The Yoyo Craze
It’s Yoyo’s turn to shine! Everywhere you look, you see kids playing with their yoyos. Yoyos nowadays come in different colors, effects, and sizes. Unlike a few years back, yoyos that are played by kids like me are only from the famous softdrink, Coca-cola, if not, it’s not as cool as it is.
At Greenbox today, almost all of the boys (and girls) has got themselves their own yoyos. I am even facinated with some of the girls who knows how to play some tricks like ‘around the world’, ‘elevator’, ‘triangle’ and ’sway’. Playing the yoyo is something that I’ve been dying to learn. Like dancing, yoyo is something that I cannot do perfectly well, not even right. Like dancing, I know what the steps are, but I can’t keep with the beat.
What is a Yoyo? A yoyo is a TOY consisting of two equally sized disc made up of plastic,wood, or metal, connected with an axle, around which string is wound. I’m proud to say that the origin of Yoyo has been credited to have been made here in my beloved and abused country, the Philippines. The name yo-yo may have been derived from the Filipino word tayoyo which means to spin. It was originally been used as a weapon..(hhmm.. it’s something that I should be researching more about)..
Last Sunday, Ate Ann’s Australian nephew, Bien was given a yoyo by his Tita. Seeing him so confused on what to do with it, I instantaneously got up to him and started “tutoring” him on how to do it, even if I too, am not a master of it. Because he speaks english (heck, he’s got a British accent), I placed my best foot forward in teaching him the basics of playing yoyo. I started in teaching him how to hold the discs and how to wound the thread. Next, I taught him how to spin the yoyo..and he started playing with it. Little by little, I can see he’s improving. Some of the kids around him were trying to impress the australian kid with their tricks and that made Bien somehow jealous. After few more spins, he was able to make the yoyo “sleep”, (which is by the way, another trick) for like 3 seconds or so. It made his face blush, and his eyes glittering while telling me, “Have you seen that? I’ve done a trick! That is the first!”. I found the satisfaction in his eyes, and I know, it was something that he will be proud of for the next days to come.
Yoyo. Good for Bien that he already knows how to do some little trick. Maybe tomorrow, I’ll buy myself a yoyo. Not knowing how to play it well makes me sad for myself. Kids know how to play really, really well with it, but me? I cannot even do any single trick. Oh well. It’s just something that I am not good about. Like playing “takyan” or playing “chess” that it seems like everybody else knows how to do it except me. *sigh* Anyway, Melody_shake’s online and I asked her if she knows how to play the yoyo too.. and her answered me with “NO”..haha! I got myself some company then.
gee. 
