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Sunday, September 19, 2010
semina mansa..
lama mat ku nadai dah nulis utai ba blog ku..hhmm..nothing much to say..just pass by to say hye..hidup ku diatu baka biasa,semina mayuh amat penanggul,penusah ti datai..tang semina Tuhan ti pemadu Bekuasa aja alai ku bepanggai..semina ngagai Ia aja ku nyerah semua utai..hidup kitai mensia bisi tuju ti udah disedia ka Tuhan tang semina pemandai kitai aja ti ulih nguna semua pemeri ti udah diberi Ia..baka aku diatu semina nitih peneka Ia aja..laban semua utai ti nyadi ukai datai ari kitai mensia tang datai ari Tuhan ti bempu semua utai di dunya enggau di serga..naka tuk aja utai ti ulih ditulis aku baka ke jam tuk..arap ke aku bisi bulih penemu dikena nulis utai ke lebih badas gik ari tuk..aku semina mansa blog ku aja tang dudi ari ila aku deka nulis utai mayuh agi dikena meransang kitai semua enggau meri penemu ti bekait enggau adat kitai Iban..baka jam ke diatu,aku deka ngundur dirik dulu..ngarap ke kitai semua gerai nyamai ulih berkat Tuhan..Amen..bye..
Monday, April 5, 2010
Gawai Dayak known as a Harvest Festival
Gawai Day or Gawai Dayak is a festival celebrated in Sarawak on 1 June every year. It is both a religious and social occasion. The word Gawai means a ritual or festival whereas Dayak people or The Dayak are a people indigenous to Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic subgroups, located principally in the interior of Borneo, each with its own dialect, customs, laws, territory and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily...is a collective name for the native ethnic groups of Sarawak: the Iban.
The mode of celebration varies from place to place. Preparation starts early. Tuak is an alcoholic beverage made of fermented rice, yeast and sugar and drunk in Borneo and East Malaysia. The beverage is a popular drink among the Ibans of Sarawak during the Gawai festivals....
(rice wine) is brewed (at least one month before the celebration) and traditional delicacies like penganan (cakes from rice flour, sugar and coconut milk) are prepared. As the big day approaches, everyone will be busy with general cleaning and preparing food and cakes. On Gawai Eve, glutinous rice is steamed in bamboo (ngelulun pulut). In the longhouse, new mats will be laid out on the ruai (an open gallery which runs through the entire length of the longhouse). The walls of most bilik (rooms) and the ruai are decorated with Pua Kumbu (traditional blankets). A visit to clean the graveyard is also conducted and offerings offered to the dead. After the visit it is important to bathe before entering the longhouse to ward off bad luck.
The celebration starts on the evening of 31 May. In most Iban longhouses, it starts with a ceremony called Muai Antu Rua (to cast away the spirit of greed), signifying the non-interference of the spirit of bad luck in the celebration. Two children or men each dragging a chapan (winnowing basket) will pass each family's room. Every family will throw some unwanted article into the basket. The unwanted articles will be tossed to the ground from the end of the longhouse for the spirit of bad luck.
Around 6 pm or as the sun sets, miring (offering ceremony) will take place. Before the ceremony, gendang rayah (ritual music) is performed. The Feast Chief thanks the gods for the good harvest, and asks for guidance, blessings and long life as he waves a cockerel over the offerings. He then sacrifices the cockerel and a little blood is used together with the offerings.
This is my grandfather who know how to make "piring". Those are the materials that use to make a "piring".
Once the offering ceremony is done, dinner is then served at the ruai. Just before midnight, a procession up and down the ruai seven times called Ngalu Petara (welcoming the spirit gods) is performed. During this procession, a beauty pageant to choose the festival's queen and king (Kumang & Keling Gawai) is sometimes conducted. Meanwhile, drinks, traditional cakes and delicacies are served.
This is me who wore a "ngepan iban" that use to be wear during Gawai Festival. A lady that use "ngepan" will be call as "Kumang" whereas a guy will be call as "Keling".
