Best 80s and 90s: A Throwback That Will Take You Back in Time
Gen Z onward; you don't have the best things in your life that have truly been "giving" and for that, we are truly sorry. For Millennials (and before), this is for you.
I remember waking up in the morning watching Bananas in Pyjamas, Barney & Friends, DuckTales, Chip n Dale 🐿️, Doug, Tiny Toon, Simpson, Rugrats, Hi-5, Art Attack, Sonic, Sesame Street, Batman, Marsupilami, Gummi Bear, Tom & Jerry 🐱🐭, Dexter's Laboratory 🧪, Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Hey Arnold!, Pinky & the Brain, Thundercats, Cow & Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, Smurf, 🕵🏻 Inspector Gadget, TMNT 🐢, He-Man, Thundercats, Transformer, Gaban, Masked Rider 🏍️, Power Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, Oggy & The Cokroaches, Jimmy Neutron, As Told by Ginger, Xmen, Conan, Futurama, Xena the Warrior Princess ⚔️; eh itu bukan cartoon. A lot.
If we were early, we could still watch Martin Yang's cooking show right after the Singapore's national anthem: "Mari kita rakyat Singapura sama-sama menuju bahagia," and yes, we also got the Indo channel. SCTV was the most popular 📺. To be clear, we get access to Singaporean and Indonesian channels without a subscription. There's no Mega TV or Astro, or fast internet. #iykyk
Oh, don't make me start with The Lion King 🦁, Cinderella, Anastasia, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio 🤥, Peter Pan 🧚♂️, Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians, Beauty and the Beast, Bambi, 🐘 Dumbo, Mary Poppins 🌂; Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., etc.
And yes, let's not forget all P. Ramlee songs and movies 📽️, Nordin Ahmad's, and Panggung Sabtu every Saturday at 2 p.m. Bobby, Sangam, Mera Naam Joker. Chinese dramas? TV3 at 6:00 p.m. on weekdays. We also have Fei Mao, Cinderella Odyssey, Journey to the West, Police Story, Drunken Master, Jacky Chan, My Fair Lady, Stephen Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng. Tamil? We have Padayappa, and Muthu. Don't forget Phua Chu Kang and Under One Roof, okay?
Did you read We have Kisah 3 Penyiasat (Jalil, Gopal dan Ah Meng), Nancy Drew, Gossip Girls 👄, Sweet Valley High, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boyz, Goosebumps, Hardy Boys, The Perk of Being a Wallflower, a lot. The Pearl 🦪? Phantom of The Opera, or the poem of Emily Dickinson? Anak Din Biola 🎻? Sehijau Warna Daun? Forget a while bout Casanova or Romeo & Juliet or even Caesar. Have you read Jane Austen or Salina or Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck, Laila Majnun 💔? or Dare to Fail by Billi P. S. Lim and even Harun Yahya Books 😏? Comic: Dragon Ball 🐉, Detective Conan, Kisah Ahli Bomba, Pedang Setiawan, Kreko, Galaxie, Kuntum, Archie Comics, Kampung Boy, Old Master Q, Cleo, Seventeen, Gempak, Ujang, Gila-Gila, Asuh, Mickey Mouse, Dr. Slump, Slamdunk ⛹️♂️, Siri Maskeret Cinta, Dari Alam Angker, Mastika, Anjung Seri, Times and of course newspaper! Love the crosswords and their comic strips.
"Menangis konon, menikah satu sen tak keluar uang malah harta anak aku kau kikis, kemudian kau siksa dia smpai mati, pegi kau main muzik di sana buat apa kau menangis di sini," - Mak Dara.
I'm sure there's much more that could be added to this list. It's no wonder that we Millennials have a really mixed-up "mindset" due to overexposure to so many different types of media. 😌 What did I miss? List it all down here, sisters and brothers. Let's walk down memory lane.
P.S. A glorious time of innocence, a time of great ignorance.
