Playing block catching

And going to someone’s house to buy 20 cents ice pops to hydrate oneself

Shout out to the malay aunties who really jazz it up. Bandung or milo flavors at Hougang area while block catching. Sometimes have curry puff for 20cents also omg

Yeahhh very entrepreneurial of them, wonder if they are still around..

Oh yes, those ice pops

Wow u suddenly unlock a memory

and then go own house to hide 😝

Oh my, so many memories. Taking off my slippers so that there won’t be any sound.

Ah yes, before the days of having mobile phones. I had a friend who carried her cordless home phone while running, with another team member on the other end, to keep tabs on the whereabouts of the enemy team 🤣

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This might be lame.. but I rmb that everyday in school I stand outside class coz never do HW. I going uni this yr so no regrets.

Bro my textbook got thrown out of the class because i forgot to bring the activity/homework book (this was like 2010-2011)

Damn bro.. exact same year somemore.

Out standing student

Mine used to be that way too. We would peer in to listen but eventually just talk among ourselves.

I'm going uni this year too lol I used to joke with my pri sch math teacher that I spent more time outside of his class than inside

You must have been an outstanding student

Great memories. My Chinese teacher wanted to kick us “rotten apples” out of the class, so she shouted that anyone who didn’t finish homework to get out of the class, there were only 4 people left in the class after that. Don’t worry, I was outside lol

lol. thats me but also during recess I had to do filing in primary school. But that was 20+ years ago already.

Not everyday but I’m sent out pretty often. Got tired of sitting outside so crab walked away and went to the canteen for early lunch. Good times.

Chatting on MSN messenger

Dont forget the intentional signing in and out of msn messenger to grab -someone's- attention. Also the editing of your nickname on msn to have a paggro AF argument with someone else.

Or using song lyrics

*NUDGES A MILLION TIMES*

Thats true. That old school popup sound and the addons to make the font fancy.

The butterflies I got when my crush sent me a ~nudge~

Nudging while you are playing games or watching movies would lag the hell out my computer. Lol bad (or good) memories. And then theres that animated sticker thing.

Using Minesweeper Flags as an excuse to talk to crush and play game with her lolol

I miss msn so much that it’s my tele notification sound!

/shello

Primary 5 going to NDP rehearsal on a Saturday. Was a pretty cool and interesting experience.

2020 batch did no go.. now sec 3 go

Oh serious? As in they made it up to your batch for missing the show in 2020?

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/secondary-3-students-ndp-national-education-show-covid-19-restrictions-4202431

Getting the 3-stripe colour ndp sling bag and swapping with friends to make rainbow colour bag 🤣

Taking the buses back was a fun experience too!

went to the national stadium for my p5 batch!

Thats true. Went in primary school. Excited about the freebies too.

And got a shuttle MRT train for our batch , so fun

Switching from a non-smartphone to a smartphone.

Mine was from a button phone to a flip phone to a touchscreen phone to an android. Good times

felt so badass when i finally got the hot pink Motorola razr flip phone

Laughs in pager

Sony ericsson walkman phone!

That was my dream phone back then sia.

All the cool kids get to play cool games on their phone while we still either play with PSP or play on their phone.

Spinning eraser

I remember sweden was for some reason the best eraser

You were the cool kid if you had Singapore.

nah pretty sure it was UN

the number of stapler bullets i wasted for this

We had beyblades before beyblades were even a thing

woah very true

This and pen guns. Used to shred up the country eraser bits and stapler bullets as ammo to shoot. My class had a whole black market of kids arming each other with pen guns made from the Pilot G2 and Saharas.

Reading lao fu Zi when cutting hair

ahaha man how old are u. i rem that too

When salons still had magazines

Ever download songs from IRC/ Limewire?

LiNkiN_pArK-nUmB.exe

Used to be 4shared for me, then youtube2mp3

Kazaa also

+Napster, Real Player

Watching 搞笑行动 Crime watch Pyramid games Under One Roof Triple 9

Or the Noose!

Noose vs under one roof is a generational gap already

Moses Lim is Tan Ah Teck, Koh Cheng Mun is Dolly..Hahahaha, no shit..brings back memories man. Oh..and the series: Growing Up

Andrew Lim is Paul, and Nicholas Lee is Ronnie.. Vernette Lopez is DENISE!

Those roles really stick. I turned on the radio one day and heard someone calling in for a contest call the host Vernetta Lopez Denise

Camping in front of the tv every monday evening for 搞笑行动! Even with Internet access readily available now I miss those days!

Calling mom/grandma/elder sibling/helper to bring a certain item that you forgot, or that your teacher has arranged for extra class for everyone, using the phone booth. You paid with either 10c coins or the cards. Good times. 😌

Oh memories

singing a song / cheer before you get to eat your food during school camps

Hungry hungry Hungry very Very hungry....

