Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
My favourite Companion...till death will us part...
My 1963 VW Beetle...completely restored with a twin seater Sports Esparco leather seats, High powered re-conditioned 1300 cylinder engine, A/C, Sony Audio System....kept at home under wrap....Looking forward to installing 15" fully chromed alloy reams...
Gambar agi mit....
I remember, when I was young, I was closed to my niang Aki & Ini. My late Aki was a no-nonsense old man. My late Aki used to coach me about life including how to make public speech in Iban classic.My personal interest in Iban Classics have brought many fond memories being asked to emcee several important functions..
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sempalai Kenang..
Meri Selamat Datai ngagi kita bala kaban menyadi tuai
Lalu meh kita ngagai dunju, langkau umai
enggi tudah aku
ke agi diseruri tunjok jari megai
agi tudoh leboh tutok ujan baka berai
agi giu-giu panka selulut ribut lemai
Arap ke kita enda leju mantai ke jaku
kena beraku diri sekaban..
Iban Baru
Friday, October 23, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Tampung Sempalai Kenang
Sempalai Kenang...
Nuju bala kaban belayan ba sitak Batang Ai..
Nyaalai bala Aya…
Enti nyema jako aku bisi kelanjur labuh tejula
Anang kita beguai ngedar ka jari kiba
muka pencha ngenggam lengan
Engka icha kitai tepeda ke seraka pemansang orang
Nyaalai bala ibu bakanya mega...
Enti nyema jaku aku tu bisi saru...
Anang mega kita beguai nganu
pulai naban ke uchu lari ke penepan
Engka icha kitai sebuat tetemu ka tungkat lalau engkalan
Nya alai bala menyadi pen bakanya mega....
Enti nyema serbana ati aku bisi ngasuh kita begedi
Anang mega kita lalu ngeransi ngedar ka jari
Engka icha kitai bansa nemu ngena kuasa Sunting Jari
Bisi ninga kitai di Batang Ai benong nyabung besai
Bala Iban teguran, bala menteri enggau YB pen nangi
Takut ke diri alah tuie ba Burik Jelayan manuk Barisan
Besatup enggau manuk punka laki menua Engkari,
kebat sulat taji ringkang…
Demalam aku bemimpi asai ke dibai orang nurun nyabung besai
Dimenua Batang Ai tanah landai, pun penyankai bansa Iban ke berimba temuda,
ngerumpang batang, berambun ke nyawa matak serang....
Datai di puak tengah menalan, dia ku ninjau meda mensia cukup beraban. Bisi nya laut, bisi ga cina tang maioh ga bansa Iban.
Sida chapuh bekelikuh ke entaroh, beransah ke taji nyemilu tisi lancam disimbang. Tukang kebat udu beselalat nanchang kebat taji ringkang.
Sida ke betuie selalu nangi enggai ke rugi ambis puku kerepai puang.
Sida ke ngemata, leboh bejaku bernaing nyawa, laban udah dipanjah setin beer, disua ringgit wang bunga mata wang.
Bala tuai rumah kerah-kerah enda ngasuh mantah perintah enggai ke terap rebah keluar gelanggang.
Tuai Sabung – nadai ba menalan tang mending ari jauh ngena talipon lalu meri pemutus ba surat khabar.
Manuk Sabung – manuk Iban.
§ Entaruh ke depelaban – Maruah Bansa Dayak & Future of the Dayak.
§ Puku belanja dikena betui – Reta pesaka bansa Dayak – tanah temuda, bali rimba.
Pemutus: Manuk Iban menang – Manuk Iban alah
§ Entaruh anggau Tuie pulai ngagai Tuai sabung & konco – konco
§ Iban gaga mai bangkai manuk dikena tabas ngirup cap langkau & sadin rimau.
§ Tuai sabung & bala kaki sabung bukai ricah rami…lalu merambu ni maya nyabung baru.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Dayaks rotting away courtesy of Gov’t
Taken from Posting in Malaysiakini.Com. By "Singalang Burong"
Dayaks rotting away courtesy of gov’t
By: Singalang Burong
Jun 30, 06 4:23pm
In the aftermath of the Sarawak state election, I am baffled, frustrated and disgusted at how Malaysia, and Sarawak in particular, are being governed. I am a Dayak, born in a longhouse and now with tertiary education. Having worked as a senior government officer and currently working for a multinational company, I have painfully witnessed the systematic erosion of my fundamental heritage and rights by the powers-that-be.
