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i don't know I came across this picture while browsing in the net and it brings back memories from my childhood. Looking at it I can’t help but smile and feel sad at the same time thinking how many of today still engage themselves in this kind of games which brought so much joy and happiness to our young lives, probably none for they are either glued on the front of a television or a computer monitor busy building and expanding their virtual world populated with virtual friends they may or may not know/meet/see in real life. I wonder then what kind of relationship they will cherish and develop later in life if they do not learn and experience the warmth of real friendship, a hug or even a fight done face to face in real time. What sort of person they would fall in love with and values they will impart to their offspring, dreams they would try to achieve and motivation to power their ambitions. But then again, they are born in this generation where plastic/synthetic lives are more desirable and often prefer by majority even by those who came from another era and have known different times where real people and feelings still are fashionable. of today don’t know any better. It is up to us adults to orient and stir them towards another direction but easier said than done for grown ups are busy earning a living to sustain their make believe existence. Virtual reality if you prefer. Where everything is possible, you only need access to electricity a computer and a monitor to have tons of friends to like or dislike. One doesn’t even need to converse properly or have skills to do it all one has to do is push some button to let the whole world know ones preference or if one is sad mad happy or rolling on the floor laughing out loud. I watch programs and hear others talking about going back to the basic and they go on to build huge houses to escape to the country armed with their computers ipads and iphones and continue what they were doing before picking up where they left off only in another settings. I guess back to the basic is an overrated idea/and has another meaning for some people.  only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide |
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9/28/2012 4:44 am |
jackstones holens yoyo and trumpo... are they still fashionable? how about sipa bahay-bahayan teks and so many many more... i wonder if children back there still playing these games... only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/28/2012 5:03 am |
When I was a kid I wanted to be a cop. God knows I have enough cop instinct and cop (black) humour to sustain the image. But I don’t want to be just a cop. I prefer Bruce Willis kind of cop Die Hard style. Or at least Mulder and Scully kind of cops (I know they are FBI agents) That was after I dream to be a dressmaker a nun a movie/theatre director/producer/actor and field journalist. But not before I fantasize to be a pirate (Sinbad) a lieutenant in the army capturing a dishy leader of the NPA (or being captured) and tortur!ng him or a fearless NPA leader meeting a gorgeous army lieutenant high up in the mountains. only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/28/2012 5:12 am |
what i did become is nothing i have dream of. i first worked in international school for immigrants studied nursing get tired and pursue a career in design finally ending owning half of a small company specializing in design and ICT working as a freelance that was after i became an obedient daughter a forced wife a surprised mother and a confused divorcee. only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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Bebs, Everything is technology based. Games and cell etc. Nothing beats the real life games of long ago. Happy friday!!! Greatest feelings in the world when two souls profess a love for each other...
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9/28/2012 10:23 am |
it is always preferable to find a middle ground amidst this chaos and technology enhance existence especially for the children to learn the right balance between wants and needs and to hold onto the right morals and values which they can bring with them to impart to the future generation there are lots of good tradition and culture that are in the brink of extinctions due to our carelessness i hope we can save some of them progress is good when it doesn't ruin un-replaceable heritage and customs and destroy what is best in people good to know that your kids are having real friends they can play and share things with only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/28/2012 10:28 am |
Bebs, Everything is technology based. Games and cell etc. Nothing beats the real life games of long ago. Happy friday!!! don't you miss old fashioned way of communicating? i even miss getting letters and cards i can keep and touch and those photographs in albums one can thumb and browse while cuddling them on ones lap... the komiks, reading them together around a gas lamp... only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/28/2012 2:35 pm |
and now i understand why most (not all) privilege children are lacking of empathy compassion warmth and grow up to be self centered egoistic spoiled adults who thinks they are above the rest can u enlighten us to why the parents of these kids don't allow them to play these games? too demeaning? have to move around their own circle? now, what kind of values is that? i think kids back home who are poor are watching tv by their wealthy neighbours through open windows, doors or gates and spending their pocket money sitting in internet cafes instead of playing games i wonder what kind of games those rich parents allow their children to play only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/28/2012 10:14 pm |
oohhhh ...It reminds me during my childhood days as i played all of these games including jackstones, shatum and many more and it makes me smile while looking at it as i can reminisce so much enjoyment and happiness that i felt during those times...have a great weekend
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9/29/2012 1:16 am |
and your children? did they play them too? do you have grandchildren or u r too young to have them yet? only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/29/2012 1:24 am |
oohhhh ...It reminds me during my childhood days as i played all of these games including jackstones, shatum and many more and it makes me smile while looking at it as i can reminisce so much enjoyment and happiness that i felt during those times...have a great weekendwe used to play patintero on the dikes of the fishpond during full moon. taguan also which is always a good occasion to scare each other sill i wish your saturday sunday and everyday would be wonderful only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/29/2012 1:28 am |
there are lots of traditional games back home that bases on tag do you still see children around your neighbourhood that are playing the same games you used to play when you were young? how it makes you feel? only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/29/2012 1:30 am |
im a bit boyish during my childhood eh, i played patintero and sipa with my male cousins.with my female cousins, we always play kasal-kasalan, im always the groom
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9/29/2012 8:13 am |
im a bit boyish during my childhood eh, i played patintero and sipa with my male cousins.with my female cousins, we always play kasal-kasalan, im always the groom i even favoured tomboy style when it comes to fashion comfortable, sensible timeless and too dmn sexy only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/29/2012 10:08 am |
it hurts to hear discrimination being use in that context it is bad enough we are being discriminated around the world in most places because of skin colour and ignorance (of who we are and what we can)but it is most painful when it hits closer to home being look down by another race is one thing but being discriminated by your own kind is another thanks for the confirmation only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/29/2012 10:18 am |
btw i even told D about your first comment in someway it enlightened me i never consider/see it that way i just assumed that all kids rich or poor play those games did not cross my mind that there could be a difference like with most cases i was so focus on one part and been blind to other possibilities shows that we can always learn from another only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/29/2012 11:11 am |
Great picture Bebz. I too played all of the above. I was very good in chinese garter too and I run a lot, I often outwin my friends...maybe I got trained by the neighbor`s dog, too afraid of their barking  At night when fullmoon, me and my friends gather outside and make "tsika", and at the end, we play hide and seek. My children knows patintero and sungka. During summer they play outdoor or go swimming but when cold days come, no choice but to stay at home and that`s the time they play online games but mostly with their real friends in school.
