I'm so glad this week is over. HL102 really nearly killed me, but thank God that family and friends cared. I'm beginning to understand why my vocation is in NTU and not FASS.. It's not a bad thing afterall. I used to think NTU Eng Lit was where they dump useless people.. but I was wrong.. it's a place for people with talents, passion, brains, intelligence etc. If I'm already suffering in my studies here in NTU, I wonder how it'll be at FASS. Anyway, thank God for friends in school that are really angels sent by God to encourage me.
I mentioned that I wanna blog about my trip to the Toy Museum. Well, as there are many photos, I'm unable to upload them here. So if you wanna have a look on what are the toys they have, just check out the 3 albums in my Facebook.
Some of the toys I saw brought back memories. Speaking of memories..I was packing my cupboard when I saw my JJ uniform.. decided to try it on and see how I'd look (thank God I still can fit in without any problems). Kinda made me nostalgic.. Although the school sucked..there were other points that made going to school fun afterall.. Friends, eye-candy, Jimbo (HAHA), softball blabla.
Did I mention that Im so glad this suicidal week is over?
IT'S OVER!
TTFN~!
Showing posts with label Nostalgia. Show all posts
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Friday, October 12, 2007
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Friday, September 28, 2007
(took this from Facebook)
IF YOU WERE BORN IN THE 80's IN SINGAPORE
You would remember...
You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs.
You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You would squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug.
You hated or loved the school nurse (she was either pretty or mean).
You know what SBC stands for.
You paid 40 cents for cartons of Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.
Everyone's wallet used to be the velcro type
It was cool to have pagers in primary school
SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushionwere red. The big red bell gave a loud BEEP! when pressed.
There were still bus tickets and bus conductors would come up to check them.
Envelopes were given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.
You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
You know what PETS are and the hidden animals in all the text pages. You hated penmanship.
Writing lines and caning hands were common, esp if you failed chinese spelling (caning was actually allowed. no shit).
You were there when they first introduced the MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.
Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.
Gals were fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
You bought tidbits called beebee (20 cents per pack, 10 cents in MGS), and mamee (30 cents), that had a different sticker in it every time.
You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again.
You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickest
story books you thought you would ever read.
KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates and had metal forks and knives. (I dont remember this, anyone?)
The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'chicken pie'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien translation.
Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN thing, and twist was the
magic word.
Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
You came to school 15 mins before the bell every morning just so you could copy someone's homework.
CDIS was your best friend.
The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellized characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you math.
Waterbottles were slung around your neck and a must everywhere you went.
Boys loved to play soccer with small stones or tennis balls in the basketball court.
Girls played five stones and boys played with marbles.
Science was fun with the Balsam and the Angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fishes.
Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, immortalized in our minds from school textbooks.
We conducted experiments of our own to get badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
Every Children's day and National day you either got pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or useless plastic files with 'Happy National Day 1994'.
You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the school
to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.
There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday (you hated them).
Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $2 or more for pocket mone everyday.
You saw Wee Kim Wee's/Ong Teng Chong's face in the school hall.
Boys liked catching fighting spiders, earthworms or tadpoles.
Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.
Class monitors and prefects loved to say, "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"
You got booked for muddy shoes in class.
There were at least 40 people in one class.
You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable.
There was a pro-yo/bumblebee, digimon craze at some point in time
IF YOU WERE BORN IN THE 80's IN SINGAPORE
You would remember...
You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs.
You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You would squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug.
You hated or loved the school nurse (she was either pretty or mean).
You know what SBC stands for.
You paid 40 cents for cartons of Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.
Everyone's wallet used to be the velcro type
It was cool to have pagers in primary school
SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushionwere red. The big red bell gave a loud BEEP! when pressed.
There were still bus tickets and bus conductors would come up to check them.
Envelopes were given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.
You've probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
You know what PETS are and the hidden animals in all the text pages. You hated penmanship.
Writing lines and caning hands were common, esp if you failed chinese spelling (caning was actually allowed. no shit).
You were there when they first introduced the MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.
Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.
Gals were fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
You bought tidbits called beebee (20 cents per pack, 10 cents in MGS), and mamee (30 cents), that had a different sticker in it every time.
You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again.
You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickest
story books you thought you would ever read.
KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates and had metal forks and knives. (I dont remember this, anyone?)
The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'chicken pie'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien translation.
Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN thing, and twist was the
magic word.
Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
You came to school 15 mins before the bell every morning just so you could copy someone's homework.
CDIS was your best friend.
The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellized characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you math.
Waterbottles were slung around your neck and a must everywhere you went.
Boys loved to play soccer with small stones or tennis balls in the basketball court.
Girls played five stones and boys played with marbles.
Science was fun with the Balsam and the Angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fishes.
Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, immortalized in our minds from school textbooks.
We conducted experiments of our own to get badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.
Every Children's day and National day you either got pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or useless plastic files with 'Happy National Day 1994'.
You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.
Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.
You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the school
to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.
There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday (you hated them).
Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $2 or more for pocket mone everyday.
You saw Wee Kim Wee's/Ong Teng Chong's face in the school hall.
Boys liked catching fighting spiders, earthworms or tadpoles.
Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.
Class monitors and prefects loved to say, "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"
You got booked for muddy shoes in class.
There were at least 40 people in one class.
You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable.
