Over a bowl of fishball noodles, I thought it would be fun to recall some of the things we did as kids. So I started the twitter hashtag #thingsweusedtodoaskids.
Looks like the meme took off because an hour or so later, the hashtag trended on Twitter and we started to see tweets from the rest of the world as well. Neat.
Of course, my childhood will differ from yours (we had NO PS3 or Dragonball cards during my time) but let's see how many things we have in common:
@mrbrown Save the fishballs for last. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@GutsyKlutzy Have tissue paper eating competition #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@notaboutwill Openingly pee in public drainage, like whenever. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@meiting07 Making sure not to step on the lines of the square tiles in shopping centres! #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@mrbrown Wash then paint our Bata school shoes white every week #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@hoksirhc Or use chalk to cover up the stain.
@mrbrown Play one-leg during recess. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@IamAnneJee Play galah panjang at the field opposite my house with my Malay friends #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@contrabandkarma Skip eating during recess to play football, annoying the teacher who had to teach a class of sweaty boys after that. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@seraphically Read Enid Blyton books! Famous Five, Secret Seven, Mallory Towers & all the short stories #thingsweusedtodoaskids (or was i the only nerd?)
@shenheng Get high from inhaling fumes from those tubes of gooey balloon with tiny straws #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@heanluen Make ice-cream stick gun to shoot rubber band. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@agentshoots Throw one country flag eraser over another to win it #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@vixlew Bully the boys into giving me their chocolate milk. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@Falchion Purposely get the strawberry milk so that the pretty girls would try to "bully" it from me :P #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@ericeptional: buy 20-cent mamee monster & 10-cent pong pongs from the nearest mama shop when the school bell rings #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@mrbrown Play Risk for days, in the classroom, during exam marking week. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@JoeAugustin I would stick my head out the car widow with my mouth wide open. Later I would throw up. My mum said it was wind. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@dzus77 Flying plastic bags like kite from our flat's window #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@mrbrown Brush our teeth over the drain after recess #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@skinnylatte Whole sch sat down to massage eyes together after singing national anthem and saying the pledge. Damn weird #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@mrbrown Buy junk food like "Rat Meat Satay" from the school bus driver #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@merylzhanyee Throwing parachute man down from the second floor. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@goingwithmygut Buy pencilboxes that had more secret compartments than a James Bond car #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@YoghurtLemon Wrap our school books with plastic cover #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@heanluen If you friend him then I don't friend you. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@Moxy_Tod Sit around in blissful ignorance of the soul-crushing, meaningless waste our lives would eventually become. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@hanshoots Playing cards with specs of cars/planes on it to see whose specs are higher #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@jeffcheong Buy 20cents fishball dipped into chili sauce & then drip onto school shoes. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@lovelyloey Eat 10 cent syrup popsicle in a tube #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@jeffcheong Accidentally sing a 'ma' when the national anthem ended. #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@eisen Do multi-racial problem sums - Ali, Bala, Sumei and John always needed help dividing their fruits and marbles #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@peterteo Using 小明 for everything in our 造句 #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@rumpledoodles Refusing to pack our schoolbags every day according to the timetable but instead, just bringing every damn book #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@sashizoso Carry an OP wallet-the one with the metal plate in front. and using it to keep checks on our center parting hairdo #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@nicseah Queuing for too-sweet Milo from the Milo vans at Sports Day. And discreetly refilling our waterbottles with it #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@goingwithmygut Eat gao-zhang-gou (nonya rainbow kueh) one peeled layer at a time #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@MelodyChen_ That's it. The husband just dug out his old pack of cars and planes playing cards. @mrbrown it was all because of #thingsweusedtodoaskids
@FakeSTcom Breaking: Singapore's entire Twitter-using adult population caught in mind-numbing nostalgic grip of #thingsweusedtodoaskids hashtag
@Lord_Voldemort7 Try & take over the world. Maybe that was just me.... #thingsweusedtodoaskids [that's how you know the hashtag has gone international -mb]
