5th Day of Racial Harmony Week: 

It's a pity that it's the last day of Racial Harmony Week for us P4s! I really enjoyed myself thoroughly throughout the week. So sad. :(

Racial Harmony Week ended well today with many of us playing many interesting traditional games which I have never ever played before! In our groups, we went to the basketball court to try out 4 different game stations-Bola Tin, Kuti Kuti, Goli Panjang and Five Stones. Mdm Nora taught us how to play them and Miss Chong came to help as well.

Mdm Nora told us that those games were actually played often by our parents and grandparents when they were young.  Although some games originate from different races, those games actually bonded the different races together as they come together and play. For example, most games such as Goli Panjang originate from the Malays but other races play the game together as well.

Why don't we get to play such games these days?! I feel that they are fun as we can play them with our friends. It is also very fun to compete against my friends in the games to see who is the winner and the best in using hands and feet. We need such games other than our Wii!

I competed against my best friend, QiQi, in Kuti Kuti and  I won!! Teehee!! The kuti kutis were so colourful. The cool thing was that we could borrow games like Capteh and Five Stones to play during recess as well. I won QiQi in both Capteh and Five Stones as well! I felt so happy as she always beat me in computer games. Finally I can beat her.

Here are the colourful kuti kuti:

My favourite game is Bola Tin as we get to throw balls at the metal tins and we can compete against another group. It is a really simple game. In Malay, "bola" means "ball".  Our group competed against Soo Kee's and Bala's group and won! We just had to knock down the metal tins, work together as a group to hit the ball at all the members from the other group so that they are 'dead'. Such an exciting game!

I decided to research a bit on Capteh as I like the feathered part of it:

Guess what! It actually comes from China in 5th century BC. And other countries like Vietnam, India and Korea play it too! It was actually In Singapore, the name 'capteh' is thought to be either Malay or Hokkien in origin. Well who knows?! I guess it's a game that all races can play together!

Fun fun fun! I wish we could have more time to play with the games. Today, I learnt that games are very helpful in bonding many different races together.