Today– 1st October the children in my hometown celebrates Children’s Day. It is an annual tradition for all kids in the primary schools there to sing the song written by Pak Zubir Said, Semoga Bahagia–by the same talented person who penned our national anthem, Majulah Singapura. I sang it as a child and throughout my [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Arts and Culture’
September 27, 2009
Merry making, et al
So many bloggers have updated their blogs about their Eid/Raya this year with colorful photos of happy families etc. Our Eid was in Singapore for about a week. 2 days of Ramadan there and 4 days plus of Shawal and I had a blast. I ate and ate ( ok, that’s nothing new about me ). [...]
September 16, 2009
commercial break
Biology ended my Ramadan a little earlier and I spent a bit of today trying to look back and see how it has been this year. It is, as Is said in her blog about this month– more poignant than any other months as we tend to look back to the last Ramadan and see [...]
August 28, 2009
her talent (time)
This Ramadan and Syawal, myself and perhaps many of fellow ‘iklan petronas’ fans would miss the works of almarhum YasminAhmad who never failed to produce masterpieces during the ‘iklan petronas slots’ I particularly like the Payung episode here, and the Ombak Jahat episode below. And finally the English version about fathers.
May her soul rest in [...]
August 17, 2009
Ramadan magic
Ramadan will be with us at the end of the week. I have been indulging in too many gastronomical activities to realise its coming but now that I am looking through the google calendar, it suddenly dawned upon me how near it is to us now.
Other than the usual spiritual lessons, chapters, facts etc that [...]
August 5, 2009
About enjit-enjit semut
I was listening to, for the third round– the cd SyairMelayu, relieving all of my childhood memories. They twirled in my head together with the words I was translating through the night. Coincidently, the book I am currently translating–AsianParentingToday talks about parenting the Asian way and I find that the songs I was listening to [...]
July 31, 2009
Bring the rainbow warriors in..
When I asked good ol friend Heru to get me the original copy of the book Laskar Pelangi in Bahasa Indonesia, I was not quite aware of what I was in for. As any good friend would, he dutifully sent the book via registered post from Jakarta ( thanks dude, I owe you one! ).
The [...]
July 10, 2009
Bangau oh bangau!
Yesterday’s announcement by the education ministry here created quite a pandemonium amongst many, especially at the coffee shops. While all along I was for it to be revert back to BM in kebangsaan schools and Mandarin and Tamil in the respective Chinese and Indian kebangsaan schools, as an outsider, I am not in the position [...]
May 31, 2009
Next page, please.
They would often look overwhelmed by the attention showered upon them, especially from the paparazzi for the day. The day when even a plain Jane and the Joe next door would look good and are genuinely admired by many for many different reasons.
I love weddings, especially looking at the cluelessness of the bride and groom [...]