Firstly, let me talk about the denial of our share of development funds and education opportunities especially for the rural population. After 43 years of independence through Malaysia, the Dayaks still are the ones with the highest poverty and illiteracy rate in the country. What is there for us to celebrate when Hari Merdeka comes? We have nothing to cheer about being independent from the British as our livelihoods are no better. We are being ‘re-colonised’ by our very own people?
We are still not ‘merdeka’ from poverty, illiteracy, intimidation and fear from of own government of the day. Our rights to our land are being systematically extinguished, our rivers are severely polluted due to extensive logging, and our rural schools are in such a dilapidated state that our people have no interest in education. Teachers are merely wage earners with no motivation to produce quality students. In areas where the majority are Dayaks, roads, electricity and treated water supply are something that we can only dream of 43 years after independence.
Secondly, let’s talk about our opportunities to enter higher education in Malaysia and to serve as senior public officers. It is a common knowledge in Malaysia that the Public Services Commission is there only to enforce the unseen discriminatory government quotas. Dayaks are bumiputeras, but some bumiputeras are more bumiputera than others (like the story in 'The Animal Farm'). Even if Dayak students are accepted in local public institutions of higher learning, they are only given courses which no one else wants. Hence, they cannot find jobs and this leads to unemployment.
Public services are the most critical part of the government ‘delivery system’ for the government to effect changes. However, if the policy implementers are non-Dayaks, it is natural that their priorities are different. I have seen and confronted several non-Dayak government officers serving in the rural areas who are so indifferent toward the innocent and helpless rural folks.
The state’s natural resources (timber, land, mines etc) which generated billions of ringgit, have been literally controlled by one person who effectively exploits them to maximise returns. This at the same time provides an enormous source of cash for election expenses in order to sustain the ‘divide and rule’ system of governance. Loyal but gullible politicians are given some comforting perks while those whose loyalty are suspect there is enough cash to ensure the demise of their political careers.
If you travel from Miri to Kuching using MAS’ Fokker flights, you will notice the vast amount of state forests being ‘harvested’ until the hills are bald. Where have all these billion of ringgit gone? What does it take for the Dayaks to deserve some share of these billions? If political loyalty is the answer, the Dayaks have demonstrated it since Independence Day. In the last state election, Dayaks showed their undivided loyalty to BN, this despite the Sarawak government’s policy that all land without titles are ‘state lands’. Mind you, approximately 90 percent of Dayak lands are without titles classified as Native Customary Right (NCR) land and Native Customary Land (NCL).
The present PM and his cabinet have promised a 9MP with billions for development. What guarantee is there that these billions will not go to a few political leaders and their cronies? Who will speak for the Dayaks to ensure they get what they rightly deserve as promised by the PM? Do the Dayaks have any credible leaders the likes of Lim Kit Siang, Karpal Singh or Wong Ho Leng?
Yet the most insulting to our intelligence is the fact that there are so-called Dayak political leaders who claim that the land issues, exploitation of timber resources and unfair distribution of state wealth are ‘propaganda of the opposition’. Despite the attempts of several Dayak intellectuals to explain what the state government has done, is doing and going to do, the Dayaks in the longhouses were not convinced. They fell into trap of increase allowances for Tuai Rumahs (longhouse chiefs) intimidation and threats from the BN campaigners (who are mostly Dayak themselves) during the last state election.
People like Jabu Numpang, Mawan Ikom, Jemut Masing and Entulu Belaun all claimed that the government has been fair and sincere in bring Dayaks into mainstream of development. Yet these leaders quarrel and finger point one another. The demise of Pesaka, Snap, PBDS and now probably PRS too can be attributed to the characters of such leaders who put self above party. I cannot be far wrong in saying that some of the billions siphoned out from the state are being used by the powers-that-be to pit these Dayak politicians against one another so as to sustain their mutual hatred.
As a Dayak, I am truly flabbergasted by this system of governance – divide, rule and exploit. Few of my friends are even talking about migrating to another country which is willing to accept the skilled and professionals with free education for their children up to the tertiary level. Wake up my people lest there is nothing left for our children in this country. The nation is gearing itself toward Vision 2020 while we Dayaks are still in the 19th century
By: Singalang Burong
Jun 30, 06 4:23pm
In the aftermath of the Sarawak state election, I am baffled, frustrated and disgusted at how Malaysia, and Sarawak in particular, are being governed. I am a Dayak, born in a longhouse and now with tertiary education. Having worked as a senior government officer and currently working for a multinational company, I have painfully witnessed the systematic erosion of my fundamental heritage and rights by the powers-that-be.
