Ngalakar Kade Kupi

Salamat batamu sabayaatn diri', adik-baradik, sakamarukatn, sakarayungan, sasuku-sakat diri' ngan sabinuaan.

Angat lalu rasa'e ari nyian sampe ana' babaju duduk ngadapik air kupi. Damia ang maok ditulisa' makhe pakalakaratn ngan paredongan sabayaatn diri' auk. Aku sabanare coba-coba bah nulis makhe bahasa diri' Salako, baajar bah. Kalo maok diri' paredongan gaunange tantang tulisatn bahasa diri' Salako nyian, diri' kana duduk samejaatn sacara taratur (formal) baruk muih jaji karajaan jukut ja'ia.

Ikut kajian urakng-urakng ang pakar bahasa ngan linguitik, bahasa Salako, Ahe, Kanayatn koa sabanare tagolong damp kalompok bahasa "Malayic Dayak" atopun sabage bahasa asal rumpun bahasa laut ang dimakhe ari nyian. Aku rasa cukup bangga lalu sabab ada ugak asal-usul bangsa diri' ang dapat diri' ngakok damp nagari diri' nyian.

Damp diri' baredokng ngan ngalakar nyian, kalo ang sidi diri' maok ngakok asal-usul bahasa diri' ang paling sesuai sabage bahasa asal rumpun bahasa laut di nusantara nyian, diri' kanalah sabanare ngangkatatn bahasa diri' nyian, patama-patama'e tulisatn ang bastatus saragam ang diri' makhe di saluruh binua diri' ang ada di Londok koa...auk jama'e kek?

Udah dohok....maok barangkat ugak sakajap, batamu agik diri' sambel nyocok kupi mantak di samikh nyian.

Ahai Naremang ngan Ngarege ku nyian bala SALAKO'a

Ooooooo aiiiiiiii.....siakng maam, ampat di dini ari sampe ka patakng utatn gaunange de, ana' ugak batamu. Antah kamaya'atnik tohe sisak-sisak  nyian. Dah puas rasa'e bagagok, ana' ugak namu. Abis udah siganap utan ku ngaimak, tapi bah ana' ugak de. Sige-sige'e pun ana' ugak. Koa susahe je kitak'e kalo karaja ngarege ngan naremang nyian, bagagok sisak-sisak ngan sige-sige dangan, kalo nasib bato adalah namu, kalo ana' puakng kapopoknganlah jaji'e de.....

Udah patakng lalu utan de, puakng bakakap unang nyian. Koalah bodo ku sandirik ugak gaunange de, ba'ikh babahata cholop ta'i. Auk jamaya' bah, tauk rampuh ajak auk.....bakakap pun bakakp lah, asal namu maraga sak puakng. Parut pun dah bakareyok lalu nyian,....kaparatn. Ampus taiyamp kahe nabanan amok sak makatn tangahari ajak...saepetatn  balaok samba ngan ikatn karikng gonjeng ajak.

Nang kapak lalu rasa'e paha ku nyian, apak paha agik abis ba'apakatni'. Sakit ngan padih lalu rasa'e. Rangit pun mangkak kajar nangungi' tarenyek....eeeee payah lalu jai'ia. Maok golong ngak rokok, timako pun dah kaabisatn nyian. Gangokng pun dah tawar lalu.....aik ku pun dah abis.Susah.....

Lalu ka jaramik agik nyian, bapadihatni' angan nyian abis kana se'et daukng amakng...mae ana'...ngarampek lalu nyian, abis saganap tungur di ngalantaki'. Beberku pun badoyo de...kana panter bala anak-anak kayu di jaramik nyian. Nasib bah mataku nyian masih tarakng, dapatlah ugak medo-medoi' rampekatn-rampekatn dangan ang bagagok mangala di jaramik nyian.

Bukatn nya dameiya gaunange, gaik ugak bah basorakng-sorakng bajaatn utatn dah ramang-ramang ja'ia. Hehehe...nyaramang ugak ba bulu de nangar bunyi-bunyi jukut antah barantah koa....ditamahi' ngan bayang-bayang segenak kayu masa ramang-ramang ja'iatn...uuuu maok batalambak oooo....

kuuuurrrrak sumangate..ame kau layo ayap....dah ngaramus ka rumah aku.

