Am feeling a sense of nostalgia today.
You know those longings that we sometimes have for people/things/events past?
I see some heads nodding uh-huh now.
But before I ask for your tales of those good ol’ days,
Let me share with you mine.
It’s not much,
In fact, it’s quite trivial to what most of you may have for a recollection…
It’s the games we used to play as kids.
Yes.
Can you still remember games like, patintero, piko, sipa, tumbang preso, taguan, and touch-cue?
Well, I do.
In fact, I used to love playing the game patintero, all day and night, rain or shine, that my mom would sometimes have to drive some monstrous blows down my tush with the use of her trusty bamboo stick just to force me to quit.
Aye, that’s how addicted I was to that game.
And how about those cute lil antics of ours in bahay-bahayan?
Haha.
That too I recall.
I remember picking gumamelas, bounganvillas, sticks and stones to use as cooking materials,
While gathering abandoned ol’ newspapers & empty big carton boxes to use as makeshift houses.
Oh the ingenuity of young minds!
Oh the happiness of youth!
Where had all those years gone?
Today as I sit beside the window of our lounge area, overlooking some kids on our building down below playing touch-cue,
I can’t help but feel a bit envious….
Ahhh, it seems I haven’t outgrown my love for those kiddie games huh?
Well, who has anyway?
You know those longings that we sometimes have for people/things/events past?
I see some heads nodding uh-huh now.
But before I ask for your tales of those good ol’ days,
Let me share with you mine.
It’s not much,
In fact, it’s quite trivial to what most of you may have for a recollection…
It’s the games we used to play as kids.
Yes.
Can you still remember games like, patintero, piko, sipa, tumbang preso, taguan, and touch-cue?
Well, I do.
In fact, I used to love playing the game patintero, all day and night, rain or shine, that my mom would sometimes have to drive some monstrous blows down my tush with the use of her trusty bamboo stick just to force me to quit.
Aye, that’s how addicted I was to that game.
And how about those cute lil antics of ours in bahay-bahayan?
Haha.
That too I recall.
I remember picking gumamelas, bounganvillas, sticks and stones to use as cooking materials,
While gathering abandoned ol’ newspapers & empty big carton boxes to use as makeshift houses.
Oh the ingenuity of young minds!
Oh the happiness of youth!
Where had all those years gone?
Today as I sit beside the window of our lounge area, overlooking some kids on our building down below playing touch-cue,
I can’t help but feel a bit envious….
Ahhh, it seems I haven’t outgrown my love for those kiddie games huh?
Well, who has anyway?
