....and what else to spin?

Tops!  ...of course.

That's one of the top games for kids in our neighbourhood.

But alas, some guys just don't grow up and they still keep their tops spinning at adulthood....and they alway "hurt" our tops!....

The tops we spun were not like those flat topped Kelantanese "gasing"....

 

Ours are hardword, rounded at the top half and conal at the bottom half with a nail....yes an iron nail extended from the conal base tip.

The purpose of the nail is to whip your opponents' tops "botak", ...crack 'em into halves if you will; or at least if you can, as much damage as possible to your opponents' tops in a "Top Fight" - it's a tough task for every kid wants to have his top's wood quality harder than the next guy!

We would wind a 2.5 feet rope starting from the base of the top at the initial protrusion of the nail tightly and from shoulder position release the top in various styles to get a good lasting spin....

....on the floor, or pull it back after half release to spin it on your palm...... .....ADA GAYA.

......or when it's your turn to "whip" your opponent's idle or spinning top on the floor in a TOP fight; you can with good skills acquired after several of your own broken tops experiences; you can..... make deep dents of your opponents' tops or even break them in halves.

You're already a "champion" when you can do that. In my short "top-spinning career", I only managed to do that once, and oh wow!...what a feeling!

Lil' sister Siewpoh also wanted to play tops, and Dad bought her, her very own fashionista top for the girls - a flat top like this one..

...and it was broken in no time, ....and her heart also broke at the same time.

"Sob, sob, sob, wah! wah! wah!"..... it was NON-S....Top!!!

The very next day, our tops disappeared - Well, by now you should know who's capable of that kind of that magic trick. Cheekiat and I are only quite capable of the Houdini trick - getting out of "Sure-Die" situations.

Yup, it was dad. Nobody else.

He has made a new one-sided rule in favour of the girls.. "No more tops.... no tops, no heart-stops" - what a spoil sport.

I had to find some "other interesting games", and I did found one, and I'll tell ya...