Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Keturunan Ikan Patin, Bersaudara Ular

Assalamualaikum semua? Hari ni apa khabar? Haaaa hari ni aku nak share satu cerita pasal keluarga aku, aku pun baru tau jugak cerita ni, mak cik aku yang cerita, mak cik aku dengar arwah nenek yang cerita. Rugi nya, kalaulah boleh dengar cerita ni dari arwah nenek sendiri, mungkin lagi syok!

Haaaa, dalam keluarga aku, ada pantang, jangan makan ikan patin, yes, ikan patin, tak sure ada nama lain ke tak, tapi memang bahasa melayu nya ikan patin. Ada kat wikipedia. Ni kat bawah ni lah dia rupa ikan patin; Mudah dikenali dengan kepala yang kecil dan leper berbanding badannya yang besar. 

Nenek cakap keluarga kami pantang makan ikan patin...
Mesti nak tau kenapa kan? AHAHAHA. Kejap lagi. Satu lagi pantang keluarga kitorang, yang bapak aku tak cakap pun kat aku, jangan bunuh ular. Pernah sekali ada ular lidi kot kat tangga rumah, aku nak tangkap nak bela tapi ayah kata jangan, lepaskan. And ayah pun aku rasa mungkin tak pernah bunuh ular sebab nenek dah bagitau diorang adik beradik jangan. 

AHAHA okey tiba masanya untuk aku bercerita kisah lama, tak tau lah ia pure history or just some kind of very interesting story to be told, and pass down, but bila aku dengar cerita ni rasa excited sangat! AHAHAHA. 

Nak dijadikan cerita, zaman dulu, my ancestor ni nak kahwin, takda calon. Suatu hari tengah-tengah dia tangkap ikan di sungai camtu, dia dapatlah sekor ikan patin. Tapi ikan patin tu tiba-tiba jadi sorang perempuan. Hendak dijadikan cerita, maka berkahwinlah mereka ni. Dapatlah anak, berapa orang anak aku tak pasti. Tapi suatu hari ni, mereka bergaduh, dalam2 bergaduh, si suami pun kata, 'pulanglah engkau ke tempat asal kau!' Maka dengan sedihnya (mungkin) si perempuan ni pun kembali ke sungai dan jadilah ikan patin kembali. So dari hari tu, keturunan-keturunan dia ni pun dilarang untuk makan ikan patin, bukan diharamkan, hanya dilarang, kerana akan sakitlah kalau dimakan. Arwah nenek dulu memang berkeras jangan makan ikan patin, yang tu memang aku ingat dia pesan kat kitorang. Mungkin sebab pergaduhan tadi lah agaknya. AHAHA. Wallahualam. 

Dan cerita pasal ular pulak, yang ni lebih dekat sedikit dengan timeline nenek aku, moyang ke datuk kepada nenek aku ni dah ada isteri, isteri nya pun dah alhamdulillah mengandung. Samaada anak pertama, atau yang mana, aku pun tak clear sangat, tapi dapatlah anak kembar. Tapi kembar yang sangat pelik. Seorang baby manusia, dan 'seorang' lagi seekor ular hitam. Whoaaaaah. Ape jadahnya kan? Haaa, nak dijadikan cerita, ular yang dilahirkan tadi pun balik ke hutan. Tapi mak cik aku cerita dia sering datang balik nak tengok 'adik-beradik' dia, dan jugak 'keturunan' dia. Yang paling best bila mak cik aku cakap dalam satu gambar nenek kahwin dulu, ada sekor ular hitam kat tingkap dekat dengan pengantin. Orang lain tak kisah, and dia pun tak kacau, katanya nak tengok cucu kahwin camtu. AHAHA. Aku tak jumpa gambar tu lagi, ntah ada lagi ke tidak tak sure. Tapi kat rumah dulu dalam bilik nenek ada banyak gak bekas yang dianyam dari buluh yang macam kalau korang pernah nampak orang India main seruling and ular tedung slow2 naik dari bekas tu. Lebih kurang macam tulah bekasnya. Perghhh. Mistik kan?

Aku tak brapa pernah share ngan orang kot, tapi aku suka ular, sebab diorang panjang and comel je. AHAHA. Lagillah kalau yang warna cantik. Ular tedung tu nampak cam ganas, tapi bila dia bukak 'tedung' dia tu aku rasa cam cool gila! AHAHA. Ular yang sangat cool kot. Kawan aku kat UIA ada dua orang bela ball phyton, lagilah comel, ular sawa jenis kecil, excited plak tengok macam tengok gajah saiz cam kucing. AHAHAHA. 

Kalau dulu aku rasa kalau masok Hogwarts mesti nak masok Griffindor (perghhhh...) tapi sekarang mungkin aku tak kisah kalau masok Slytherin...AHAHAHAHA. Okay, semangat Harry Potter dah naik. AHAHA. Tapi itulah, tapi disebalik some cerita-cerita lama, mungkin ada kebenarannya. Kita tak tau kan? Bukan ada mesin masa nak siasat balik apa berlaku zaman dulu-dulu. Cerita ni pun nasib baik mak cik aku ceritakan kat aku. Sebab bapak tak pernah cerita kat kitorang. So aku balik rumah nanti aku nak tanyalah bapak aku ada ke tak nenek ceritakan kat dia. Serius excited weh!

Long lost relative???

p/s- jangan lah tuduh aku kolot ke, tak betul ke lepas ni. AHAHAHA. ni kan cerita aje. ;P 

Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Legends


There are things I found interesting enough but not so much I wanted to pursue, believe it or not, I love legends. I came to think, there are something behind those legends because without it, stories cannot be made. Bak kata pepatah Melayu, kalau tak ada angin, masakan pokok bergoyang. Hahaha. Arthurian legend is one of the things i found interesting, when I got home, I find myself looking at the TV schedule to see if anything about King Arthur will be aired. I was still in primary school when I was introduced to Arthur, and of course Merlin and the famous Camelot. It's still interesting although some findings revealed by historical researcher were bound to clash! I've watched a documentary from National Geographic about Arthur, there are three possible 'Arthurs' that they came down with. But then, as they try to proved whose Arthur, they went back to nobody. It could be a tale tale, like fairy tales to us, Arthur was just a fairy tale for those people in the pa
st. He was introduced in old book like 'Historia Regum Brittaniae' or History of the Kings of Britain'. Some find them in literature. The characters carved through many old historical facts gathers from poems, inscription, and books. Some argues it was just another legend, but Arthur was the most famous legend in Europe. Some says 'Arthur' was just a name made up referring to some else--as gallant, as kind, as just as he is in the legend.
The Legendary Excalibur, artist impression only :D

Well of course this is not my attempt to bring though new insights. Haha, I'm just saying, I love this legend. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Camelot, Excalibur, Lake of Avalon, Albion, and some names you might know like Sir Lancelot or Guinevere or Morgan Le Fay or Mordred, Merlin and some you might not know like Elyan, Percival and Gwaine.

If you follow the TV series 'Merlin', you'll find that some facts are jumbled up. But it's still fun to see but don't get confuse, the TV series was just made to suit what's best for the ratings. Haha! It's not a historical documentary, it's a TV show so don't get made with that.

It's not that I'm not interested in Malay legends like Mahsuri, and maybe Puteri Santubong and Puteri Sejinjang legend, who knows what we can find right? But how many are there willing to sacrifice their time to dig deep into these legends? Unlike the Western people, we Malaysian couldn't care less to know why the legend come about. That's why our history class is so boring that I am always sleepy or drawing when my teacher taught History in front of the class. So boring.

That's all people!

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