Zero Point, Hantu Galah and Batu Seremban

As what I have mentioned previously, and I thought more about it after recently I went upnorth and looked down to some schools from my hotel room up above on the 10th floor. It made me think about the things we did at school when we were kids.

I am wondering how many children in Malaysia these days ever know or aware of Zero Point and Hantu Galah? And for those of my era, I wonder if everyone around my time all remember the games we play? Yeah, these two are some of the common games we play at school and we can't play these alone. We have to get some friends to play the games.

Know what that means? It means that those days we are all friends. We make friends with everybody and play and enjoy all the games that we have. So that was the thing...

Zero Point..some may wonder what the hell is that? While for those who know will straight away have the picture of rubber bands in your head right? Zero Point the game you play with many rubber bands that you linked up together to make it to be a long rope that two people will have to hold both ends and the rest....will be the ones who try to get the most points!

Do you remember that you have to start with jumping across the line and say Zero Point then the rubber bands starting from the ground and got higher to your ankle, to your knees, to your school uniform pocket, your waist, your axilla, your shoulder, your ear right up to your head! What the jumpers do? We jumped on every height and have lost of counting to do before we go the next level and this can go on and on until the school bell rings in the morning!!! :)

And the Hanti Galah will be played on the badminton court. With the lines on the court being the boundaries. Same thing you need two teams..

Well....these games are played in teams and so we have to have a lot of friends to really enjoy playing these games. While present day children are more glued to the Play Station 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and the Nintendo DS... how many children out there in this country actually go out and play these games like we did when we were kids?

I think the batu seremban is still being played by some..as I have seen it not long ago. The five little bags of beans that being thrown on air and caught with one hand, also in stages of one bag to five bags together. Well...whatever it is...I hope children these days do aware of these games that we play in school, regardless of race and religion. All we know was to enjoy our time at school !

Life at school was all about learning and enjoy ourselves without prejudice.....