The Malay Printing Press in Penang

INTRODUCTION

There were several newspapers published in the Malay States and outside the Malay States. 29 of these Malay newspapers between 1900 and 1941 were listed in 100 Akhbar Melayu ((2015) by Hamedi Mohd Adnan.

There were at least 8 Malay printing presses in early Penang in the 1900s.

1. Jelutong Press, 555 Jelutong Road in Jelutong

2. Warta Negara Press

3. Sinaran Brothers in Kg Seronok, Bayan Lepas

4. Al-Huda Press

5. C.A. Dabab Company 1925

6. C. Dabab & Company 1926

7. The United Press 1928 in Dato' Kramat

8. Pustaka Ismail

Pustaka Ismail

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JELUTONG PRESS

Jelutong Press was mentioned in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Jelutong Press was owned by Syed Sheikh.

Syed Sheikh in Encyclopedia Britannica.

Sayid Syeikh Al-Hadi (lists publications of 1927-1933)

Jelutong Press occupied a bungalow  in Jelutong, with banana trees in the backyard. The building has been demolished and what is left is a big empty parking  lot, awaiting development for high-rise high-density residences.

SYED SHEIKH AL-HADI

Dr Syed Mohamed bin Alwi Alhady’s (Dr SMA Alhady) grandfather was Syed Sheikh bin Syed Ahmad Hassan al-Hadi, originally from Kampung Hulu in Malacca. Dr SMA Alhady’s father, Syed Alwi al-Hadi, was the eldest son of Syed Sheikh al-Hadi. Dr SMA Alhady was born in his parent's house at 431 Jalan Jelutong, Penang. This house could be this one, a bit hidden behind zinc fence:

Could this be 431 Jalan Jelutong, Penang?

Jelutong Press was established at 555 Jelutong Road in Jelutong. Syed Sheikh Al-Hady had chanelled much of his assets into setting up Jelutong Press. He even mortgaged his house at 410 Jelutong Road to finance his pet project.

The Jelutong Press was managed by three male staff. They were Encik Ismail - the machinist, Mohd Ariff bin Haji Mohd Shariff - the chief clerk as well as accountant, and Encik Arifin Ishak - the marketing and sales manager.

Arifin Ishak was involved in setting up Sahabat Pena (The Pen Friends), whose members subscribed to Saudara, and helped to keep it going. 

Source:

Wazir Jahan Karim. Straits Muslims: Diasporas of the Northern Passage of the Straits of Malacca (2009:178n11).

Jelutong Press at 555 Jelutong Road in Jelutong, Penang, was owned by Syed Sheikh al-Hadi. Photo shows the composing room where the magazine al-Ikhwan and the weekly newspaper Saudara were printed. Standing: Syed Sheikh al-Hadi (in front in dark coat and white pants) and Mohd Tamim bin Sutan Deman. The compositors are seated at the compositor machines.
Photo source: The Real Cry of Syed Shaykh al-Hady (1999: 169)

There are a few old buildings left in Jelutong as it undergoes rapid development.

House in Jalan Jelutong, in front of Syed Sheikh's house (across the road). This house was demolished.

Syed Sheikh bin Syed Ahmad al-Hadi passed away on 20 February 1934 (6 Zulkaedah 1352 Hijrah), aged 67. He did not pass away of brain disease but of heart disease. He is interred at Tanah Perkuburan Masjid Jamek Jelutong in Penang.

Source:
Alijah Gordon. The Real Cry of Syed Shaykh al-Hady (1999: 69)

When he died, the Jelutong Press also dwindled and his house at 410 Jelutong Road was repossessed by his debtors. There are no details of his debtors (possibly chetty) and the repossession of the house ended up being a Chinese temple and is looked after by vegetarian nuns.

Source:
My visit to see the house.

Syed Alwi wrote that the Jelutong Press had ceased during the Second World War. This means that the Jelutong Press continued for another 10 years after its founder passed away, before it finally closed down for good before WWII.

Source:
Alijah Gordon. The Real Cry of Syed Shaykh al-Hady (1999: 80n33)

Why did the Jelutong Press shut down?
The actual reasons for the foreclosure of Jelutong Press is unknown. But I have a gut feeling that the global recession that hit the USA in the 1930s also affected the spare parts, inks and newsprint supplies needed to print the magazines and newspaper. Also the debts grew as usury (riba) usually does. So maybe poor sales and supplies plagued, strangled and finally killed the Jelutong Press, bringing it to eternal stop. It could be also because the Japanese refused printed matter other than Japanese propaganda.

MAJALAH AL-IMAM (1906-)
Shaykh Muhammad Tahir Jalaluddin, together with Sheikh Mohamed Salim al-Kalili, Haji Abbas Mohamed Tahar and Syed Shaykh al-Hady, founded the magazine Majalah al-Imam on 23 July 1906. Later, he contributed writings to Syed Shaykh al-Hady’s magazine al-Ikhwan (1926) and the initially weekly, later biweekly newspaper Saudara (29 September 1928).

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WARTA NEGARA PRESS

The Warta Negara Press HQ was at No 216, Penang Road, Penang.
Warta Negara publisher was Ahmad Jelani.

WARTA (1953-1954) & WARTA NEGARA (1945-1969)

Warta Negara was written in Jawi script and was published by Warta Negara Press in Penang after WW2, beginning 3 September 1945. The newspaper measured 55 cm x 39 cm and had 4-6 printed pages, sometimes more.
http://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Search.aspx?k=warta&d=8

AHMAD JELANI
Ahmad Jelani (Ami Jelani) was Bapak's uncle who lived in Gelugor by Jalan Gelugor (now Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah). Two of Ami Jelani's cousins lived in Banda Hilir, Malacca. Ami Jelani's sister was Hawa Jelani ... she linked to Ami Aziz of Jelutong Timur. Hawa Jelani's daughters are Siti Mariam, Siti Kachik and Siti Hajar bt Mohamad

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SINARAN BROTHERS

There is a more recent Malay printing press at Kampung Seronok, farther up from USM. Kampung Seronok is a tourist village. It may have the leftover parts of the printing press of the old Jelutong Press. I have to ask there some day.

MANSOR SANUSI
Mansor Sanusi (born 1909, Kg Seronok, Bayan Lepas, Penang-died 1974) was a Malay language teacher, printer and publisher. He wrote and published more than 200 books. He owned the printing and publishing firm, Sinaran Brothers.

Many of USM's high quality books are printed by Sinaran Brothers.

Source:
http://penangmalays.com/2014/03/24/mansor-sanusi/

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AL-HUDA PRESS

Al-Huda Press owner was Syeikh Abdullah al-Maghribi Al-Ghadamshi, a Libyan.

