Below is an email I received recently... is quite memorable to all of us since we gone throught the 80s ^^ enjoy ur reading.. cheers


Dear all,
It's for your pleasure reading, some might be true. I hope u will all
enjoy reading it........coz it brings you back the old memory especially
during those school days..... :)
Signs that you are a 80s' baby :
You grew up watching He-man,Transformers,Thundercats,
Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles, Mask and
Smurfs too. Girls watched Japanese cartoon like -"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 ur 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.
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 "baggy pants"!
During primary school days, the teacher will punish you using a ruler to
hit your palm. A bowl of noodles soup cost only 40c 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,sharpeners,notebook etc.
Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favourite hangout for families
during weekends.
In secondary school days, you buy the Bata BM Turbo 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 Mamee, Ka ka,Kum Kum, Ding Dang
choco balls (with toys in the box), colourful hard "egg", "cigerette"
chocolate, pink bottle of bubbles, and 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(eg:UNO,Monopoly,CLUEDO) & hand 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!The pink colour ice-cream with eyes plus
a wide smile.
And the other peddler you love is the old lady who sells juicy Muah Chee
and thick golden syrup rolled in a ballon the tip of a chopstick stick.
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,PE time(time for football)
Your favourite childhood games were playing "guli"(marbles), five
stones,zero-point, catching, and/or "Pepsi-Cola one two three"! Police
& Sentry.
The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colourful ice tubes
you can buy from provision shops. To eat them, break the tab and suck
while holding the freezing tube!
All gals have a barbie doll/strawberry shortcake/my little pony/pound
puppy, while all boys have a star wars figurine or a rubber band
catapult thatshoots folded paper!
Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valueable items, than
came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights.
Everyone envies the class monitor and his assitant, cos they were the
ones who can come up with the daily duty rooster, giving names to
teacher on who makes the most noise.
The elite group are the prefects, the one with license to move around,
they consider themselves above the law.
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! (YEAH...WITH ALL THE FIRE
CRACKERS AND LION DANCES...)
Cheers to the 80s babies!!!
GONE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS HUH? DOES READING THIS BRINGS YOU BACK TO THE
GOOD OLD TIMES?
cheers... have fun all...



Regards,

HENG WEE CHEN (BRANDON)
WEB DEVELOPER
INFORMATION SYSTEMS OFFICE
INTI COLLEGE MALAYSIA
TEL: 06-7982166
FAX: 06-7997513