Yek Azahari
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Location | Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia |
| Introduction | “If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live” ― Lin Yutang |
| Favorite books | “How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.” ― Ernest Hemingway, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS ------------ "There is one remarkable thing, moreover I am amazed to see and consider the condition of our Malay people, that they are not aware of their own condition, and remain in ignorance, because they will not study their own language, and do not want to establish schools to teach it; this is beyond my comprehension, for how can those who do not study it become proficient themselves? Do not all other races in the world study their own languages, except only the Malays? Moreover they say, 'What is the good of studying it, for that is our own language; and it is only useful in this world. It is better to study the Arabic language, which is useful in this world and the next.' That no doubt is true; but I wonder how one can know the language of other people before one knows one's own language. And let they converse in the Malay language, they buy and sell, and send letters, and write their replies in the Malay language too; never did I see either Malays or Babas or people of any other race using the Arabic language in their business, either in trade, or keeping accounts or in correspondence, but they all use their own languages, except in their worship and their prayers." - Munshi Abdullah THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MUNSHI ABDULLAH. |