Ais Krim
catchy title isn’t it? Well. The entire entry is dedicated to “Batang Ais Krim” or Ice-Cream Stick. The fact is it was a one of the famous game I ever participated in my primary school era. Ice-Cream sticks have tremendous values duting that peak period. Everyone (almost) or most male students were playing batang ais krim.
How it was played? simple. Just make sure your ice cream stick will eventually fall on top of the opponent’s ice cream stick. Players are required to either blow the ice cream stick to create movement or using both hand clasp together to form a shape that able to generate force of wind to move the ice cream stick.
Because there are plenty of ice cream stick around and most of the ice cream stick collected are different in weight and materials, we usually seek to use the lightest and softest. Basic rule is to get a light ice cream stick as it’s easy to move around. The first phase is cleaning the ice cream stick and then polish them accordingly using different kind of sand papers. Once it had smooth surface, then the next step took place.
Other will start design the ice cream stick. Cut here and there, certain angle and coloured it. Most of them will ended up as thin and slim as possible. That way, it doesn’t carry much weight and easy to move around with slight wind force during the match. Fine handcraft will eventually made a light and maneuverable ice cream stick. The highest the ice cream stick manage to reach was about two and half feet high. It was made by Low Han Seong.
The match is one-on-one basis with the winner will take the loser’s ice cream stick. At one time, I formed a clan consists of 5 people and we manage to gain a huge stash of ice cream sticks. In fact, we were the largest clan with the largest collection of ice cream sticks. Yay!
Good thing eventually must come to an end. It was in primary 3 when Cikgu Ainol had finished his term in Kuala Lumpur. So, as to show him our love we decided to threw away the ice cream sticks once and for all. After that, we no longer playing ice cream sticks in Standard 4 next year. I wished I still kept ice cream sticks so I could show how we used to play the game. Too bad eh?
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