SYEIKH ABDULLAH AL-MAGHRIBI AL-GHADAMSHI

He was born in 1892 at Ghadamis, Libya.
He died in  1974 in Libya.
He was an influential businessman and educationist in the first decade of the 20th century.

He taught Arabic, Arabic literature, Fekah and Balaghah at Madrasah al-Mashoor in Penang.
He was the Headmaster of al-Mashoor in 1919.
He owned the printing company, Al-Huda Press
He published his writings Kitab Munir al-Ifham and Kitab Ilmu Balaghah
He printed religious reading materials and newspaper, Sahabat

Source:

http://penangmalays.com/2014/03/28/syeikh-abdullah-al-maghribi-al-ghadamshi/

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(1) C.A. DABAB COMPANY 1925
(2) C. DABAB & COMPANY 1926
(3) THE UNITED PRESS 1928

C.A. Dabab Company was formed by Dabab Haji Muhammad Salleh and Syed Abdul Rahman bin Muhammad al-Habshi in 1925.

He formed a new company C. Dabab & Company in 1926.

He formed The United Press in Dato’ Kramaat in 1928.

His printing companies published books and magazines.

He printed Warta Malaya

DABAB HAJI MUHAMMAD SALLEH
He was born in the early 1900s.
He was a merchant, printer and publisher.
He wrote his first book, Kitab Taman Pengetahuan dan Perjalanan bagi Orang Ramai.
He was also a distributor of perfumery, toiletries and medicated oil.
He formed United Trading Company, a distributor of general goods

Source:
http://penangmalays.com/2014/03/24/dabab-muhammad-salleh/

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External links:
http://www.myjurnal.my/filebank/published_article/22939/028_043.PDF

The Sultanate of Sulu

Where and what is Sulu? Have you ever heard of Sulu?

Sulu 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulu 

Sulu is an autonomous island province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Its capital is Jolo and occupies the middle group of islands of the Sulu Archipelago, between Basilan and Tawi-Tawi. It is home to the historical Sultanate of Sulu. 

The peaceful advent of Islam around 1138 through merchants and traders had a distinct influence on Southeast Asia. The coming of Arabs, Persians and other Muslims paved the way for the arrival of religious missionaries, traders, scholars and travelers to Sulu and Mindanao in the 12th century. 

A landmark born of the social process was the founding of the principality of Buansa Sumatra, who settled there and married the daughter. A decade earlier (1380), Karim-ul-Mahkdum, an Arab religious missionary and learned judge, reinforced the Islamic foundation of Rajah Baguinda’s polity (1390–1460) and that of the Sultanate of Sayid Abubakar, princely scholar from Arabia who married Paramisuli, the daughter of Rajah Baguinda. Sayid Abubakar eventually inherited the rule of Rajah Baguinda, established the Sultanate and became the first Sultan of Sulu. To consolidate his rule, Sayid Abubakar united the local political units under the umbrella of the Sultanate. He brought Sulu, Zamboanga Peninsula, Palawan and Basilan under its aegis. 

The navigational error that landed Ferdinand Magellan to Limasawa brought the Philippines to the awareness of Europe and opened the door to Spanish colonial incursion. The Spaniards introduced Christianity and a political system of church-state dichotomy encountering fierce resistance in the devastating Moro wars from 1578 to 1899. 

After Spain ceded the Philippines to the United States, American forces came to Jolo and ended the 23 years of Spanish military occupation (1876  to 1899). On August 20, Sultan Jamalul Kiram II and Brig. Gen John C. Bates signed the Bates Agreement that continued the gradual emasculation of the Sultanate started by Spain (Treaty of 1878) until its final inertia on March 1915 when the Sultan abdicated his temporal powers in the Carpenter Agreement. The Agreement totally vanished opposition against the civilian government of Gov. Clinton Solidum.
The Department of Mindanao and Sulu under Gov. Carpenter was created by Philippine Commission Act 2309 (1914) and ended on February 5, 1920 by Act of Philippine Legislature No. 2878. The Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was organized and briefly headed by Teofisto Guingona, Sr. With the enactment by the US Congress of the Jones Law (Philippine Autonomy Law) in 1916, ultimate Philippine independence was guaranteed and the Filipinization of public administration began. Sulu, however, had an appointed American governor until 1935 and the Governor General in Manila had a say in Sulu affairs. At any rate, the essence of local governance forged by Rajah Baguinda continued to permeate the ethos of Sulu politics despite centuries of colonial presence. History points to a local government in Sulu that antedates other similar systems in the country. 

Today, Sulu has a locally constituted government under the new leadership of Governor Benjamin T. Loong and is part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
The Tausug dominate the Sulu Archipelago. The Tausug were among the first inhabitants of the Philippines to embrace Islam as a religion and a way of life. Their traditional religio-political structure is the sultanate. The sultan is the head of all ranks. Succession is by election by his staff although patrilineal succession is the ideal. 

The Tausug are referred to as ‘people of the current’, reflective of their close ties to the sea. The handicrafts of Sulu mirror Islamic and Malay influences. Skilled artisans make boats, bladed weapons, bronze and brassware, pis cloth, embroidered textiles, shellcraft, traditional house carvings, and carved wooden grave markers. 

Fishing is the most important industry since the Sulu Sea is one of the richest fishing grounds in the country. The province also has an extensive pearl industry. Pearls are extensively gathered and a pearl farm is established at Marungas Island. The backs of sea turtles are made into beautiful trays and combs. During breaks from fishing, the people build boats and weave mats. Other industries include coffee processing and fruit preservation. - Wikipedia.

Sultanate of Sulu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Sulu

Photo 1

Photo 2

Sultanate of Sulu 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabah 

The Sultanate of Sulu was granted the north-eastern part of the territory as a prize for helping the Sultan of Brunei against his enemies and from then on that part of Borneo was recognised as part of the Sultan of Sulu's sovereignty. In 1878, Baron Von Overbeck, an Austrian partner representing The British North Borneo Company and his British partner Alfred Dent, leased the territory of Sabah. In return, the company was to provide arms to the Sultan to resist the Spaniards and 5,000 Malayan dollars annual rental based on the Mexican dollar's value at that time or its equivalent in gold. This lease was continued until the independence and formation of the Malaysian federation in 1963 together with Singapore, Sarawak and the states of Malaya. As of 2004, the Malaysian Embassy to the Philippines had been paying cession/rental money amounting to US$1,500 per year (about 6,300 Malaysian Ringgits) to the heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu despite Spain and indirectly Sulu renounced all sovereignty according to Article III of Madrid Protocol of 1885. 

