Kuttu The Girl From Malaya A Memoir
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Kuttu The Girl From Malaya A Memoir
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Author : Elizabeth Goh Sharman
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014
Kuttu The Girl From Malaya A Memoir written by Elizabeth Goh Sharman and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An inspirational memoir of Elizabeth ""Kuttu"" Goh Sharman, from rural Malaya. Given away at birth by her biological parents, she is raised by a saintly aunt, Heok Ee. At birth, she was given the nickname ""Kuttu,"" by her great aunt, the word meaning head lice. The relative explained the name would strengthen her to overcome her weak health and poor prospects. The effect seems to work perhaps leading Elizabeth to great success on a larger stage, however possibly at the cost of an inferiority complex that with the name sticks with her all her life. Initially a poor student, several ""guardian angels"" come along to encourage her to believe in herself, work hard and persevere. She eventually excels at business school and qualifies for a top job with a UN branch in Kuala Lumpur then in Geneva. In Geneva she marries a renowned international labor organizer, an Englishman. She starts a family and travels the world with her new husband before settling down in the US as her American dream comes true.
I Left My Heart In Malaya A Memoir
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Author : James Y. Hung
language : en
Publisher: James y Hung
Release Date : 2020-08-24
I Left My Heart In Malaya A Memoir written by James Y. Hung and has been published by James y Hung this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1957, James Hung's family moves from Hong Kong to Muar, Malaya-the country that would later become part of modern-day Malaysia. As a ten-year-old boy, James finds himself learning English for the first time, making new friends, and discovering a love of sports. During the five years he spends at St. Andrew's Catholic School, he matures from a naughty prankster to a studious, responsible young man. One day, during Boy Scout Work Week, he knocks on the door of the Vitalingam home looking for work, and makes friends with the couple, beginning an unusual friendship. Not long after, Mr. Vitalingam becomes seriously ill, and James steps in to help. He creates bonds with the family that will last long after he leaves Muar. I Left My Heart in Malaya recalls some of the people and moments that influenced the author during his formative years, and created some of his most treasured memories.
Historical Dictionary Of Malaysia
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Author : Ooi Keat Gin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-12-18
Historical Dictionary Of Malaysia written by Ooi Keat Gin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with History categories.
Malaysia is one of the most intriguing countries in Asia in many respects. It consists of several distinct areas, not only geographically but ethnically as well; along with Malays and related groups, the country has a very large Indian and Chinese population. The spoken languages obviously vary at home, although Bahasa Malaysia is the official language and nearly everyone speaks English. There is also a mixture of religions, with Islam predominating among the Malays and others, Hinduism and Sikhism among the Indians, mainly Daoism and Confucianism among the Chinese, but also some Christians as well as older indigenous beliefs in certain places. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Malaysia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Malaysia.
Memoirs Of A Minah
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Author : Tina Mok
language : en
Publisher: Pixel Monster
Release Date : 2018-02-14
Memoirs Of A Minah written by Tina Mok and has been published by Pixel Monster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-14 with Literary Collections categories.
Singapore is often cited in global reports and surveys as one of the world's most developed and richest nations. Singaporeans are often seen as relatively affluent and even pampered. How about those that have fallen through the cracks? My name is Tina. I am writing a book about my life as a young Singaporean Malay girl. In this book, I share my life stories that took place after I ran away from home at a young age. For those like me, life in Singapore is seldom sunny. Experience how I got into bad company, drugs, fights and ultimate in prison. How I went through and survived cancer and how daily life was a struggle for me. The objective of this book is to raise awareness on domestic violence, drug abuse, cancer and most importantly, to let every young woman know that their life choices matter.
Malaya
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Author : Cinelle Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Little a
Release Date : 2019
Malaya written by Cinelle Barnes and has been published by Little a this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn't get a driver's license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs--and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn't get caught. When she falls in love and marries a white man from the South, Cinelle finds herself trying to adjust to the thorny underbelly of "southern hospitality" while dealing with being a new mother, an immigrant affected by PTSD, and a woman with a brown body in a profoundly white world. From her immigration to the United States, to navigating a broken legal system, to balancing assimilation and a sense of self, Cinelle comes to rely on her resilience and her faith in the human spirit to survive and come of age all over again. Lyrical, emotionally driven, and told through stories both lived and overheard, Cinelle's intensely personal, yet universal, exploration of race, class, and identity redefines what it means to be a woman--and an American--in a divided country.
