OLD KAPAMPANGAN GAMES
Children in San Pedro 2 play games every Saturday and Sunday
LUKSONG BABI
LUKSONG TINIK
YOYO
DAMA
MAKING A GARING-GARINGAN
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
FINALLY -
OLD GAMES - VERY MUCH ALIVE IN MAGALANG
Advance tecnology changed the ways the children played. Before, there is bonding between the father and son in making toys like gariton and burarul. The mother make garing-garingan for the daughters. Nowadays, children just point at toys in malls and upon going home, there is the toy. In the sidewalk and tiangge, inexpensive toys are easily available. Every Friday, Apu Day, almost all kinds of very cheap toys are available around the area.
During our childhood, only the rich have imported dolls and other toys. How we envy their miniature bale-balayan with complete pink kitchen utensils and dining sets. Our bale-balayan is a rectangular table with the ulas (blankets) made of koku or suput arina (flour sacks) as walls. The three sides of the table are covered and the fourth serve as the door or entry. At the imaginary kitchen there are kurang-kurangan(miniature pots and pans made of clay). The white ulas also serve as a movie screen with a paritan as the light. Then a person will make hand formation technique to show a bird or some other objects. When an airplane is on the screen, the mouth gives sound of a plane.
While some girls play the bale-balayan, some girls and boys play outdoor games like maro, tambubung, tumbang preso, luksong tinik, shatung and many others. Sometimes the road serve as a playground because few vehicles and calesas pass. There are also many vacant areas available. Shatung was common in the vacant areas. Children only need two bamboo sticks to play. Girls usually draw lines on the ground for the pikung otso and pikung sampaga. At present, the children use chalks because the streets are cemented. Tirador (slingshot) can be made from a guava branch and the rubber can be purchased in the neighborhood sari-sari store just like the yoyo and the pasi (trumpo). The two famous softdrinks company issued their own yoyos. Old folks believed that if the trumpo are used, there will be hardships but with the yoyo there would be abundance. Babagwa (spider) games will mean that there would be war.
During summer breaks, we would play balyo with tansans (softdrinks crowns). Our playmates from Baliwag, Bulacan bring tansans who are very rare in Magalang so they command higher value. How we got mad with Apung Ilan when he made a garbage pit for lola and covered our precious tansans with ground.
When there is masalang bulan (full moon), salikutan (hide and seek) and other group games makes the neighborhood alive. During the rainy season, the trees specially the tamarind are full of saligubang and salaginto. With some sewing thread tied to one leg, the insect can be transformed into an airplane. Households has always stock of papel de japon for pastillas wrappers that can be made into instant sipa when used with discarded washers and big one centavo coins.
In front of the Magalang Elem. School, Apung Delang has many sungkas ( 6 and 7 holes) and lubid (ropes) for skipping rope for the children use.
There are also babagwa (spider) games. Those caught from electrical wiring are said to be brave.
In the sari-sari store, Apu Sergio would make dama boards out of empty milk boxes. Tansans from softdrinks bottles complete the dama matches.
Garal-garalan can be held even under the tree with one child playing the teacher and the rest as pupils.
Garing-garingan was very popular before the arrival of American made dolls. Dolls were made of papier mache. My doll was named Petring but I bathed her she became soggy.
Thanks to the children, old games are very much alive every weekend and vacation time.
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Manlapaz, Adoracion M. Old Kapampangan Games, Magalang Heritage
During our childhood, only the rich have imported dolls and other toys. How we envy their miniature bale-balayan with complete pink kitchen utensils and dining sets. Our bale-balayan is a rectangular table with the ulas (blankets) made of koku or suput arina (flour sacks) as walls. The three sides of the table are covered and the fourth serve as the door or entry. At the imaginary kitchen there are kurang-kurangan(miniature pots and pans made of clay). The white ulas also serve as a movie screen with a paritan as the light. Then a person will make hand formation technique to show a bird or some other objects. When an airplane is on the screen, the mouth gives sound of a plane.
While some girls play the bale-balayan, some girls and boys play outdoor games like maro, tambubung, tumbang preso, luksong tinik, shatung and many others. Sometimes the road serve as a playground because few vehicles and calesas pass. There are also many vacant areas available. Shatung was common in the vacant areas. Children only need two bamboo sticks to play. Girls usually draw lines on the ground for the pikung otso and pikung sampaga. At present, the children use chalks because the streets are cemented. Tirador (slingshot) can be made from a guava branch and the rubber can be purchased in the neighborhood sari-sari store just like the yoyo and the pasi (trumpo). The two famous softdrinks company issued their own yoyos. Old folks believed that if the trumpo are used, there will be hardships but with the yoyo there would be abundance. Babagwa (spider) games will mean that there would be war.
During summer breaks, we would play balyo with tansans (softdrinks crowns). Our playmates from Baliwag, Bulacan bring tansans who are very rare in Magalang so they command higher value. How we got mad with Apung Ilan when he made a garbage pit for lola and covered our precious tansans with ground.
When there is masalang bulan (full moon), salikutan (hide and seek) and other group games makes the neighborhood alive. During the rainy season, the trees specially the tamarind are full of saligubang and salaginto. With some sewing thread tied to one leg, the insect can be transformed into an airplane. Households has always stock of papel de japon for pastillas wrappers that can be made into instant sipa when used with discarded washers and big one centavo coins.
In front of the Magalang Elem. School, Apung Delang has many sungkas ( 6 and 7 holes) and lubid (ropes) for skipping rope for the children use.
There are also babagwa (spider) games. Those caught from electrical wiring are said to be brave.
In the sari-sari store, Apu Sergio would make dama boards out of empty milk boxes. Tansans from softdrinks bottles complete the dama matches.
Garal-garalan can be held even under the tree with one child playing the teacher and the rest as pupils.
Garing-garingan was very popular before the arrival of American made dolls. Dolls were made of papier mache. My doll was named Petring but I bathed her she became soggy.
Thanks to the children, old games are very much alive every weekend and vacation time.
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Manlapaz, Adoracion M. Old Kapampangan Games, Magalang Heritage