On 12 September 1962, during President Diosdado Macapagal's administration, the territory of North Borneo, and the full sovereignty, title and dominion over the territory were ceded by the then reigning Sultan of Sulu, HM Sultan Muhammad Esmail E. Kiram I, to the Republic of the Philippines. The cession effectively gave the Philippine government the full authority to pursue their claim in international courts. The Philippines broke diplomatic relations with Malaysia after the federation had included Sabah in 1963 but probably resumed it unofficially through the Manila Accord. 

In 1968, Ferdinand Marcos was training a team of saboteurs on Corregidor for infiltration into Sabah but instead Marcos double-crossed the saboteurs. This event is known as the Jabidah massacre. Diplomatic ties resumed in 1989 because succeeding Philippine administrations have placed the claim on the backburner in the interest of pursuing cordial economic and security relations with Kuala Lumpur.- Wikipedia.

Miscellaneous

UN Treaty Collection

UN Treaties Photos

Manila Accord 31 July 1963

Radio Malaya

Radio Malaya
Radio dan Televishen Malaysia (RTM)

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Datuk Haji Zainul Alam (5 March 1926-12 December 1991)

• Senior RTM broadcaster in Penang during WW2
• Penang Wireless Party, HQ at Penang Radio Station
• He was a member and the radio announcer for the Malay section, managing the news and song requests. 

Malay radio announcers after WW2:

1. Suffian bin Hashim
2. Ismail bin Ali
3. Inche Mustapha bin Che Ismail
4. Inche Idris bin Ahmad

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Mass Media 1900-1936

Radio in Malaya
- radios were not saleable items in British Malaya
- there were no radio broadcasting station in the 2,000-mile radius of Singapore
- Singapore was a dead spot
- Amateur Wireless Society of British Malaya operated an experimental station in Singapore
- Penang had no broadcasting station
- the Malayan Broadcasting Service (Ltd.) had a 5-year licence
- to erect a main radio station in KL immediately, and 2 relay stations later
- Penang was a free port for radio apparatus
- potential radio customers were limited to 4,000 Europeans and 25,000 wealthy Chinese and Eurasians; the population at the time was 1,250,000.
TSFPMA 31Dec1927 p8

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Send-Off For Malay Announcers
The Straits Times, 3 September 1946, Page 5

Two young Malay radio announcers, Inche Mustapha bin Che Ismail and Inche Idris bin Ahmad Shah, who are going to England early next week to broadcast B.B.C. news in Malay, were given a tea-party by Utusan Melayu at the G. H. Cafe yesterday.

Both Inche Idris and Inche Mustapha are at present Malay announcers with Radio Malaya. They were attached to the R.N.V.R. during the war and broadcast to Malaya over the All-India Radio and also from Ceylon.

Two of their colleagues, Suffian bin Hashim and Ismail bin Ali, who have been with the B.B.C. since the liberation, are returning to Singapore shortly.

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Radio dan TV Malaysia (RTM) had its beginnings in 1946, before the Malayan Independence. Radio Malaya was a big thing before the TV came to Malaysia. I first watched a B/W TV in 1963.

There were many great Malaysians at RTM - Gus Steyn, Alfonso Soliano, Datuk Jimmy Boyle, Tan Sri Dol Ramli, Tan Sri Ahmad Merican, Datuk Johari Salleh, etc. 

Gus Steyn composed patriotic songs for Malaysia.

Alfonso Soliano composed patriotic songs and Negara Ku, the national anthem.

Datuk Jimmy Boyle @ Penang Boy, introduced jazz to Malaysia.

Tan Sri Dol Ramli was a close friend of Datuk Dr Haji Abbas bin Haji Alias, an early Malay doctor, even in their old age.

Tan Sri Ahmad Merican's name was mentioned by his relatives. He was in radio before the Japanese war.

Datuk Johari Salleh composed some songs. His daughter was in my elder sister's class at Malacca Girls' High School at Durian, Daun in Malacca circa 1972-1974.

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External links:

RTM History
Regulations in Malaysia vs Canada
Music Authors' Copyright Protection (MACP) Berhad
Music Program offered by UPM in 2008
Sudirman Arshad
Flora Santos
Ooi Eau Jin

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Photos from Penang Museum

Radio Malaya. Photo from Penang Museum.

Radio Malaya. Photo from Penang Museum.

The Armenians and Jews of Penang

These are from the Penang Museum and my collection.

ARMENIAN

Photo from Penang Museum.

JEWS

A gallery in Penang Museum that displays information about the Jews in Penang

Photo from Penang Museum

Text for the photo above, from Penang Museum. The text explains the origin of the Jews who came to early Penang.

E&O Hotel, Georgetown, Penang

Photo from Penang Museum

Close-up of E&O Hotel. Photo from Penang Museum

The E&O Hotel, Georgetown, Penang. 2012. Photo by me.

The E&O Hotel, Georgetown, Penang. 2012. Photo by me.

Jewish Graves in Penang

All my professors in California and Perth were either Jews or Christians. It is hard to tell the Jews from the Christians because they can be mistaken for Christians. It is not known whether Jews can become Christians and then become Muslims. Jews, Christians and Muslims have similar names but different spellings. Common names are Abdul Rahman, Yahya, Aaron, Jacob, etc.

From what I understand of history, the Dutch East India Company seamen were Jews. They landed in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Malacca. Malacca was Dutch Jew for a long time. Then the British took over from the Dutch and built the churches in Malacca, mostly the Protestant churches. There is no Dutch church as they were Jews. The Dutch Jewish graves should be plenty in Malacca. Today, the mixed Asian Jews are not known as Jews but by another name, some are 'Christians' but have Jewish surnames. However, most of the Jews found in Malaysia are Indians but have Jewish names.

Malaysia forbids Jews from entering into the country as it is an Islamic country. However, the Jews can state 'Christian' for their religion in their passports and visit Malaysia. They can also hold 2 passports - Israel, Iran, USA or UK, and can therefore come to Malaysia.

The Jews consume koshered food. This was aired on Malaysian TV (ASTRO) some time back this year. It was a documentary about the Jews in the Bronx and their livelihood. They wore gloves when handling food at the deli. They worked and owned farms. The one showed was mainly about country life. But we know the Jews are also in academia, banking, military, governments, hoteliers, music industry, etc world wide.

