Of Drawings and Rhymes

Rey, Mildred and I had dinner at Popeye’s tonight. It’s our favorite fried chicken joint in Singapore, and their coated french fries are also my favorite, while Dred can’t get enough of their biscuits. But that wasn’t the most enjoyable part of the night. It started when we discussed hopscotch and had to resort to drawing the different hopscotch boards we used to play on when we were kids. We flipped the paper mats on our trays and used the unprinted underside. Then one thing to led another and the next thing you know, we were drawing cartoon faces. Below is mine. Haha. I’m not good in drawing, but I used to draw all the time when I was in elementary. I drew pictures of girls, colored them, then cut them like tiny portraits and taped them to pages of notebooks like they were real picture albums.

I mostly drew girls because I didn’t know how to draw guys. But I had to try tonight anyway. There! All I needed to do was put stubble and draw sharp lines for the jaw to make him look masculine. Haha!

We also talked about the games we used to play, like the trick called “black magic” and “around the world” which Rey and I then pulled off on Dred. Then we remembered the songs we used to sing and laughed uproariously as we sang:

One times one, wonderwoman
Two times two, Lapu-Lapu
Three times three, Christmas tree
Four times four, volleyball
Five times five, Voltes Five
Six times six, pick up sticks
Seven times seven, Seven-up
Eight times eight, chocolate
Nine times nine, lucky nine
Ten times ten, fried chicken
Eleven times eleven equals the end

According to Rey and Dred, though, theirs ended with “Ten times ten, ang sarap ng Ovaltine!” with the last word pronounced as “O-val-ten” perhaps because “we are so bisaya!” they laughed gleefully.
Ah… the sweet carefree childhood days. ^__^

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