a 90's kid and proud of it [General]

ooh... was facebooking today and joined the group "If you find this familiar, you grew up in the 90's" oh... it was beautiful.

it was a list of things us 90's kids used to do... i loved it. loved it. it was so nostalgic...

but it was kinda american... so now i'm inspired to make my own singaporean list!!! hey all you fellow 90's kids our there... the 90s was a great time to grow up... feel free to comment on my list!!! so here goes...

If you grew up in Singapore in the 90s, you grew up in a time of:

recess block catching

waking up on sunday mornings to catch spiderman cartoons on channel 5

Captain Planet and Ninja Turtles

watching sesame street just to see what the letter of the day was

Art Attack on TCS Channel 5

Cartoon Network playing Atom Ant, Scooby Doo, and Huckelberry Hound, yet it was so hot

wanting to trade your soul for a Sony Playstation

ultra huge Laser Discs, not DVDs or VCDs

'mama shop' snacks and comics (like Dennis the Menace)

reading Goosebumps

"Are You Afraid of the Dark" scaring the shit out you

Care Bears, Transformers, GIJoe, Creepy Crawlies

Biker Mice from Mars, Street Sharks, X-Men

loving Christmas (it was the best time in the world)

Christmas meant a much-desired trip to TOYS 'R US!!!! (which we thought was what heaven must be like)

shooting paper pellets in school

kicking around plastic water bottles cos we didn't have soccer balls

doing that to pose for girls

singing super-gay boy band songs in the shower (who could forget "I Want It That Way?")

Spice Girls and S Club 7

annual Disney movies like Lion King and Aladdin and Beauty And The Beast

the Internet was a scary mystery

mental sums in school

PETS Textbook

penmanship

Ravi, Bala, Ahmad, Ali and Siti being the main characters in problem sums

fiercesome chinese teachers

recorder lessons for music class

road safety park in east coast

writing in colourful super-cute autograph books when Primary 6 came, and it came time to part

spending small change on Arcade Machines (jamming the buttons on Marvel VS Street Fighter, and being ecstatic when we could do a 'hadou-ken')

doing 'hadou-ken' in school, and thinking it ws dam cool

pokemon and digimon and tamagotchi

collecting pokemon cards

polly pocket advertisements

caning in school

being dam scared when the prefect wrote your name down

saying "f*ck" was as big as smoking...

kids would say "Orrrr horrrrr..... I tell teachheeeeerrrrrr...."

teachers were still feared

you could block being caught by crossing your index fingers and saying "Twist"

you decided matters by saying "eeny meeny miney moe... catch th espider by the toe... if it cries, let it go... eeny meeny miney moe...."

pepsi cola one two three

hopscotch with wallets

chee goe pah!

chopsticks

hmm.... that's all i can think of so far...
but thinking of these things really bring back a time long past... when things were so much simpler and more innocent...

so guys... if you find these familiar, let me know!!! tag my tagboard... and add more things t my list if you can... haha...