The Guinayangan Republic

With today's kid’s habit of playing, they can’t rival what Manlayohin had those days. I don't know what this game was called in upper Guinayanganin LOL! Or places outside Manlayo. I don’t know where the hell we got this game called. I keep goggling the weird name for over a week now just to know where the word came from. “IMBIMBIW” we simply use to say it as “BATAD” or literally “babad” hear it again and still it will not register as an acceptable word on your memories’ vocabulary bank. Anyway, If you are one of my kababata or one pretending not my kababata here you could relate LOL!. The game simply ruled as just like any other running games. The competing teams had to have a base. Simply an imaginary base line. Like in our days we use the end of “Bilaran ng Kaping(Tuyo Bamboo Plates’ drier)” to mark our base



Simply to say we had about 400 square meter of play ground. Each team should have balanced number of players. Say 10 X 10 that will be each team has 10 runners. You could emit from your base anytime you want, just like birds flying through 400 square meter area, but it is a time based game that your opposing team will track how soon you left your base. The sooner you came out of your base became your vulnerability, they can tag you and capture you as “taya” captives to their base and line up with an arm spread length with your fellow captured teammates. The games flows with that simple rule (with honesty of course)each team can honestly say he left sooner than him. There! Honesty on this game plays a major role in continuing. Okay it looks boring, but here is the thrill of this game. Let say all of your 8 team mates where captured and they all line up like garlic in braided stalks. You must become their hero, by touching either hands or body of the captured teammates without you being tagged by your opponents. And once you did that, the game became more exciting. The game continue on and on back and forth with edging each other team to the point we had about the hear the word “ KUYA KAKAIN NA. or KUYA uwi na raw sasalok pa ng tubig! That’s the most hustled word you may hear if you caught in the middle of intense game. I don’t point out my simple article will make you laugh ,no I don’t. but to people who can relate. it’s a reminiscing we will share with our friend that we once had a game like that. This is to show them that there are other games which they can enjoy aside from the emerging state-of-the-art video and computer games.



With those days you would not see kids with Diabetes. You would not see kids with heart ailments. It’s because we run all day, we play with kid’s friends real friends. Friends you can play with. Not just friendster and facebook friends. Who laugh at your word or picture once they saw your facebook wall LOL!. PS3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft XBOX. You know what, Kids today will make them smarter but not affectionate. I will give you an example, Close your eyes and name kids you had played with those days. And perhaps 80% you can still accurately name a few. Today, you play online games it will only represent an avatar or a nickname over the web you absolutely doesn’t care about.

-by Cornelio Cenizal

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