper packs back then.

Library cards that had to be manually written and slot into the books when we loan them.

Music only comes in cassette tapes where the tapes always kenna chewed up by the tape player. But the tapes costs only a few bucks each! It is also the birth of music piracy as we recorded our fave songs on blank tapes

Two missing schoolkids in 1989 (my seniors in the same pri school) which prompted islandwide search to no avail and McDonalds putting a reward for finding them.

We remembered Jack Neo at his funniest when paired with Lin Yi Ming, and other comedian duos such as Wang Sa/Ye Feng and the Da Zui Ba / Da Bi Zi.