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Muséng Sejok
Sejok ngökkör badang habih ketör gelitikSerebangnya kaki rasa macang nök jjerikDöh nök wak guane le ning anging muséng sejokKeluör rumöh pong baju habih basöh jjerokSapa kambing bbiri serema dök keluör...
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Days in the Water
I am delighted by the many very interesting reactions to Muséng Sejok. I loved them all, especially the place maps and persons long gone who came back to our midst. From the many delightful reads I...
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Urbi et Ubi
To be called ubi török is to be consigned to the bottom of the heap because ubi török is Trengganu rhyming slang for cörök, bottom of the class, a dunce with a double 'd'. Of the things that are taken...
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Here's To Another
Anging töpang kecang sunggohAir böh nèllèh pah Balék BukitTahong lama ning nök gi döhBulang pong gerhana atah langitDi negeri sejok kabörnya sejok ddö'öhDi negeri panah pong hujang belambökSetahong nök...
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Head Noises and Ferry Tales
A Map of Trengganu will be out in April. Here's a sneak preview from one of the places on the map, where a prehistoric monster ruled the water: Everything stopped at Bukit Datu: lorries, cars and...
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A Map is Not the Territory
At long last, with a sigh of relief I can say that I have just put the finishing touches to my next book, A Map of Trengganu (AMoT), and it is now at the printers to be printed, covered, bound and...
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A Map of Trengganu
Click on image to enlargeThis is your sneak preview of Monsoon's poster announcing a new arrival to its stable, A Map of Trengganu. This is the book that you have helped to make, and I thank you all,...
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AMoT at MPH
A Map of Trengganu will make its debut at the Kuala Lumpur Bookfair 20th to 23rd April though I am not sure if I shall be making an author appearance there as it is almost impossible to get a response...
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A Map of My Travels
We had a lovely time, then the band played on.Dato Andre Goh, accompanied by Dewangga Sakti,singing my favourite Tudung Periuk.The celebration that we had for A Map of Trengganu was a raving, raging...
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Thank you My Dear Friends...
...And good reading people.News just in shows that A Map of Trengganu is Number 2 on MPH's non-fiction list (Number 1 is Tun Mahathir's recently published memoirs, A Doctor in the House); and Growing...
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Three Weeks to Now
My last book-signing appearance,Sunday 8th May, at Borders, the Gardens.Three weeks have gone and I'm back here, at base, and it has been very exhilarating and very tiring too. And I'd like to thank...
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Tengku Ismail Tengku Su
My dear friend Tengku Ismail Tengku Su is still in hospital here in London after undergoing an emergency angioplasty last week.He was here on an invitation to the Prince's School of Traditional Arts...
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Passing of A Friend
I have to record with great sadness the passing of my dear friend Tengku Ismail Tengku Su at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London at approximately 4.30 pm London time yesterday, Saturday 13th...
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Selamat Hari Raya
How nasi himpit is made.Come Raya morning, chaos rules. It is the same today in our household: time is flying fast and there is no sign of that button for the baju, and the shirt's unironed, oh woe is...
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Before You Grow Old
We are all gulity, sometimes, of bungling around without knowing where the head is or where hangs the tail. Dök tahu ppala èkör is normally used to describe such caper, when a person goes on blabbing...
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Diary of Pök Téng
We have found the diary of Pök Téng, as faithfully recorded by Tuan Wingsteak, an Englishman who left the colonial service to go native in Kuala Trengganu's Ujong Tanjong in the 1950s. He spent his...
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Pök Téng Rises to the Occasion
Diary of Pök Téng II (as faithfully recorded by Tuang Wingsteak)24th December, 1951Photo of monsoonal coast courtesy of Ajidul.Kalu tèngök ggining bumi Teganung ning buléh tahang jugök luahnya. Dari...
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Green Umbrellas and New Books & Old Wind on the New
Rainy Day Cycling in MerchangI have borrowed this photo from my friend Zaharan Razak's blogpage. Read the story behind it at Zaharan's blog, 'I' of the Hornbill, and its sad postscript here.Not a lot...
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A Book In A Quiet Corner
It has been almost a year now since we launched A Map of Trengganu at RA Fine Arts in a place called Solaris Hartamas.The band Diwangga Sakti played, Andre Goh sang, Jimmy Choo wowed shoe lovers, old...
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Chinese New Year
To all my Chinese readers, a very happy new year from me and from Pök Téng and Mat Spröng too.Selamat Tahong Baru![Image courtesy of http://1800sunstar.com]
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