Malaysia hired a very good musician - Gus Steyn, who was a Jew. He worked with Orkestra RTM and composed some of the most beautiful songs played in Malaysia. I remember playing some of his songs on my own piano when I lived in Kelantan between 1969 and 1971. After Gus Steyn (Gustaaf Nicolaas Steyn), we had Alfonso Soliano, who also composed some of the most beautiful songs for Malaysia. In the mid-1970s, there was Irving Berlin in the USA and his beautiful musical scores, which were adapted for the electric organ.

There was still a Jewish community in Penang when I started work at USM in Penang in 1982. When we started the USM medical school in 1979, we had two Jewish lecturers. One was a lecturer in Immunology and the other in Community Medicine. They have both left before the medical school moved to Kelantan in May 1990. The one in Immunology was Prof. Peter Simmons; he already passed away. He was instrumental in setting up the Dept of Immunology for the USM medical school. The other one returned to USA and I don't know whether he is still alive or not. His name is Stephen Wheeler King. Both were very good lecturers.

Gravestone inscriptions point to a lot about our past. Someone wrote on 15 July 2012 to ask about the Jewish graves in Penang. I will help out here at my blog since I have lived in many places including Malacca and Penang. I am familiar with some of the graves but not all the graves.

Jewish Cemetery
Yahudi Road/Jalan Yahudi --> Jalan Zainal Abidin
Georgetwon
Penang

Jewish Cemetery link 1 (has map)

Jewish Cemetery link 2

Jewish Cemetery link 3

Jewish Cemetery link 4 

Jewish Cemetery link 5

Jewish Cemetery link 6

Jewish Cemetery link 7
Jewish Cemetery link 8

Jewish Cemetery link 9 (some links did not work)
Jewish Cemetery link 10 (hotels close to the cemetery)

Google photos of Jewish Cemetery in Georgetown

Other related articles:
Sejarah Yahudi di Malaysia (Malay article)

Gus Steyn songs
Bohemian dance Nr.2 performed in Australia
Norlaila Ayoub links
RTM Konsert Perdana 1974
RTM Konsert Perdana 1975
Malam Ku Bermimpi
Nona Zaman Sekarang

The Widow

This is a blog by a widow. She lost her husband a few years back. I haven't read all of her posts. She writes first-hand. http://deardarl.wordpress.com/

It shows that even after many years, a wife still grieves for the loss of her husband.

We can explain happiness but nobody has ever explained the pains of sorrow and grief that humans go through. 

I know mother cats go through a brief grief when they lose a kitten. But humans grief endlessly. In the case of this woman, she said she could not let go of memories of her deceased husband, she always had thoughts of him in present time, and she refused to move on. What do you think this will lead to in the long run?

Depression usually sets in, and if it not controlled, will eventually lead to the death of the person who greatly mourns a beloved person. In this case the beloved person is her deceased husband.

She has grieved for 2 years now, every minute, every day, every year for 2 years.

In my research on The Early Malay Doctors, there were many cases of such grief. So this phenomenon is real and almost always forgotten, and not looked into by family members. People forget that after death, there is considerable amount of grief of the most severe form.

I feel, the best thing in life is still not to be close or attached to anyone. Stay free of dependence, and also develop a sense of distancing. Keeping a distance is better than so much crying after death. That way when the person closest to us dies, we don't have to go through very severe grief. Of course there will be loneliness, unhappiness, change of moods, etc. So it will be good to deal with that loneliness before extreme grief and depression set in.

As far as I have been observing married couples, spouses die within 2 years of the death of their spouse. Some by 5 years, and some by 10 years. Most die within 10 years. The reasons have never been explained but I feel loneliness and all the negative feelings have a role to play. I don't know but I'm just reading the blogs here and there of people living with extreme grief.

Sireh (Part 2)

Betel leaves are offered to guests when they visit a Malay family.

Fresh betel leaves in a heavy brass serving tray (tepak sireh) for serving to guests. The tepak sireh is available from the main market in Kota Bharu (Pasar Siti Khadijah) for between RM200-RM300.

When I was growing up, almost every elderly woman chewed sireh. Practically everyone chewed sireh. 

Meeeomiin, a 39-year old Myanmarese male, shows his  sireh-stained teeth. Photo courtesy of Ahmad Fuad Haji Morad (Facebook), 13 July 2012.

How Meeeomiin packs his sireh for chewing. Photo courtesy of Ahmad Fuad Haji Morad (Facebook), 13 July 2012.

Now I grow my own sireh plant (it is a vine). The leaves are used for many things by myself and the women in my neighbourhood.

Sireh stamen/flower stalk? What's this part called?

The leaves measure 15 cm long x 9 cm wide.

Betel leaves (daun sireh) being prepared for placing in the tepak sireh, betel serving tray.

Asthma

This is a very touching blog about a man whose wife suffers from asthma. 

http://abil4fauziah.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html

I think a lot of men marry young beautiful girls and for a reason but when the wife's health fails, he is the first to escape and make a new home elsewhere. But not this man. I don't know him. This is the best that I have read about a man who looked after his wife. I only read the first post and looked at the pictures. I cannot read the other posts as they will break my heart.

This blog was brought to my attention by my eldest daughter today, after she asked me a lot of questions about aerosol and a few about asthma. As a mother I tried to answer all her questions as best I could. I will put her questions through this post later. I want to listen to some songs first. We have makan at 11am in the pantry in my dept. Then I have a class session with the postgraduates at 2pm.

AEROSOLS

1. What is aerosol?
2. What are sources of aerosols?
3. When to spray aerosol (Ridsect, etc)?
4. When is it safe to sleep after spraying?
5. Is it safe to spray on plates and dining utensils?
6. Is it safe to eat from plates which have been sprayed?
7. Is fogging safe?
8. Is it safe to sleep in a room immediately after spraying insecticide/fogging?
9. Are there long term effects of insecticide spraying/aerosols?
10. What are the dangers of spraying insecticide (all sorts)?

Life@70+

Life at age 70 is debilitating for some. My mother died at 72 and my father at 77. So I will use those 2 ages to write this post.

Female aged 72

1. Diabetes and insulin
2. Hypertension (HPT)
3. Thyroidectomy; thyroxine for life
4. Vitamin supplement
5. Always asked if she's doing fine healthwise
6. Very quiet. Didn't say much. Quiet most of the time. Lost in space
7. Would relate her dreams of her late mother coming to visit her and calling her to follow to don't know where. Her mother was in white robes
8. Ate normally but very little; took 1-2 tablespoonful of rice and a bit of fish and soup with vegetables
9. Could not take sour fruits; could take sweet papayas
10. Had full and very good dentition till death; didn't eat sweet, sweet stuff or chocolates, etc
11. Stuck to healthy menu British style.
12. Always felt hot (panas) and often took baths
13. Read books and magazine and knitted, her usual hobbies
14. Purchased blankets to keep her children warm (one for each child). Probably lost touch that this world is getting hotter and we don't need blankets.
15. Still cared for the children and grandchildren when they could take care of themselves and her
16. Could put up with hunger despite being diabetic but died of extreme hunger while travelling 250km without stopping to eat. The driver (my brother) didn't know my mother had heart problems. I didn't tell any of my sibs because it didn't cross my mind. My brother didn't stop for food and my mother never complained that she was hungry (being diabetic). She died 1 week after being on insulin.
17. She never complained of anything, rain or shine - she kept her mouth shut about everything. All her life stories, happiness and sorrows died with her.

