We all love that occasional stroll down memory lane, and none have given us quite so much joy in recent times as this adorable animated film:

It was done by Goh Wei Choon and Wee Jiahui, two art, design and media students from Nanyang Technological University, for their final-year project, and it seems they're also in the running for the 17th TBS DigiCon6 Asia awards, a regional short film contest.

You'll want to watch it for some of the following super-familiar scenes (and many more, especially if you spent the 90s in primary school):

1. When you sat in that rickety bone-shaker school bus with your backpack on one side in the seat next to you, and your water bottle on the other. 

Of course, your water bottle was brightly-coloured and had a nice long sling you could wear on your shoulder so you will have easy access to water... or if your Mummy was in a good mood, something special like Ribena.

Also, you were too short for your legs to dangle from the seat, much less for your feet to be able to touch the floor. Everyone (girls and boys both) had a bowl haircut and fringe, and you wore a simple white hairband while secretly envying the girl who got to wear a pretty bow in her hair. You could also bounce in the seats back then, unlike now.

2. When schoolbags were crazily heavy — full of all our textbooks that we carried in our bags back and forth from school for no good reason. 

They were also usually the same size as (and in many cases larger than) your body, so the cool kids (who perhaps had wealthier parents?) had trolley bags they could drag behind them.

The REALLY cool ones had their names embroidered onto them too. In those days, we put our names on EVERYTHING.

3. When you got bored in class and started doodling on the pictures of those weird old men you didn't really know or care about.

This scene also cleverly incorporates those iconic country erasers we had boxes and boxes of but refused to use (or if we had no choice but to use one, we made triple sure there were at least two other unused ones bearing the same flag.

Also, plastic ruler + rubber band + eraser = the classic classroom weapon.

4. And of course, that moment when you're showing off your artistic talent to your classmate and you notice his eyes dart up — and by that time it's too late, because you've realised your teacher is looking over your shoulder. 

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5. And then, of course, what follows: you standing outside the classroom, pulling your ears as per your teacher's barked orders. 

Well, hey, at least it beats having to stand inside or worse in front of the class doing squats; in any case, standing outside also gives you a higher chance of seeing that cute girl you kinda like.

6. When collecting stickers was all the rage (especially among girls), as was Pokémon.

"Woohoo, I've scored a Pikachu sticker!" You can also be sure that every single girl who grew up in the 1990s would have had at least one sticker album of their own — most of the time many more.

7. This scene was all-too-familiar too: sitting innocently in class with those plastic-metal combination desks, with the chairs everyone trained their rocking and balancing skills on...

Pencil cases were back then legitly pencil boxes. The coolest ones had multiple secret compartments sealed with magnets, buttons and levers, and often came with squishy, shiny material at the top.

8. And when everyone's desk came with a deck beneath the table's top surface where you could put things.

9. Like your secret stash of Skittles.

Which, like every caring friend would do, you generously offered to share with your next-door neighbour...

10. Until your straight-laced, tattletale classmate tells on you.

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(Ah, screw that. She didn't deserve your awesome Skittles, anyway.) Then comes the agonising wait for...

11.  Recess! You could almost sense exactly when the school bell will sound, and everyone fell over themselves in the sprint-of-a-lifetime toward the canteen, in a bid to be first in line for the popular food stall.

Ah, days were the those, when a bowl of food cost 60 cents, and a drink, 30 cents.

12. And there was always that cool kid with a Gameboy whom everyone crowded round eagerly to watch.

Enter Castlemania, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and of course Pokémon Yellow (None of the others rivalled that version!).

13. And yes, he made your water ring game look kind of sad.

But in all honesty, it really kept you going for hours — although that wouldn't be too cool to admit to your Gameboy-owning friends.

14. And all those snacks sold at the tidbit stall that you couldn't afford because your parents only gave you 50 cents (just enough for your pau and small Ribena), while your friends got that elusive purple $2 note in pocket money.

Out came Yan Yan, Pocky, Mamee noodles and those chocolate-filled sweets that came in flower-shaped foil that were so fun to push out of the packaging. Dang.

15. After food is done with, the boys get on to the country eraser wars!

You only sent your best country candidates out to do battle against others — you always had that one favourite eraser. No, it wasn't the flipping technique you carefully honed over months of practice. It was that one eraser.

16. When you skipped between the same coloured tiles, avoiding the alternate colour because you would 'die' if you stepped on them.

Because in truth, life, for all of us, was all one big super-duper-fun game when we were younger.

Watch the whole film here, and you can vote for it in the competition too.

Top image: Screengrab from video.

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