Author: Ross Rozani
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543748864
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
The spirit realm is just like a fantasy world, as spirits are invisible to the eyes and impossible to prove their existence. The only guide we have is from religious scriptures. The acceptance is very much dependent on the strength of faith of the one who’s seeking them. Experiences are often rebuked or circumvented, and that is how we lose the opportunity to understand the unseen’s existence. When belief and science collide, we struggle and start taking sides based on the only knowledge we have at the time and life goes on as if nothing else matters. Age is a factor that reminds us that we are mortal and will inevitably cease to be one day. Only then do we realize that we have a double life to lead, which is the physical and the spiritual life. That is when we appreciate that we do have a spiritual life that we should take care of. To unravel the mystery of the spirit world is not an easy task; it requires serious dedication and a lot of passion to eliminate baseless hearsay. Understanding and appreciation of the spiritual world and their activities are delicate, and only the strength of faith can bestow these upon us.
Spirits Realm
Author: Ross Rozani
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543748864
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
The spirit realm is just like a fantasy world, as spirits are invisible to the eyes and impossible to prove their existence. The only guide we have is from religious scriptures. The acceptance is very much dependent on the strength of faith of the one who’s seeking them. Experiences are often rebuked or circumvented, and that is how we lose the opportunity to understand the unseen’s existence. When belief and science collide, we struggle and start taking sides based on the only knowledge we have at the time and life goes on as if nothing else matters. Age is a factor that reminds us that we are mortal and will inevitably cease to be one day. Only then do we realize that we have a double life to lead, which is the physical and the spiritual life. That is when we appreciate that we do have a spiritual life that we should take care of. To unravel the mystery of the spirit world is not an easy task; it requires serious dedication and a lot of passion to eliminate baseless hearsay. Understanding and appreciation of the spiritual world and their activities are delicate, and only the strength of faith can bestow these upon us.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543748864
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
The spirit realm is just like a fantasy world, as spirits are invisible to the eyes and impossible to prove their existence. The only guide we have is from religious scriptures. The acceptance is very much dependent on the strength of faith of the one who’s seeking them. Experiences are often rebuked or circumvented, and that is how we lose the opportunity to understand the unseen’s existence. When belief and science collide, we struggle and start taking sides based on the only knowledge we have at the time and life goes on as if nothing else matters. Age is a factor that reminds us that we are mortal and will inevitably cease to be one day. Only then do we realize that we have a double life to lead, which is the physical and the spiritual life. That is when we appreciate that we do have a spiritual life that we should take care of. To unravel the mystery of the spirit world is not an easy task; it requires serious dedication and a lot of passion to eliminate baseless hearsay. Understanding and appreciation of the spiritual world and their activities are delicate, and only the strength of faith can bestow these upon us.
Boria
Author: Rahmah Bujang
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian
ISBN: 9971988585
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Boria is a popular form of Penang Malay theatre performed at weddings and other social functions. There are two parts a farcical comic sketch, and a song and dance sequence. This study covers some of the sketches, songs, audience reaction, and the actors and performers.
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian
ISBN: 9971988585
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Boria is a popular form of Penang Malay theatre performed at weddings and other social functions. There are two parts a farcical comic sketch, and a song and dance sequence. This study covers some of the sketches, songs, audience reaction, and the actors and performers.
LAST BREATH
Author: Tunku Halim
Publisher: Buku Fixi
ISBN: 9670750350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Dolobs are real. They are a despicable race of unknown origin, whose skin color is “darker than the Indians and lighter than the Chinese”. Tan Sri Ismail Ismail aims to become Malaysia’s richest man. Like other locals, he hates the Dolobs. One day, he fires his office tea lady, Lani. In revenge, Lani, with the help of a female shaman, places a curse on him. He suffers a stroke but survives only because he is building a dam in the valley where the shaman lives. She wants him to delay the dam’s construction. The tycoon agrees, but on one condition: she must kill Lani. To ensure he carries out his promise, the shaman secretly lures his jewelry-obsessed wife and two sons to the valley. Accompanying them are her handsome driver, a stockbroker and his spirit girlfriend. Last Breath serves alternate history, magic realism and gothic spooks with a healthy dollop of satire. (Buku Fixi) (Fixi Novo)
Publisher: Buku Fixi
ISBN: 9670750350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Dolobs are real. They are a despicable race of unknown origin, whose skin color is “darker than the Indians and lighter than the Chinese”. Tan Sri Ismail Ismail aims to become Malaysia’s richest man. Like other locals, he hates the Dolobs. One day, he fires his office tea lady, Lani. In revenge, Lani, with the help of a female shaman, places a curse on him. He suffers a stroke but survives only because he is building a dam in the valley where the shaman lives. She wants him to delay the dam’s construction. The tycoon agrees, but on one condition: she must kill Lani. To ensure he carries out his promise, the shaman secretly lures his jewelry-obsessed wife and two sons to the valley. Accompanying them are her handsome driver, a stockbroker and his spirit girlfriend. Last Breath serves alternate history, magic realism and gothic spooks with a healthy dollop of satire. (Buku Fixi) (Fixi Novo)
Wives and Midwives
Author: Carol Laderman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520343034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In this widely-praised study, Carol Laderman provides a vivid picture of the daily life of rural Malays as she focuses on their dietary practices and the ritual and medical aspects of childbirth procedures. Apprenticed to a village midwife and a local shaman, she was able to observe a traditional culture adapting to modern practices.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520343034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In this widely-praised study, Carol Laderman provides a vivid picture of the daily life of rural Malays as she focuses on their dietary practices and the ritual and medical aspects of childbirth procedures. Apprenticed to a village midwife and a local shaman, she was able to observe a traditional culture adapting to modern practices.