Kompokng Urakng Asal Salako ( Indigenious Salako People Orchard )

It has existed for 100 years or more. It is a place where the indingenious people planted their everlasting fruits tree for generations to benefict from it. But will it be there for ever as the emerging modern development creep in nearer and faster to the society. When ever I returned home to my "kampokng" or village, I will walked around  my family orchards admiring the big and tall fruit trees like the durians, angkabakng, the langsat, the cempedak (a kind of jack fruits variety) and lots more growing closely together. Most of the fruits trees that existed in the orchards have been here for 3 generations aready, that is almost 100 years already.

One of the Ankabakng Trees at our family orchards

In todays modern world, I dont know if this type of orchards which belong to the indingenous people or orang asal will survived the ever triving development of modern world? Beside that, do the new generations of educated indigenous people or the orang asal have the will to preserved this lush green orchards, or will they themselves will develop it with a better development for material gains, and the worst thing is wheather the goverment will take it and used it for development which will make this orchards gone forever?

Most of the angkabakng and the durians trees

around the orchards are more or less 100 years old already.

I am worry of this uncertainities surounding this orchards. To the goverment agencies, this type of orchards is not productive and a waste of land. But, as we know this is the heritage of the orang asal or the indigenous people land. It should stay as it is. As a naive person view, we ourselves should starts consulting  the goverment agencies of how to preserved this heritage of ours and make an effort to educate ourselves to maintains this type of orchards so that it could benefict us.

A small river running throught my family orchard.

A snap shot one butterfly flying freely around the orchard.

Durian ( Genus Durio of the Malvaceae family or Durionaceae)

"King of Fruits" or Durian ( Salako langauge: Duriatn) is a local fruits in Borneo Island. Sciencetificaly it is call Genus Durio of the Malvaceae Family or Durionaceae. Today (12.2.2010), around 6.00pm, after school I wents to the "Pasar Malam" or Night markets to buy some grilled fish for dinner. While rooming around I stop at one of the fruits market and here I am attract to buy 3 very big durian fruit. What attracted me to bought the durian not because of the nice and wonderful taste of this fruits, but for the seeds. To me, the durians is extra ordinary big and it is a local variety which is planted in the mountains of the Padawan district in Kuching, Sarawak. It's big, really big and from the seller I was made to understand that this durian existed more than 100 years old already, which is planted by the seller great grand parents. Here is the picture of the durians;

1) The three durians from three different trees.

2) This durian has a long, deep and sharp torny and it's weight is almost 8 - 10 kg.

3) This durian has short, shallow torny looks and it's weight between 8 - 10 kg.

4) This durian has the shallower torny, and it's weight around 6 - 8 kg.

The flesh of this durian is also big and fleshy. However, the taste is a little bit bitter and not so sweet as ordinary size durians. It is also quite crunchy, not like ordinary size durians which has a sticky type of flesh. Its flesh color is creamy yellow. For ordinary person like me, just one of the flesh is enough to fill up the stomach, and two,...I will surely can't finish it.

5) This is the flesh of the durian which has the shallower torny. The flesh is big.....

6) The close-up poto of the flesh...

What a life...can it last?

27.1.2010-Tuesday
Morning:
Wake-up : 0600
Send Children to school: 0645 ( to and fro about 30 minutes )
School Athletics Training: 0800 - 1000

Noon to Late Evening:
1130: Lunch
1230: Teacher on duty of the weeks for gathering students in between morning session end and afternoon
          session starts.
1245 : School Yearly Sports Meet Meeting ( Finish at 1425 )
1435 : Send my children home
1500: Going to Sports Supplier to order miscellameous  for the school sport day and 10 competition hurdle
          for the school athletes training programmed.
1530 : School athletics  training for the morning session students ( the main progression parts )
1600 to 1705 : PE class
1740 to 1820: Sit-in for classes without reachers
1830 : Jotting comments about the school situations of the day in the afternoon sessions reports books....
1845 : Drive home after seeing all students are home....
1930 : Reach home after going through traffic jams and stopping at the Supermarkets....my stomach "hell" it
           started to sing because I'm really hungry...
2000: Have a light dinner so that it won't upset my stomach....it's hurt...
2010 : Washing myself with warm water using the water heater in the bathroom....
2030 : Just...then I manage to settle down a bit by browsing the internet reading news...
2100 : Hope to starts filling the Participating Form for the Inter-house Athletics Meets....what a day...today is the due date....hacks can't get enough helps from a naive colleague about sports, can't blame him....temporary teacher too...
???? : When can I finish my works....don't know

My energy is drain. That is a PE teacher, a school athletics coach, the school technical athletics advisor, a dicipline teacher, and the School Sports Secretary work load for the day........dam it...I'm trying to cope-up my life..... The questions is...how about my degree course work? How can I balance my time to do all the works....Oh God I pray for help and guidences so that I won't become crazy.....

