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"
"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???!!!
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
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