Firstly, let me talk about the denial of our share of development funds and education opportunities especially for the rural population. After 43 years of independence through Malaysia, the Dayaks still are the ones with the highest poverty and illiteracy rate in the country. What is there for us to celebrate when Hari Merdeka comes? We have nothing to cheer about being independent from the British as our livelihoods are no better. We are being ‘re-colonised’ by our very own people?
We are still not ‘merdeka’ from poverty, illiteracy, intimidation and fear from of own government of the day. Our rights to our land are being systematically extinguished, our rivers are severely polluted due to extensive logging, and our rural schools are in such a dilapidated state that our people have no interest in education. Teachers are merely wage earners with no motivation to produce quality students. In areas where the majority are Dayaks, roads, electricity and treated water supply are something that we can only dream of 43 years after independence.
Secondly, let’s talk about our opportunities to enter higher education in Malaysia and to serve as senior public officers. It is a common knowledge in Malaysia that the Public Services Commission is there only to enforce the unseen discriminatory government quotas. Dayaks are bumiputeras, but some bumiputeras are more bumiputera than others (like the story in 'The Animal Farm'). Even if Dayak students are accepted in local public institutions of higher learning, they are only given courses which no one else wants. Hence, they cannot find jobs and this leads to unemployment.
Public services are the most critical part of the government ‘delivery system’ for the government to effect changes. However, if the policy implementers are non-Dayaks, it is natural that their priorities are different. I have seen and confronted several non-Dayak government officers serving in the rural areas who are so indifferent toward the innocent and helpless rural folks.
The state’s natural resources (timber, land, mines etc) which generated billions of ringgit, have been literally controlled by one person who effectively exploits them to maximise returns. This at the same time provides an enormous source of cash for election expenses in order to sustain the ‘divide and rule’ system of governance. Loyal but gullible politicians are given some comforting perks while those whose loyalty are suspect there is enough cash to ensure the demise of their political careers.
If you travel from Miri to Kuching using MAS’ Fokker flights, you will notice the vast amount of state forests being ‘harvested’ until the hills are bald. Where have all these billion of ringgit gone? What does it take for the Dayaks to deserve some share of these billions? If political loyalty is the answer, the Dayaks have demonstrated it since Independence Day. In the last state election, Dayaks showed their undivided loyalty to BN, this despite the Sarawak government’s policy that all land without titles are ‘state lands’. Mind you, approximately 90 percent of Dayak lands are without titles classified as Native Customary Right (NCR) land and Native Customary Land (NCL).
The present PM and his cabinet have promised a 9MP with billions for development. What guarantee is there that these billions will not go to a few political leaders and their cronies? Who will speak for the Dayaks to ensure they get what they rightly deserve as promised by the PM? Do the Dayaks have any credible leaders the likes of Lim Kit Siang, Karpal Singh or Wong Ho Leng?
Yet the most insulting to our intelligence is the fact that there are so-called Dayak political leaders who claim that the land issues, exploitation of timber resources and unfair distribution of state wealth are ‘propaganda of the opposition’. Despite the attempts of several Dayak intellectuals to explain what the state government has done, is doing and going to do, the Dayaks in the longhouses were not convinced. They fell into trap of increase allowances for Tuai Rumahs (longhouse chiefs) intimidation and threats from the BN campaigners (who are mostly Dayak themselves) during the last state election.
People like Jabu Numpang, Mawan Ikom, Jemut Masing and Entulu Belaun all claimed that the government has been fair and sincere in bring Dayaks into mainstream of development. Yet these leaders quarrel and finger point one another. The demise of Pesaka, Snap, PBDS and now probably PRS too can be attributed to the characters of such leaders who put self above party. I cannot be far wrong in saying that some of the billions siphoned out from the state are being used by the powers-that-be to pit these Dayak politicians against one another so as to sustain their mutual hatred.
As a Dayak, I am truly flabbergasted by this system of governance – divide, rule and exploit. Few of my friends are even talking about migrating to another country which is willing to accept the skilled and professionals with free education for their children up to the tertiary level. Wake up my people lest there is nothing left for our children in this country. The nation is gearing itself toward Vision 2020 while we Dayaks are still in the 19th century
Thursday, September 24, 2009
To all my fellow Dayaks out there...
Are we so blind that we could not see...?
Are we so deaf that we could not hear..?
Are we so dumb that we could not speak..?
Are we so helpless, that we just dont care..?
Are we so deaf that we could not hear..?
Are we so dumb that we could not speak..?
Are we so helpless, that we just dont care..?
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