When I was a kid, most of my playmates are my cousins since we live in a family compound adjacent to the family compound of relatives. That’s how it is in the Philippine provinces, everybody’s related to a certain degree. Among playmates, there were only two of us who are girls so that explain why I was kinda tomboy growing up.

Filipino culture dictates that boys play guns and cars while girls play dolls. A girl playing a gun or car would be a tomboy and a boy playing with a doll is gay. It’s kinda boring to play doll with the same playmate so we girls hang around with my cousins when they play.

Poor Promdis that we are, we don’t have the luxury of having robots nor fancy toy cars.  We use any available material and a little imagination to make our own toys. We would make guns from bamboo poles and load them with rolled wet paper or with the flowers of ipil-ipil tree. We call them “luthang”, it’s the Hiligaynon word for gun and shoot.

We would also recycle old tin cans into cars. Then we will cut-out old slippers into circles for the wheels of out toy cars. We would go home at dusk and get scolded for being dirty and smelling so bad. Yes, we got dirty and stinky, but we learned. We learned ingenuity and camaraderie. Sometimes when I see children playing video games I would get nostalgic. My children will never get to enjoy the kind of childhood we had. There’s a big chance they would grow up obese for lack of physical activity.

Anyway, all these memories are because of a flash game that I tried playing online. It’s an affiliate program of mine but hey, this game is fun and simple so maybe you can give it a shot. Car Can Racing allows you race against other car cans. Guess what, your car is made of Nido can. They should have put other car choices such as Alaska, Darigold, Carnation, and Alpine. The scenery is even very promdi with the bahay kubo at the roadside. Are you ready to race your car can? Play now!