When I was 3 years old, my mom bought me this lutu-lutuan from Antipolo and I think that was my earliest human memory, me playing lutu-lutuan while my cousins were playing patintero or chinese garter. I love playing this when I was a kid, my grandmother in the background screaming her hearts out while I tore apart her most precious plants in our lawn, orchids, gumamelas and the likes and cultivate it as my vegetable salad wannabe. Not to mention gathering some mud to make it look like champorado.

I stayed at home and played Barbie, although I wanted to play Langit Lupa and games that require a lot of running, I can’t since I know after enjoying myself doing so, I’ll end up coughing my way to asthma.

Good times