#Bahasa Malaysia

[colourfullanguages]

gotta love malaysia renaming bahasa melayu to bahasa malaysia to "be more inclusive" and promote it as a national language for all malaysians regardless of race only for nobody to actually call it bahasa malaysia because even scholarly articles just straight up call it bahasa melayu

[kazifatagar]

Social Media User Says Bahasa Malaysia Unites All Malaysians 

A viral post on X discusses the importance of having a common language between all the races in Malaysia. To them, Bahasa Malaysia is the common language. This is in lieu with the language being our national language.  Social media user says Bahasa Malaysia unites all Malaysians  https://twitter.com/agentofthedark/status/1830462910134648888 Apparently, a Facebook user states that they’d be…

[vocaloid-songs-daily]

SynthV AI Cangqiong singing "Let it go" in 25 languages

[ubaylukis]

Masih ada buku tentangmu, walau kau tak lagi bercerita denganku.

[handweavers]

my mother has asked me to ask “that weaver friend of yours” lol — do you have experience dyeing linen? what does the process look like for natural vs synthetic dyes?

happy to be that weaver friend of yours 🥰❤️ dyeing linen is basically the same as dyeing cotton or any other cellulose fiber, so any synthetic dye that works for cotton will also work for linen. a professional grade fiber reactive dye like procion mx or dharma's procion (here) dyes cellulose fiber without heat, and the process is quick and painless. it just involves a large bucket, water, the dye powder and the cloth you wish to dye. i have little experience with rit dye so i'm not sure if you'd need heat for that, but procion dye is higher quality, comes in a lot more colours than rit, and a 2oz container is like $2 usd and goes a long way

the natural dye process for linen takes a lot longer than the procion dye process and requires several steps. cellulose fibers really don't like to take dyes so you basically have to do a bunch of alchemy to convince it to do what you want (compared to protein fibers like wool and silk which love dyes and only need some gentle nudges)

naturally dyeing linen depends on the dye you'd wish to use, but the process is essentially: scouring, mordanting, and dyeing. it's really important that you scour linen especially because it contains a lot of pectins that prevent dye from penetrating the fiber, so a harsh scouring is best (ie. washing it with hot water and ph neutral soap, even to the point of boiling the cloth. linen can take a lot of heat and is better for it, cotton is more sensitive) you'll probably have to do this before dyeing it with the synthetic dye too for best results

most natural dyes require that you mordant the cloth before dyeing. some dyes don't require a mordant (indigo is the big one, but if you're working with onion skins or other materials that contain tannins this is also true. however mordanting the cloth before dyeing with tannins or even mordanting with tannins is still recommended for better colour performance long-term unless you're working with indigo in which case using a mordant can actually cause problems) but if you're unsure, assume that you need to apply a mordant. you essentially have to simmer the cloth in a hot pot with either a material that contains tannins (tannic acid), a natural bio-accumulator of aluminum (symplocos), or use a metal salt (alum acetate is best for cellulose, but iron and copper salts can also be used. the metal salts route requires more safety precautions esp if you use copper salt, you can't dump that down the drain) your choice of mordant impacts the final colour with different mordants shifting the chemical reaction that happens in the cloth when you dye it

with cotton and linen, after you use the mordant you need to use either a chalk or wheat bran bath to remove excess mordant from the cloth, esp if you use alum acetate, otherwise it can leave a whitish cast over the cloth and also impede dyeing lol. wheat bran baths tend to cause a warmer tone to the final dyed cloth, chalk baths cause a cooler tone. i only use wheat bran baths bc i prefer the warmth and i get the bran cheaply at my local punjabi grocer

only then can you dye the cloth, again unless you're working with a dye like coffee or tea or onion skins OR indigo. linen really doesn't like to take natural dyes unless you do all the above steps, it's stubborn. the dye process itself depends on what dye you use and you can do stuff like solar dyeing if you don't want to simmer it in a pot on a stove. if you plan to go the natural dye route lmk and i can send you some scans of a book i have that contains precise instructions for preparing linen for dyeing

[grafikita]

Kampung Boy

[writtenonbone]

SELAMAT HARI MERDEKA WAHAI ORANG MALAYSIA

[philologique]

can't find the precise song cover in this one tiktok and it's driving me up the wall

[itsmalay]