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9/29/2012 4:30 pm |
Great picture Bebz. I too played all of the above. I was very good in chinese garter too and I run a lot, I often outwin my friends...maybe I got trained by the neighbor`s dog, too afraid of their barking At night when fullmoon, me and my friends gather outside and make "tsika", and at the end, we play hide and seek. My children knows patintero and sungka. During summer they play outdoor or go swimming but when cold days come, no choice but to stay at home and that`s the time they play online games but mostly with their real friends in school.how could it be different with those miles long legs of yours did you make it to track and field team during your school days? sungka, i highly recommend that game for those who have a symptom of alzheimer good brain training like pusoy dos we played it with sigay (small shells) when i was young lately, i don't see sungkaan around anymore another dying tradition only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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9/29/2012 4:41 pm |
i find it wonderful that you introduced some of our culture to your children and keeping them in touch with reality and at the same time allowing them to be the kids of this generation without losing the necessary and ever so important life's morals and values which is a very strong foundation they needed later on in life to be complete well rounded adults only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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10/1/2012 1:30 am |
i give credit when i think credit is due only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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10/1/2012 1:33 am |
looks like you had a healthy well balanced upbringing others (like me) in the same situation could easily turned out to be a loner and suffer the consequences of being one only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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10/1/2012 1:35 am |
long time no see we used to play patintero on the dikes of the fishpond during full moon. taguan also which is always a good occasion to scare each other sill i wish your saturday sunday and everyday would be wonderful ...last time i played patintero was high school days with my classmates and we played it during our breaktime...have a great day and take care...
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10/1/2012 6:58 am |
yes, ltns and you're one of my fav blogger here ...last time i played patintero was high school days with my classmates and we played it during our breaktime...have a great day and take care...i find patintero sooo romantic  only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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10/3/2012 3:19 pm |
jackstones holens yoyo and trumpo... are they still fashionable? how about sipa bahay-bahayan teks and so many many more... i wonder if children back there still playing these games... Kids still play sipa, yoyo, jackstones, holen, bahay bahayan. A few of those games Pinoy play with are similar or the same tht western kids play in school such as hopscotch, role playing, playing with tires etc. Children now have a wider choice of things to play with including computer games. In a way it's good that their choice of games have widened, but they tend to play less outside, especially here in the U.K because of traffic and lack of safe place to play and fear of strangers and the cold weather discourages children to go outside and maybe laziness too. Lucky enough I got to play traditional games and even luckier that I'd met friends who were half Filipinos and owned many other toys such as roller blades, Nintendo, lego, Barbie etc.    within each one of us, and let it begin with me (and each one of us)..one breath at a time.
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10/4/2012 11:41 am |
jackstones holens yoyo and trumpo... are they still fashionable? how about sipa bahay-bahayan teks and so many many more... i wonder if children back there still playing these games... Kids still play sipa, yoyo, jackstones, holen, bahay bahayan. A few of those games Pinoy play with are similar or the same tht western kids play in school such as hopscotch, role playing, playing with tires etc. Children now have a wider choice of things to play with including computer games. In a way it's good that their choice of games have widened, but they tend to play less outside, especially here in the U.K because of traffic and lack of safe place to play and fear of strangers and the cold weather discourages children to go outside and maybe laziness too. Lucky enough I got to play traditional games and even luckier that I'd met friends who were half Filipinos and owned many other toys such as roller blades, Nintendo, lego, Barbie etc. only dead fish go with the flow ~ JolieLaide
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10/4/2012 4:49 pm |
and in which era would you wish to be born and be a kid again? within each one of us, and let it begin with me (and each one of us)..one breath at a time.
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