NTU undergrads launch campaign to teach children traditional Asian games
The humble chapteh - a shuttlecock fashioned out of chicken feathers, rubber and nails - is seen by youngsters of the iPad generation as a relic of their parents' era.
But for 24-year-old undergraduate Gordon Toh, memories of playing the traditional Asian game - which involves keeping the chapteh in the air by any means other than using the hands - remain some of his best as a student at Whitley Secondary School.
He and five other soccer-loving friends got hooked on the pastime when the school banned ball games in enclosed areas. Fellow pupils soon caught the chapteh fever and it expanded into an inter-class tournament.
"We would play it anywhere at any time," said Mr Toh, now a communications student at Nanyang Technological University. "Not just before and after school, but also during recess time and in between the class periods."
~News courtesy of Straits Times~
The humble chapteh - a shuttlecock fashioned out of chicken feathers, rubber and nails - is seen by youngsters of the iPad generation as a relic of their parents' era.
But for 24-year-old undergraduate Gordon Toh, memories of playing the traditional Asian game - which involves keeping the chapteh in the air by any means other than using the hands - remain some of his best as a student at Whitley Secondary School.
He and five other soccer-loving friends got hooked on the pastime when the school banned ball games in enclosed areas. Fellow pupils soon caught the chapteh fever and it expanded into an inter-class tournament.
"We would play it anywhere at any time," said Mr Toh, now a communications student at Nanyang Technological University. "Not just before and after school, but also during recess time and in between the class periods."
~News courtesy of Straits Times~
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