Tokkok: Those Were The Days, my friends. We thought they'd never ...

Photo of Mary Hopkin who sang a strike Those Were The Days.....source

What started as my grumble about not being able to buy a simple club of SOAP became a swell of memories. So many recollections of those 'good aged days' were triggered which we motionless which a small of those tales should turn a blog upon their own. Ya, we know which many of we who come visit continually would have review them. But for future visitors who competence otherwise not go in to a comments territory they would skip all your sharing of days left by. Good memories should be common as well as noted in books (blogs) so which they have been never lost.

So sing along to a tune of Those Were The Days as we share times which have been forever part of a lives....

...................................Actually, these days we just can't buy JUST an egg anymore. They've got to be cholesterol free, antibiotic giveaway etc. Same thing goes for things which we make use of everyday. Try seeking for an typical club of SOAP. You won't find any. There have been lots of beauty treatments, facial washes, cleansers though no SOAP. Right?....Patrick Teoh

Talking about soap, we yearn for a Popinjoy (green colour with a parrot sign)that we can no longer find in my internal kedai runcit....soowm

Was which Popinjay or Popinjoy? we recollect which soap. Green wrapping with a design of a bright colored macaw.......................Patrick Teoh

Popinjay soap is still around. Getting nostalgic? we remembered

1. Fung Keong propagandize shoes;
2. ice bola from canteen;
3. 3 ladies brand cologne;
4. kickapoo (I consider still got)
5. Green Spot
6. 555 cigarettes;
7. Amami(talcum).............................! Helen

.... does any a single recollect Huntley & Palmers Gems as well as Marie biscuits when they were sold in those rectangular tins which came with a small steel cutter to open?

OR

Lucozade prior to it became a trendy soothing drink?

OR

Woodward's Gripe Water prior to they detected which it contained alcohol. GASP GASP GASP.....How could they do that? Fed to babies somemore....string them up. But afterwards generations of us grew up carrying taken a regular tablespoons of Woodward's as well as we appear nothing a worse nothing a worse nothing a worse nothing a worse.

OR

Ovaltine

OR

Darkie Toothpaste prior to domestic correctness killed it

Bata Badminton Master shoes

4711 Eau De Cologne

555 notebook to record credit during sundry shops

Players Gold Leaf as well as Craven A cigarettes as well as Abdullah 37 cigarettes with which stupid TV commercial as well as song...........Abdullah Sarm Sup Chut

Rock groups used to advertise petrol. Remember Caltex Boron?......................Patrick Teoh

My daddy used to discuss it me about about corrupted BB Park, strip black Rose Chan as well as screening of x-rated motion picture in open cinemas..........................................TV Smith

Those domestic rallies were great. Back afterwards we didn't have Malays, Chinese or Indians here. Only Malayan/sians. So everyone got fucked. In a speeches we mean. When it was deserved as well as applicable lah. Ahhh...the great aged days...................................Patrick Teoh

I've regularly thought I'd live as well as die in Malaysia. Now, I'm not so certain any more. we live in North America during a impulse as well as whilst we do not consider I'll ! give up Malaysian nationality, which isn't a preference forged in stone...................................Anonymous

I consider u can still buy Popinjoy soap in TESCO. Anyway,I recollect a small of these aged stuff:

a pre-printed strain requests dedication cards which we sent to get a dedications as well as
messages upon a radio as well as a times when it was cold to have weird names similar to James Collin Wong,Ronny Atkinson Khoo, Robert Vincent Lim, Sally Serina Tan etc. etc...

Rough Rider's cigarettes which my grandma used to smoke.

The Straits Echo newspapers

40 sen third class motion picture tickets...............................................JasonL

(Oh yes, those names....William Elvis Honda Tan (anyone recollect him? His alternative explain to celebrity apart from his name was which he got married upon a Honda motorcycle. Made a pages of The Malay Mail.), Rocky Alison Teoh, Rickson Lim, Theresa Elvise Liew (who went upon to turn a psychologist). Anyone recollect any more of those names from which period?

Popular cigarettes during a time when smoking was a coolest thing...

