In My Head / Floating Ideas

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About a year ago, on February 2010, I posted my first post here. At that time, designing and fiddling around with all the widgets, plugins, files thru FileZilla, themes and such, were really something new to me. I had to migrate my language skills of coding blogs (in html and java) to a fairly easier and more user-friendly interface. This has allowed me to share ideas, thoughts and new knowledge through various writings with ease [... Read More ...]

3rd June – STP Night 2011 @ Furama City Centre 4th June – Karya 2011 @ TRCC, RP 7th June – Gema Nusantara (Malay Literary Appreciation Camp) @ OnePeople.sg, Toa Payoh 12th June – Wedding of Namira 13th-16th June – Getaway Inspiration @ Jogjakarta, Indonesia 19th June – Konsert Ramuan (Fund-raising Concert for Ramuan Rahasia) @ Goodman Arts Centre 25/26th June – Muhammadiyah Fund-raising Concert (TBC) 26th June – Majlis Bahasa Melayu Singapura Launch (TBC) [... Read More ...]

Jadi tadi saya bebual-bebual dengan seorang teman tentang bahasa Melayu. Dia cakap yang dia rasa macam takut bahasa Melayu nanti hilang lar, pupus lar, tak ada orang gunakan lah dan macam-macam lagi. Kemudian kita bincang sedikit sebanyak pasal bahasa baku lah, bahasa standard dan perkara-perkara yang berkaitan. Dia cakap yang dia takut bahasa ni akan hilang, so saya sendiri cakap, ‘right now, we ourselves are speaking in English’ dan dia akur tapi tetap ada rasa [... Read More ...]

Writing, I think is the earliest (if not, the oldest) form of documenting and sharing knowledge. Since the time when Man discovered cave drawings could actually paste their livelihood stories to inform future generations, I think documentation immortalizes a work done by individual/s. I see that schools in Singapore do not really have the constant practice of publishing works by teachers. Educators as they are, the knowledge and experience that they have should be forged [... Read More ...]

1993. I was 9 years old and was schooling in Zhenghua Primary. I was “introduced” to the art of dikir barat by a teacher, who wanted Malay students to perform for a Hari Raya concert at school. I was part of a mess of enthusiastic children, making noises, clapping hands and singing songs that I’ve never heard being played on the radio or anywhere else, for that matter. Following the hand movements of the row [... Read More ...]

Ramai yang akan melihat Qami berjalan seperti tanpa arah. Selalunya bergerak lincah tapi sering juga menggelapah dalam lautan keringat dan darah. Di sini Qami yakin bahawa tiada sesiapa yang akan mengerti sepenuhnya. Amat sukar untuk melihat dunia dari pandangan matanya. Ramai yang bertanya apa perlunya kerja yang dilakukan Qami. Dia sendiri terkadang tidak pasti keperluan dan kepentingan kerjanya. Dia terus melakukannya. Kerja sepertinya sudah lama dilakukan manusia dari zaman ke zaman, tamadun ke tamadun. Kerja [... Read More ...]