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