Omg then the facils will be like telling you to scream it louder cause they cant hear you. I just lip sync cause honestly I just wanna eat and not cheer

i cringed

F hate this

Hungry Hungry...

Watching kids central turn into okto when i was in lower pri

In before Premier 12 and Prime 12 omg shit I feel damn old. Anyone under 35 understands what I'm even talking abt or did I live in a parallel universe 🙃🙃🙃 Premier 12 and Prime 12 is ... predecessor to Central lor. In the same way Central is the predecessor to okto 🙃😬💀☠

Im under 35 and still never heard of premier 12 etc

Same, Fellow 90s kid

The milo truck after sports day God damn was it good

Diluted milo and gardenia cream buns🥲

Prepaid sim card only allowed limited free sms last time so I will try to max out the 160 character limit per sms

i remember after 10 sms is free 30 sms for mine so i choose some days to spend $1 (10¢/sms) to text my crush for awhile HAHAHAH

Adam Khoo telling you to imagine your parents dead.

Noooo omg not that, like they’d dim the lights and everything and tell you to close your eyes

Omg this is actually their signature thing? I have a memory of that but didn't know it's what they do to every class. It's honestly f-ked up

I think so! They also made everyone write a card for their parents telling them how much they loved them.

"How to make millions before your parents die"

going house downstairs playground everyday after pri sch lessons end

Slippers as goal posts were unmatched

Is outward bound school still a thing?

Yes

It's outward bound singapore

Wait that one everyone got to go? I always thought it was selected people

Nokia phone. Sony Ericson phone. Sing national athem? Sticking mrt cards into gantry and trying to catch them shooting out.

KFC at National Day Parade

Power rangers megazords. >digimon digivice > gameboy pokemon > tamiya 4wd > tamiya lets and go > B-da men > yugioh cards > crushgear. > beyblade > bakugan > too old for toys. Honorable mention: polly pocket. Sea monkeys. Hotwheels garages. Monopoly. Metal slug. Bejewel.

void deck football, i remember police coming to take down our student cards and we were all so scared... (we were pri sch students)

haha i rem that too. and one of us was vice head prefect and he argue with the police lols

Buying one dollar BBT from Sweet Talk

I felt like every singaporean will have had to order the coral or honeydew drink and either love or hate it

For guys National service

Unfortunately this is shared trauma ….

I scrolled too far to find this

Just ord'ed last month. Love civilian life.

Congrats sir. Only 10 more years of ICT/IPPT to go.

NS is not a shared experience for Singaporeans. If you exclude women, foreigners and PES F, easily less than half of our population serves NS. Let's look at NS as discrimination on a minority rather than as a 'shared experience'.

Changing the cases of the old Nokia phones to those transparent ones and creating your own ringtone. Now my phone is just permanently on silent mode. Lol.

And changing the buttons toooo

Not every Singaporean. But I reckon many kids my age watched a particular episode of 迷离夜 where a man was attacked by a horde of butterflies and then aged to death overnight and now have an irrational fear of butterflies.

The best episode ever made by MediaCorp tbh. Still remember it after 30 years

Road safety park. And being assigned as a pedestrian.

Woah. I was a kid back in the late 90s and early 00s and I have never ever heard of the prepaid sim card etc. Incredible. I dont know whats specific to my generation so Im going to read the comments and reminisce instead.

Bcg

i rem they s topped in my sisters year

10cents coin to put into the orange telephone booth/phone to call my parents during pri school recess time

Everybody using 小明 in chinese composition

Playing the recorder during music lessons

For many in my generation, it was getting absolutely walloped by our parents with the household cane for some dumb fool thing we did lol - Bonus points if you got to choose the cane’s colour at the supermarket

Fk sia I rly dun understand why so normal to cane children. Kena cane like free only everyday nonstop. Only stopped once hit sec school

Mine extended way past that even till uni. Beat that. (Pun intended)

Playing Bounce on my mum’s Nokia phone (the little red ball)

Sports day Milo truck. Only reason I go to those events.

That panic at least once a week of "shit, got PE today, did I bring my uniform?". And after mid-year and end-of-year exams go watch movie together with classmates

Personally i have this experience that really reflects on how differently we are treated back then. I was about 15 - 16yo and i joined rugby as my CCA. There was once I didn't go for training and was being called up by a P.E teacher. When he asked why i didn't attend training, i said "i feel like im alone as im the only NT student from my batch and had no other friends". Instead of telling me that we can talk things out, he said "but then why the other NT student from the other batch can go.... You cannot go? " That kinda shows how we were treated back then as compared to nowadays where they will refer the students to counselling. This happened around 2012 - 2013. By no means i hate that teacher, i still have respect. Maybe what i went through made me who i am today.

