Night

Kindly click the image for the bigger size. When I was little I always look forward in playing with other children in the neighborhood. We would play outside the house because during that time, there were only very few houses and there was a big fields in front of our house. Flying kites was a favorite and another game called catch me if you can! It was so nice to play until nightime but my mother have given us a curfew time to play and we should be inside before six o’clock especially if we were playing with some boys. She’s a bit strict because we are 3 girls…… They would only allow us to play after dinner if we were with my eldest sister and cousins, and if the moon is radiantly showing itself fully. We would go out of the house and come together to talk, laugh and eat some peanuts or hot balut(a fertilised egg with a partially developed duckling, which is eaten boiled) or pandesal (a soft bun) or even mangoes. It became a kind of girl bonding. We also played games in the street like piko(the game in the illustration-and I cannot remember now how it’s called in english) hide and seek, or went cycling around the neighborhood. These memories keeps coming back because I am far away from therm and it makes me smile everytime I thought about it. Come think about it, life was so simple then.