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1990s very little bottles leh.. but i still remember the chocolate magnolia milk in glass bottle.. but thats 1980s.
in fact they are starting to switch to the current day cans from the last time can take out tab can.
1990s.....taking photos seems to be a very out of the league activity for us. want to take pictures must borrow camera from parents. then parents will say, "take good care of it, dun lose it, etc"
one roll of film about $12 to develop.
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Originally posted by takahashi32399691:
I remember seeing signs that tells you that you could use your handphone in that area and payphones & phonecards were so common that you can see it in every corner.
I also have taken buses with those loud engines (replaced by Scania N113 NAC), SBS and Trans-Island still have those "OMO" (one-man-operation) and buses with sliding doors for the exit. Woodlands used to have many different bus terminals all over. Air-con double deckers did not exist then.
Kids used to have those tamaguchi, digimon and GameBoy devices with each other a lot. Oh, schools used to have those green blackboards that uses chalk. I remember dusting out the duster and playing with the chalk by drawing everywhere.
Back then there is Zone-phone, that's why they need to put signs on where you can use the phones.
I still remember ETACS phones are like $3000 each.
When GSM first came out, phones are $1500 there. And when you are called, you will hang up in 15 seconds, and tell that person you will call by public phone.
Vibration mode on telephone means you need to attach a vibrating device on the phone.
I miss my Ericsson GH 388.
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Originally posted by Scania:
Was it during the demolition of the flyover?
More like construction of the flyover.
it's the Adam Road towards Farrer Road direction.
I can remember this because the 4.0m limit was unique, and only few days later an accident happened.
now that you mention demolition, i just realised there is no more flyover there. ahaha.
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Talk about accidents
who here remember the Adam Road/Bukit Timah Intersection accident?
Contractor for some reason decided the height limit is 4.0m instead of the regular 4.5m.
Nearly sliced the top of the DD bus, who also drove into the height barrier even though it was stated clearly 4.0 was the limit.
I would say its late 80s early 90s there.
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My 1990s...
MEMOJAZZ
you need to go Singtel to get PUK code to unlock blocked sim card
Ericsson GH388 ($1200 there)
Vivian Chow
$24.95 for 24 hours/month of 56k internet access
you need to install a special viewer to see JPG images
branded stuff buy from Promenade
MRT cards very flimsy
I thought my 25 year old teacher very old
School Gates don't have security guards
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Just send in a Battalion of PES E in their number 3 uniform and tell them to go door to door armed with a letter that says,
By order of Ministry of Defence, you are to vacate the premises by D-day H-hour in the interest of national security. Failing which you maybe be subjected to Cap 123 of the XYZ Act which brings the maximum penalty of no less than $1000 fine and/or jail term of 5 years or both.
It should work.
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Singapore is the best place to work and live IF....
IF.... (again i emphasise IF)...
1) you earn 8 to 15k a month.
2) your work gives you 21 days can be brought foward in totality leave.
3) your work hours is 830am to 530am strictly
4) company pays for your transport, food, phone, medical and maybe children's education
5) you have travel allowance
6) your work allows you to take leave for a holiday every other month
7) your work involves flying in business/first class paid by company
8 ) your supervisor or superiors dun call you off-office hours
9) you have 3 to 6 moths AWS
10) you work 5 days workweek
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to Joshua182.
You sound much better now.
As to what you said, we are on the same frequency now.
I never take Iris Chang's work to be fully accurate.
Basically I am a believer it happened, I am just more concerned on how those people who want us to think that it happened used sources that were later found accurate.
Quoting a recent example,
Jakarta Riots 1998 that targeted Indonesian Chinese. Without a doubt rapes did happen. But it was blown out of proportion.
Photographs of dark skinned women being abused by Indonesian Army, their corpses were mutilated were being passed off as atrocities that happened in Jakarta. It was proven later that they are pictures taken when Indonesia was fighting a guerilla war in Timor Leste & Papua.
Supposed Indonesian Chinese set up numerous websites trying to tell the world what is happening to them. They downloaded "rape" pictures from porn sites trying to pass them off as happening in Jakarta.
If you do a simple search on google, there are many many detailed accounts of how the rapes happened. I do doubt some of their authencity based on the following,
1) "writer" placed "her own" pictures on the account (something not many are willing to do)
2) Writer wrote in detail as to step by step chronology what happened to her (or someone she/he seen)
3) the format of the write up are similar, (I am a normal Indonesian Chinese, not richer than most natives, but i am being preyed just because i am chinese, they cornered me, i tried not to remember, i woke up in pain).
Basically, I am trying to say if we as people are trying to push for a cause, we should try to use evidence as accurate as posssible just to fortify our credibility.
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