How long is 20 years? Google will tell you that it is over 7,304 days or 175,316 hours long.

If you were staring down at the prospect of living out 175,316 hours, it could be quite daunting. But these pictures/videos of Singapore in 1995 prove that 20 years can fly by and feel just like yesterday.

Check them out:

1. Under One Roof

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1995 was the year our favourite family in Bishan entered our lives and taught us life lessons via a southern province of China. 20 years on and you still know that Moses Lim is ...

2. Triple Nine

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In 20 years, will people remember Mata Mata / Point of Entry the same way we remember Triple Nine? Nope. No one can replace Lim Yu Beng, Wong Li-lin and James 'the VR Man' Lye.

3. Ong Teng Cheong

This is a photograph of ex-President Ong Teng Cheong in 1995. He was our first directly elected President and the man responsible for pushing for Singapore to adopt the MRT system. He is also a general badass all around.

Here's an excerpt of his badass-ery from his Wikipedia page :

"Ong was tangled in a dispute over the access of information regarding Singapore's financial reserves. The government said it would take 56-man-years to produce a dollar-and-cents value of the immovable assets. Ong discussed this with the accountant general and the auditor general and eventually conceded that the government only had to declare all of its properties, a list which took a few months to produce. Even then, the list was not complete; it took the government a total of three years to produce the information that Ong requested.

In an interview with Asiaweek six months after stepping down from presidency, Ong indicated that he had asked for this audit based on the principle that as an elected president, he was bound to protect the national reserves, and the only way of doing so would be to know what reserves (both liquid cash and assets) the government owned.

In the last year of his presidency (1998) Ong found out through the newspapers that the government aimed to submit a bill to Parliament to sell the Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) to The Development Bank of Singapore. The POSB was, at that time, a government statutory board whose reserves were under the president's protection; this move according to Ong, was procedurally inappropriate and did not regard Ong's significance as the guardian of the reserves; he had to call and inform the government of this oversight. In spite of this, the sale proceeded and the Development Bank of Singapore owns POSBank and its name to this present day."

And for those people who celebrate him and yet bemoan the fact that labour unions in Singapore are useless and don't organise strikes, here's what Ong said:

"I was not trained to become a minister or a politician, but you learn on the job. Whenever I went to a new ministry, I always asked myself basic questions: What is this job all about? What am I supposed to do? That’s what I did in 1980, for instance, when I became minister of labor, in addition to being minister for communications. I went through all the legislation and I decided that the trade unions should not just be designed to organize and finance strikes, but instead should help improve the workers’ social and economic wellbeing."

But Ong did sanction a strike in 1986. What a man. He may be our modern day folk hero equivalent to Lim Bo Seng.

4. Teresa Teng

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May 8 2015 will mark the 20th anniversary of Teresa Teng's passing. Her voice lives on in this classic that will always be sung at Chinese weddings.

5. City Beat

City Beat was really a revolution for local variety at that time with skit-like segments between info-tainment content. The incredible chemistry and comic timing of the show's hosts, Kym Ng, Bryan Wong, Sharon Au, and Lina Ng, carried the variety programme for many years.

So what variety shows do Singaporeans watch now? Probably South Korea's Running Man for its hosts' incredible chemistry and comic timing. Wait a minute...

6. Super Bus

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We take double decker air-conditioned buses for granted today. But back in the 90s, that bus was called the 'Super Bus' because it was magical. Catch a glimpse of it at the 1:36 mark. Weep at the rest of the video of good times gone by.

7. Premiere and Prime 12

1995 was the year Channel 12 was split into Prime 12 and Premiere 12, the predecessors of Vasantham, Suria and Okto.

8. Stormy Chingay

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1995 was the year that the skies decided to open up in a deluge on the evening of the Chingay Parade. Despite the storm, the parade and show carried on. No such thing as having to take shelter because of Cat I weather.

Read a more detailed account of that day in this blog entry.

9. Land Transport Authority

The Land Transport Authority, which is responsible for building all those spanking new MRT stations and ERP gantries, was formed in 1995.

Now that it is out of its awkward teenage years, let's hope they can keep people moving better.

10. 6-digit postal codes

Four digit postal codes based on Singapore's districts were much easier to remember, but they made it harder for our mail to be sorted efficiently.

So in 1995, a new 6-digit system was introduced.

11. Random photographs from 1995 that makes you think 20 years fly by in a blink of an eye

Piracy has since gone digital, but everyone will always remember the good old days of Sim Lim Square where the only people who were ripped off were the corporate giants and not the average Singaporeans. We're looking at you Jover.

Check out the lack of a casino integrated resort in the background. The Esplanade and tourists didn't exist here as well.

Back then, nobody cared if the National Stadium leaked when it rained simply because there was no shelter. Spoiled Singaporeans now can't tahan a little bit of water.

20 years on, people are still peeing in the pools. SMH.

They all look... non-imported.

Top image from Singapore Athletics.