On some mornings, if I'm lucky, I'll be able to find a copy of The Sun lying on the seat in the LRT when I enter. Today was such a morning. And the other sun - the real, big ball-of-gas one - was even out too. In today's edition of The Sun, on page 18, in the U! section (which isn't linked online... yet), there is an article written by Joanna Van, headlined, "The Write Stuff". The gist of the article is this: Ms. Van talks with four college students between the ages of 19 - 22 about the Malaysian Writing Scene. *cue horror theme* These four students's opinion of the local writing scene is that it is almost non-existent, as is voiced by Erin Chong, "Wait? We have a writing scene?" Very observant. Fortunately, all of them agree that there is a problem with Malaysian Writing. They are quick to point their fingers at the culprits: "Censorship!"; "People don't read!"; Narrow-minded teachers!"; "Money-minded parents!...
glad about this ted and will come. it's a great list
ReplyDeleteam worried still about there being too many live lit events on the calendar and lit fatigue setting in.
if raja ahmad is holding this regularly then perhaps i need to scale back readings@seksans.(which i already was thinking of with the poetry slam starting up) can you let me know what the year's calendar is likely to look like?
tried to get to raja ahmad's gallery yesterday to see the malay college exhibition but after an hour and a half in a traffic jam i had to turn back. please let RA and your dad know that at least we tried.
hell btw is not full of flames, it is a bumper to bumper crawl on jalan ampang with a car nearly out of petrol, four fed-up passengers, and a bursting bladder - for all eternity!
Now I use google map-it is much better than before.
ReplyDeleteSharon: Raja Ahmad is planning for this to be a monthly event, but I think it would be a shame for the Seksan Readings to be scaled down...
ReplyDeleteBerisman: Wow! I didn't know they updated Google Maps! That is very useful, thank you for notifying me.
hi ted,
ReplyDeletei have mailed you about your story.
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syarafuddin sulaiman
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