I remember waking up in the morning watching Bananas in Pyjamas, Barney & Friends, DuckTales, Chip n Dale 🐿️, Doug, Tiny Toon, Simpson, Rugrats, Hi-5, Art Attack, Sonic, Sesame Street, Batman, Marsupilami, Gummi Bear, Tom & Jerry 🐱🐭, Dexter's Laboratory 🧪, Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Hey Arnold!, Pinky & the Brain, Thundercats, Cow & Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, Smurf, 🕵🏻 Inspector Gadget, TMNT 🐢, He-Man, Thundercats, Transformer, Gaban, Masked Rider 🏍️, Power Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, Oggy & The Cokroaches, Jimmy Neutron, As Told by Ginger, Xmen, Conan, Futurama, Xena the Warrior Princess ⚔️; eh itu bukan cartoon. A lot.
If we were early, we could still watch Martin Yang's cooking show right after the Singapore's national anthem: "Mari kita rakyat Singapura sama-sama menuju bahagia," and yes, we also got the Indo channel. SCTV was the most popular 📺. To be clear, we get access to Singaporean and Indonesian channels without a subscription. There's no Mega TV or Astro, or fast internet. #iykyk
Oh, don't make me start with The Lion King 🦁, Cinderella, Anastasia, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio 🤥, Peter Pan 🧚♂️, Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians, Beauty and the Beast, Bambi, 🐘 Dumbo, Mary Poppins 🌂; Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., etc.
Would you like me to add some more? The Godfather, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars, Jaws 🦈, Aliens 👽, Rocky, Home Alone, The Terminator, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean 🏴☠️; the obsession with 007 and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman or Holly in Breakfast at Tiffany's 💍, Casablanca, Back to the Future, Edward Scissorhands ✂️, Goodfellas, Frankenstein, Dracula 🧛♂️, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Bewitched, Home Improvement, House M.D. 🩺, Quicksilver, Stargate, NCIS, CSI, all Law & Order, The Mentalist, Forever, Sherlock, ER, The X-Files, Hannibal, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters 👻, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, American Pie, Seinfeld, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Nanny, The Cleveland Show, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, all Adam Sandler movies, Titanic 🚢, Moulin Rouge, Malcolm in the Middle, etc.
Obsess over Wednesday? Well, sorry to say, I've been there and done that; but with Morticia and Gomez in the Addams Family. Gothic, Emo, Underground, Grunge, from Avril Lavigne to Paramore, Sync, Backstreet Boys, Lambada, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Prince, Pink; from Hello Kitty, Mashimaro, Kluang Man, Usop Sontorian, Anak-anak Sidek, to Alien Workshop, Emily the Strange, and video tape case (and disket) etc. Yes, from Joan Jett 🎸, Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Isabella by Search or Suzana or Taman Rashidah Utama, or Thriller, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal, The Beatles and Dolly Parton 🎤, Queen, Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Kinks, The Ramones, Kiss 💋, ACAB, Nirvana, Metallica or even Butterfinger, Pretty Ugly and Artic Monkey or Hujan, Estrella, White Shoes and The Couples Company; or Amelina dan Iwan to Raihan and Hijjaz etc. Don't forget about Sheila on 7, Coklat, Padi, Slank, Radja, Dewa, Dewi Persik, Inul Daratista, Rossa, Siti Nurhaliza, Noraniza Idris, simply all Arwah Pak Ngah's and Loloq song etc. I can't even trace lagi dah what year and what year for Suzzanna's Movie like Sundelbolong, or Ratu Laut Kidul?
