revived tradition

Spending my weekend in Muenchen i learned to see the meaning of our tradition. Not that it was a shocking eye opener but it made me realize no matter how modern or up to date we are in this high tech era, our culture still has a part in us. i saw all this from the eye of a girl sitting on the bed watching all her friends playing bottle caps on her bedroom floor.

the game of bottle caps or locally "tudung botol" is usually played in villages about 10 years ago. obviously that was the time when we were back in primary school. well i myself never played this game before as it was popular among the boys and also because i attended an all girls school.

The situation is now, after more than 10 years not playing this game which involves skill and strategy. a group of 6 guys collected bottle caps and settled down in a circle. masing-masing nak menunjukkan skill. ayam tambatan kampung. that was when i saw how time changes everything. children nowadays don't know how it is without electronic games and the flat liquid screens. with more game consoles in stores, the basic of children life outside the four walls is abandoned. to me, it kills the joy of being a child and most importantly the creativity of one. running in evening breeze and chasing kites or just being outside spinning tops. that's what i call healthy competition, though most of the time one will go back home crying because of a silly fight and game rules. i call that survival skills. that's where you learn.



back to the tudung botol competition. here i am almost asleep when i heard the cheer, almost of a little child playing with his friends. too bad i saw a group of happily playing boys in their 20s. sometimes reviving your childhood makes you happier and relieves the stress of the world today. there's nothing wrong about showing the kid in you!