RIFLE RANGE BOY

Some stories I have told and some that I haven't Author: VC George (2021) T he powers that be wants us to believe their narrative. They assert that their concocted tale of how history happened keeps true to the natural chain of events. They create a smokescreen to justify the turn of events to explain social strata's current status and how social justice should be.  O ur history likes to paint Indian immigration to the peninsula as a single wave of settlement. With a single stroke of ink, they put all Indian in the same basket. That they were brought in the colonial masters as indentured labour (a milder wording for bonded slaves) to milk out not only the juices of rubber trees but also the milk the wealth of the nation. It was no coincidence that the Malay Peninsular was referred to as "Swarnabhumi" (Land of Gold). In the same breath, these keepers of Nation history declare that the British never really colonised us. They were just administrators .  S orry to burst y...

https://kitaab.org/2019/08/31/short-story-oh-deer-my-dear/ Mitali Chakravarty    August 31, 2019   2017 best fiction ,  2019 ,  Asian short stories ,  Immigrants ,  immigration ,  short story Short Story:  Oh  Deer!  My Dear… By Farouk Gulsara Malaysia National Day Special Like the Sword of Damocles, his domestic troubles hung over his head. There was nothing much he could do about it. It had gone on too long, too deep. He just had to live with it and move around it. He could not give up everything. There was a nagging heaviness in his temples. He knew things were going to take a nasty turn and it might get worse. He had created some arbitrary goals to improve his life, but this one had crashed it all. But still, life had to continue. As they say in showbiz, the show must go on. He knew it was a bad idea. With all these problems plaguing him, he thought it was inappropriate for him to participate in this ev...

Bak Kut Teh (meat bone tea) 肉骨茶 It is the act of 4 Malaysian Indians going out on a Saturday night in a car in the streets of Kuala Lumpur listening to Allycats singing a Malay song (Sampaikan Salam Cinta Ku) heading to a 24 hour Bak Kut Teh shop to chow down spicy herbal porcine meat gulped down with golden juice imported from the cold land with fjords. Bliss! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! http://www.bakkutteh.org/Bak-kut-teh.html

Datuk Rasamah Bhupalan  (Rasamah Naomi Navarednam a.k.a. Mrs F.R. Bhupalan)  needs no introduction. She has been seen in the media every now and then over the years. Listening to her interview, she must have had a very interesting and fruitful 84 years of lively life. Imagine a 16year old Indian girl in pavadai in 1943 donning military camouflage with a rifle over the shoulder and being shipped to Burma border as a soldier in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian National Army under the auspices of Netaji Subash Chandrabose to fight the British. Happy Malaysia Day! " When the Malayan flag was hoisted in 1957, 'every person there did not represent one race, they were Malayans,” recalls Mrs FR Bhupalan, who was then a 30-year-old mother of two."

Is it not funny that we only appreciate people and wet our eyes when they are long gone? We should all be thankful to have what we have and to learn to live with it. On the other hand, what is perceived as good now came with the social change that can only happen with that first step which requires us to come out of our comfort zones. Quantanamera....

Only one side of the story... The truth is the multifaceted knife which slices the finder of the real truth which ultimately stays elusively mysterious not yearning to be discovered but sneering at those who attempt to....

Our good old David and his gang with the Merdeka month promo! Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

British Malaya (Singapore and Malaysia): 1939 Trip around the World (Part 5). Part 5 features city scenes of Singapore, including the Old Supreme Court building. In Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur city scenes and the Penang Hill tram and Kek Lok Si Buddhist temple in Penang. View all 10 parts:  http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

Happy Merdeka ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YCl_WcDarA&feature=related ) At stroke of midnight, as the country ushered in the 53rd birthday of the nation, I was browsing through a cynical  and some times offensive web site ( http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Malaysia ) on Malaysia. Check it out. The morning started with a little bit of exercise, followed by a dash to the hospital to attend to a mother in labour. Due to complications, she needed a Caesarean section. A Merdeka baby you would say, but the mother is Thai and she is a second wife to a Malaysian man whose first wife probably does not know! How ironic. Whilst on the way there heard an interview with Amir Muhamad, the new wave writer and film maker on his book '120 Malay films'. Pretty nostalgic interesting stuff. Later that afternoon, whilst the family was at temple attending a prayer, the climax of the Merdeka 'celebration' was screening of 'Malayan Emergency' on History Channel. View sa...