My promise to you Anindya
Nostalgic
His name has not been tied to a deeper relationship to the level of marriage, inevitably I have to endure jealousy without being able to regulate the rights of his life. From afar I was suspicious to see him return the message, whether I should ask him.
'Better I don't need to find out.'
I decided to sit down with the position of the hands resting the head that I put on the short fence near the children's game rides, quite eliminating this fatigue and jealousy. Seeing the funny behavior of children who run around in the ball bath rides, some jump into a pool full of colorful plastic balls, some climb up the nets that hang but not high. There are even fun to play traditional games such as ABC five basic, congklak, dragon snake and kublak-cublak suweng.
These traditional games are not inferior to modern games, as they also have a system for playing and judging. Like ABC five basic, where this game can be played at least 2 people. They will usually determine in advance what theme will be used, usually themed animals, cartoon characters even to food and drinks. All participants will donate their fingers freely can be 1-10 fingers, continue the leader will count from the first finger to the last, but count not with numbers, but using the alphabet. If you get a letter like K, all participants will be asked one-on-one by the leader. If true then he will get 100 points, but sometimes this game uses tables on paper if they want. This basic five ABC game is very, very good for adding insight into science. I always win when I play this game, bearing the defeat and punishment more precisely.
'I once made a fuss because our answers were the same, but did not want to share values.' I remember past events with my own smile.
The next game is Congklak which is a very, very difficult game for me, because we have to use strategy and careful calculations in order to win. This game requires tools such as flat oval-shaped containers that are usually made of wood or plastic that have holes totaling 12, the holes are usually filled with kecik shaped shell houses, the, but it can also be replaced in the form of pebbles, small stones, sapodilla seeds even to grains. This game actually does not come from Indonesia, but comes from Arab traders who came to Indonesia, some say from the Egyptians and has existed since 15 centuries before AD.
How to play that is a player will take a ketchik from one of the holes, after that share it on each-every hole one by one except the hole—sabungan— belongs to the opponent. The last ketchup that falls on the hole that has the contents should be re-picked and spread one by one more. If it falls on an empty hole then the kecik who is in the hole on the opposite side will belong to the player. That's why I always lose in this game, because sometimes I get into kecik wrong.
Furthermore dragon snake a traditional game is played with a considerable number of children, at least more than seven. Two children will put their hands together on their heads like making a short tunnel and the rest of them line up lengthwise while singing until the song is over, they also have to go in and out of the tunnel by walking slowly. Usually the 2 children who put their hands together into a tunnel have a body taller than the others.
The game has its song more or less like this “Lar long dragon, not kepalang. Creeper is always cheerful here. That delicious bait is what is sought. This is her retarded.” When the song is finished and stopped on one of the children, then he will be invited to stay away and choose to follow one of the children who made the tunnel.
The one with the most followers will be the chicken and the parent, while the one with the least followers will be the wolf. The duty of the wolf is to catch the chicks and be his followers. The job of a hen is to protect her chicks by stretching her hands, Simple right? But in every game will make children fall because of running, but this game trains children to be responsible and social, very exciting is not it.
And the last game I saw was the suweng-cublak-cublak, interesting not the name of the game. It is a traditional game originating from Central Java. One player has to crouch on the ground forming a table and the other puts their hand over the crouching player's back. Then they sing along while moving objects or ketchik that will later have to be hidden in one of the players and the squatting child must guess who is hiding.
Just like the game of dragon snakes, kublak-cublak suweng also has a song to play. The song is more or less like this “Cublak–cublak suweng, suwenge teng gelenter. Guambu ketundung. Dempo wela welo sir. Sopo ngguyu. Sir–sirpong dhele! Sir–sirpong dhele kopong."
In the word sir in the song that's the time kecik began to be hidden. If it succeeds in guessing, then the hiding must replace the squatting child. This game is very, very simple, but it will provide happiness that is very meaningful.
While being nostalgic for the childhood days of seeing the children playing, Anindya came up to me and said, "We're going home."
"Have the message been answered?" My eyes were focused on watching the children play.
"Well, what are you looking at?"
"Let's see the kids playing again, so nostalgia reminisces about childhood."
"Yes-yes, so nostalgic when I was a kid. It's just seeing a kid get caught by a kid who's a wolf." He pointed at the child who was caught.
"And that, same thing," he answered a little.
"Lang?"
"What?"
"Wait a minute, Anin."
"Where are you going?"
"You go to the bathroom."
"Yes-yes, there's a spit. five minutes is over."
"You got the jewer! Anin nitip bag and HP." With his stuff, then ran small towards the bathroom.
I put his things in the lap to be safe, different yes it feels like to keep the belongings of a loved one. Like there's sweetness that, uh means there's a sense of comfort. Is that just my feeling yeah, I don't know.
Suddenly there was a notification of incoming messages on Anin's HP, for some reason I again immediately kepo and see who the message was from.
'Bima Brother?'
Not he who is the upperclassman and member of OSIS who was willing to join the eating meatballs? There is jealousy and anger that arises in the heart when it sees who the owner of the message is. I idly tried to unlock the HP and succeeded, because Anindya did not use key features such as patterns and tiles, just in sliding and immediately open.
This heart was broken and it felt like it was slowly squeezed when it saw the contents of the message, kak Bima invited him to help the activities of OSIS to be a sholawatan songwriter on the prophet maulid event that will soon arrive. At first Anin hesitated to accept the request, but the man begged sincerely and if he wanted to later be treated to eat meatballs as much as possible. Anin agreed to the request because first it was a school event, and secondly felt pity for her begging to accept.
Which makes me feel very jealous, when Bima said later eat it alone because it was a promise from him personally not from OSIS and Anin received it. I deleted the last message I read that was a smiley emoticon and 3 hearts
"Add more competition." I took a deep breath to calm this hot heart.
Not long ago Anindya had returned from her activities in the bathroom. "We're going home."
