Flashbacks

Came back from School Health Services at Marymount Convent. We as student nurses have to go to a primary or secondary school to observe how and what the nurses do for the children, as part of our syllabus or something.. Aww the Primary 1 kids were all so adorable and naive.. Hmm lets do a flashback thingy to our primary school years why dont we?

*Sit back and enjoy the trip into the past* Phoosh!!

- You grew up watching He-man, Care Bears, Transformers, Captain Planet [oOo.. Earth! Wind! Water! Fire! something something! ahaha can't the last element.. ] and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja Turtles and Smurfs too.. [hehe i still love TMNT btw..]

- You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You will squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug. The teachers said you must brush each side ten times too. [yea i still remember how long the sink in my school was.. Located underneath the hall near the music room..]

- You know what TCS stands for.. [Pri sch joke. Toilet Cleaning Service back when Mediacorp was still TCS]

- You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in secondary school. [I only got my first handphone in Sec 3. So late la had to convince my dad.. Nowadays even pri one kids have handphones.. Hrrmmph not fair..]

- You've probably read Young Generation magazine. You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable. [ a bit lame ar the magazine. But hey there's comics in there! Comics are always good.. haha. Ouh and remembr the packets of milk we'll get every month. Haha i always look forward to tt.. Yumm chocolate milk..]

- You longed to buy tibits called Kaka(20 cents per pack) and Ding Dang(50 cents per box), that had a toy in it and it changes every week not forgetting the 15 cents animal crackers and the ring pop, where the lollipop is the diamond on the ring. [oOo.. Junk food! A kids' fave food :P]

- Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest story ! books you ever thought you have read. Even SweetValley High. [ Enid Blyton was my fave then.. Short story fan here!]

- Catching was the IN thing and twist the magic word.

- Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow. [ Rmbr the PETS textbooks? We had to find the squirrel, bird, monkey and some other animals from inside the book..]

- Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go. [ Mum even knitted a water bottle holder thingy in white purple and pink for me but i never used it.. sorry mum!]

- Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the most important plants of our lives. [ahaha. true true]

- PE lessons always consists of girls playing Captain's Ball and boys playing soccer. [ Gosh the girls in my class LOVED Captain's Ball so much tt we got quite competitive. Oh and i learnt T-Ball in pri sch.. Cool game.]

- Every children's day and national day you either get pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or dumb files with Happy National Day 1994'.

- In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother. [ Yay i was a reading buddy. I can still rembr my reading buddy's face. Seen him around the neighbourhood. Dunno if he recognizes me.. Heh. His dad is kinds scary tho.. Fierce face he has.]

- Your form teacher taught you maths, science and english. [haha i rembered when i was caught eating those tape-type sweets in class.. Sold for 50cents in school canteen. Had to spit it out into the bin in front of the class. The weird thing was before i spat it out i saw tt the sweet had some brown brown thing on it.. haha.. random.]

- The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor quality. [cannot erase too hard]

- 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. [yea my raincoat was yellow in color. heh. i soo love my mum for sending me to school everyday in lower primary and when it rains. *hugs and kisses*]

- There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday. [ i love English and spelling tests. Oh and dont forget dictation!]

- Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday. [Hmm.. i think i got only $1 per day.]

- You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl. [ ahaha i was one of the shortest girls but during the last pri classmates gathering i found out tt i am taller than some of them.. haha so happy la. cannot larf at me anymore hor..]

- Handkerchiefs were a must for both genders

- Collecting notebooks and all kinds of stationery was a popular thing. [ oOo.. and stickers too! Sailormoon.. lol]

- Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friend like you, hard to forget".

- Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"

- There were at least 40 people in one class.

- Large, colourful schoolbags were carried. [I always looked like i was struggling with mine coz i was small then..]

- You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable. [haha. One of the reasons the schoolbags were large..]


-- haha kinda a long entry eh? but wasn't the trip worth it? yes? no? maybe? can u repeat the question? haha i dunno what else to type la.. guess that's all folks!

--Note: You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't wipe your friends underneath the table. So the moral of the story is.. uh.. cherish your friends (?) and use a tissue paper to wipe ur boogers will you?! Jeez!