Perarakan Hari Kemerdekaan Malaysia Yang ke-66

[mibeau]

[Ulasan Buku] Arsene Lupin: The Gentleman Burglar (Edisi Bahasa Melayu)

Skor: 3.7/5.0

Buku ini menghimpunkan kisah-kisah pengenalan, siapakah Arsene Lupin ini? Ada yang kononnya dari beliau sendiri, ada daripada “mulut” orang lain, ada yang berkaitan antara satu sama lain, ada yang tidak. Kes-kes yang diceritakan tidaklah disusun dari satu bab ke satu bab. Which is interesting, baru rasa macam baca journal, atau himpunan “testimonials”. hehe.

Sejujurnya, saya memang terpengaruh untuk baca kisah Arsene Lupin sebab membesar, saya memang peminat komik Detektif Conan dan amat menggemari karakter Pencuri Kid. Walaupun seiring waktu, saya menyedari yang plot detektif conan ini diinspirasikan daripada Sherlock Holmes, saya tidak menyangka ia semirip ini!

Oleh kerana itu, mungkin kisah-kisah yang saya baca dalam buku ini kurang memberi kesan? Sebab saya sering kali teringat kes-kes yang sudah saya baca dalam komik Detektif Conan. Ditambah pula dengan gaya penulisan Maurice Leblanc yang nadanya agak mendatar, a.k.a sentiasa tenang walaupun sekeliling ada kekecohan, macam “oldman” vibe? Haha… Tapi itu menunjukkan yang penulis berjaya sampaikan yang Arsene Lupin ini selalu bergaya “gentleman”, ye tak? Mungkin gaya penceritaan, saya lebih gemar buku seperti penulisan Agatha Christie.

Namun begitu, ada 2 kisah yang saya tak rasa bosan dan memang menarik minat saya sepenuhnya. Satu, kisah Arsene dikurung di penjara dan bagaima beliau melepaskan diri. Dua, kisah bagaimana beliau merompak kediaman tertutup orang walaupun waktu itu beliau masih dalam penjara.

Kalau menggunakan istilah dunia manga, boleh dikategorikan buku Arsene Lupin ini bergenre seinen. Sebab agak dewasa jugalah cara penyampaian ceritanya. Saya macam nak letak dalam shounen, tapi macam agak matang si Lupin ni, so tak jadi. Haha.

Sekian, selamat membaca!

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[canine-teethed-sheets]

soo speak your language day should be now.. heheh >:)

mulai MASA INI!!! SAYA AKAN CAKAP BAHASA MELAYU!! UNTUK NEGARA SAYA!!!! YAAAAHHH

( i'll add translations in brackets, don't worry! )

[kazifatagar]

 Netizens Now Defending Bahasa Malaysia as National Language

An alleged controversial statement has been made about our national language in schools. It appears that a police report was filed against Dong Zong for rejecting the government’s initiative to standardise Bahasa Malaysia syllabuses in vernacular primary schools.  Netizens defending Bahasa Malaysia as national language  tk bljar sejarah ke ?— 🇲🇾🇵🇸zuljalani (@zuljalani) August 30, 2024 Putra’s…

[nonenglishsongs]

Insomniacks - Pulang (Malay)

[ubaylukis]

Setiap orang itu punya cerita yang tidak mereka cerita.

[handweavers]

my oldest friend from canada visited me here for a couple weeks earlier in the month and it was her first time outside of north america and she wanted to see the place i'm from that she's heard so much about all our lives and she was telling me that all the white people she knows (she's also white) were confused when she told them she's going to malaysia they were like "why are you going there? what even is there lol" and they had no idea where it even is, but whenever she told asians she was going to malaysia the reaction was one of excitement and celebration. and she was really nervous travelling so far and when she was here she was quiet a lot just taking everything in, and asking me questions about everything, history and culture and my family etc and i answered as much as i could, and after she left she told me she understands why i care so much for this place, why it matters to me, because it matters to her now too, and she feels sad because she misses it already, and that she wants to come back some day. and that meant so much to me, and i feel very lucky to have her as my friend. that she took this so seriously and to heart and that she understands in a very real sense why i miss it so much when i'm in canada, and to feel known and understood in a greater way by her. i love her very much

[grafikita]

Keluang Man 1998