Its Children's Day!

And may all of you continue to stay young at heart!

To bring back good old memories of our childhood, and when Children Day was really a holiday for all of us, let's take a trip down my memory lane and see if you share the same experiences with me.

1. The skool bus is never on time except on the ocassions that you miss it by a few minutes.

2. You envy the kid sitting in front of you cos' he got Ribena in his bottle while all you got is water from home.

3. You kapo white chalk from the whiteboard and draw on your Bata in order to make your shoes look cleaner.

4. 'Soccer' is a game of 20 kids chasing a squashed drink can.

5. A guy's pencil box is also an aircraft carrier with 6 activation buttons, 5 elevated pencil storage compartments(missiles), a pop-up built in sharpener(machine gun) and a side ruler or small space compartment at the sides. (Guys will get this I hope)

6. Girls are a totally foreign species at that time. You wonder what's their existence on earth. Any attempt made to be in contact with them will cause you to be banished and alienated from your kind. (Eeeee! You talk to Melissa!!!)

7. You thought lime water found in science lab would make a refreshing drink till you see it turn chalky when some joker exhales into it.

8. Your teacher's favourite phrase is 'Empty vessels make the most noise'.

9. Paper folded into bullets shot from rubber bands are the coolest weapons. You modify them by putting chalk powder before folding for added spectacular effect upon impact or increasing the pain it can cause by stapling the contact point.

10. You hate those bloody 'mo xie' or memorised chinese dictation.

11. You scribble words in pencil on your desk before any spelling test (regardless of language).

12. 50 cents can buy you wonders in the canteen back then.

13. You can only gain respect and the best seat at the back of the bus if you're the bus's Chi Ko Pa King. (Which I was). Bwahaha.

14. You think that kids who use an elastic chain(bought from the friendly book store!) to clip their wallet to the side of the pants, and throw that wallet to hit other kids, look super dumb. I would just grab the wallet, take the notes and run.

15. Any 'project' theme can always be related to making ice cream stick houses and smearing plasticine on huge styrofoam boards. Add real toy farm animals for extra points!

16. You can spend a fortune to buy a box of country erasers, or buy one eraser, keep challenging other kids, and win a box for yourself. =) (I had a box of erasers, and I got "United Nations", "USA" and "Singapore"! Naninanipoopoo)

17. You show off the accuracy of your watch by adjusting in sync to the second with the skool bell. You then drive your teacher crazy by counting down loudly to recess or to the last bell although your teacher is still teaching.

18. The monitor or monitress abuses their power and never book their own friends although they talk blatanly louder than you do.

19. You piss off the neighbouring blocks after skool by playing 'block catching' while waiting for the skool bus.

20. You hate doing homework!!! Thus you finally realise the only reason to try to be friendly with the other species (they always do theirs, and is more probable to be correct). All copying of homework is done discreetly to prevent mocking from your own friends. (Thank You Qing Ting and Helyn for being my 'sisters' then. More like 'sitters' actually. But I still remember you all!). =P

Boy does the list goes on. Add your favourite primary skool experience on the tag board!

Looking back, I must have been quite a monster back then. Hahaha.

Happy Children's Day!