No bills to pay, no boss to please, and basically no responsibilities. Being in Primary school rocked.

So in the midst of your busy adult lives, we want to help you de-stress and bring you back to the good ol' days.

Here are 12 things to remind you of the awesome times of being 7 to 12 years-old:

1. $0.50 lunches, $0.20 drinks at the tuck shop

50 cents could get you a big plate of rice with a few pieces of chicken back in the 90s. $0.20 would net you a cup of soyabean drink. If you had the money, you could buy a bottle of Yakult/Vitagen for $0.50 and get a free plastic toy!

2. Playing zero-point, pepsi-cola, football with plastic ball

Who needs mobile phone games when so much fun could be settled by a plastic ball or even an empty water bottle?

3. Trying and failing to push more than one colour out from this:

What else can you do when you're teacher is being excruciatingly boring?

Actually, if you have a ruler, then you can get ...

4. This:

You just had to make sure you didn't go "JIU JIU JIU, PEW PEW PEW" out loud.

5. When class time gets replaced with watching film reels

If you have a hard time remembering what films you watched, don't worry. Many people, like you, fell asleep during these film 'lessons'. But most remember that the films were played off reels.

6. End-of-year-after-examinations periods where you can play cards and board games in class

This is the time of the year where teachers really do not have any lessons for you and just want to not care. It's during this time where many of us were introduced to board games and Uno. Some people even learn *gasp* Daidee.

7. Random health checks meant free periods

Check your weight, then check your height (then feel good or feel lousy depending on how much you taller you've grown), check eyesight as well. Only when you reach Primary 6 would you have to dread the health check because it might mean a surprise BCG jab waiting for you.

8. Half-day off before public holidays

Eves of most public holidays are awesome. Aside from school being cut short half a day, you just attend school to watch some performances and sing some songs and you can go home. Why can't we do that in the office?

9. Have time before assemblies to read Singapore classics like Russell Lee, Mr Kiasu or Book Worm

What else were we supposed to read? The great classics? Lord of the Rings? Pffft. We want to find out what Simone or Mr Kiasu was up to.

10. P1 - P5 was basically stress-free

Before the entire country went tuition crazy, bad grades resulted in a caning at most. The rest of the days were spent in a relatively carefree manner. Unless it's P6 - that's when parents get more stressed up than the kids.

11. ECAs were not compulsory, but super fun if you loved them

Back in those days, CCAs were called ECAs and they were usually held on Saturday mornings. We didn't understand that this was quite tekan for teachers who had to work five and a half days for us. All we cared is that we could meet our friends more, teachers were not as strict during ECA time and, most importantly, no homework!

12. Morning sessions = SBC re-runs in the afternoon; Afternoon sessions = Morning cartoons before the bus comes

Before most schools converted into single-session schools, the 'perk' of split-session schooling was that assemblies were not so crowded and buses were not such a squeeze. If you were in the morning session, afternoon TV included old SBC drama re-runs at 3pm and also Wheel of Fortune at 6pm. For those in the afternoon sessions, mornings were filled with cartoons and Bananas in Pyjamas.

Top image from here.