Gentarasa was initiated in to foster greater awareness and appreciation of the Malay culture in our multi-racial society. Gentarasa also serves as a platform for the Malay performing groups at the Community Clubs CCs to showcase their talent in Malay performing arts.
This not only raises public awareness and appreciation for the Malay Culture but also provides a stage for the performing groups to increase their standards and nurture their potential. The annual street procession brings diverse groups of people together, and showcases the rich multi-cultural diversity of our society, through a parade of exciting performances and colourful floats.
Visit the Chingay website for more information. The Celebrations aim to facilitate deeper interaction and better understanding between individuals and communities, thus fostering a stronger sense of identity and building a more resilient social fabric. Some from the younger generation have become so glued to their tablet and handphone screens that they may not even have heard of some of these classic and treasured games that used to be played in school. Take a trip down memory lane and indulge in nostalgia by checking out 15 of our favourite traditional old school games below!
The flag eraser game remains close to our hearts because of its explosive popularity back in the day. It was super fun to be the winner of this king of old school games. Find out more about the Flag Eraser game here. Forming a circle between you and your opponents, players would take the initial three steps backwards to ensure they were at a comfortable distance away. Using five hand-sewn cloth bags that are often filled with sand, green beans or uncooked rice grains, five stones is a popular old-school game in Singapore that test of dexterity as players with the quickest hands will win.
Drawing a circular playing field in the sand, these marbles are then randomly scattered across the field. Players will then engage in a game of mini-billiards; flicking and knocking the colourful pieces out of the circle with their fingers acting as pool cues. Not as agile with your hands? There are traditional old school games that test the agility of your feet too. This can be played with either a special deck of Old Maid cards or regular playing cards.
Start by distributing the playing cards to all players. In turn, each player fans out his or her cards and the player to the left gets to pick out one. When a player is able to form a matching pair, he or she can put down the pair. The objective is to get rid of all the cards. The player with the Old Maid card, i. As a variation, you can also make the player holding the Old Maid card the winner. Many of us have no doubt heard stories from our parents and grandparents of their idyllic kampong lives and the games they played during their joyful childhoods.
For most of us today, the games we have come to know are the single player ones on a bright screen. Back in the day, games were creative — wrought out of pure imagination and items lying around — and children, as well as adults alike, invented them to keep themselves entertained.
Of the many games that were created to while away balmy afternoons, were the traditional games played by all. Paintings depicting children jumping over rope have been found in Medieval Europe and even as far back as ancient China.
Although the exact origin of when jump rope came about is unknown, jump rope —or yeh-yeh as it is known to the Malay community — is a game that was played in the yesteryears. Recently making a resurgence among children again, the game is simple with straightforward rules. The rope, made up of many rubber bands, is held at opposite ends while a player attempts to jump over the rope in the middle. Other methods of playing include standing with two to three other friends in the middle and attempting to clear the rope as it swings above and under them.
Today, most of us who still play the game use a plastic PVC Polyvinyl Chloride cord or durable cord instead of intertwined rubber bands. Around since antiquity, spinning tops are toys that are designed to spin rapidly on the ground while precisely balanced on its tip. Traditional tops used to be made from wood or a hard fruit, iron and lead, and could be set in motion by winding a string around its axis and quickly pulling it.
In the spinning contest, the person who can afford to keep his top spinning for the longest amount of time wins the match. The top is usually launched and then carefully transferred onto a wooden panel to spin for as long as it can. Surprisingly, the current record stands at two hours!
The aim is to displace it and cause it to lose its speed and balance. The capteh is another game that has been around long before it came to our part of the world. Since then, the game has travelled to many Southeast Asian countries and given different names.
Recently inducted as a competitive sport, capteh can also be played in a small group where players compete against each other or compete as a team. When competing individually, players can agree on a winning tally of continuous kicks, with the first person in the team achieving it considered the winner. A player is allowed to touch his foot down with each kick, but not allowed to touch the capteh with his hands.
When playing as a team against other teams, each group stands in a circle. Each team member then takes a turn attempting to keep the capteh in the air until they lose their balance or miss the capteh. The next team member continues the count and this carries on until all the team members have taken a turn in the game.
The winning team is determined by the highest number of kicks in total. Batu Seremban is a game that is played with five stones.
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