Childhood Games
Badau talks about childhood games and making toys in the Ba Kelalan dialect of Lun Bawang. The recording was made in Buduk Nur on 1st November 2017.
ok, I'm going to tell a story about when we were young
we didn't have any toys
we made our own guns out of bamboo
we collected extra books, extra paper
we used whatever we could find as our toys
we couldn't buy toy planes back then
we made our own planes from clay
we used a bottle to make the body
then we made the wings from sticks
and we used that to play
we also had another gun that we used
an air rifle
we mixed chilli
we mixed chilli when we played
and we took that chilli
and we squeezed it near our friends' eyes
if it gets in their eyes
they cry
before, we didn't have any sweets
we got sugarcane from the shops
and we made it hot in a tin
after we heated it in the tin
we got a toothpick
and then we roll the sugar on it
then we but it on a banana leaf
when it's hard
then you walk around
proudly holding it
saying you have sweets
that's the end