Obsess over Wednesday? Well, sorry to say, I've been there and done that; but with Morticia and Gomez in the Addams Family. Gothic, Emo, Underground, Grunge, from Avril Lavigne to Paramore, Sync, Backstreet Boys, Lambada, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Prince, Pink; from Hello Kitty, Mashimaro, Kluang Man, Usop Sontorian, Anak-anak Sidek, to Alien Workshop, Emily the Strange, and video tape case (and disket) etc. Yes, from Joan Jett 🎸, Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Isabella by Search or Suzana or Taman Rashidah Utama, or Thriller, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal, The Beatles and Dolly Parton 🎤, Queen, Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Kinks, The Ramones, Kiss 💋, ACAB, Nirvana, Metallica or even Butterfinger, Pretty Ugly and Artic Monkey or Hujan, Estrella, White Shoes and The Couples Company; or Amelina dan Iwan to Raihan and Hijjaz etc. Don't forget about Sheila on 7, Coklat, Padi, Slank, Radja, Dewa, Dewi Persik, Inul Daratista, Rossa, Siti Nurhaliza, Noraniza Idris, simply all Arwah Pak Ngah's and Loloq song etc. I can't even trace lagi dah what year and what year for Suzzanna's Movie like Sundelbolong, or Ratu Laut Kidul?
And yes, let's not forget all P. Ramlee songs and movies 📽️, Nordin Ahmad's, and Panggung Sabtu every Saturday at 2 p.m. Bobby, Sangam, Mera Naam Joker. Chinese dramas? TV3 at 6:00 p.m. on weekdays. We also have Fei Mao, Cinderella Odyssey, Journey to the West, Police Story, Drunken Master, Jacky Chan, My Fair Lady, Stephen Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng. Tamil? We have Padayappa, and Muthu. Don't forget Phua Chu Kang and Under One Roof, okay?
Tamiya, Tamagotchi, Digimon, Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Penguin, Tetris, The Sims, Gameboy, BMX, tengteng, guli, guli, gasing, congkak, yo-yo 🪀, batu seremban, getah, cop tiang, crochet, flower from straw, Impulse, jam kalkulator, Sea Monkey, GTO, Jetman, Ultraman, WWF; from MS DOS to 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and now 11 all that. Japanese, Korean and Taiwan; Romance, My Sassy Girl Chun Hyang, My Girl, Meteor Garden (F4), Winter Sonata, Autumn in My Heart, Full House, Stairway to Heaven, Coffee Prince, Boys Over Flowers, Hanakimi, Sailor Moon, Hana Yori Dango, Oshin, Tokyo Love Story, Jewel in the Palace, Stairway to Heaven etc.
Did you read We have Kisah 3 Penyiasat (Jalil, Gopal dan Ah Meng), Nancy Drew, Gossip Girls 👄, Sweet Valley High, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boyz, Goosebumps, Hardy Boys, The Perk of Being a Wallflower, a lot. The Pearl 🦪? Phantom of The Opera, or the poem of Emily Dickinson? Anak Din Biola 🎻? Sehijau Warna Daun? Forget a while bout Casanova or Romeo & Juliet or even Caesar. Have you read Jane Austen or Salina or Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck, Laila Majnun 💔? or Dare to Fail by Billi P. S. Lim and even Harun Yahya Books 😏? Comic: Dragon Ball 🐉, Detective Conan, Kisah Ahli Bomba, Pedang Setiawan, Kreko, Galaxie, Kuntum, Archie Comics, Kampung Boy, Old Master Q, Cleo, Seventeen, Gempak, Ujang, Gila-Gila, Asuh, Mickey Mouse, Dr. Slump, Slamdunk ⛹️♂️, Siri Maskeret Cinta, Dari Alam Angker, Mastika, Anjung Seri, Times and of course newspaper! Love the crosswords and their comic strips.
Have you watched "Roy Roy, Hati Kau Keras Roy," (Gila-Gila Remaja) or "Tipah, tertipu Bang," (Ali Setan), or maybe this:
"Menangis konon, menikah satu sen tak keluar uang malah harta anak aku kau kikis, kemudian kau siksa dia smpai mati, pegi kau main muzik di sana buat apa kau menangis di sini," - Mak Dara.
I'm sure there's much more that could be added to this list. It's no wonder that we Millennials have a really mixed-up "mindset" due to overexposure to so many different types of media. 😌 What did I miss? List it all down here, sisters and brothers. Let's walk down memory lane.
P.S. A glorious time of innocence, a time of great ignorance.
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