The Games We Used To Play

Datuk Lat has many fond memories of his childhood. He live life to the fullest during those days. The thot to blog came when I happen to stumble across these websites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lat & http://knizam.com/2007/11/

This memoirs is just another example of how modernization has taken over our past childlhood

Years ago, we used to play games like gasing, layang-layang, polis sentri and teng-teng. Dont forget too the other warisan budaya Malaysia games like batu seremban, congkak, galah panjang (there are too many version for this), cari cucu and also Guli (my favourite game of course!). For those who already forgot about the games you can refer back to this website http://malaysiana.pnm.my/

Life in the kampung too is not complete if you cant climb the trees, catch some spiders (to put in your matchbox - do we have match boxes nowadays?), to try to fish at the drains, trapping birds etc. Of course there are still the ever dangerous "meriam buluh", which is still being played now due to its explosiveness and the thrill to claim the title of the "King of the Meriam". I still consider this paragraph as games as it has very special meaning to the kampung lifestyle

Then we got the fascination to play board games like Monopoly, Mind Reader, Risk etc. UNO is also such a wonderful delight those days

As techonology develops, we are more inclined to play more technological savvy games like Gameboy, Pacman, SuperMarios, Atari etc .. that is supposed to sharpen your reflexes!

Then we have come to our working phrase of our lives. How boring can work be without the ever time fulfilling games of Solitaire and Minesweepers!

Later came the demand for Playstation 1. Then comes Playstation 2. Now its Playstation 3! Xbox & Wii too has been the talking point to many of us

Maybe, in the short future... games on iPhone would be in demand. I am pretty sure about it!

The fact is that over the years... we have develop ourselves/our children to become couch potatoes. We no longer go outside to sweat and "discover" new frontiers. Our children hardly go out to ride bicycles in the evening because of the fear of traffic & the thought of child kidnappers.
I wonder what is going to happen to us in the next few years. Are we going back to basic? Or are we moving elsewhere?

I also wonder that if eventually when I retire and live back at kampung, can I survive with just RM100 per month? This RM100 is only to pay my Astro bills, electrcity and water. For I plan to live the frugal life; or a life of a farmer who rears my own chicken & plant my own grains & vegetables!

And so, the war between these companies would continue to be heated in in the years to come: Nintendo, Playstation 4(coming soon), Xbox and iPhone! Gone would be the traditional games...I hope not to happen (coming from the wise words of a Jedi Master)!!