Today a friend (who could hardly contain his glee) told me about a great online resource called Sejarah Melayu (Malay History), which bills itself as A History of the Malay Peninsula but contains goodies from all over the Malay Archipelago. What’s especially interesting is the Sejarah Melayu Library, which is described as…
…perhaps the largest public [...]
Categories: Miscellaneous
Tagged: language, links, Malay, Malaysia
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- September 14, 2009 – 2:26 pm
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- By Jordan
Last night, after a good workout at the gym, Leen and I were on our way home when in the course of a conversation about post-workout close physical proximity I joked, “Well, it’s not like you have cooties.”
I expected her to ask me something like, “What the heck are cooties?” But instead she said, [...]
Categories: Miscellaneous
Tagged: English, language, Malay, Malaysia
- Published:
- June 3, 2009 – 1:43 pm
- Author:
- By Jordan
Yo Rais: Your Views on Mixed Marriages are Mixed Up 13
Those who have been reading my blog for a few years now might remember that back in 2007 I wrote a post calling out Malaysia’s Information Minister for things he had said about children of mixed parentage. Basically, the Minister at the time, Zainudin Maidin (aka ZAM), didn’t want to see such children in local [...]
Categories: Commentary
Tagged: English, family, language, links, Malay, Malaysia, twitter, Youtube