Kite flying is one childhood adventure I enjoyed so much. Making my own kite out of used cellophane bags, employing coconut straws as frame and tying it with rubber bonds, all were done creatively. Loosing up those nylon threads from net bag as a string for the kite, and keeping it from parents' knowledge was always the case. Testing its flying worth into a vacant rice field just a minute walk from our house, then and there my kite was launched.
As my kite soars up high, riding on the surge of the wind there was one traditional practice that goes with kite flying, of which, I wonder if science has an explanation. Taught to me by my old folks, the practice has never found any known scientific reasoning. Wind is important in kite flying and the absence of it can be frustrating for us kids back then. Of this trouble, we were taught that wind can be summoned. Yes, wind can be summoned and invited to come by means of a whistling sound.
Whenever our kite, up in the air ceased to surge upward, we call on wind by a whistle sound to lift our plummeting kite. Old folks used to summon wind during rice harvest in the sieving of rice kernels, separating the chaff and unwanted weeds. They also call on winds through whistle for fresh air in order to remove the dry and hot air during noon time. Today, the practice of calling wind, depicting a master calling his servant for a task to perform is still around.
Modern knowledge will try to label this phenomenon in the category of paranormal activity, others may call it ESP( extra sensory perception). Whatever is the modern explanation about that practice, but one thing I always cherish and remember was the fun brought about by those kite flying adventure and the discovery of such extraordinary authority to bid for nature's cooperation on human activity.