Rothmans King Size; Benson & Hedges King Size; Player's Gold Leaf; Consulate Menthol (Cool as a towering stream); Matterhorn Menthol...........................................................Patrick Teoh

my late grandma make use of to have a kind of soap what we called sabun cap kapak. u can purchase it during any kedai runcit as well as u can decide how many do u wish to buy. thirty cent equates to slighly small, 60 cent a bit bigger. it has strong smell too.... a small call it sabun potong............................Sherinna

Does anybody recollect drinking NAAFI splash during 80 ! sen for a large bottle of Anchor?
When we could buy a brand brand new Mercedes Benz 190D for RM18,000?
When we could safely splash H2O from a tap?...........................................Patrick Teoh

What about a "pak yow" male who came to a residence as well as my Mum would get me to go out with empty bottles to buy kicap which he pumped from this steel container................Anonymous

bringing eggs from home to a burn loay teow male to grill with a koay teow. In my days, burn koay teow with egg cost 50 sen though if your brought your own we pay only thirty sen......................Patrick Teoh

....the small girls as well as boys peeing in a motion picture aisles - I've seen it many times, even my mum asked me to do it cos' she's doesn't wish to skip any part of a film by receiving me to a restroom.........................................JasonL

.....does any a single recollect Arthur's Cave in a Merlin Hotel? Jackie's Bowl which was a initial ever disco in a country? Time Tunnel?....................................Patrick Teoh

.....Tikam-tikam; a diversion of possibility where for 5 sen, we select a piece of folded block stuck upon a board. Prizes operation from a stamp to RM10 cash.
Cut-off paper dolls which comes with dual sets of clothes. For variety, we design a own cut-out clothes complete with hats, boots as well as handbags. And residence afterwards in between a pages of a propagandize books............................................kathrina

My prime childhood games were personification "bak gu li"(marbles), 7 stones, "Pepsi-Cola a single dual three", Police & Thief, "Kali-toi", "One Leg", "high jump" over a prolonged rope strung together with rubber bands........................................arkane

Those Were The Days was a single of a many requested songs though dur! ing a ti p of a ask list was Patches by Dickie Lee......................................Patrick Teoh

One was a male with his bike as well as cart who sold "tok tok mee". He strike dual sticks to make a "tok tok tok tok" sound, to announce he was in a vicinity. An aged lady used to carry dual baskets upon a yoke to sell a internal kuih called "faan shue taan" made with honeyed potato; .....and stood by a roadside to eat "lok lok". Fishball, seafood, quail eggs upon skewers dipped in to hot soup to cook, afterwards dipped in to chili or honeyed sauce.................................................Min

Grab a design label any (usually Ultraman) as well as slam it opposite a single another's palm. High Five style. Then a winner is motionless a 'closed' or 'open' label upon a floor...........The alternative craze was to stack up those cards as well as knock them down from a distance, bowling style. Using a Japanese slipper, of course. Each fella would file his ability to soundness nonetheless with his own terrror position as well as special process of land a slipper prior to it was thrown. Much similar to a Samurai........... Are those steel box Oxford Instrument set still being used in schools these days?...................Then there was additionally this weird 'watch fight' where we will close a climax of a spring circuitous watches opposite a single another, as well as see which a single dies (stop ticking) first.................TV Smith

........yeah, i additionally remembered a kites flown upon glass coated strings. Used to prepare a glass shards in "kongkong" tins during a back lane......we used to play a diversion where we gash a thing (compasses) in between a fingers (while a palm is flat upon a table) during fast speeds to infer which we have been not chicken....................................................Arkane

....reminds me of a Central Market where every stall owners knew what a male of a residence would! buy eve ry day upon his approach back home as well as afterwards upon Sunday buy for a weekend lunch as well as dinner. Those guys, a stall owners knew any of us similar to we were all from a same kampung. They knew what any of us longed for in what multiple from a sort of fish to a spices which would be mixed for we upon a spot.....AnakKL

These memory line tidbits have been priceless! Should be a blog by itself :) .............................TV Smith

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