Legends of the Dragonfly
Author: Vincent Hancock
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728356733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
On discovering the tragic news that his worst fears have been realized by the sudden sinking of his MTB boat, ‘The Wilful Lady’ and the loss of all her crew at sea, Rex our intrepid adventurer decides to forge a new life for himself as a soldier of fortune. This was not to be as the tide of war was coming back again to Malaya but this time the enemy of my enemy is no longer my friend. An eight thousand strong well trained and equipped communist terrorist insurgency had begun with the murders of British rubber plantation owners and rubber tappers alike. Rex is coerced into working for the British once again despite his objections. To make matters worse, the terrorist who became known to the locals as ‘bandits’ were financially well supported by the Communist Party of Malaya with an active membership of tens of thousands of civilians predominantly Chinese squatters and displaced citizenry. Only this time Rex our protagonist would take up the role of a European Police Sergeant working for the Federation of Malaya Police Force. Before his war was over, Rex will have made new friends and face daring challenges that would change his world.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728356733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
On discovering the tragic news that his worst fears have been realized by the sudden sinking of his MTB boat, ‘The Wilful Lady’ and the loss of all her crew at sea, Rex our intrepid adventurer decides to forge a new life for himself as a soldier of fortune. This was not to be as the tide of war was coming back again to Malaya but this time the enemy of my enemy is no longer my friend. An eight thousand strong well trained and equipped communist terrorist insurgency had begun with the murders of British rubber plantation owners and rubber tappers alike. Rex is coerced into working for the British once again despite his objections. To make matters worse, the terrorist who became known to the locals as ‘bandits’ were financially well supported by the Communist Party of Malaya with an active membership of tens of thousands of civilians predominantly Chinese squatters and displaced citizenry. Only this time Rex our protagonist would take up the role of a European Police Sergeant working for the Federation of Malaya Police Force. Before his war was over, Rex will have made new friends and face daring challenges that would change his world.
Beyond Belief
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307401456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith, and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of these converted countries? How do the converted peoples, non-Arabs, view their past - and their future? In a follow-up to Among the Believers, his classic account of his travels through these countries, V. S. Naipaul returns after seventeen years to find out how and what the converted preach. In Indonesia he finds a pastoral people who have lost their history through a confluence of Islam and technology. In Iran he discovers a religious tyranny as oppressive as the secular one of the Shah, and he meets people weary of the religious rules that govern every aspect of their lives. Pakistan - in a tragic realization of a Muslim re-creation fantasy - inherited blood feuds, rotting palaces, antique cruelty; then President Zia installed religious terror with $100 million of Saudi money. In Malaysia, the Muslim Youth organization is alive and growing, and the people are mentally, physically, and geographically torn between two worlds, struggling to live the impossible dream of a true faith born out of a spiritual vacancy. A startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon, Beyond Belief confirms the author's reputation as a masterly observer, a "finder-out" of stories, as well as a magnificent teller of them.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307401456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith, and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of these converted countries? How do the converted peoples, non-Arabs, view their past - and their future? In a follow-up to Among the Believers, his classic account of his travels through these countries, V. S. Naipaul returns after seventeen years to find out how and what the converted preach. In Indonesia he finds a pastoral people who have lost their history through a confluence of Islam and technology. In Iran he discovers a religious tyranny as oppressive as the secular one of the Shah, and he meets people weary of the religious rules that govern every aspect of their lives. Pakistan - in a tragic realization of a Muslim re-creation fantasy - inherited blood feuds, rotting palaces, antique cruelty; then President Zia installed religious terror with $100 million of Saudi money. In Malaysia, the Muslim Youth organization is alive and growing, and the people are mentally, physically, and geographically torn between two worlds, struggling to live the impossible dream of a true faith born out of a spiritual vacancy. A startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon, Beyond Belief confirms the author's reputation as a masterly observer, a "finder-out" of stories, as well as a magnificent teller of them.
