noyping laro

last week we first talked about playing filipino games, such as patintero, tumbang preso, agawan base, etc. we thought of limiting the game to our group. it was actually a joke which started from sharing childhood experiences and getting tired from all the usual foreign games. last monday, we started to make the plan a concrete thing. bl reserved the court from 3-5pm so that the court would be exclusively ours, and to avoid chances of having some confrontations with the greedy court users. then, the moment arrived. 3pm. lor, nel, bl, miggy, victor and i waited for the others to come but for 30 or more, there were no signs of the other players. so i just decided to play basketball first while impatiently waiting for them. nel could sense that i was having bv (bad vibes). past 3:30pm. we started setting up the lines for patintero using masking tape, provided by martha. it was a good thing that there were lines for volleyball, so we didn't have a hard time putting the lines. i really thought that we would be playing patintero first. we divided the group, which included some people who played futsal before us. because the number of players was too large for patintero, we decided to play agawan base. the game was really intense, and tiring too. everyone on the mpc watched the games intently as if it were basketball or futsal. or maybe they were just amazed that some people would be playing those close-to-becoming-extinct games. after agawan base, we played patintero. there were some discrepancies in the rules and people got tired because of the agawan base, so we ended up playing another game. we, then, engaged into playing some really tiring games, two kinds of habulan: namely, habulan-tulungan and ice-water. we played it for around 15 minutes. but we all ended up playing basketball. victor couldn't believe that lor could play well. i don't know who won but we all enjoyed playing yesterday.