1. Your mum used to take you shopping in Kowloon City and you'd have to cover your ears as the planes came in to land.
2. Back in the days before Octopus cards, you had a stored-value ticket.
3. You rocked some pretty sweet beaded cornrows on your holiday to Phuket.
4. Everyone was obessed with collecting Sailor Moon or Dragonball Z cards.
5. You went to school in one of these.
6. You still refer to these as "Ethnicans".
7. You remember going to the Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park as a kid.
8. TVB's Journey to the West was required viewing.
9. Your brother had a collection of Tamiya model cars.
10. You owned stationery emblazoned with esoteric Japanese mascots like Afro Ken.
11. And Tarepanda.
12. You longed to hear the "Eh-Oh!" message notification on your ICQ instant messenger.
13. You remember when everyone went crazy for McSnoopy.
14. You remember when the Science Museum was brand new.
15. Your parents forced you to do Kumon.
16. $100 in a laisee packet was a TON of money.
17. Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" is forever linked in your mind with Blue Girl Beer.
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"I've been waiiiiitiiiing for a giiiiirl like you..."
18. You remember when some bright spark decided to release a Tamagotchi triad who smoked, drank and chopped people.
19. You received the mother of all wedgies going down the Rainbow Slides at Waterworld.
20. You couldn't get enough of Stephen Chow's comedies
21. And everything you know about triads you learned from the Young and Dangerous movies.
22. Your social currency was measured by your ability to get your hands on toiletries that weren't available in Hong Kong.
23. You went drinking in Jousters, Parkinson’s, Bonkers, Mad Dogs, Hardees II, Bahama Mama’s, Boom, L.A. Cafe, or Kangaroo.
24. Pre-internet, your music tastes lagged behind the rest of the world by about five years.
25. Your drink of choice was Diamond Black or KGB.
26. And, at some point, you've been strongly suspected of shoplifting something from the Body Shop.