At midnight, the gong is beaten to call the celebrants to attention. The longhouse Chief (tuai rumah) or Festival Chief will lead everyone to drink the Ai Pengayu (normally tuak for long life) and at the same time wish each other "gayu-guru, gerai-nyamai" (long life, health and prosperity). The celebration now turns merrier and less formal. Some will dance to the traditional music played, others will sing the pantun (poems). In urban areas, Dayaks will organise gatherings at community centres or restaurants to celebrate the evening.
Traditionally, when guests arrive at a longhouse, they are given the ai tiki as a welcome. From time to time, guests are served tuak. This would be called nyibur temuai which literally means "watering of guests".
Christian Dayaks normally attend a church mass service to thank God for the good harvest.
Gawai Dayak celebrations may last for several days. It is also during this time of year that many Dayak weddings take place, as it is one of the rare occasions when all the members of the community return home to their ancestral longhouse.
colonial government refused to recognise Dayak Day. Gawai Dayak was formally gazetted on 25 September 1964 as a public holiday in place of Sarawak Day. It was first celebrated on 1 June 1965 and became a symbol of unity, aspiration and hope for the Dayak community. Today, it is an integral part of Dayak social life. It is a thanksgiving day marking good harvest and a time to plan for the new farming season or activities ahead.
Iban could be:The Iban people , an ethnic group in Kalimantan and Sarawak. The Iban language spoken by those people..
Also known as Sea Dayak and the Bidayuh people, also known as Land Dayak. Thus, Gawai Dayak literally means "Dayak Festival". Dayak would visit their friends and relatives on this day. Such visit is more commonly known as "ngabang" in the Iban languageThe Iban language is spoken by the Iban, a branch of the Dayak ethnic group formerly known as "Sea Dayak" who live in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, the Indonesian province of Kalimantan Barat and in Brunei. It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, and is..
Those too far away to visit would receive greeting cards.The mode of celebration varies from place to place. Preparation starts early. Tuak is an alcoholic beverage made of fermented rice, yeast and sugar and drunk in Borneo and East Malaysia. The beverage is a popular drink among the Ibans of Sarawak during the Gawai festivals....
(rice wine) is brewed (at least one month before the celebration) and traditional delicacies like penganan (cakes from rice flour, sugar and coconut milk) are prepared. As the big day approaches, everyone will be busy with general cleaning and preparing food and cakes. On Gawai Eve, glutinous rice is steamed in bamboo (ngelulun pulut). In the longhouse, new mats will be laid out on the ruai (an open gallery which runs through the entire length of the longhouse). The walls of most bilik (rooms) and the ruai are decorated with Pua Kumbu (traditional blankets). A visit to clean the graveyard is also conducted and offerings offered to the dead. After the visit it is important to bathe before entering the longhouse to ward off bad luck.
The celebration starts on the evening of 31 May. In most Iban longhouses, it starts with a ceremony called Muai Antu Rua (to cast away the spirit of greed), signifying the non-interference of the spirit of bad luck in the celebration. Two children or men each dragging a chapan (winnowing basket) will pass each family's room. Every family will throw some unwanted article into the basket. The unwanted articles will be tossed to the ground from the end of the longhouse for the spirit of bad luck.
Around 6 pm or as the sun sets, miring (offering ceremony) will take place. Before the ceremony, gendang rayah (ritual music) is performed. The Feast Chief thanks the gods for the good harvest, and asks for guidance, blessings and long life as he waves a cockerel over the offerings. He then sacrifices the cockerel and a little blood is used together with the offerings.
This is my grandfather who know how to make "piring". Those are the materials that use to make a "piring".
Once the offering ceremony is done, dinner is then served at the ruai. Just before midnight, a procession up and down the ruai seven times called Ngalu Petara (welcoming the spirit gods) is performed. During this procession, a beauty pageant to choose the festival's queen and king (Kumang & Keling Gawai) is sometimes conducted. Meanwhile, drinks, traditional cakes and delicacies are served.
