10 things about Primary School in the 90’s i will not forget:

1. The coloured sticky tape u attach to the top corner of exercise books

2. Carrying workbooks to and fro from Teachers’ Room

3. Buttoning all the way to the top (even when not wearing my tie)

4. How, when talking about street fighter, ppl pronounce it “Goolie” and “Raayoo”

5. Starving myself so that i could buy Dragonball Z cards and ‘country flag’ erasers

6. Teacher saying ‘use 2 batteries’ and me using 8 batteries in series to light the bulb during Science practical classes

7. Escaping BCG by saying i had important violin recital – twice.

8. The prestige of bringing a ‘Discman’ during excursions when everyone else had cassette players

9. Having one of those ‘Tiger’ handheld games while looking longingly at other ppl’s Gameboy

10. Playing football with crushed up tetra pak cos ball sports were banned during recess

10 things about Secondary School i will not forget:

1. Bullying Jayaraj – but only cos i was bullied by others so it was my way of ‘venting’ =)

2. Danesh laughing when i told him i was joining Cricket, cos i was not ’sporty’

3. Not being able to do a single pull-up for 4 years

4. How shoes had to be 75% white when wearing school uniform

5. ICC and how we kicked ass at RGS all arts

6. ICC playing soccer and how i dislocated by hand – and someone yelling at me to stop faking it

7. Seeing something… ‘out of this world’ late at night in RI while boarding

8. Playing the ‘Eliminator’* with Adib, Syahid, Shaiful and Faizal

9. G-Shock and Alba Spoon

10. Burning the OHP and punished by holding a paper saying ‘i will not burn the OHP’ for 10 mins every recess for 2 weeks – in the Teachers’ Room

*The Eliminator was a challenge where 4 ppl will do 4 things to you while u sit on a chair:

1) ‘Kali maaa’ to your chest – From Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

2) ‘Calculator’ to your head – rubbing a knuckle on on your scalp super fast

3) ‘Nipple twist’ – self explanatory

4) ‘Buzzer’ – poking your hip, the lamest one ( i came up with it)

the basic idea was to see how long u would stay in that chair. I did respectibly, lasting about 25 seconds and coming in 2nd while Adib was the runaway winner – 1min 23 seconds. And only cos we got so frustrated we just started beating him up to get him off the chair – talk abt perseverence.