Recently,I received an email with some pictures whereby those who were born in the 80s might relate to. Let's take a stroll down memory lane with these nostalgic pictures.
Who can forget these popular snacks back then...
The ever popular "kaka" corn snacks.
Ding Dang Chocolate Biscuits
Before chewing gums were banned by the Singapore Government, these bubble gums were my favourite. All the kids will be blowing bubbles with these bubble gum!
And here goes TORA, another chocolate coated biscuit that comes with a toy in the box.
Another favourite snack during that time will be this sticky sate which seems to be sold by every mama shop in the neighbourhood.
I still remember this Bee Bee snack which I will normally buy after school when I'm on my way home. Apart from the snacks above, who can forget these glass bottled PEPSI which were sold in the school canteen.
Vintage bottled PEPSI.From PEPSI, there's also another favourite among teens those days. A&W's Root Beer Float which really make you smack your lips with the ice cream toppings. Apart from the Root Beer Float, there's also the Curly Fries. Oh well, just drool over the pictures below as A&W is no longer available in Singapore. To get a taste of A&W, you'll need to cross the border to Malaysia now.
A&W's Root Beer Float.
A&W's Curly Fries.
Too bad kids nowadays are not able to taste these rare snacks these days. From snacks, let's see the old Singapore coins and notes which hold values more than what they were worth nowadays.
Check out the old coins in the picture above.
Kids nowadays only know SGD$1 in coin form and most of them do not know that prior to the sgd$1 coin, the sgd$1 note exists.
The SGD$10 old note.I'm still trying to find a picture of the old SGD$20 which realy is a vintage and costs more than what it is worth nowadays due to it's rarity. From money talk, let's move on to the games kids play in those days. Those days, if you own a game & watch, you were considered really lucky as it was the "in" thing. The popular Game & Watch games as they were, below :->
Kungfu Power.
The ever popular Western Bar.
Trap Shooting.These Game & Watch were considered like the PSPs during their time and the Game Consoles below were considered like the PS3s of today.
Sega mega Drive game console.
The 1st gaming console that I owned, the Micro Genius console set. With these game consoles, came the popular games such as Contra, Super Mario Bros & Sonic The Hedgehog.
Konami's Contra.However, the best games that we played were the ones that we brought to school when the exams are over. Card games such as Old Maid & Happy Family, Pick-up-Sticks and the most popular game which I think every school kid during my time will know, The Rubber Game.
Happy Family.
The popular card games, Old Maid, Donkey & Happy Family.
Pick-Up-Sticks.
The most popular game, The Rubber Game.During those days, bus fares were as cheap as 15 cents for a feeder bus ride and there were no air-con buses and the bell gave out a buzzing sound when pressed. Check out the bus of yesteryears below.
Feeder bus taking pasengers in the bus interchange. Guess which bus interchange this is?
A double-decker bus.
Another bus plying tru its route. Guess where is this place?Do you still remember this book which is the norm for every primary school kid for their everyday learning in school? What about the Courtesy Campaign which the Government preached and the stickers that our teachers gave to us during that Courtesy Campaign?
The PEP Basic Reader for Primary 6 students.
The Courtesy Campaign poster.
The Courtesy Campaign stickers.Do you still remember the times when we used to rush home from school, just so that we could watch our favourite shows and cartoons on the television? The popular cartoons those days were so very different from the ones kids nowadays tune in to.
Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
Alvin & The Chipmunks.
She-Ra, princess of Power.
Disney's Ducktales.
The cute Smurfs.
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The popular Ultraman show.
Scoobydoo bydooooooooooooooo!
The Flintstones.
The Transformers which was one of my favourites.
The Bionic Six.
Another one of my favourites that I even have the Bravestarr figurine.
Another favourite cartoon of mine, The Centurions.
One of the lame cartoons in those days, Count Duckula.
These days, kids have Barney. Back in those days, we had Denver, The Last Dinosaur.
The Real Ghostbusters.We were all crazy about The Real Ghostbusters when they hit the screens that we made out their ghostbuster backpack out of cardboard boxes and wear them on our backs!
The Real Ghostbusters's trusty truck, Ecto-1.
And who can forget the cute & naughty Slimer?
GI Joe Real American Hero cartoon.
He-Man fighting the evil Skeletor.
The funny & innovative Inspector Gadget.
Jem & The Holograms.
My Little Pony, which appeals more to the girls.
Another favourite cartoon of mine, MASK.
The Jetsons.
The Mighty Mouse.
One of my favourite educational show on TV.Wow, with so many cartoons and programs on TV, you wonder how we keep track which program is on which day. During those times, there weren't any 8 Days magazine but there was this TV Times which contains all the scheduled TV programs which only costs 60cents.
Before being known as TCS5 or Mediacorp, Singapore's Broadcasting Corporation were the ones taking care of our TV shows.
SBC logo.Even our passports to cross the border to Malaysia were different in those days. These days, a typical Singaporean passport is red in color while in those times, to cross the border to Malaysia require a special blue passport which is now defunct!
With all these pictures, memories of my childhood days came flooding back into mind.
What about you?
