Steven's Spidernet: January 2006

For your reading pleasure...some might be
true.

Hope you will all enjoy reading it. This might bring you back the old

memory especially during those school days.....

Signs that you are a 80s' baby:

You grew up watching G-Force, He-man, Transformers, Thundercats,

Silver Hawk, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks and Mickey Mouse. Not to

forget Ninja Turtles, Mask, Smurfs and Voltron too.

Girls watched Japanese cartoon like My Little Pony, "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 colo urful mug.

Remember the days when the school nurse, comes with a list for the

! dentist appointment, the sound of the drilling when your 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. (It is only cost 30 cent per pack)

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 30cent 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, various shape sharpeners,

colourful notebook etc.

Hankyu Jaya, Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favourite

hangout for families dur! ing weekends.

In secondary school days, you buy the Bata BM Turbo or Pallas Jazz

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 Chickerdis, Mamee , Kum Kum,

UFO, O-Ya, Ding Dang chocolate balls with toys in the box, colourful

hard "egg",

"cigerette" bubble gum, KIKI Bubble Gum, pink bottle of bubbles
c/w a

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 (e.g Monopoly,

Donkey, Transportation Comparison Card) & 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!

And the other peddler you love is the old lady who sells juicy Muah

Chee and thick olden syrup rolled in a balloon 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 (Pendidikan Jasmani), PE time (time for football)

Your favourite childhood games were playing "gu li"(marbles),
five

stones, five bottle cover, zero-point, catching, "Pepsi-Cola one two

three" and/or "Police & Sentry"!

The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colourful ice

tubes you can buy from provision shops for only 10 cent. To eat them,

break the tab and suck

while holding the freezing tube!

All gals have a girl doll/strawberry shortcake/my little pony/pound

puppy, while all boys have a soldiers figurine (combat) or a rubber

band catapult

that shoots folded paper!

Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valueable items, then

came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights.

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!

Let's see, the majority of students in universities today were born

in 1987 / 88.... They are called "youth".

For them, they have never heard of the song "We are the World, we
are

the Children..." And the "Uptown Girl" they know is by 'West
Life'

but not 'Billy Joel'.

For them, there have always been only one Germany and only one

Vietnam.

AIDS exists since they were born.

CD exists since they were born.

Michael Jackson is already whitened.

John Travolta is always round in shape and they can't imagine how

this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Spiderman and Incredible Hulk are just new films.

They can never imagine a black and white screen for a computer.

They never know what is Atari or 'Game & Watch'.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and they

don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.

And they never understand how we can go out without a mobile phone

when we were in university...

Let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. Most of your secondary school friends are getting married.

3. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably

with computer.

4. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

5. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends

daily.

6. When you meet your old friends from time to time, talking about

the good old days, repeating again and again all funny stories you

experienced together.

7. Lastly, having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it

to some other old friends. You think they will like it too.....

Hahaha!.... Yes! We are getting old too...........

Brings back old memories huh?

Cheers to the 80s babies!!!