OFWs in Dubai revive traditional Pinoy games

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OFWs in Dubai revive traditional Pinoy games. Filipino expatriates in Dubai talk about the joys of playing traditional Pinoy games.  Read the full Gulf News article: https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/pinoy/filipinos-in-uae-relive-forgotten-games-1.2266585  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00I joined here because I want to meet my friends and mingle with all my Filipino brothers and

00:14sisters.

00:15We want to highlight also to our kids what our games during my childhood which is not

00:20been played by my kids this time.

00:23It will be good to refresh also our traditional games to the youth at this moment.

00:28I learned it from my friends who are raised in the Philippines but since they moved here

00:34in Dubai, so I learned it from them.

00:37After school, I would play every traditional Filipino game, patintero, Chinese garter.

00:43At home, what we usually do is the tumbang preso and if we go to the park, we try also

00:49to play this patintero.

00:50I played sungka because long time ago I played that since I was a kid.

00:56So I just tried if I know the mechanics.

00:59I like physical fitness more.

01:01Since you're just in computer, you're anti-social.

01:04But when you play this traditional Filipino games, you might gain some friends.

01:08It's very good that we can introduce to our kids, to our young generations, to the millennials

01:14that the palarong kombansa or palarong Pinoy still exists in this millennial world.

01:20It's totally preserving as well our culture.

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