POST 6: THE FOURTH MALAYOLOGIST

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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AND NOW...
TADAAA!!!...
THE INHABITANTS OF PLANET EARTH ARE HEREBY ALL INTRODUCED TO...
THE FOURTH MALAYOLOGIST...

"THE MALAYOLOGIST"

[You'll see... Just wait until I grow up... HAR!]
Humanda kayo 'pag laki ko... Makikita n'yo!

The FOURTH? Hmmm... Reminds me of the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE... Actually, I prefer to be the FIRST or even just the SEVENTH... I can insert three more personalities between me & Parfahn - including a Philippine Muslim, a Malaysian scholar, and a Filipino historian... That would make me the 7th Malayologist... But I'm afraid that presenting them without their knowledge & permission might end up with me facing a triple court suit!!! HAR! But Malayologists are normally not Numerologists or Mathematicians or... It seems that Malayologists have a slight tendency to - as they say in the Tagalog language - "Magbuhat ng sariling bangku." But it is a HISTORICAL FACT that Malayologists do not really get that much JUSTICE or attention from Historians or Academicians & Scholars [The sole exception to this rule is, of course, Dr. Jose Rizal]. So, can we blame them if they write their own HISTORY? Now, we also have female Malayologists who write their own HERSTORY... HAR!!!

POST 5: ANSWERS TO 3 MALAYOLOGISTS

Tuesday Morning already?
April 21, 2009

I should have presented the COLLAGE/image in POST 4 as a PUZZLE with the query: "Identify these three Malayologists"... Anyway... Here they are separately, each with a brief description that I shall just expand later...

DR. JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896)

PHLIPPINE NATIONAL HERO
"PRIDE OF THE MALAY RACE"

The young Rizal wearing a MASONIC vestment.

WENCESLAO QUINITO VINZONS (1910-1942)

YOUNGEST DELEGATE TO THE 1935 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION; TRUE BICOLANO MARTYR-PATRIOT; "MALAYSIA IRREDENTA" GOLD-MEDALIST; HEAD OF "PERHIMPOENAN MURID/ORANG MALAYU"; THE REAL BRAINS BEHIND THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL LANGUAGE; AN ORIGINAL & PIONEERING MALAY VISIONARY

AHMED IBN PARFAHN (?-?)

SELF-PROCLAIMED MALAYOLOGIST; AUTHOR OF "MALAYAN GRANDEUR"; A Really Very Interesting Person whom I once tried to trace/seek out but unsuccessfully... More about this in a personal story later...

The reader might wonder & muse to herself, "I'm familiar with Jose Rizal"... But WHO are the other two??? Vinzons, in truth & in fact, did/does not get the recognition or public acclaim he truly deserves... Of course, Ibn Parfahn is like, AHEM, yours truly, a "SELF-PROCLAIMED MALAYOLOGIST" - (We don't have enough money & clout to hire a Public Relations PRO to promote us! HAR! And, by the way, Rizal was executed by the Spaniards in 1896, Vinzons was executed by the Japanese in 1942, & I don't know what fate befell Parfahn... SO, ARE YOU STILL INTERESTED & DO YOU STILL WANT TO BECOME A MALAYOLOGIST???!!!

PHOTO CREDITS TO BE PROVIDED LATER

TO BE CONTINUED

POST 4: THREE MALAYOLOGISTS

Moonday, April 20, 2009
UP DILIMAN CAMPUS

Malayologists come in different "sizes & shapes". A more scholarly way of putting it is that Malayologists belong to different categories. Shown here in a COLLAGE are three Malayologists. I will let the reader guess for herself the identities of these Malayologists. Of course, if you'd ask them, they'd all refer to themselves as "Malayologists". WHAT THEN IS A MALAYOLOGIST?

-THREE MALAYOLOGISTS-

CLUE: The Malayologist at lower left just got his bust inaugurated this very day here in U.P. DILIMAN!!! CHANCE OR CHOICE?

TO BE CONTINUED
UMNP (Until My Next Posting)

POST 3: I TOLD YOU NOT TO QUOTE

April 11, 2009
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I re-read my first essay on Malayology & spotted some weak unscholarly remarks... Anyway this paper is not supported by proper citations/references as standard in reliable, scholarly works...
- SriGuntang is a HILL or BUKIT & not a RIVER... The river is named "BATANGHARI"...
But I remember to have read somewhere that Malays in that part of the NUSANTARA consider this JAMBI area as the CRADLE of MALAY CIVILIZATION...
-the ORANG BETAWI is a latter-day product (creation?) of DUTCH COLONIALISM in the capital city of JAKARTA... Apparently, people from different parts of the DUNIA MALAYU settled & congregated/intermingled in the port area and a "new" kind or breed of natives arose (like the Babas of Singapore) mixing different sub-cultures & the result is this Betawi Malay. But am not sure about it as a language... I met one Betawi Malay (Indonesian citizen) before & my other remarks regarding the Betawis depend on this brief relationship. So, it seems that Betawi Malays are not a genuine/original core group, unlike the Bugis or the Minangs etc...

I shall fix this essay & just re-post it in the future.

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