Male aged 77

1. Excessive perspiration (hot weather in Penang)
2. Loose teeth, painful to eat hard food; only soft foods
3. Ate well but only a little, not as much as before
4. Drank sufficient water but still sweated a lot; adequately hydrated otherwise
5. Lived quietly like a hermit; some friends have died; didn't go out except for food for himself
6. Prayed at home cos he could not take the overhead bridge; too old to cross at the traffic lights cos the junction was too big and he could not cross the road in time before the lights turned red; too tiring to walk the distance to the mosque where he prayed all this while, while living in Penang since 1976; he lived in Leeds before 1976
7. In 2004, at the time of the Asian tsunami, the same year my mother died; he still liked fishing, his boyhood hobby, lifetime hobby. But it was fortunate that he did not go fishing that fateful day - his fishing rod line got entangled and he couldn't fix it in time to go fishing. Else the tsunami would have taken him alive.
8. Scanned all the old photos and compiled them in his Apple laptop.
9. Created a lot of snapshots of Ayat al-Quran to store in his pendrive
10. Browsed old photos and explained them at every opportunity (can be boring for some)
11. Not interested in world affairs or politics when he was previously in politics
12. Never said anything negative. Liked to tell his life stories, never ending stories.
13. Happy as things were; accepted the fact that he was old and going to die
14. Prepared to die happily since he had no property, no assets and no cash to give away; sifar harta
15. No debts cos he bought everything cash and only when he could afford them
16. Already booked the people to wash and prepare him for burial; also prepaid for his burial plot
17. Happy to leave Earth life and enter Barzakh life
18. Happy to die cos the wife already died 5 years prior
19. Not worried, very calm, knew he was going to die after all
20. Refused hospital treatment whatsoever; did not like hospital at all (he was a medic student anyway).

The rain came and the mozzies are back

It has been raining heavily for the past week. The ground is soft. The mosquitoes are back. There are so many mosquitoes now and they sting so hard, that it gives a terrible itch. One landed on my right arm last night as I was typing. I smacked it to death. Thin lizzy GMO mozzies? Sometimes I wonder if they have escaped from someone's specialty lab. Whose? Who would ever want to breed mosquitoes?

There is a 5-in white worm in my kitten's coup. I cannot classify it yet (forgotten). Probably a 'needleworm' but not a tapeworm. I freed all my kittens for the first time. Born Free! Now I don't know how to clean the coup. Will wait for my 'strong' daughter to return from school and clean the messy coup. She usually cleans everything in the porch, including her motorcycle and her car, and the cats too. Everything gets a wash when she sets to work.

My chilli seedlings have been transferred outside the breeding see-through plastic makeshift bottle-pots. These minyak kelapa sawit bottles are good for making my chilli pots when empty. It was my husband's idea so he needn't have to take me to the nursery to buy new plastic pots. I cut the bottles into 2 pieces and make slits in the bottom, then stick both pieces in the soft soil, one with the neck in the soil, the other with the bottom in the soil. Add soil and the seeds. Wait for the seedlings, now it's time to transfer. They appear to grow well this morning when I peeked through my kitchen door. I have never had success transferring the chilli seedlings but this time they all seemed to make it to the new patch of soil, near the pokok kenanga. My husband has complained that I must get rid of all my other taller plants if I want my chilli plants to survive. I want everything to survive! So now I have a mini jungle in my own backyard. How nice! I don't take chilli; they are for my kids and their father. They munch chillies like I munch baby carrots! What are chillies good for? I remember my Chinese friend BC in Perth, we were discussing about capsasic acid and that it reduces blood cholesterol. I didn't like the idea of researching on capsasic acid - give chilli water to the poor rats!

I'm reflecting on the causes of infant and childhood deaths before Merdeka. Why did they die so young? Some as young as the next day after birth. Some from vomiting and diarrhoea. Some from being knocked down when they tried to cross the road. Some from fever (not specified). I'm just wondering.

I remember writing about the deworming program for Coco's biography. The school boys were also treated for other things, including head lice (kutu rambut). I think kutu is here to stay, even today. Treating one head is not sufficient. Treating many heads and even the whole school is still not the answer; what about those at home? In the pasar? In the kampungs? At the playing fields or playgrounds?

Dust mites are another headache. I have heard quite a bit from families and children - they all scratch. I think so too that the carpets everywhere and especially at schools, prayer spaces, homes, etc, they all have dust mites, which thrive on humans. No wonder asthma is rampant. The rainy season makes it worst as the carpets are damp.

The white ants? They have destroyed my mother's house, my grandfather's house, my house, and just about everyone's house everywhere I have visited. I even have neighbours who threw out their kitchen cabinet! I saw one house long ago, it had white ants tracks from the ground up into the roof. Someone even bought the house! The infestation will heighten now that it is the rainy season, and most houses have a cheap wood for the doors and windows, which swell during the rainy season. This is kayu nyatoh versus the hardwood cengal which only appears in rich homes. I use nyatoh for all my 11 doors and 22 windows. The white ants also ate some of my earlier TEMD manuscripts, photos, notes, etc, practically everything except my bed. You can imagine if they start eating my bed; I will wake up the next day only to find myself on the floor! That's how fast white ants eat dead wood. Can't imagine sleeping on a Flintstone bed with a stone pillow. The Chinese used stone pillows and I wonder whether that helps with blood flow to the brain. 

John Locke

This is about John Locke, the author who sold more than a million kindle downloads in 5 months. He's #8 on the Best-Selling Author list. I have not read any of his books, but the book covers are something ... very attractive to the male eyes!

http://www.donovancreed.com/Blog/tabid/105/ID/35/Kindle-Owners-Welcome.aspx

http://www.donovancreed.com/

Rich

Define 'rich'.

