I miss not going to class every time it rained so hard that schools got suspended. All we could do was to wear sweaters and socks we did not usually get to see ourselves wearing (because of the hot weather!) We would just stay inside the house – eat on the bed – doodle on the floor – watch through the window how the water flowed from the roof to the side of the road. I miss wanting to go out with our handmade paper boats ready for racing. It did not matter who won. I miss taking a shower outside – feeling the cold drops of rainwater from the grayish sky, feeling good and old and bad at the same time even if it meant having a flu the next day.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Native Toys
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There is a certain feeling of sadness, knowing that the kids today may never experience the joys of playing with the low-tech toys that I so thoroughly enjoyed when I was a kid.
Who needs Pokemon and its fancy monster arena battles? We had real spiders fight our battles! A fight-to-the-death, winner-takes-all challenge was but a fishball stick away. My champion was a beautiful specimen caught in Baguio by my father. This spider was about twice the size of the local spiders and just barely fit in his matchbox home. He was a veritable Mike Tyson of the spider world, and never lost a single fight. Contenders were beaten in less than a minute (they were eaten shortly thereafter). The champion's illustrious career was cut short, his untimely death caused by a freakish sequence of events involving a certain matchbox, a back pocket and a chair. Rest in piece Mike.
What bothered me lately was seeing my nephews play with these new fangled plastic spinning tops, based on the Beyblade anime. These cheaply made overpriced toys barely even do the only thing they were designed to do – SPIN! Whatever happened to proper wooden tops that used a nail as a balancing point? Oh the simple joys of decorating ones top, and perfecting the fine art of spinning it on the ground using nothing but a piece of string. What about the pleasure of seeing a finely deployed top, spinning perfectly on its axis, so mo much so that it seems like it is firmly planted on on the ground?
Don’t even get me started on Yo-Yos.
Yoyo's are cool. they're still IN! But now with pokemon designs and disney and other cartoons.....i was able to find a royal and sprite yoyo like the old ones...they're cool!
You write very well.
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