Going home empty stomach....

After church today (24.1.2010), around 6.30pm, I bring my family to a nice restaurant in one of a big Supermarket in town. The reason is to celebrate my daughter birthday. Unfortunately I bring my family to wrong restaurant and its really leaving me cursing ....it is sin though.

It all started when we choose one restaurant and it's clean and nice. When my family sit down, we were given a menu. That's all. Around 10 minutes or more waiting for a waiter to come but none appear.Then my spouse wave her hands to called a waiter, and the waiter came and take our order.

While jotting our order, I asked how long will it take for the foods we order to be ready. The answer is, "we doesn't have enough hands going around". That surprise me a lot, especially for a good looking restaurant. What a shame to the restaurant "brand" name.

30 minutes later, our foods served to us, but not the whole orders.....mine, a simple "nasi kari". As my family eats their foods, until they nearly  finish, my own order still doesn't arrived., even my simple "kopi o". What a "shit" type of services it is....although we remained the waiter many times though. 

My patient run out. I just walked out leaving my family finishing their dinner, and as I walked out, I remained my spouse just pay what they are serve only. I notice that some customer walked out without having their order taken too......Then, when my family have finished their dinner, my order arrived at last (hahaha...maybe they order it from overseas), surprise too....two plates of "nasi kari" coming instead of one. We just said we don't want it any more and we only paid the order that is served earlier. The waiter seems to get upset because after explaining we just walked out. One thing though...the chicken curry that they served is directly from a canned chicken curry which they heated before they served it. Wow.....what a menu....

Our order is simple that is 5 roasted chicken rice, 2 chicken curry rice, 4 warm milo drinks, 2 ice milo and a "kopi o". First arrived 4 roasted chicken rice, and 1 chicken curry rice. About 10 minutes later, then arrived another 1 roasted chicken rice. Fews minutes later 4 warm milo drinks and then 2 ice milo.......thats all. My family finished their dinner and my spouse in the counter paying....then another 2 chicken curry rice appear, and still no "kopi o".....hahahaha...nice way to served customers...and be happy....The cost minus 1 chicken curry rice and a "kopi o" is RM54.80... Frankly that will be the first and no more to that restaurant...........it services is so bad that I give -0.00 out of ten. What a "SHIT".....

Aku Hanya Pemerhati......Budaya Dunia Kita Malaysia

Aku tetap aku. Aku suka "naremang" atau"ngarege" (mencari sisa-sisa). Cara aku bercakap dan mengkritik selalunya tidak sesiapa akan angguk bila mendengarnya....senyap dan diam sahaja. Aku jarang ada respon senyuman di bibir, aku berjalan laju tanpa memperdulikan sekelilingku. Yang penting arah dan tujuanku. Aku tidak akan akan menyapa kalau tidak di sapa. Entah kenapa aku begini, tetapi itulah aku.

Aku amat mementingkan kesempurnaan kerja dan aku tidak suka jika ada orang yang bekerja kerana nama atau imbuhan. Aku mementingkan meritokrasi kerja kerana di penghujungnya....kepuasan dalam hati dan nuraini adalah matlamat kerjaku.

Aku suka bersendirian sebabnya aku tidak suka menunggu.....sebab tahap kesabaran ku adalah terhad. Jam di tangan ku pun diawalkan 15 minit dari masa atau waktu sebenarnya. Sebabnya aku cepat gemuruh jika aku lewat. Itulah aku.....

Aku tidak suka memerintah. Aku, jika dipilih sebagai pemerintah hanya akan membahagikan tugas...selebihnya aku tunjukkan cara melalui cara aku bekerja. Aku jarang menegur....reaksiku hanya wajahku yang melambangkannya. Aku hanya ada dua pilihan...mahu atau tidak mahu...itu sahaja. Alasan bagi aku hanya helah untuk mengelak. Aku melihat kesulitan dan masalah bukan sebagai halangan, tetapi sebagai cabaran untuk di cari penyelesaian.