1. Having more money than me
2. Having more money than everyone else
3. Having enough money to make choices
4. Having or acquiring a lot of stuff more than you need
5. Having a lot of money and not doing anything
6. Obsession with money; a great need for money
7. The poorest of men
8. The unhappiest people
9. Not reaching a spot or hitting a spot; going nowhere; a journey man
10. Successful in a sense; unsuccessful in another sense
11. Reading only 1 book a year
12. Hated by lots of other people
13. Unappealing to people
14. Going beyond normal reserves
15. Having an invisible bank

With modifications based on the video by Seth Godin, viewed at Author Learning Center.

Golden kidney-shaped cuff-links and making him pee

What's the story about? This story is about kidney transplant in the US and how one man managed to set up his skills into working up an algorithm to put all the potential recipients online in his own office. There were 4 parties involved - himself, the 200+ hospitals that do kidney transplant, the donors and the patients. His company programmed and enlisted all potential kidney donors and recipients, using only codes for the donors and recipients. They they had 30 donors, 30 recipients who all shared 30 kidneys from others. Whenever a male gets a good kidney, he then no longer needs dialysis and he can now pee. The man who started all these wears golden kidney-shaped cuff-links. Would you dare start this?

It must be a feat that nobody would dare to do it in Malaysia.

Kidney transplant Chain 124

Life@60+

I'm not 60 or 60+ yet but I'll jot down what I have read from other blogs. I suppose people either become happier as they grow older, or they become unhappier. Some have dreams realized, others don't and are still struggling. Some are sick with diseases, others are perfectly healthy, minus the usual wear and tear. Life slows down for many. They are able to cope but slowly. They do make new friends and have a circle of close friends but of one kind only. They don't try to get into any relationships because they know life is ending, or almost nearing an end. If they do get into a relationship, they will feel guilty as they know life will certainly end after all. Some just go on living till life ends. I think most people read and still keep reading, whatever attracts the eyes and whatever the heart fancies. Do they marry at 60+? I don't know. Most are grandfathers and grandmothers. Marriage of grandparents are unheard of. Why? What are the real life & health issues at 60+? I suppose a lot of the body functions start to go downhill. Most will have grey or white hair, wear some glasses, tire quite easily, not want to speak or say much, prefer to keep things to themselves, reflect on the past a lot, wished they could turn back time and re-live a better life, do something better, etc. But does life really end at 60+? No. Life goes on at 60+. Life as usual, and business as usual. Why are people worried or more worried when they are 60+? If you are 60 or 60+, you can answer or tell me, what life feels like at 60 or 60+.

Dreams & Jobs

Life's True Purpose

Life Begins at 60 T-shirt

Life@50+

If you are 50+, then it's time to think what will happen in another 50 years. What you can do now (the next best thing to do) is to write a book, on anything you like. Yes, write anything, even a new language, a dictionary or even an encyclopaedia. Ghostwriting looks good.

This is on Life@50+

Freelance Services Directory

Software for writers

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Kunak and the Black Dragon

I had just finished working on Dr Abdul Samad bin Pagak's biography. It took me 2 days to figure out who he was and what he did. Anyway, that's done tonight and I went on to read a thriller. At first I had thought it was a real thing but the end of the page tells it's just fiction. I had believed a Black Dragon really exists. The anticlimax was the statement 'the Black Dragon is Japanese'. At that point I burst into laughter. LOL

I love ships, so this Black Dragon story is good for me.

Try and read it here:

A MEETING WITH THE 'BLACK DRAGON' [Articles + Illustrations]

The Straits Times, 16 November 1952, Page 15

I saw it coming
I saw it berthed
I saw it sailed


THE M.V. KUNAK

I had travelled with my family from Borneo to Collyer Quay in Singapore circa 1967/68/69. When we arrived in Singapore waters, we were required to stay-put till the ship's captain had received the green light from the medical doctor to alight. I was inspected for hair lice, etc. It did take some time before all our health papers were cleared and we were allowed to enter Singapore.

Here's a real ship that I went on and sailed from Jesselton port in Sabah to Collyer Quay in Singapore. This ship couldn't come close to the quay, so it anchored far away from the coast in Singapore. We boarded a small boat to get to Collyer Quay. I was 9/10/11 years old. This is the M.V. Kunak.

This is the M.V. Kunak, an old ocean liner. It was initially owned by the Dutch shipping company, KPM. It was purchased by the Straits Steamship Company in 1960. It was empty when I stepped on board in the late 1960s. I remember this ship coming into Jesselton port to pick me up. It was a great feeling watching this big ship sailing in, to berth at Jesselton port. This must be circa 1967/68/69.

That's all the passengers on M.V. Kunak. There's me somewhere up there on the deck.

That's me with my siblings on M.V. Kunak's gangway. I'm the one holding my skirt down.

Someone walked down the shaky gangway. We were called in. and it was time to sail.

It was goodbye time. I'm the only girl on the deck. My eldest brother is standing next to me. The white man at left was the only other passenger apart from our family. I left my father to continue his work in Sabah while my mother, my siblings and I returned to the Malay Peninsula via Singapore. Then we went to live in Kelantan. I was very ill at this time (with tonsillitis) and I was swallowing antibiotic capsules and vitamin C.

Other links:

http://sabahan.com.my/sejarah-nama-kunak/

A Mother's Loss

I thought to write about how mothers feel when they lose their son(s).

Case 1

I was solo at first, then married, then a mother of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Something happened to #2 and #3; I almost lost my 2 sons. Why? Must be the Grand Plan roll-out. #2 survived his second month and first six months of life under the threat of an almost fatal bout of chickenpox which was contracted one month into maternal confinement. I also contracted chickenpox at the time, and so did #1. We all survived, Alhamdulillah. You wouldn't believe it if I told you that we were living in Perth at the time when we contracted chickenpox. I had never contracted nor seen chickenpox before. This was the first and last and very painful case of chickenpox. I almost went crazy the whole month fighting back to get my little baby boy to live and not die. I would be very devastated today if he had died. I would blame myself endlessly for his 'death'. But he survived. How #2 miraculously survived is a wonder. He still retains the scars of that almost fatal chickenpox (he will be 27 on 13 July 2012). It breaks my heart when he takes protraits and the poxes show up. It is unsightly but what can I do? His mere survival is my joy but the unsightly poxes gives him unhappiness. What can I do about the scars? They must be very deep scars. I have seen worst scars on other bodies.