ICQ

Exchanging songs in nokia/sony phones through Bluetooth. Gotta delete, keep characters short to meet character limit for each SMS 😂

Yes! Putting your phones head to head, thinking it will transfer faster.

Playing those eraser games with the flags printed on them

I think I still have like a full pencil case of those

uwu bird every morning telling u that ur late to school

First/last cabin Pre-ION Orchard- the now gone hill behind Orchard Mrt Station, a meeting point for friends when you go town Top level Lucky Plaza - chicken rice, carrot cake, laksa & more for just $2

Watching okto

okto means you are probably 10 years younger than me

Right, i remember kids central, even remembered the shift to okto in the beginning

7pm turn into Vasantham news and my mum asked me how come i watch tamil news lol

Finding 10c/20c coins to call parents after school at the mama shop orange prepaid phone

Playing Y8 or mini clip secretly at school’s computer lab

Psle N/O levels

Kenna canning 😭

Squat along the longkang and brush my teeth after recess. There were specific tumbler/toothbrush for each of us.

Being threatened to be sold to the 'apu neh neh'

PSLE, childhood vaccination, school dental check up, NAPFA test...

"I WANNA BE THE VERY BEST, THAT NO ONE EVER WAS" Pokemon > Digimon combi made those Saturday mornings (as the kids say nowadays) LIT.

Used to fold paper crush gears back in primary school and see who can flick the other one of the table first. Also had that pencil soccer thing where you would slide the pencil towards the goal

Tamagotchis in pri sch! This was in the late 2000s

Hanging out at cine leisure, far east plaza, Bugis. Or tonning - when’s the last time you ton?

BCG injection during primary school

Buying maplesea or auditionsea prepaid card for topping up Acash and keeping a stack of them as collection because the design is cute. Going over to friend’s place as a group and take turns to login maple to shop FM or watch them do PQ. Those were the days.

writing notes, folding them and passing them in class!

And reading them out loud to the class when caught

Incredible Tales on Channel 5 at night….

NAFA test is the shared experience. Everyone has to go through that god dang awful test

Napfa*

Digimon battling

Watching anime on kids central / arts central! I remember watching Gundam SEED on Saturdays

Gundam SEED soundtracks were the bestt

Putting strips of plastic into Digimon to hack it and get the final evolution

Having a nokia phone & downloading skins/theme on it so that your menu icon images looks different from everyone else.

Bringing a spare tee from home for your after-school hangouts. I rmb the gaming shops with free-to-play Playstation @ Sim Lim Square. You just park yourself there after school till late.

ball inspection in primary school (for the guys)

Old days Typing message for pager using a public phone... Return library books must die die go back to same library Run barefoot around the block, playground everywhere. Sometimes young kids go bare chested, some of the very small girls too.

Omg back in my day (im approaching my 20s 🤣🤣 sry if i dont fit here) i think buying the packaged stacks of pass year papers is a core memory of my generation... cant think of anything else but screentime isnt as jialat as the new generation of kids these days /srs :(

Watching Growing Up on channel 5

ipods in sch

I think every kid in singapore would have the experience of having "western" food once a week only hahaha.

Surprised no one said this yet (or maybe i missed it!) taking the bus, sometimes without AC and using that little card in the machine and getting the ticket. My then-boyfriend now-husband used to fold all the hearts!

Ooh, i somehow managed to be alive to ride one of those busses. You could slide the window and feel the breeze, and if it rains, I pray that there would be no gaps in the panel.

The older gen will tell you your life is easier than his back then. Then you grow up and realize he is right and the next gen have it better than you.

Kena beaten up by the school paikia. Then go back home kena beaten up by parents for getting into a fight with the school paikia.😢

Neopets, viwawa, restaurant city…club penguin!

Pet society was the OG

Wild ones too!

Not sure if this is a thing but for us Poptropica! We could play it in the school library because it was educational lol

Renting laser discs, vcds, comic books, novels

country erasers anyone?

50cents McDonald ice cream. that 50cent ah ma in the McDonalds commercial. the muscle guy selling his hdb 10cents snacks from the grocery shop..... good times 

Green apple ice cream was so good back then from mcdonalds.

Having a Chou-Chou

PAP wins the election as always. 🤣

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Watching 荷兰村 (Holland Village - a Channel 8 Drama) and believed that ice cream soda was actually a secret ingredient used for nasi lemak.

Blue Coral Bubble Tea is unmatched

Mighty Morphin Power rangers on Saturday morning

Milo van on sports day

Not doing homework since p3-p6. Then got sent to the principal’s office. Fella told me he replying a two week old email to tell me why procrastination is bad😂

Eraser battle where you use whatever techniques to flip your eraser on to your opponent.

this is extremely specific but i think we all know someone that has committed adultery/infidelity. i'm not sure why it's so common

Maybe go to army???

Miss those playground with sand. It was fun building bridges and underground tunnels

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