Bahan dan rujukan bagi aku hanya sebagai alat panduan, sebab jika dituruti ia akan mengalakkan budaya tiruan atau palagiat. Aku mementingkan kekreatifan untuk penyelesaian. Aku tidak suka menonton sebab itu aku tidak mahu ditonton. Aku amat benci suara-suara sumbang dibelakang atau disekeliling. Jika mahu menonton, diam dan simpan jika yang aku pertontonkan itu ada isinya.

Aku amat tidak senang dunia protokol dan oleh itu aku tidak suka mengampu. Pertemuan untuk penjelasan dan penerangan biar hanya satu, penilaian biar seribu agar ia dapat menghasilkan satu kualiti bermutu. Kawan bagi aku adalah rakan pembimbing dan pembantu yang perlu bersepadu. Tanpa kawan aku jadi batu dan kayu kerana tiada tempat untuk mengadu.

Aku amat menyajung kualiti budaya kerja, budaya hidup dan budaya kekeluargaan bersepadu kerana ia mampu menyuntikan mutu penghidupan kita. Aku selalu mengingatkan anak-anakku dan juga pelajar-pelajarku bahawa di akhir musim persekolahan kita, kita harus jadi manusia terpelajar. Terpelajar tidak semestinya pandai, terpelajar bermakna kita mampu menghasikan suatu kerja bermutu. Ini contohnya: Jika menjadi penjual di gerai jalanan, kita seharusnya tidak menggunakan air yang hanya sebaldi yang disilih ganti untuk mencuci. Apa tidaknya kita menggunakan pinggan pakai buang, cawan pakai buang dan beg pembungkus yang dibuat daripada kertas....lebih hygenic kan dan mesra alam.

Entah...banyak dibenak ku, itulah aku. Merungut sendiri dan bercakap sendiri....

Learning about MTB/ATB Bicycle

Riding a bicycle is enjoyable, but to experience the real enjoyment about a bicycle, I need to dig deep acquiring  tips and knowledge about a bicycle. After I reads about bicycle at web-pages, especially in  Wikipedia, I began to appreciate more about my bicycle.

My bicycle brand is Raleigh Elite Disc Trail Alloy Series.  My Raleigh which I bought is made in China, and a quality one, beside it is  cheaper then European or American made. I think the quality is on par with the European and the American  made.

This is the details about my ATB Trail bicycle

 

This my ATB bicycle, a Raleigh Trail Series made from Alloy.

An easy handling of the rear cog-set and a disc brake (TEKFRO XOH)

The front disc brake.

A 12 speed Shimano Deore rear derailleur.

The Shimano Deore  front derailleur, and the red plastic ring

to prevent the chain from spoiling the paint of the chain stay arms.

 

The adjustable SR Suntour XCM V2 shock absorber.

 

 The Shimano Deore derailleur gear adjuster control and the CAT EYE meter

which can record the speed, the mileage, the heartbeat plus the amount of calories burn.

 

The Energizer front light.

 

Water bottle carrier.

 

A wonderful Zefal Parts as a carrier at the rear.

 

A blinking lead rear light.

I'm still not satisfied with my ATB bicycle and I'm going to up-grade it to a better mechanism especially about the derailleur speed gear and the saddle. But for now, I am enjoying my ride with my bicycle. I'm also trying to learn more about DIY to maintained my bicycle.

Why Cycling? It is an enjoyable leisure and lots of benefits....

Funny though, really, the older we gets, the lazier we'll become. Maybe this is because we doesn't have much time to spend, what I meant free time as most of our time is consume for dedicating ourselves to our jobs. So that make us lazy, because we will be tired after day to day works.

So, a few month backs, I dig deep in my pocket to buy some bicycle so that I can cycle to my works place or have a leisure ride during the weekends with my nephews and brother in law. First its difficult though especially when we ride a bicycle in a heavy traffic roads, but no choice as the adrenaline is so high to enjoy the cycling adventure.

Beside just reading the boring what ever news, stories and "stupid" gossip in the newspapers, magazine and boring academically books, now I have turn to something new...about cycling and health. We all know that cycling is not just enjoyable leisurely hobby, but as we cycle, we are exercising too. Cycling is soft towards our knees and legs, yet  cycling is an enjoyable type of aerobic exercise. Cycling is also a good way for us to promote a healthy life, especially reducing the risks of cardiovascular problems, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.