This is me who wore a "ngepan iban" that use to be wear during Gawai Festival. A lady that use "ngepan" will be call as "Kumang" whereas a guy will be call as "Keling".At midnight, the gong is beaten to call the celebrants to attention. The longhouse Chief (tuai rumah) or Festival Chief will lead everyone to drink the Ai Pengayu (normally tuak for long life) and at the same time wish each other "gayu-guru, gerai-nyamai" (long life, health and prosperity). The celebration now turns merrier and less formal. Some will dance to the traditional music played, others will sing the pantun (poems). In urban areas, Dayaks will organise gatherings at community centres or restaurants to celebrate the evening.
Traditionally, when guests arrive at a longhouse, they are given the ai tiki as a welcome. From time to time, guests are served tuak. This would be called nyibur temuai which literally means "watering of guests".
Christian Dayaks normally attend a church mass service to thank God for the good harvest.
Gawai Dayak celebrations may last for several days. It is also during this time of year that many Dayak weddings take place, as it is one of the rare occasions when all the members of the community return home to their ancestral longhouse.
colonial government refused to recognise Dayak Day. Gawai Dayak was formally gazetted on 25 September 1964 as a public holiday in place of Sarawak Day. It was first celebrated on 1 June 1965 and became a symbol of unity, aspiration and hope for the Dayak community. Today, it is an integral part of Dayak social life. It is a thanksgiving day marking good harvest and a time to plan for the new farming season or activities ahead.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Pride oF Betong,Sarawak..
Rentap or Libau (died 1863) was a famous Dayak (Iban) warrior in Sarawak, Malaysia during the BrookeWhite Rajahs era in that state. "Rentap" in Iban means "Worldshaker". He was known as "Raja Darat" or "Raja Ulu". Essentially, Rentap's rebellion was due to the White Rajah's or James Brooke's action of eliminating the Ibans in Skrang because he thought they were pirates. Being a leader of the Ibans there, Rentap took the subsequent action of attacking James Brooke's fort at Skrang River called Nanga Skrang. James' then burnt Rentap's village after he successfully drove James Brooke's side out of Skrang. He retreated to Bukit Sadok and built himself a fort after a defeat at Sungai Lang, Ulu Skrang by James Brooke in the year 1854. There he gained a reputation and thwarted many plans by James Brooke to control the Skrang and Saribas areas. Only after many attempts and with the aid of bigger cannons did James Brooke defeat Rentap in the year 1861. Though defeated, Rentap never officially surrendered. He retreated to Sungai Entabai and died in same place. In Malaysia, he is not only renowned in Sarawak, but he is also a national hero in both Sabah and the Peninsula as both a national hero and a freedom fighter.
Rentap's battlecry was Agi Idup, Agi Ngelaban!! which means I will fight as long i will live!!.This legendary battlecry later become Malaysia's Royal Ranger Regiment motto.
the place where they put the cannon currently is at Pejabat Daerah Betong,Sarawak.. the wooden that support the cannon was made by my grandfather.. if you want to see the real cannon then come to Betong and see it by yourself.. the cannon is one of the pride of Betong..
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
thE latEst oF mE..
on 27th march 2010,we had a dinner for 8th anniversary Betong become a Division at Dewan Stephen Kalong Ningkan,Betong.. the theme for that night was Tradisional "1 Malaysia".. on that night i wore a cheongsam that made from kain batik ukir.. but the problem was,where i should make up & tied up my hair.. want to go to saloon?? OMG.. got lots of people at that time.. no way for saloon..
well..this is my cheongsam that night..any comment please..?? hehe.. was made by my mummy..
so,this is what happen to me on that night.. although i'm the simple one but still look nice.. hehe..
and finally,this is me.. the latest me.. the girl who still old same.. but now tryin' to gettin' be more mature than before.. well,soon i'll turn to 22nd years old.. hope for the best in my life..
well..this is my cheongsam that night..any comment please..?? hehe.. was made by my mummy..
so,this is what happen to me on that night.. although i'm the simple one but still look nice.. hehe..
and finally,this is me.. the latest me.. the girl who still old same.. but now tryin' to gettin' be more mature than before.. well,soon i'll turn to 22nd years old.. hope for the best in my life..
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