Entries Tagged as 'Arts and Culture'

April 2, 2008

Technicalities

‘ I gotta rid myself of all these flabs!’ I whined to the husband.
‘Exercise then… follow me go cycling, ..jog ?’ the-always-with-the-solution husband replied.
Cycling’s not too bad but I am afraid of the traffic. I do have a yellow bike on which I cycle around the houses in our area. First time I did [...]

March 30, 2008

Sehr Gut Ja !

I was 3 when his band Kembara was a hit with their song Gerhana. My two uncles were in their late teens and as rocker wannabes as the average Mat of that era. The era where the likes of bands Black Dog Bone/Sweet Charity/Alley Cats sang with big microphones with multi coloured sponge [...]

March 28, 2008

The Language

This morning I made a my first trip to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Somehow, eerily I must add, the lyrics of the song from the Perkhemahan Bahasa and Budaya, which I attended way back when I was in Primary 6 crept into my mind. With it, came the memories of that camp. That was yonks [...]

March 15, 2008

Jiggle

She invited me to the Hafla. I gladly accepted.
Although I must admit that this Hafla, in comparison to the ones I have attended back in my hometown during those early 20s days , is relatively tame. Back then it was girls school reunion of sorts, in the harem upstairs of a cafe [...]

February 23, 2008

Nyonya

It’s 1.50 am on a Sunday morning and I just woke up. I mean I did go to sleep but somehow was awakened and now tried as I might, I could not go back to sleep. My mind kept thinking of the play we attended just now at Istana Budaya– Nyonya.

Written by Indonesian playwright [...]