Thursday, June 24, 2010

BENTHIK is Traditional Game


We call “BENTHIK”. Writing have to use "TH" because if not, read a different pronunciation and meaning could have different. This game is so dominant on the outskirts of Semarang, and Solo Jogjajarta. Usually performed by elementary school age children after school at the field near the house, which was still enough time outside to play.

“BENTHIK” quite easy to do. Prepare a minimum of three bamboo that has been diraut. Two measuring around 50 cm, is only as bait's size 20 cm. These games can be performed at least two, but can also dilakuklan more than than.

Then sleep 5 cm soil depth. made rather wide for melatakkan bait. Place the bait in the middle ground that we already sleep. Then lentikkan with a longer bamboo. Our opponents we have brushed it off with a bamboo which he held as well.

There the term 'Catfish shaft' of the game. That is, the bait is propped with stone ketch, then disentil with bamboo top of my lungs. If you can not bounce away and caught our opponents, it could be we're the winner of this game.

December 2007 ago, I took leave and meet my little friends. Average body was "swollen" all [hahaha, distended stomach problem was an adult male was]. Field near the house, partially finished building. But there is a span that we can still wear. I idly ngajakin comrades.

Yup, there we go back to being "a child" in the field where we play first. Do not ask me the stamina and movement, are all struggling and slower course. But it's not the point, we enjoy the atmosphere of laughter and togetherness that we leave it long.

“BENTHIK”, it could bring me and my comrades in the collective memory of honest. Though some friends had moved house, moved the task, and some even died, but the atmosphere of childhood that mash recorded clearly. To borrow the title song of The Upstairs, 'unrecorded [Never Die]'

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