BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW:

MALAY FOLKLORE

This book talks and explains about traditional Malay games, dances,attire, narratives and songs.This book aims to expose the way that these are practiced by the Malaysian society.It is a very good book and all the events that happened it is explained in the best possible way.

I would like to mention some of the games and to tell how one of them is played: 1. BATU SEREMBAN, 2. GASING, 3. GALAH PANJANG. I will try to explain how the BATU SEREMBAN should be played: Take some stones and move all of them on the floor so that neither of them touches each other, you have to pick up one stone as the 'mother' or ibu which is then thrown upwards and another on the floor is swept orderly, catching the one you threw earlier on.The game goes until every stone is taken from the floor.Throw all the stones carefully on the air and catch them it is called 'menimbang'. Everything is how many stones are you capable to catch and not to let them fall down.He or she loses the turn when fails to catch the stone.

I also liked the song RASA SAYANG it is a traditonal chorus that i followed by a number of quatrains.The first verse will be sung alternately with a few quatrains of well known.The chorus can either be taken from a repertoire of traditional quatrains or spontaneously made by the singers during the singing, the song intends to teach people a moral in nature; an indirect social teaching tool.

It was an amazing book and i enjoyed reading it, and learned a lot about Malay tradition, it is really a good feeling to know how others entertain themselves by their own games and how they do it, being honest i was speechless at the end of this book.

BRAVEBOY :)

THREE THINGS I HATE ABOUT TV

THREE THINGS I HATE ABOUT TV

Television gives us many information about the whole world in a few minutes after it happened, even while it is happening.And all these information have a profound effect on us.But there are some things that really make me feel deeply annoyed about tv but ill mention the top three of those.

The first one is that while your watching something good and you are enjoying it amazingly good, there comes the advertisement for five minutes and whatever you were watching is gone and you have to wait until that advertisement is finished, if you want to continue watching again.

The second one is while your watching, the advertisement comes inside the movie or tv-show and it is being played together with whatever you are watching and that is so bad because it makes you confused what to watch, the advertisement or what you were already been watching.

And the final one is when tv- stations play the films without sbubtitles even though they had promised when they are going to play it, on this day, at this time, it is going to be with subtitles and there wont be any problems or interruptions about it.

But we all know that everything has its own weekness whatever it is, and it should be like that because nothing is perfect, except the Almighty God, and we have to live with these things and accept as they are, otherwise it is going to be really hard for us.But again things are being more and more sophisticated every day, and hopefully everything will be on its place sooner or later.

BRAVEBOY :)

A STORY OF A KING

A STORY OF A KING

This story begins with a king and his loyal servant, this servant for everything that happened used to say " hopefully good" so one day the king organized some kind of celebrations and during that time the king hurts himself by cutting his finger so everyone there makes panic saying the king is hurt, only his loyal servant calmly says hopefully good, when those words went to kings ear he called the guards and told them to put the one who said that in jail, so when they put the servant in jail he said again hopefully good, they thought he had lost his mind.

After their celebrations they packed up and started to go home to his kingdom but during that time when they reached a mountain called "CANIBAL MOUNTAIN" some voices came from the darkness of the mountain and then canibals started to shoot and kill everyone there except the king, they took the king as a trophy to sacrifice him for their gods but the trophy should be in good health and in one piece, so when they took his clothes off everything was ok with him, until they saw that he had lost a finger so the canibals were angry instead of killing him they threw him from a high part of their mountain down and into a river but luckily he survived.

When the king came back home everyone was shocked what had happen but the king didnt care about that, he was thinking about his loyal servant all along and his words "hopefully good" so he goes to the jail and releases him, apologizes and ask from him to be his second in command in that kingdom.

The moral of the story, always say whatever might happen "hopefully good " because no one knows why it happened, thats why we dont know for sure, from what comes the goodness and from what comes the badness.

BRAVEBOY :)

WHATEVER

WHATEVER

Well not everything is easy as it looks like, knowing and experiencing stuffs is a very different thing so be careful what you know and dont think that it is the same as watching yourself in a mirror.

Sometimes many things that might be on your way can motivate you into a dozen other things, some events happen when you never or less expect those to happen.Do you ever ask yourself why, how or what is going on ?

I would say, everything that happens outside there, is a reason for it, so dont take things close to your heart, just go with the flow, you know what i mean or better to say WHATEVER.

BRAVEBOY :)

FAR AWAY

                                                          FAR AWAY

Being abroad is really hard especially when you are on your own,my heart could never imagine that it could be so difficult but now i am experiencing this situation,it is like you are lost without a path out.

Now i know what others used to say to me, be good to your family and the people you know and never make them feel sad and do not let them down in any possible way.Now i miss everything: family, home, friends, mountains, rivers, grass, snow etc.

Fortunately we have computers and internet connection so we can be home at the same time no matter where we might be even why it is not the same but again thanks to God we have this opportunity.

BRAVEBOY :)

Mind your own business

Mind your own business

Sometimes people ask to many questions and so they become very annoying, it is really hard to handle every word that comes toward you like throwing bullets nonstop.Why is it so hard to be patient why ? is it because we cannot handle the pressure that comes from others or is it selfishness or what ? so many questions in my mind, but there is no answer about it.

Continuously these things are really bothering me a lot and i cannot stop them either so what should i do to stop these not to happen again, ever ? Probably it is just a temporary thing, it also can take a while maybe, unless i do something hard and cut it forever.

Deep inside myself i think that trying to be calm or a quit person without bothering yourself with anything sometimes is good and it is the best way to avoid all these lessthings, having the power to manage feelings in this route is like i said not to be bothered of those and to be like u did not listen or to be like you are thinking something else and your not concentrated what the x is talking about.

 

BRAVEBOY :)

BE FOCUSED

FOCUS ON WHAT YOU DO

Exactly, your progress will be seen in a very short time if u succed to be a focused hard working guy in your long journey in this dynamic life.That's right and when that happens, dont think u already achieved the top, because you just entered into the biggest race with very strong rivals that are not easy to be beaten and that for the only reason, u cannot control them only yourself.

What is more important about this long journey is how you exercise to be fit and strong to defeat yourself in pain, anger and how long u can stand when u face all these obstacles toward your journey.My friend we all know that this life is hard but ask urself are u born less hard ? and you are not asking more and more from life but you only take what life gives you, ask urself all these questions and then BUMMM stand up and go for the best.

In general a fighter is always prepared but he never stops exercising furthermore because he knows that u can never say enough in what u do.So this is the point do what u have to do, but always be prepared of anything that might get into your way and put you down or even worse and that is by letting you as a paralized person.

BRAVEBOY :)