Meminjam kata-kata my writer friend,Helvy, di Jakarta mengenai tahun baru:
Apa yang nyata dari tahun baru yang kau tunggu selain sisa usia atau kesiasiaan dahulu?
Bergegaslah kerana waktu telah semakin debu...
Mine starts with a long lost pak saudara sepupu Rawa, Tunku Bodot who will arrive from Johor Bahru from Sumatra petang ini.My family kan went back to menjejak kasih last year and spent about 5 days with keluarga Tunku Bodot di Padang termasuk Mek.Apparently he and my mom shared the same grandma, Tupin Eishah who eloped with a man to Tanah Melayu.She had another husband in Padang dah and that must be Tunku Bodot's clan.Tupin kawin lain and lari ke Pahang. They settled in Dong and after some children, she married someone else.Then she met Menteri Hassan (my great grandpa) who worked for the Sultan when the istana was in Kuala Lipis.Menteri Hassan ni katanya disayangi Sultan dan warak orangnya (banyak ilmu).My mom's oldest brother (also seorang alim dan was the kampong's imam) said the story went that kalau Menteri Hassan cakap, "Ahhh...terasa nak makan ikan sungai" nanti melompat-lompatlah ikan sungai naik ke atas rakit. Gitu le cerita dulu-dulu.Entah iya entah tidak.
Tak tau le sapa mengorat sapa,*Tupin Eishah married him and got my mom's clan.Apparently Tupin Eishah ni sangat cantik.Kulitnya putih kemerah-merahan.Kata Tunku Bodot, dia bukan Rawa asli.Her dad orang luar.Could be Dutch, could be Yemeni jual spices, could be peniaga Cina jual gambir yang biasa waktu itu di rantau itu yah? We will never know but seram I dengar cerita Tupin nih.Bukan main hebat dia kawin ramai gitu.I had captured part of her in one of my short stories.Maybe there will be a full fledged novel if I have enough materials.Mencari Tupin.Tajuknya sudah ada, gitu.
Tunku Bodot ini sangat halus budi bahasanya.He looks like my cousin who we fondly call Busu (his real name is Nazri).Bentuk telinga pun sama.Amazing! Mek said he had already bought bus tickets JB-KL-JB and would have turun in Pudu but after finding out I lived in PJ, he beli tickets keretapi turun kat KL Sentral sebab tak mau menyusahkan kami to pick him up.Wough.I was touched.Maklumlah dia bukan orang senang.Must have cost him quite a lot yah?
The clan will gather at my place to meet Tunku Bodot.I pun tak tau how they traced him!
*Tupin is a gelaran for a female royalist, according to my Indonesian maid.Nik isn't impressed.He said mitos.:))
Apa yang nyata dari tahun baru yang kau tunggu selain sisa usia atau kesiasiaan dahulu?
Bergegaslah kerana waktu telah semakin debu...
Mine starts with a long lost pak saudara sepupu Rawa, Tunku Bodot who will arrive from Johor Bahru from Sumatra petang ini.My family kan went back to menjejak kasih last year and spent about 5 days with keluarga Tunku Bodot di Padang termasuk Mek.Apparently he and my mom shared the same grandma, Tupin Eishah who eloped with a man to Tanah Melayu.She had another husband in Padang dah and that must be Tunku Bodot's clan.Tupin kawin lain and lari ke Pahang. They settled in Dong and after some children, she married someone else.Then she met Menteri Hassan (my great grandpa) who worked for the Sultan when the istana was in Kuala Lipis.Menteri Hassan ni katanya disayangi Sultan dan warak orangnya (banyak ilmu).My mom's oldest brother (also seorang alim dan was the kampong's imam) said the story went that kalau Menteri Hassan cakap, "Ahhh...terasa nak makan ikan sungai" nanti melompat-lompatlah ikan sungai naik ke atas rakit. Gitu le cerita dulu-dulu.Entah iya entah tidak.
Tak tau le sapa mengorat sapa,*Tupin Eishah married him and got my mom's clan.Apparently Tupin Eishah ni sangat cantik.Kulitnya putih kemerah-merahan.Kata Tunku Bodot, dia bukan Rawa asli.Her dad orang luar.Could be Dutch, could be Yemeni jual spices, could be peniaga Cina jual gambir yang biasa waktu itu di rantau itu yah? We will never know but seram I dengar cerita Tupin nih.Bukan main hebat dia kawin ramai gitu.I had captured part of her in one of my short stories.Maybe there will be a full fledged novel if I have enough materials.Mencari Tupin.Tajuknya sudah ada, gitu.
Tunku Bodot ini sangat halus budi bahasanya.He looks like my cousin who we fondly call Busu (his real name is Nazri).Bentuk telinga pun sama.Amazing! Mek said he had already bought bus tickets JB-KL-JB and would have turun in Pudu but after finding out I lived in PJ, he beli tickets keretapi turun kat KL Sentral sebab tak mau menyusahkan kami to pick him up.Wough.I was touched.Maklumlah dia bukan orang senang.Must have cost him quite a lot yah?
The clan will gather at my place to meet Tunku Bodot.I pun tak tau how they traced him!
*Tupin is a gelaran for a female royalist, according to my Indonesian maid.Nik isn't impressed.He said mitos.:))
3 comments:
Kak F
wah wah... sudah macam baca novel salasilah gayanya!
:D mcm mitos Greek.
Selepas balik dari Rao pada Ahad lalu (23/7/17), banyak fakta di dalam entri ini perlu diperbetulkan.Sila baca entri2 2017 ke atas untuk berita terkini.
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