The struggles of childhood

I recently gave my sis' blog the Friendster.Blogs' Blog of the Year awards, as documented here. Of course what can you expect... I'm her bro! Blood is indeed thicker than water :P

In her blog "About a Girl... & a Girl" she discussed a bit on the "struggles of childhood":

1. how to save one’s self in “Hide & Seek”

2. how to determine the proportion of gumamela with soap to make lasting “blow bubbles”

3. how to make Barbie cross legs

4. how to remove stuck Lego pieces from the base w/o using the teeth

5. how to make a paperboat sail through rain residue

6. finding clues that lead to another inside the “Secret Passage”

7. how to win in “pekwa”, “monkey-monkey”, “1-2-3 pass” & “bluff”

8. how to sharpen one’s moves in "piko" & "patintero"

Here's more from my own "struggles":

1. How to run up the stairs really fast without tripping over.
2. How to run down the stairs really fast without falling down.
3. Finding out for the first time that a dog has a "hotdog".
4. Discovering how dogs mysteriously get their asses "glued" together ( I really thought there was some sort of a "suction force" that was gluing their asses together... so i got my father's bolo and started "sawing" in between their asses. Surprisingly, they separated! The male dog wasn't too happy though. And no, I didn't saw his hotdog off.)
   
5. Discovering that caterpillars (budo-budo) hate getting burned to death.
6. Discovering that earthworms hate being "salted" to death.
   
7. Discovering that parakeets will fly away when you let them out of the cage and will never return back :(
8. How to get the swing to swing 180 degrees front and back (yahooo! my first daredeveil attempt... and I lived to tell about it)
   
9. How to make a paper airplane fly farther and further. (Make a really BIG paper airplane using dad's scrap cartolina, tie a long piece of string at its tail end, and launch it at a cliff's edge -- finding cliffs in Baguio was never a problem)
   
10. Making water bombs and letting it fall off a cliff and watching it "explode" as it hits the bottom. (Kaplooosh! ...again, playing by the cliff and discovering Newton's laws)
    
11. Discovering that the flowers of my mom's plants are edible ("hey where did the flowers go???!!!")
    
12. Proving to my friends that sand is edible and then discovering that it is not (ouch! my teeth!)
    
13. Treasure hunting and digging holes in one's backyard hoping to find a pot of gold. (I found lots of stones instead, and at one time, a dead cat).
    
14. Feeling the giddiness while rolling over and over down a grassy slope and then landing on doggie doo (hey what's that smell?)
    
15. Watching a horror movie on television (dracula!) and then being too scared to go near the TV to switch it off afterwards (Remote controls haven't been invented yet then, so I invented my own remote - a long piece of stick that I use to push the TV's power switch off so that I wouldn't have to go near the TV set).
16. How to catch spiders hiding in dry, rolled up leaves in a sayote vineyard, and then letting them fight each other afterwards. (go spiderman!)
    
17. Collecting catterpillars, storing them in a glass jar and waiting for them to spin their cocoon and emerge as a butterfly. (Nope, they didn't become butterflies. They became ant feed instead - ants must really love feasting on catterpillars stuck up in glass jars).
    
18. Discovering that the higher the step you jump from a staircase is directly proportional to the annoyance factor you give to the people living one floor below you.
19. Discovering that the smell of freshly baked, home made brownies is the best smell in the world.
20. How to build a small "dam" by blocking off a canal with lots of dirt and stones and watch it create a mini-lake when the rain starts pouring (I was dreaming of building a hydro-electric plant someday in my own backyard!)