New Town Primary

• waking up early to hard-boiled eggs/ cereal breakfasts
• eating loh mee every recess
• class size of 42 pupils
• being divided into groups of 4 in class (i was in Marlin one year)
• dubious assembly songs (This Old Man, One Elephant, Old MacDonald, Planting Rice)
• wearing cadet scout uniform to class on Founder's Day (22 Feb)
• Bookworm Club and their infrequent visits
• playing rounders at the long jump pit with a tennis ball
• sports day: scouts' race
• Yakult/ Vitagen with double lids: star = prize
• (fruit?) flies buzzing around drinks dispensers in canteen
• general knowledge quiz in school hall
• playing catching and monkey in the school yard
• art file: folded vancard sheet (Snoopy, Carebears, Dungeons & Dragons design)
• trying to write in cursive
• brushing teeth by drain
• wringing wet socks after tropical rainstorms
• the milk campaign
• the POSB squirrel & savings sticker-stamps
• recorder lessons in music room
• chan-mali-chan's "999"
• annual medical checkups
• mandatory visits to the dental clinic, where we lost our teeth
• AVA room, the only air-conditioned room in the school i think
• story-telling competitions during assembly
• skits on the big hall stage: i was an immobile tree once
• the blue/white/orange schoolbus
• playing electronic hand-held games in class after exams
• the class library (a mini book exchange scheme)
• yummy fried chicken wings at the Permaisuara canteen
• "supplementary" classes in the afternoon
• the "silence is golden" poster in school library
• running a FF club with Alex ($0.50 for membership i think)
• playing D&D during social studies lessons
• social studies project
• organizer-dairies given out every year
• shooting rubber bands, sometimes with paper bullets
• twisted staple bullet on chairs + unsuspecting victims = pain and indignity
• playing marbles in the sand pit
• (the girls had zero point and hopskotch i think)
• field trips to the zoo
• National Day freebies
• school song: "in queenstown area bright and cool, stands the new town primary school"
• a teacher fainting during flag-lowering
• badminton, badminton, badminton
• road safety park