I got this in my e-mail earlier, sent by one of my contact’s contact’s contact’s (…) contact of which I don’t know who. Anyways, here’s how it goes:

Signs that you are a 70s’ or 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.

  It is amazing how most of these animated series is pretty much fresh in my mind. Especially Voltron, Thundercats and Transformers. The silly song “Cheetara lari laju, Cheetara bukak Baju” (cheetara runs fast, cheetara take off her clothes) and “Thundercat lawan tikus, Thundercat mampus” (Thundercats fights the mouse, and Thundercats die) still ringing! Hormone-powered growing up male kids, can’t expect much eh?

• Girls watched Japanese cartoon like My Little Pony, “Xiao Tian Tian”, “Hua Xian Zi” etc.

  I don’t know the other two, but I sure did watch a few episodes of My Little Pony

• You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in primary school after recess time.

  Well not exactly everyday, more like once or twice a year

• You squatted by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brushed your teeth with a colorful mug.

  This is especially true when the Colgate guys came and give us a free pack consisting a colorful mug, a toothbrush and a toothpaste, along with a nurse-dressed lady who explains to us how to brush properly. We all then have to brush our teeth right there.

• 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.

  One of my thrilling moment. I hate them. Lucky I don’t have cases thus far. One of my siblings even hide his dental card because the dentist marked one tooth to be plugged. He lost the tooth later on though, lucky it’s not the permanent ones.

• You remember the packets of milk we get in primary school to encourage us to drink more milk. (It cost only 30 cent per pack)

  One of my favorite times. My parents always asked me to order a carton of chocolate milk. I think there’s about 24 boxes per carton

• In secondary school, girls go to the library to borrow their favorite romance storybook.

  I befriended some of these ladies, and naturally, I started reading them too. Ahadiat Akashah’s Lagenda Budak Setan? Amazingly popular among them!

• 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”!

  I’m from boys school, with majority of bumiputera. What happens in my secondary school is rather opposite. The boys don’t do beggy pants, but they do the “cerut” (strangle?) fasion - where they buy oversized shoes and pants, and tighten them at the waist and ankle, as well as pull the string hard on the shoes so they looked like Ronald McDonald’s shoes

• During primary school days, the teacher will punish you using a ruler to hit your palm.

  Oh yes, who can forget this! Another favorite is “ketuk-ketampi”

• A bowl of noodles soup cost only 30cent in primary school days.

  My favorite is Nasi Goreng Double, which costs only RM 1.00

• When you were in primary school, girls like to go to the bookshop to buy cute stuff such as animal erasers, various shape sharpeners, colorful notebook etc.

  They also buy glittered glues, multicolored pens. The days where they have 7-in-1 multi-color pen marks the 1337ness of the kids back then

• Hankyu Jaya, Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favorite hangout for families during weekends.

  Parkson Grand was also pretty hot that time

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

  Remember those days when the shoes features a reflective patch so they are somewhat safer if you walk at night? Whoever have these shoes are superbly cool back then

• 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?

  I only know these in 1997, starting from mRIC *laughs*

• So you thought a decade or more ago, your friends don’t have pagers or hand phones in school.

  Those whose dad have phones in their car is superbly rich

• CDs? What’s that? Cassette tapes were the norm.

  Casette was the in thing. However Sony Discman with ESP was a big hit in high school though

• 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, colorful hard “egg”, “cigarette” 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.

  The 10cents bubble gum have the pink and blue tattoo!

• You never forget ‘Ti Kam’.

  I won a RM10.00 ones before. I bought a whole lot of junk food with it and distribute it among my friends, so my mom didn’t know I played Ti Kam *laughs*

• When exams are over, the board games ( e.g Monopoly, Donkey, Transportation Comparison Card) & held video games will be all over the class room.

  My favorite was monopoly. My classmates are more obsessed with cardboard-based football though

• Your favorite sound is the bell

  ITS STILL IS!

• For it’s the homemade ice cream man. The cream that tops Haagan Dazs!

  Why would I forgo 20 cents a cone for a RM 7.90 per cone!? :D

• 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

  I like those candies, but they stick to the teeth :(

• Another bell is the recess bell, a time to get away from school work and to eat.

  Recess is the time where I usually play chase with my friends. We always came back in 5 minutes late and red-faced, full of sweat, ready to fall asleep on the next few sections

• Another time when there is no bell but all guys will anxiously wait for it…The PJ (Pendidikan Jasmani), PE time (time for football)

  Yeah, for the whole of 6 years in my schooling (from standard 6 till form 5), the only thing we ever do in PE is Football -.-

• Your favourite childhood games were playing “guli”(marbles), five stones, five bottle cover, zero-point, catching, “Pepsi-Cola one two three” and/or “Police & Sentry”!

  Pepsi-Cola and five bottle cover is my game alright, though I suck at the latter

• The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colorful ice tubes you can buy from provision shops for only 10cent. To eat them, break the tab and suck while holding the freezing tube!

  Ohhh… we call them “pop ais”. Buy them, then break them into two with your tighs, pretending to be some kung-fu master

• 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!

  Don’t know about the rest, but the rubber band catapult is a hit for years - used in many things from annoying the person next to you till sending love letters!

• Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valuable items, then came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights.

  I remember chalk fights. I used to save up my allowance and managed to buy a whole damn box of colorful chalks. I used about 5 of them to scribble stuff, and the rest I break them into 4-5 segment each and carry shit load of them everyday to school as bullet!

• Some boys made their own guns from wood, and used ‘Bacali’ as the bullets.

  Oh yes. We used some sort of green cherry-like fruit. Some nasty dude also use the ‘buah gatal’

• 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!

  For me, Hari Raya was among the only holiday where I can go around on my own with friends

I’ve experienced all of these, and still am amazed how most of them are completely gone nowadays. Everything gone electronic - some of my little cousins even make a remark that card games are for superbly old people that is about to die, and Play Station and Computers is the only thing for kids and young men. Meh.

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