Games played
Back in the 1960s when I was still a kid, we did not have expensive games. Game Boy was not invented yet and do not talk about smart-phones in that era. The games I played were simple and inexpensive. 1. Marble games (Pa Goli) Marbles could be the colourful glass marbles or the big opaque marbles (Tua Goli). There were rules to play these games. Essentially, we would try to hit another marble with our own to decide on the winner or to win over other person’s marble. 2. Flying Kites I knew how to make kites with tracing paper and twigs. We could draw pictures with colour pencils on the tracing paper. To fly the kite, we attached a string to it. In order to make our string stronger, I would coat the string with starch and let it dry. Sometimes we flew our kites in the sky and tried to cut each other’s string. The loser would see his kite flew away. 3. Kuti Kuti These were small colourful plastic figurines of insects, fishes and others. The game was to use your fingers to flick your own figurine to land on top of another’s figurine. You then took your opponent’s over as your own. The idea is to amass as many as possible. I remember I was quite good at this game with the dexterity of my hand. 4. Fighting spiders I used to catch black spiders from bushes and plants. I then kept it in a matchstick box. To keep the spider alive, I would place a leaf in the box. I would then challenge my spider with another into a fight. The losing spider would retreat and moved away from the fight. (Now I felt I was cruel and should not have cause harm to this harmless insects.)
