LOL at fat Manila kids that only know how to play video games. -lmao
Kudos to those who advocate the continuance of our culture, esp. the Igorots, that's amazing how the local govt. is really fighting for their culture.
PS And kudos to that guy who spoke perfect Tagalog, it got me teary eyes when he said "diwa ng Filipino laro ng ating lahi..." who the says poetic shyet like that anymore. -laugh
PSS The one game that they don't show is Moro-moro.
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We played
turumpo (top)
tirador (slingshots)
sipa (traditional SEAsian game similar to hackysack---except modern Filipinos used a flat piece of metal---like a coin with a hole in the middle, where a fletch---so it feels like a badminton shuttlecock, usually made out of candy wrappers is strung through)
luksong tinik
tumbang preso
moro-moro
dampa
tanching
piko (similar to hopscotch)
harangan taga
langi't lupa (similar to American game 'lava' + habulan)
luksong baka
agawan ng buko (it's like American stick the prick + rugby, using coconuts as balls, sometimes played in the flood)
gambling games:
bottle caps
"text"/cards
rubber bands
jolens (both the jolens ala billiards, and jolens as 'money')
cheap one peso plastic figurines (usually that comes in candy or chips)
things you have to construct:
sumpit (made blow pipes out aluminum piping, steal the withered flowers that people put in the graves/grave markers during All Soul's Day, harvest the seeds in the flowers, attach a empty matchbox with tape, use the seeds as ammo -laugh)
cannons (we'd make them out of soda cans and lighter fluid)
'pill box' (we'd take apart firecrackers and put all the in a cardboard box and then use string from a candle for fuse and then light it up)
Filipino blowing bubbles (I think this is traditional, usually you get an empty can, start a fire put water, some soap, smashed flower---usually hibiscus and some other stuff, let it boil and then you blow bubbles out of it)
saranggola (kites) fighting (we'd break glass into fine powder, buy glue and boil it with the glass, and then soak the yarn)
Espadahan (fencing using dried coconut leaves' vein fiber or we'd make it ourselves from whittling soft wood like bamboo)
toy boats (during the floods we recycled old rubber sandals and old motors from RC cars, make the hull and outrigger from stitched sandal rubber, using tingting or banana cue sticks for rigging and mast, plastic bags as sail, then we'd somehow rig a 9 volt battery with the RC motor using electric wire and you're good to go -laugh)
we fished out of yarn and stick (we usually catch "dirty fish" like hito so we threw them back)
"Pet games":
Spider fighting
Beetle kites (tie a rope on a beetle and let it fly)
Rainy day games:
habulan, taguan but in the rain
paper boat racing in the canal (paper boats, blow and let the raging flow of water carry it down the end LOL)
Now I think about it, games we played were full of sharp objects, explosives, flammables, gambling and cruelty to animals...no wonder kids nowadays are being kept inside by their parents and getting fat. -laugh
PS Bahay bahayan we weren't allowed to play, because my mom said uh...it's inappropriate esp. with girls even if we were so innocent back then. -lmao
PSS I found this old Batibot clip about 'bangkang papel'