Now I enjoy cycling and the bonding of my children is terrific. We cycle together on every weekends.....

My bicycle and My Boys Bicycle...Ride safe

This is my bicycle. A Raleigh, an old Brand Name

but now it is manufactured in China. A British Brand....

What is Angkabakng Fruits - Borneo Tallow Nuts (Shorea Stenoptera)

In my family orchard (Kompokng) as far I can remember, the Angkabakng trees has existed since. I have been living in this world for almost half a century, and yet the trees still existed until I collected the fruits (picture bellow) recently. It bring a wonderful memories to me. Even I create my Blog title base on this fruits. Before, when this fruits still marketed when the seasons come, it really brings a lots of joy to our people and sometimes it create a sort of celebration. Everybody will talk about it, and tons of the smoked dried fruits is sold to the Chinese "towkey"in town.

Angkabakng is a Salako words to mentions this tree. The Ibans call it Engkabang, while the Orang Ulu's called it Tengkawang, and the Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh called it "Santong". It is a native crop grows in the tropical rainsforests of South East Asia, especially in the Island of Borneo that covers Sarawak, Sabah (Malaysia) and Kalimantan in Indonesia. From this fruits names the locals (indigenous) people called Helicopter as Belon Angkabakng (Salako) or Belon Engkabang in Ibans because the way this fruit falls to the ground, that is spinning just like the Helicopter blade spins.

My blog title Naremang is base on the activities of our people collecting this fruits especially at the end season of this fruits seasons by the months of January. This activities or Naremang is an activity of collecting the fruits that is already start sprouting (as picture bellow).

Our people (great grandparents) planted this Angkabakng many years ago because its has commercial value. During the seasons, we'll collects the ripen fruits fallen by the gusting winds. Then we'll noko'i (knock) the fruits with a small piece of woods to separate the fruits from the "wings". After that we'll Nyale (smoke dry) it inside a hut specially built for this fruits seasons. Usually it will take 2 to 3 days to dry it. Then we'll ngopakik (breaks) the dried shells of the fruits to gets the dried seeds and it’s ready for sale. It’s a tedious job though and yet the price is so low, and mid 80's it only fetches around 0.50 US dollar per kilograms. As mention in a few journals and blogs that is published in the nets, this trees took 8-9 years to mature. It life spans can lasted for 100years or more, as what that still stands until today at my family orchard.

These trees produce a fruits that is beneficial to us as human being. From a few facts that I read from the nets, the fruits is rich in fatty acids of oil, that is: Palmitic acid 18.0%, Stearic acid 43.3%, Arachidic acid 1.1%, Oleic acid 37.4%, and Linpleic acid 0.2%.

As mentions in a few article in the nets, the angkabakng fruits can be processed into a butter (Illipe butter) and have high ability to restore elasticity to the skin. It is beneficial for the treatment of: Moisturizing chronically dry skin, Mature skin, Sunburn, Healing sores, Damaged skin, Rough skin (such as on feet), Mouth ulcers, and Dry or over processed hair.

But, as thing turns around in this 21 century, sad to know that a lots of this angkabakng trees is fallen down by the greedy and unscurpulus people for the highly sought after timber. To me, we can't blame them for cutting down these trees because the price of this fruits tree is nothing compare to the tedious works that we have to go through in processing this fruits before we can markets to the world community to benefit it. Sad to say, in this year seasons (2009-2010), nobody in my community is collecting this fruits because there no news of any towkey in town is willing to buy it. What a waste.......

I'm lucky because my parents, especially my staunch mother who is still keeping and protecting the grown trees, and there is almost 20 - 30 big and tall almost 100 years plus trees at my family kompokng (orchard). What a wonderful tree it is. Actually this ankabakng trees has a lot of varieties, and at my home town, Lundu there is still a lots to see, and the wild species that grows wild is still standing tall at our proud heritage of Gading Mountain which is one of the famous Government Reserved Forest in Sarawak. Hopefully this wonderful tree will last, because although as we say it is protected, but still there is some greedy and unscrupulous people couldn't care much the important of nature to us. To them fast money is better than a wonderful lush greenly world.