Panggung Semar
Author: Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482830256
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Although stretching back into the unwritten and often mythic past, traditional Malay performing arts have, until recent times, been almost totally neglected. In recent years, the subject has begun to attract the serious scholarly interest it deserves. Such attention is timely, for the principal theatre genres, including Mak Yong, Wayang Kulit and the comparatively modern Bangsawan, have begun to suffer decline. Indeed, many of them are on the verge of extinction and, with time, will come the loss of an important facet of the native Malay genius. This volume by an acknowledged expert on Malaysian theatre, Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, is a pioneering work on the subject, an invaluable contribution to Malay cultural studies. It discusses theatre from the perspectives of history, performance principles, functions and problems that have contributed to the decline of traditional performing arts in Malaysia. Also included is a chapter on Semangat, the Malay concept of soul, a seminal belief whose understanding allows for a deeper appreciation of Malay theatre and its role in traditional society. A vital forerunner of several books on the traditional performing arts and cultural traditions of the Malays, this volume is a landmark in cultural research by a Malaysian scholar.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482830256
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Although stretching back into the unwritten and often mythic past, traditional Malay performing arts have, until recent times, been almost totally neglected. In recent years, the subject has begun to attract the serious scholarly interest it deserves. Such attention is timely, for the principal theatre genres, including Mak Yong, Wayang Kulit and the comparatively modern Bangsawan, have begun to suffer decline. Indeed, many of them are on the verge of extinction and, with time, will come the loss of an important facet of the native Malay genius. This volume by an acknowledged expert on Malaysian theatre, Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, is a pioneering work on the subject, an invaluable contribution to Malay cultural studies. It discusses theatre from the perspectives of history, performance principles, functions and problems that have contributed to the decline of traditional performing arts in Malaysia. Also included is a chapter on Semangat, the Malay concept of soul, a seminal belief whose understanding allows for a deeper appreciation of Malay theatre and its role in traditional society. A vital forerunner of several books on the traditional performing arts and cultural traditions of the Malays, this volume is a landmark in cultural research by a Malaysian scholar.
Original Wisdom
Author: Robert Wolff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594776717
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
• Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. • Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. • Shows how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's original people. Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi--pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic--live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people--as do many other aboriginal groups--possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day. Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594776717
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
• Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. • Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. • Shows how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's original people. Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi--pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic--live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people--as do many other aboriginal groups--possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day. Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.
Red Star Over Malaya
Author: Cheah Boon Kheng
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 997169736X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "e;Malayans"e; with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards towards Malaya and stake political claims, leading inevitably to a political contest with the Malays. As the country advanced towards nationhood and self-government, there was tension between traditional loyalties to the Malay rulers and the states, or to ancestral homelands elsewhere, and the need to cultivate an enduring loyalty to Malaya on the part of those who would make their home there in future. As Japanese forces withdrew from the countryside, the Chinese guerrillas of the communist-led resistance movement, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), emerged from the jungle and took control of some 70 per cent of the country's smaller towns and villages, seriously alarming the Malay population. When the British Military Administration sought to regain control of these liberated areas, the ensuing conflict set the tone for future political conflicts and marked a crucial stage in the history of Malaya. Based on extensive archival research, Red Star Over Malaya provides a riveting account of the way the Japanese occupation reshaped colonial Malaya, and of the tension-filled months that followed Japan's surrender. This book is fundamental to an understanding of social and political developments in Malaysia during the second half of the 20th century.
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 997169736X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "e;Malayans"e; with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards towards Malaya and stake political claims, leading inevitably to a political contest with the Malays. As the country advanced towards nationhood and self-government, there was tension between traditional loyalties to the Malay rulers and the states, or to ancestral homelands elsewhere, and the need to cultivate an enduring loyalty to Malaya on the part of those who would make their home there in future. As Japanese forces withdrew from the countryside, the Chinese guerrillas of the communist-led resistance movement, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), emerged from the jungle and took control of some 70 per cent of the country's smaller towns and villages, seriously alarming the Malay population. When the British Military Administration sought to regain control of these liberated areas, the ensuing conflict set the tone for future political conflicts and marked a crucial stage in the history of Malaya. Based on extensive archival research, Red Star Over Malaya provides a riveting account of the way the Japanese occupation reshaped colonial Malaya, and of the tension-filled months that followed Japan's surrender. This book is fundamental to an understanding of social and political developments in Malaysia during the second half of the 20th century.
Chasing the Dragon
Author: John D. Greenwood
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 191204921X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Chasing the Dragon is volume two in the Singapore Saga, a series of historical fiction that spans the first 100 years of Singapore, and follows Forbidden Hill.
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 191204921X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Chasing the Dragon is volume two in the Singapore Saga, a series of historical fiction that spans the first 100 years of Singapore, and follows Forbidden Hill.