Case 2
#3 above was born at the Subiaco Women's Hospital after a difficult bout of shoulder dystocia. When he was out he was breathing. Seconds after that, he wasn't, he was dying. Before I passed out, I cried out to the last person out the door to take a look at him cos he was dying. I passed out. The next thing I knew I was in the postnatal ward. My baby son was nowhere to be seen. I cried for I knew my baby son 'had died'. It was a bitter cry for this was the second time I 'had lost a baby son'. I couldn't and I didn't ask and I didn't wash myself. I laid in bed, unmoved by the world around me. 'I had lost my baby son'. I lived like a log for about 3 days, with no sight of my baby son. I didn't know where it was, where he was buried. On the thrird day, they brought a lovely baby to give to 'as a replacement'. I asked the nurse whose baby were they giving me. I asked them who were the baby's parents. I asked them when was the baby born. It took me awhile to accept their answers that that baby they had brought to me is my own baby son. He looks like a Mat Salleh son, so I wasn't too happy and I still thought my own baby son died and they replace that dead baby with this Mat Salleh baby which is not mine. I refused to accept this Mat Salleh baby son. I took a look at its baby hand-band and it had my name but I remember I didn't give birth to a Mat Salleh-looking baby. So I did my Sherlock-Holmes assignment - to find out the identity of the 'new' baby son that the nurses gave me. I asked my husband to follow the baby back to ICU and find out if there were other babies in the ICU, and if there was an Asian-looking baby that is mine. I wanted an Asian-looking baby, not a Mat Salleh-looking baby. I was angry that I was not allowed to wander down to the ICU to check out things for myself. My husband wasn't sure too whether the baby they gave us is truly our or not. We both didn't know what to do. Anyway, my husband still went on to do the Aqiqah for the 'unknown' baby and we took it home and looked after it. We both still have doubts that this may still not be our child. Where is my real son? Where is the real #3? I don't know.

Case 3
Removed.

Case 4
I can't remember the story fully but I will write what I remember. In the days on Islam's rise to become an empire, many young adult males went to war. Some never came back. I can't remember their names off hand. But imagine, how the mothers must have felt when they received news of their deceased sons.

Case 5
Death of sons through air crash. This happened to a good friend of mine. When she wrote about her son's death, I felt like a hard marble stuck in my throat and that marble didn't budge. I could not breathe. She's Penang Chinese, I'm Malacca Peranakan. We both feel the loss, even today. I feel the loss of other mothers' sons, as I had felt such loss while struggling to bring back my 2 sons to life. Even though my 2 sons survived their ordeals, I still feel the loss of sons of other mothers. It must be very painful to lose a son. Now with stop at 5, 3, 2 and 1, I think the loss felt is greater as mothers today have less number of children, and they run a higher risk of losing their son(s). Losing a daughter is different from losing a son.

Case 6
I was reading the pages about the world wars. There was this man who went to war and was in charge of his platoon. When someone in his platoon died, he had to make a note and write home to inform the respective families. Writing down the notes were painful for the officer in-charge but imagine the mothers at home. How did they feel upon receipt of the death news of their young sons? They went away healthy and happy, they sent home a sad news without remains. All news returned as Loss in Action, no private grave, but a mass grave and an expansive graveyard, like at Flanders Field. That's the price we pay for war.

Case 7
Slavery. What is slavery? That is treating humans as animals and lower than animals. Slavery and extreme slavery are evil tools that we have chosen to let the super powers use to treat what we consider as lesser humans. Who is superior who is lesser human? You be the judge and explain yourself. When I watched Roots the movie, I felt disgusted. I stopped watching after the first few episodes. My late father enjoyed the movie and watched all episodes. Bless him. He only liked the main character, not the ill treatment of the slaves. The most notable of the slavery track record was the African slaves mass exodus to North America. When I took US history at California State University in my sophomore years, I got very annoyed about the fates of the African slaves. I hated the conditions mentioned in mu history book. I just hated the entire subject of slavery (all kinds). If you think prostitution is better than slavery, I tell you both are evil means of exploitation. Never give in to prostitution and slavery. Free people from all forms of slavery. When a Black mother loses a son through slavery, she never gets to see her son for good. Is that good or bad? You can ask Mr Obama.

Case 8
Convicts. There are many examples of how super powers traded the convicts as free foreign labour. Imagine you have a beautiful young healthy son, and while your son is happily at work, comes a super power officer and drags him to jail for a crime he did not commit. But super power people are like that. They lack a good mentality of being humane and caring. They use brute force. Then the super power people decide to use the young lad for their own gains. The super power people gathered and shipped the 'convicts' far out to far away lands, so foreign to the 'convicts'. What happens next and at home? Of course the mothers of these falsely wronged lads would be crying their hearts out for want of their only sons, their pride and joy. But do the super power bodies care? No, they are mindless and heartless, worse than a bull. Even a bul opens its 2 eyes to see where it will charge. So the 'convicts' are shipped out for months at sea, only arriving at a foreign port. Worst if they were chained. They were. I looked through some hardcover Orang Putih books, the 'convicts' were in chains. Why? Who's doing wrong actually? The Indian man in loins or the white man in his white uniform and pit hat? Dunia dah nak kiamat?! I think we all need to sit and re-think, about the values in life and how we treat others, those who differ from us, especially in skin colour. If we all had no skin, wouldn't we all have the same coloured flesh? Let's try that. Peel off our skins and dissolve all our body hairs and see if we are any different. Yes, one more thing, pull out our voice-boxes too as that would give away our ethnic type. So now, just bare flesh, no hair, no voice-box, aren't we the same? Yes, we are just the same underneath our skin. And that is what will happen in Akhirat during the Day of Judgement - Allah SWT will leave our body parts to speak for us, not our mouth. We humans are actually no different but yet we treat others like dogs, cats and frogs. So, don't mistreat another person or steal a son from a mother. A mother cries her heart out when she loses herself - she falls down and cries to Allah SWT to have her son back. Don't take anybody's son. Never take a son.

Case 9
The wars today. There are so many wars and battles today. Boys, young men and old men are taken away and made to fight or they are captured, imprisoned, interrogated and in the end terminated by the gunshot to the head or heart. They die a life that is innocent. If they die as innocent beings, who's the culprit? We have read about and heard about all the dirty treatment handed to POWs. Some of the cruels things unimaginable happen to them. Poor souls. Imagine the mothers at home - they cry day and night, wanting their sons back for other useful purposes - till the land, grow food for the family, carry water from the well, harvest the fruits, etc. Give them back their sons. Don't kill the sons for nothing. Their mothers gave birth to them for a reason. Stop killing sons (men for that matter). The best thing we all need to do and have to do is to stop the bulldogs and rotweilers from going to war. They create wars and take the sons while the mothers need the sons. It is wrong to create war today for any reason. Why aren't we stopping the dogs? You know the dogs and you respect the dogs? Dogs need masters, and the masters must be those with sound minds. So now you can decide whether you are a dog or a master. It is better to be a dog master and not a master dog.