There was a pro-yo/bumblebee, digimon craze at some point in time
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
I was going home from tuition last night, and along the way, I saw children holding lanterns and playing with candles. Brought me down Memory Lane where I used to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (commonly known as Lantern Festival when I was younger) in Clementi, Blk 604. I remember playing candles and lanterns with my sister, as well as our closest neighbours then. There was once, we created a HUGE fire at the basketball court. That was one of the most memorable MAF ever. Ever since we moved to 716, MAF wasn't as fun.
In CCK? Don't even wanna celebrate MAF. I guess the fun isn't there anymore, and probably cuz I'm aging heh.
Anyway, I finally signed up for my electric guitar lessons! Can't wait can't wait!
Of course, I'm running outta ka-ching and I really need to look for another tuition assignment. Waiting for those agencies to call me!
TTFN~!
In CCK? Don't even wanna celebrate MAF. I guess the fun isn't there anymore, and probably cuz I'm aging heh.
Anyway, I finally signed up for my electric guitar lessons! Can't wait can't wait!
Of course, I'm running outta ka-ching and I really need to look for another tuition assignment. Waiting for those agencies to call me!
TTFN~!
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
I mentioned that I dreaded going to school.. I think today's lecture totally changed my outlook of school. Going to school is quite fun afterall! Prof Brian (my hoca [teacher in turkish i think]) is a really cool lecturer with a great sense of humour. Glad I'm gonna be in his tutorial class.
Though I was quite pissed I have no choice but to register Intro to Magical Realism as my 5th module, I'm glad I made that choice after reading through the course info.
Let the engineers build the bridge. WE ENGLISH MAJORS shall just walk over them.
It's only the first week of school, and I have tons of readings to do...
Just for this semester, I have to read 10 texts.. and mind you, it's just Core Texts. I still have short stories and readings to do... ahhh....
My Engrish sueerely wrill imploove by thee end of my 4 years in NTUU...
Nanyang Technological University...
Non-young Technological University!
Anyway.. As I was going to school today, I saw from the train a primary school having its Sports Day in the school field. Made me reminisce my days in Qifa where we had our Sports Day every 8th August.. From running the zig-zag events to the 80metres relays, to the 100metres relays, and my highest achievement.. 400metres! -.-'' I guess the most memorable one would be the 4X100m relay with my friends.. how we want so badly to win.. The most heartbreaking one was in Primary 6.. one day before my 400metres relay, I twisted my ankle..I can never forget that.. It was my last year in primary school, last sports day, last chance to win a gold medal! (cuz i won the bronze the previous year). Oh well.. I miss primary school days badly.. especially the FOOD! 60cents chicken rice.. 50cents noodle.. 10cents soya bean drink... Qifa serves the best food.. I still dream of the school canteen once in a while! =D That's probably why I can never forget the canteen there. Oh ya.. I can also remember the wanton mee lady that sells pathetic wantons..
As much as Im not happy with the education system in Singapore, I don't wanna leave the studying world. I don't wanna enter the working world.. I hope my 4 years in NTU go really slowly.
Let me see how much I can remember from the Qifa School Song..
.....
.....
to do our very best.
In Harmony and Friendship..
Prosperity and Progress!
Chorus:
Qifa, Qifa, Qifa our pride and our star
Together we will work and strive!!!
For excellence, success, and Qifa.
I can't remember the rest.. haha..
P:S I can't even remember my secondary school song.. not a single word nor the tune.. For JC? HAH! Worse, I didn't even try remembering the lyrics to the schoolsong and I didn't sing a single word when the school song was played!
TTFN~!
Though I was quite pissed I have no choice but to register Intro to Magical Realism as my 5th module, I'm glad I made that choice after reading through the course info.
Let the engineers build the bridge. WE ENGLISH MAJORS shall just walk over them.
It's only the first week of school, and I have tons of readings to do...
Just for this semester, I have to read 10 texts.. and mind you, it's just Core Texts. I still have short stories and readings to do... ahhh....
My Engrish sueerely wrill imploove by thee end of my 4 years in NTUU...
Nanyang Technological University...
Non-young Technological University!
Anyway.. As I was going to school today, I saw from the train a primary school having its Sports Day in the school field. Made me reminisce my days in Qifa where we had our Sports Day every 8th August.. From running the zig-zag events to the 80metres relays, to the 100metres relays, and my highest achievement.. 400metres! -.-'' I guess the most memorable one would be the 4X100m relay with my friends.. how we want so badly to win.. The most heartbreaking one was in Primary 6.. one day before my 400metres relay, I twisted my ankle..I can never forget that.. It was my last year in primary school, last sports day, last chance to win a gold medal! (cuz i won the bronze the previous year). Oh well.. I miss primary school days badly.. especially the FOOD! 60cents chicken rice.. 50cents noodle.. 10cents soya bean drink... Qifa serves the best food.. I still dream of the school canteen once in a while! =D That's probably why I can never forget the canteen there. Oh ya.. I can also remember the wanton mee lady that sells pathetic wantons..
As much as Im not happy with the education system in Singapore, I don't wanna leave the studying world. I don't wanna enter the working world.. I hope my 4 years in NTU go really slowly.
Let me see how much I can remember from the Qifa School Song..
.....
.....
to do our very best.
In Harmony and Friendship..
Prosperity and Progress!
Chorus:
Qifa, Qifa, Qifa our pride and our star
Together we will work and strive!!!
For excellence, success, and Qifa.
I can't remember the rest.. haha..
P:S I can't even remember my secondary school song.. not a single word nor the tune.. For JC? HAH! Worse, I didn't even try remembering the lyrics to the schoolsong and I didn't sing a single word when the school song was played!
TTFN~!