Keep those games alive!

Children are inventive, original and very messy. As they get older they start losing these nice qualities. Some manage to hold on. This is what I am trying to do with this blog. My brother - a great inventor of games - kept most of my childhood happily occupied with his original games. This blog started out as a way to keep those games alive. Do read the first few posts to enter his wonderful world. Reader contributions welcome :)

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

An engineer by birth

The sand pit under the guava tree brought out the engineer in him. His apprentices carried out instructions - "dig there", "leave that place level", "make a hill here"... and so half a day went by. At the end of it, there was a big water body, with a dam, bridge, a forest on one side (foliage decoration by me!), and whatever else we happened to think of.

Diwali was when the engineer put his skills to test. The dam was built for demolition. Small holes were made at strategic points and bombs inserted. Took us a while to actually demolish the dam with Diwali bombs, but we managed it... sometimes :-)


Real fun was when we climbed the guava tree and jumped into the muddy water! (Glee for us, grief for our mother when we entered the house in this state)

Soon, I guess we outgrew the sand pit. Also, digging sometimes resulted in unearthing half an earthworm or two. A mixture of "ugh!" and "ohhh sad" made us look for other pastimes. So when the younger set of cousins landed and demanded to play, they weren't so lucky.

7 Comments:

Blogger Tin Tin said...

Earthworms dont die!! They regenerate! AND I NEVER OUTGREW!! ID GO PLAY MANNATU ANY TIME ANY WHERE!!! >:P

10:44 AM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

Cool down gube! I still remember you yelling that you visit us ONLY to play mannatu!!!!

1:46 PM  
Blogger The Comic Project said...

Played this during Diwali too..Build a qilla, put statues of Shivaji..and soldiers and then blow them up with bomb yooohooo

4:27 PM  
Blogger Sumithra said...

Lol, sounds like WW III!!

1:19 AM  
Blogger Shyam said...

Hi Veena,
Thanks for visiting my blog. My blogs are sometimes too long to call it a blog ;).

Your idea of writing about games is interesting!!!

Let me recollect some of the interesting games and let you know.

3:37 PM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

Hey Shyam, I am sure you and Roshan have played some really interesting games. Waiting for those! :-)

10:16 AM  
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