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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
This email really make my day. Suddenly the old memories during my school days came to my mind. When I think of these things, really can make me laugh… These are some of the content of the email…
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. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class. You find your friends with pagers and 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. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka (20 cents per pack), and DingDang (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. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest story books you ever thought you have read. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that serve food in plates and let you use metal forks and knives. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go. Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic balls in the basketballcourt. Teng-teng, five stones, chapteh, hentam bola and zero point were allthe rage with the girls and boys too...
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? 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'. We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes. Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English. 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. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl. Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friend like you, hard to forget". Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!" Large, colourful schoolbags were carried. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable. When walking as a class always "Finger on your Lips"
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A career woman. Happily married to A.
Crazy in luv. Sentimental. . . . .
and all she ever wanted is PEACE. .