Case 10
Drugs, prisons and death row. I often thought about men sent to death row and the final hanging. I lived close to the Henry Gurney School in Banda Hilir when I was a little girl. I was reading about Pudu Jail and some the other jails and when they do hanging - usually after Subuh prayer. It made me sad thinking that after every Subuh prayer, someone was going to be hanged. It is painful to come to terms and know someone was going to be hanged that morning. When I was enjoying my life in San Francisco, I could see Alcatrez prison island from the tram that rolled down at Hyde Park. It felt uneasy thinking of prisoners there but it was defunct at the time, just a tourist stop, but the ugly stories linger. I visited the Tower of London and some other unplaesant prison places during the holidays while waiting to enter graduate school in southern California. I visited some of the prison cells and tried to imagine myself being locked away as the prisoners were in human history. It was nauseating. I went down from the castle to the courtyard where they beheaded prisoners. I had no second thoughts. I told my dad I wanted to return to California. I was out of Britain and flying home to California within days, never wanting to return to Britain. I hate the thought of prisoners being imprisoned in the tower and the final head-chopping thing. Now when they Britons watch Hudud at its best in YouTube, they snarl. Why don't they do the same to British history? Chopping heads is barbaric, isn't it? Hudud is Hukum Allah SWT, so we have to uphold that. I also watched on TV, the beheading of a queen (can't remember which one). It was sad watching a queen being beheaded (reenactment only). When I was doing my PhD in UWA, Perth, I often went to Fremantle for weekend shopping, just to bring the family out and keep boredom under control. We passed by Fremantle prison. The ugly thick mossy walls were enough to turn me off from going nearer to have a close look at what was going on inside. People may be proud of being descendants of prisoners pr POWs but I am sad about prisoners being imprisoned. Nobody should ever be imprisoned. Life and living should always be free, untied and not involving any form of imprisonment.

 

FREE THE SONS

RETURN THE SONS TO THEIR MOTHERS

DON'T TAKE AWAY SONS

SONS BELONG TO THEIR MOMMIES

I DON'T WANT MY SONS TO GO TO WAR, NEVER EVER!

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Maxwell Manuscript 24

It is always a 'Jones' or a 'Doctor Jones' when it comes to historical digs and fact-finding. Why does it always have to be a 'Jones'? Why can't it ever be a 'Mat' or even an 'Awe'? Let's see, someone brought up something interesting from a dull place. Someone went to a place up latitude north and unearthed some unexpected treasures near the GMT line. Guess where that place is?

Back in the last century, there were hardly universities in the British Isles. So where did the British get all the information that they amass today? You guess it right. They went out to find information - they wandered south into Asia and South Asia, and Southeast Asia. We Asians always want to go north!

What did our whiteman brothers discover and keep? They obtained useful information which even our own grannies and grandpas never knew. The British 'knowledge explorers' got a lot information about us that we never knew. But we are lucky that someone went north to find our history. So we have almost solved the origins of one doctor's family - that of Tan Sri Dr Raja Ahmad Noordin bin Raja Shahbuddin bin Raja Dagang bin ??? ..... (this bit is still a mystery). 

The place that stores his families' information is up north but was started in the south. The Royal Asiatic Society was founded by Sir William Jones (I told you it is always a Jones in history) in Calcutta, India on 15 January 1784. Here's the link: 

Royal Asiatic Society

60 Queens Gardens, Bayswater, London

Go to Royal Asiatic Society. 

Go to Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Maxwell Manuscript 24

The family information is contained in Maxwell Manuscript 24. Who was Maxwell? He was Sir George E. Maxwell. How many manuscripts did he write in a lifetime? And why Manuscript 24? Does that mean there are manuscripts 1-23 that contain the stories before #24? Does that mean there are more manuscripts after #24? When will we have time to complete searching for information? It seems endless, endless, endless,....

Maxwell Manuscript 24 at the Royal Asiatic Society

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A nephew of the late Tan Sri Dr Raja Ahmad Noordin, Raja Adley Paris Ishkandar Shah wrote in Facebook to inform that the number for the Maxwell Manuscript should be 24 and not 25 as printed in the book Biography of TEMD. Please make the necessary correction in the book. TQ - 15 January 2013, FAR

Erratum
Maxwell Manuscript 25 should be corrected to Maxwell Manuscript 24.

Penang Islamic Museum (Syed Al-Attas Mansion)

Link 1: Conservation
Link 2: Brochure
Link 3: Details
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Masjid Jamek Gelugor

Map of Penang - Locality: Masjid Jamek Gelugor
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Malay Governors of Penang

Penang had British leaders for a long time. Francis Light was the first Superintendent in 1786. After Merdeka, the governors/Yang DiPertua Negeri were Malay men.

PENANG GOVERNORS

1. Raja Tun Uda Al Haj bin Raja Muhammad, Gabenor, 1957
2. Tun Syed Sheh Shahabuddin, Gabenor, 1967
3. Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah, Gabenor, 1969
4. Tun Haji Sardon bin Haji Jubir, Yang DiPertua Negeri, 1975
5. Tun Datuk Dr Haji Awang bin Hassan, Yang DiPertua Negeri, 1981
6. Tun Tan Sri Datuk (Dr) Haji Hamdan  bin Sheikh Tahir, Yang DiPertua Negeri, 1989
7. Tun Dato' Seri Utama (Dr) Haji Abdul Rahman bin Haji Abbas, Yang DiPertua Negeri, 2001

List taken from: HT Ong. To Heal The Sick, page 188.

Orthopaedic Pioneers

This website contains names of pioneers in orthopaedics:

http://www.medic.ukm.my/sps/department/dep14.html

Other websites:

http://onedaymd.blogspot.com/2012/04/orthopedic-surgeons-national-specialist.html

http://www.medic.ukm.my/laru/OPA.pdf

http://pm10.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html
http://www.moa-home.com/newsletter/BeritaOrtopedikApr07.pdf

Orthopaedic pioneers:

1. Tan Sri Dr Abdul Majid bin Ismail (Coco)
2. Prof. Dr Masbah Omar
3. Dr Shamsuddin Osman Cassim / Dr. Samsudin Osman Cassim, B.Sc.Med, M.D, M.S.Orth (UKMalaysia), / Dr Samsudin Osman Cassim (Gleneagles Hospital KL), grandson of Dr Samsudin bin Kassim / Cassim
4. Prof Dr Saw Aik

Tokoh-Tokoh Dalam Sejarah Malaysia

1978 PSM awards

1978 PSM awards from Agong (Tan Sri)

Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA)
http://www.moa-home.com/history.html