The Lost Art of Kite-Flying

the kite season peaks in the months of october
and november here in manila. it thrusts into
full gear on the first day of november and it is
the single most important day that i have been
looking forward to when i was a kid. for me it's
more fun than christmas and new year, and i'm
not kidding.

if i were to count the number of kites that i have
made during my childhood years, it would be around
300, maybe even more. this is before i started to
learn how to play guitar, i started playing guitar
when i was thirteen. i can make kites made of
plastic (plastic sa dept store, basura, palengke,
etc), manila paper, newspaper, japanese paper, and
that plastic that they use as yema wrappers. hehe.

somehow the kids discovered some other things to
play with, and unfortunately kite-flying has lost
its audience to family computers and game and
watch (this is about 20 years ago). then some
cooler games were invented and now kids don't even
know what kites are. hehe.