ON MALAYSIAN LITERATURE

The World is a Shopping MallShakespeare had saidAll the world’s a stageMen are merely actorsWith many roles and many partsIn the hand of BeckettThe actors become slavesImprisoned on the stageIn a scene of waitingIn a play without endingToday what if we sayThat the world is a big marketWe are traders or buyers without exceptionUttering the dialog of...

Facing the HarbourIt disturbs meEvery time I face the harbour lightsThey are the lights of our boundaryReminding us nobody can live without a nameAnd loyalty to a countryBut nobody can choose his own nameOr the country to be born inIKLAN TVSuatu hari pada tahun 1966 ayah membawa pulangsebuah peti televisyenkami bersorak rianglalu sibuk menyusun ruang...

Looking For SpaceSuddenly he got up and switched off the lightSaying, “This room is bigger in the darkSince we cannot see the walls”I switched on the lights againSaying “This light is actually the spaceAnd we are more often imprisonedBy the walls that we cannot see”Marriage- one woman’s opinionMarriage is the difficultyof changing routine and prioritiesThat...

Cerita peperangan tidak pernah menggembirakan. Hari ini saya terharu dan terganggu. Betapa sedihnya mendengar cerita peperangan di Bukit Nanas yang dikisahkan oleh Encik Siri Ning Buah. Pengkisahan ini dianjurkan oleh Persatuan Sejarah Selangor dan telah berlangsung di Kompleks Kebudayaan, Shah Alam. Begitulah nasib orang-orang Melayu Mandaling yang...

I drop a little honey on the grounda few ants get arounda few minutes latermore ants gatherand in no timehundreds of antsare walking in a lineI watch and wondered howwithout voice and without soundthey must have passed the words aroundwhenever food is foundthis fact I have readthat animals communicateI watched and was carried awayuntil I heard what...