Especially for us born and raised in Malaysia (esp. fond of the memory
of the Milo truck coming to school once in a blue moon to give away free
packet-chocolate-milk at school!). Miss the good old days - despite its
low-tech nature....

For your reading pleasure...some might be true.
Hope you will all enjoy reading it. This might bring you back the old
memory especially during those school days.....

Signs that you are a 70s' 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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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"!

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

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

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

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

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

So you thought a decade or more ago, your friends don't have pagers or
handphones in school.

CDs? What's that? Cassette tapes were the norm.
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, colourful 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.

You never forget 'Ti Kam'.
When exams are over, the board games (e.g Monopoly, Donkey,
Transportation
Comparison Card) & held video games will be all over the class room.

Your favourite sound is the bell
For it's the homemade ice cream man.
The cream that tops Haagan Dazs!

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

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

Another time when there is no bell but all guys will anxiously wait for
it...The PJ (Pendidikan Jasmani), PE time (time for 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"!

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

All gals have a girl doll/strawberry shortcake/my little pony/pou nd
puppy,
while all boys have a soldiers figurine (combat) or a rubber band
catapult
that shoots folded paper!

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

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

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!

Let's see, the majority of students in universities today were born in
1987
/ 88.... They are called "youth".

For them, they have never heard of the song "We are the World, we are
the
Children..." And the "Uptown Girl" they know is by 'West Life' but not
'Billy Joel'.

For them, there have always been only one Germany and only one Vietnam.
AIDS exists since they were born.

CD exists since they were born.

Michael Jackson is already whitened.

John Travolta is always round in shape and they can't imagine how this
fat
guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Spiderman and Incredible Hulk are just new films.

They can never imagine a black and white screen for a computer.

They never know what is Atari or 'Game & Watch'.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and they
don't
even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.

And they never understand how we can go out without a mobile phone when
we
were in university...

Let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. Most of your secondary school friends are getting married.

3. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably
with
computer.

4. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

5. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends
daily.

6. When you meet your old friends from time to time, talking about the
good
old days, repeating again and again all funny stories you experienced
together.

7. Lastly, having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to
some
other old friends. You think they will like it too.....

Hahaha!.... Yes! We are getting old too...........

Brings back old memories huh?

Cheers to the 70s babies!!!