I was searching for children who plays traditional games like what I grew up playing for my photography but not a sight.None of the kids wants to play those games of hopscotch ,seven stones (seremban ) anymore. I would be lying if I were to say that some mothers still encourage their kids to play those games.Perhaps not within my vicinity, I don't know. I feel sorry for these new era kids because most of the traditional games teach us teamwork, interaction,hand and eye coordination and creativity.
With evolution ,everything is gone.Children are lazy,they go to cyber cafes and spend money on games on the net.They follow rules of the net and all they do is sit.Then they become fat and we complaint about obesity. Who is to be blame?
Some parents doesn't want to be considered not modern enough to allow their children to play with ipad and tablets.Gadgets are expensive but even kampung kids have gadgets these days.Then the parents complaint about not having enough money for food.Who is to be blame?
To say that we are loosing our identity as Malaysians now is not correct.We do not have real identity because we were ruled by the orang puteh.Back in the 60s the youth were into the 'flower child' era.They listen to rock music and not dondang sayang.In retrospect we never dress as Malays but we were wearing jeans and tshirts. We idolised the orang puteh ways so much that we do not bother wearing our baju kurung.Who is to be blame?
Back to the issue of games.We played those traditional games because we do not have the net at that time.So we used our mind and created games that has now come to the point of extinction. The good thing about 'our game' is that we were healthier than the children of today.Why won't they play the game that we played?Let us ask ourselves ,why won't we listen to dondang sayang like our parents did?
