PsychOlympics: An Annual Activity of the Psychology Area

Last January 30, 2009, The Letran Psychology Society or LPS held it's annual activity called PsychOlympics. It's not like the real olympics where you would really play sports games like basketball, volleyball etc. It's only simple games, more of parlor games LOLS. Anyway the students are assigned in different colors like red, blue, green, and yellow. [Well basically only 4 colors since there are only 4 psychology professors available. At talagang konti lang ang mga psychology professors] We played games like, Dodgeball, Tug-of-war, Human Bridge, Food relay, and Dragon's Tail.

1st to be played was supposed to be dodgeball but since baka matamaan ang mga kotse, we played Tug-of-war 1st. Red team manage to beat the blue team and the yellow team managed to beat the green team. Mahirap nga lang sa game na ito is that kung wala kang panyo, masusugatan ang kamay ko dahil masakit sa kamay yung rope na ginamit. Maraming nasugatan dahil yung iba ay walang mga panyo kaya tiniis na lamang nila ang sakit sa paghihila. Even I have wounds kasi naman. Ang pwersa ko nasa right hand ko which is mali dahil lefty ako so ang mas malakas is yung left hand. Pero dahil mali ang position ko, wala ako magawa kundi gawin yung makakaya ko para makatulong sa paghihila. The problem is that, since konti lang ang group ko [my team is green by the way] we don't have too many guys around so no choice but to try our best. Also, mahirap rin kasi isa lang ang malaki sa amin while the yellow team have many guys and malalaki ang mga katawan pa. Grabe.

2nd, was supposed to be dodgeball but again, hindi parin natuloy and Human Bridge was the 2nd game to be played. Rules are simple, magkakadikit ang mga paa ng mga tatapakan ng isang member dahil doon sa mga paa na yun siya tatawid. If that member fell down, they have to start all over again. Green team won this game followed by the blue team.

3rd game was the food relay. The rules are, you have to find the coin that is hiding sa harina. You can blow it para mas madali then use your teeth to get the coin and give it to the usher. Next, you have to take a bite of the hotdog with bread and lastly, take a sip from the pepsi bottle using 4 straws [so basically it's really long that you can't really drink sabi ng mga naglaro]. The last member was to eat all the hotdog and drink the whole bottle of pepsi. The game started and almost all teams except for the green team are ahead by one. Mabagal kasi yung nauna maselan ba hahahaha. But they managed to catch-up since the last member is supposed to eat all the hotdog and finish drinking the pepsi. Habang inuubos na ang isang bote ng pepsi nung last member, the last member of the green team cannot drink anything. Dahil dyan tinulungan na siya ng mga ushers kaya naging 2 straws nalang and since 2 straws nalang, mabilis niya naubos but the blue team complained na madaya raw dahil 2 straws lang. But the blue team was also unfair dahil hinahawakan ng last member ang straw which is bawal rin and so is the red team. Kaya ang decision is making the yellow team the winner.

Finally, the 4th games was the dodgeball. Ito ang game na sobrang nakakatawa at masakit rin sa katawan. Rules are simple. You have to avoid getting hit within a time limit. Kaya ang laban is, red vs green. The green team managed to hit at 1 member. But, the red team managed to hit 2 members giving the red team a win. In the yellow vs blue team, dito ang masayang part. Maraming nahheadshot dahil sa sapul na sapul sa ulo or sa mukha ang bola ng volleyball. Since it's a volleyball ball, masakit siya kung tatamaan ka. Ang galing galing ng yellow team because they manage to hit all 4 members. At ng dumating blue team na ang mambabato, they only manage to hit 2 members [particularly the girls]. Nakakatawa na nakakaawa kasi isa sa blue team na babae ang naheadshot at isa rin sa yellow team na babae ang naheadshot. Nakakatakot mambato ang mga lalaki lalo na yung mga members ng blue team kasi mga 4th year na sila plus malalakas at malalaki rin ang katawan. Since 4 ang team, kaya winner vs winner and loser vs loser. Green vs Blue, and Red vs Yellow. Nakakatawa rin ang round na ito dahil lahat ng mga naglalaro ay lalaki LOLS. Kumbaga naging seryosong labanan na. 1st up was green vs blue. Nung una, all is well may mga na-out pero isa dun sa mga lalaki ay may injury so kailangan ng substitute. One of the team's girls sub the guy since wala nang pwedeng magsub na lalaki [I can't sub kasi hindi rin ako makakatakbo] They managed to get 2 members out. When it's the blue team's turn, they only manage to get one. Ang gagaling nila kasi kahit mapatalon ka na para umilag nakakailag parin sila. And now the win vs win. Red vs Yellow. That is like the best dodgeball game na nakita ko kasi ang gagaling umilag ng red and yellow team. Nakakatuwa pa nun kasi nung una, nagkakaproblema kung valid ba ang tira kasi masyadong malapit pero ang natira na lamang sa red ay isa at naubos narin ang oras. Nung yellow na ang umiiwas, nagkakatuwaan pa na unahin raw ang naka uniform dahil raw may class pa ng 6pm hahaha which is siya nga ang nauna na natamaan. 2 na lamang ang natira sa yellow team at naubos na ang oras kaya ang nanalo sa dodgeball ay yellow team. Ang galing galing talaga kasi ang gagaling umiwas hindi ko maimagine na makakya ko yun kahit na favorite ko dati ang dodgeball. Since hindi ko rin kaya tumakbo, I don't want to join tsaka masakit sila mambato na nung tumatalsik ang bola papunta sa side naming mga nakaupo, at binabalik ko sa kanila...masakit sa kamay. Kamay pa lang iyon what more kung tamaan ka sa ulo or sa katawan edi bugbog sarado ka LOL

For the last game, we played Dragon's Tail. It is the same as the caterpillar iniba lang ang pangalan LOL [mas naging astig nga eh kesa sa caterpillar haha]. Rules are simple, the 1st member has to take the handkerchief from the last member of the opposing team. Dapat ninyo rin iwasan na hindi kayo kakalas sa team ninyo dahil automatic na out ka na pagka kumalas ka. Dito maraming nasugatan at nasaktan. Imagine ha maraming mga pantalon ang nasira sa game na ito due to the fact na gumulong-gulong ang mga kasali dahil sa hindi sila nakakapit ng maayos sa mga likod ng nasa unahan nila. Sa green team maraming gumulong-gulong at nainjured dahil sa maraming mga babae sa amin at hindi sila mga naka rubber shoes. Kaya nakakatawa na nakakaawa rin dahil mga sumakit ang balakang, nasira ang pantalon, may natuklapan ng balat at iba pa. Buti nga, walang napunit na mga t-shirt kung hindi kawawa naman ang napunitan ng damit. Lucky hindi ganun kakapit ang nasa likod ko kasi paakap ang ginawa niya. Madali pang mastretch ang damit ko kaya kinakabahan rin ako baka kasi mapunit kasi yun na lamang ang nag-iisang damit ko na green LOL. Problema lang rin talaga is hindi malakas ang grip niya sa akin kaya lahat ng mga nasa likod ko nagsisitumbahan. Ako kasi, pagka kumapit umaakap talaga ako pero kung hind na ako makaakap, kailangan ko talaga kumapit sa damit at mabilis na makahabol. Malas ko lang rin dahil natapakan nanaman ang paa ko kung kelan mayroon akong sugat sa paa tsaka talaga ako matatapakan. Really great....=____="

Overall, kahit maraming na-injured at maraming sumakit ang mga katawan, it's still fun and I won't forget lahat ng mga nakakatawang pangyayari last Friday, January 30, 2009.