Facebook | I WAS FROM NANYANG AND I'M PROUD OF IT

"Description: You were from Nanyang (kindergarten, primary, girls' high, whichever) and you are proud of your heritage!" (No, I am not joining this group)


2 interesting threads:

1) I was from Nanyang and my Mandarin is still bad (ie the failure of Communist education)

"Yep.. incredibly bad!! i can see chinese people trying to stifle smiles sometimes when i speak mandarin and i've been told that in addition to a singaporean accent, i also have an aussie accent in my chinese..:-)"

"I have a C for my HCL prelims, after six years in a SAP school!"

"I had to do chinese and english as first language in primary 5 and 6 (when the scheme first started)... but was "saved" when my parents decided to move us to Australia in the middle of Primary 6!!! haha"

"Haha. Yeah. I only got a B3 for my O level chinese. It probably got worse when I went to ACS(I). Haha."

"Tell me about it. D7 at first language level, B3 at second language. Believe it or not, my mandarin got better when I was in the US. Felt compelled to defend my ethnic group. Haha.."

"Apparently so. Not saying my grade at PSLE, but UNGRADED at N level (including oral), then failing twice at O level (oral ungraded) before finally getting a C6...and my oral is still ungraded.

Downright terrible!"


"i'm a banana and proud of it. i haven't responded to my chinese name since '86. woo woo."

"My entire Sec 3/4 class can't speak Mandarin! I think it got to the point where it was simply much faster to write in Chinese than to speak Mandarin if we had to communicate in Chinese. Oh well."

"I got an A for chinese PSLE, a C6 for O levels and a D7 for my A's... Kinda regret not being more proficient in the language as I have trouble watching Taiwanese variety shows or reading Manga... :("

2) Who went to nanyang primary school and still has nightmares?=) (See?! I'm not the only counter-revolutionary)

"- the regulation haircut
- The compulsory eye exercises
-The scary teachers
-the all white uniform- whose sick idea was that
-When we had to change out of our PE uniform and back into the school uniform... Etc"

"No talking while walking!
Put your fingers on your lips"

"I cant belive i forgot about that! were you also there for that teacher... cant remember her name.. who used to punish kids by making them do the chair... We used to joke that one day she would actually give us the chair.."

"LET'S JUST SAY,
I JUST GRADUATED IN 05 & THINGS HAVE CHANGED (:"

"The white uniform is a good idea! at least for the guys XD"


"the haircut!!!! above the collar. and in my day, you couldn't tie unless you did dance/gym. so short hair + flat chest = I LOOKED LIKE A GUY! except for the skirt part.

and calligraphy class! with the blue paper that you practised with water on. in a coolio plastic briefcase haha

and that one principal, who was kind of petite and balding... and the vice principal with her afro.

and the gym thing i had to do for pe! that was in chinese. so i didn't understand a word the instructor woman said >< what with the forward rolls and backward rolls and awkward twists"


"Haha remind me to post some fotos of me up on facebook from when i went to NYPS. i looked like a boy/prison escapee/refugee. HOT...let me tell you. i think i missed out on the calligraphy tho... thank god=)"

"haha how about abacus class? i used to just mentally do the sum and pretend to flick here and there (though there's a high chance my memory's failing and this was done in another primary school)"

"oh no talking while walking. that's classic."


"oh my god. the. pain.

i spent most of the day in the classroom sitting out the front pulling my ears because i:

1. didn't do my homework
2. didn't bring my textbooks
3. forgot my schoolbadge
4. was late and got locked out of the back gate which made me later
5. got lost and became late. see #4.
6. did i mention not doing my homework?
7. couldn't speak a word of chinese
8. talked while i walked"