Sajak:Rumah kecil
Keluhan seorang teman
“Rumahku ini kecil
dan tidak cantik”
Jawab rakan lain
“aku bersyukur jika
rumah sebesar ini
dan secantik ini kumiliki
di syurga nanti”
Adapted from Izani H.D’s poetry.
Sajak: Rumah kecil
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Category Archives: literature
Emo: language and literature
Assalamualaikum. Peace to be upon you. Currently I am doing dissertation on nursery rhymes and this entry will explain why on earth I take this matter seriously. Being in Malaysia, you cannot resist the heatwave of the media. I watch kids’ show on TV9 (tagline: dekat di hati), on one fateful day. The famous shows that I watched: Dora the Explorer and Blue’s clues. However, in Malaysian, they were dubbed to Malay language. I am a person who is concern about language and kids’ language development.Also, my beloved mother tongue, Bahasa Melayu Malaysia (different from bahasa Melayu Indonesia). Right, you can consider this as an open letter to TV9 as well. No problem at all. Oh, call me monyet or pondan whatsoever. My job here is to give a lesson.
I am not sure on what purpose they dubbed the shows. I do support the ideas of ‘mother tongue as the foundation of education’ and ‘cintailah bahasa kita’. It’s not that I go against the idea of dubbing it to Bahasa Melayu Malaysia. Imagine if you heard this:
Dora: Mari kita tolong Pigmy Marmoset mengutip sap pokok!
I was quite blur when they mention “sap pokok”. I thought hard. I thought it was Malay word but it was not. From Cambridge Dictionary, the definition for sape is: the liquid that carries food to all parts of a plant. Simply in Malay language, “sap pokok” is “getah pokok”.The translation given by TV9 actually makes young viewers more confuse actually. Even as an adult I was very confuse really. Plus, quite a weird thing when they didn’t change some spanish words.
Nevermind. It’s not much an issue. Just a word anyway. Then I watched Blue’s clues. Steve was hunting treasure using Blue’s clues. Nice at first. Then Blue gave Steve a picture.
Steve: Tengok ini kawan-kawan. Gambar Little Miss Muffet. Apa kita nak buat dengan Little Miss Muffet?
LMM: Tolong saya selesaikan teka-teki ini. Little Miss Muffet, duduk atas bukit, makan dadihnya. Kemudian datang…
(Picture of 3 animals, obviously I can’t remember the other 2 as I love the spider :P)
Again, my brain was puzzled. It doesn’t rhyme at all. Are they trying to tell young Malaysians to translate English traditional nursery rhymes as well? I’m so sorry. This is not right. We should learn it as it is. According to its context. Please do not translate a nursery rhymes for Malaysian children’s sake!
Then Steve found another clue.
Steve: Tengok ni. Ini Jack. Masih ingat Jack? Mari kita tolong Jack.
(Jack was wearing his pyjamas and hat)
Me: Who’s jack? Is there any character in Blue’s clues named Jack?
Steve: Adik-adik tahu apa yang Jack perlu lakukan?
(There was a picture of 3 objects)
Then I remembered. It’s the character in Mother Goose nursery rhymes!
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candle stick.
Oh, my, god. I couldn’t imagine how Malaysian children perceive it. The reason we learn nursery rhymes, without alteration is because of history, culture and language pattern. Those who are not exposed to nursery rhymes during childhood basically have weak foundation in reading. OK! no time for explanation for this time being. Will just post my dissertation copy once I’m finish with it.
Anyhow, I am looking for a way to complaint to TV9. Anyone has any contact? Do leave it in my comment box. Bahasa jiwa bangsa.
Merdeka ya?
Merdeka konsert
Merdeka ‘negaraku’
Merdeka berciuman
Merdeka jerit sahutan
Merdeka berpeleseran
Merdeka memperaga pakaian clan
Merdeka dengan bakaran bunga api
Merdekanya berpacaran hingga waktu subuh
Merdeka sungguh bila koleksi sampah sarap dikutip DBKL
Merdeka benar negaraku sehingga aku sendiri rasa buntu.
I blame you
For all the pain
For all these nuisances
For all the sleepless nights
For all the trouble we have to deal with
For all the mess from the trouble you created
For all the time we live in fear and sadness and hurted
I blame you.
Book review: Ayat-ayat cinta, verses of love.
Bismillah. In the name of Allah. Peace to be upon you. I hope you are blessed with the barakah of health and iman (faith). For a week, I was away and did not manage to access the internet. Alhamdulillah. I am at my hometown and managed to write an entry.
For those who are seeking to read good books this summer, I would suggest you to read this entry because I just finished read an Indonesian novel entitled “Ayat-ayat cinta” or literally means “verses of love”. The cover itself already interests me. I am not familiar with the author actually (Habiburrahman El Shirazy). So, somehow, I have judged the book by its’ cover. Ops! I wonder who is the owner of the beautiful eyes. Subhanallah! (All praises to Allah). Many have written reviews for this great novel looks like I’m the latecomer!, but still, I insist to write it so that I can find calm in my heart. Heheh. I have finished read other books but this is the one that makes me feel uneasy if I don’t write a book review about it. Continue reading
Salam sastera dari muhammad haji salleh
Buat: Nurul Aini Binti Adnan. Salam sastera. Muhammad Haji Salleh. 17.05.07
Alhamdulillah. This make me happy. You are always my hero Ayahanda.
Semoga saya menjadi golongan minoriti yang menegakkan dunia sastera Melayu. Ameen. (eh, doa untuk diri sendiri. Doakan saya ya. Hahah)
Peluang menulis dan masa
Peace to be upon you. Lately, I received invitations to write, either on blog or for paper publication. Three invitations in one week. That sounds awesome innit? But hey, do I manage to do all that in one go? One asked me to explain about my religion, another is on my college, and the last is of racism in the UK. Whew. Does 3K words assignment is not enough?
Quite weird because before this, my writing in IPBA is not that brilliant. Well, people don’t notice me. My writing is invisible. I am the one who needs language support tutorial class with Dr. Asiah. In IPBA, there are plenty who write better than I do. Plus, their English is better than English people’s English (repetition is unintended). Well you tell me, is my writing that brilliant? So I’ll have confidence to be the next Shirley Geok Lim (?).
Oh iya, kawan-kawan saya juga telah menge’tag’ saya. Setakat ini 3 orang. Tahniah! Hutang mereka pun masih belum dilunas. Oh, saya mahu MacBook!
My assignment progress: headache. I don’t think they want to do reformation on Malaysian Education System after reading my piece. I bet!