Policemen S Children Aren T Crooks
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Author : N. A. R. Kashwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-26
Policemen S Children Aren T Crooks written by N. A. R. Kashwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-26 with categories.
The autobiographical novel is based upon the memoir of an eight-year-old girl, N.A.R. Kashwin (her pen name) growing up in Singapore with all a privileged family could offer presented at her feet. A large bungalow with grounds, servants, lavish children''s parties, the best toys, apparel, and education available to a Colonial-styled household of children. The incidents are mostly true, spiced with a little added creativity! Her father, a direct descendent of an exiled Sultan from Dutch-colonised Indonesia, served in the Colonial British Army as a senior military officer and was posted to Singapore shortly after WWII. This is her memoir of that youth during that one year; a time when she had access to corners of the Colony normally closed to children of Asian parents. From the karangoni man and his ongoing altercation with the family''s cook to the resident Sufi priest, and from a mysterious Mystic Moulana to a kacang putih man (a crazed Indian peddler who inadvertently encountered a collision with a large bamboo pole), she saw it all--but her memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in her parents; a regimental father, and a prim and proper mother, with leanings towards being OCD. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past. Zubaidah, a delusional woman best described as one sandwich short of a picnic'' is the family''s Chief Cook. Her humourous antics and spirited escapades are not without producing comical, but oft undesirable, results! Her long-suffering completely bald husband "Kebun", is a nondescript humble individual who goes about his duties patiently and for his wife''s and the rest of the household''s sake, silently. Unbeknownst to Kebun, he unwittingly becomes a very prominent feature indeed, in the SOP of the girl''s bicycle riding ambitions...She recounts a Children''s Home visit, where she is about to lose a sackful of her precious toys - a commodity not easily available to children in the 1960''s and how that singular incident spearheaded her DCI father to becoming the Chairman of the Home for a near quarter of a century thereafter. Unrestricted by guardian control, but fortuitously shielded from her mother''s cane-wielding outbursts by their protective police driver, who also doubled as her father''s batman, she had free access to hidden corners of the Colony normally closed to children like her. Befriending the servants'' children and local hawkers, she spoke Malay as a first language, and British English to her parents. She tasted delicacies such as boiled jackfruit seeds, raw petai (stinky beans), salted duck eggs, and partook of ethnic festivals and ceremonies hosted by her parents. She even entered the parameters of the forbidden death houses in Chinatown, wandered along its streets amongst a group of Triad members gathered at a Chinese funeral and even visited a Muslim cemetery, seeing for the first time a Muslim corpse. Along the way she encountered a colourful array of people, from the South Indian fresh milk peddler, with his bedraggled cow and cart in tow, a semi-blind Chinese kindergarten caretaker with whom she struck a mutually beneficial deal, an old Chinese fortune teller, a bare-chested salacious Indian gardener of whom she sent packing, and an unsuspecting Chettiar moneychanger with whom her brother performed an impressive sleight-of-hand. Ultimately, she introduces her psychic and clairvoyant eldest sister from whom she was parted as a toddler, and only reunited 25 years down the road. Shadowed by the quirkiness of an obsessive mother and a regimentally disciplined father, she was keen to experience and understand all the customs, cultures, and behavioural patterns of a multi-racial old Singapore, and this was largely instrumented by the family''s driver, her nanny and their housekeeper. N.A.R. Kashwin''s compelling memoir is a journey into Singapore''s multi-racial customs and cultures within a near extinct Colonial way of life that is peppered with infectious humour, and intrigue.
The Dreams Of A Mappila Girl
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Author : B. M. Zuhara
language : en
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 2022-07-15
The Dreams Of A Mappila Girl written by B. M. Zuhara and has been published by Sage Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-15 with categories.
A celebrated award-winning Malayalam author pens her memoir of growing up in a unique community of Kerala. The memoir is translated by one of the foremost translators of Kerala.
Policemen S Children Aren T Crooks
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Author : N. A. R. Kashwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-18
Policemen S Children Aren T Crooks written by N. A. R. Kashwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-18 with categories.
An eight-year-old girl and her siblings, growing up in Singapore with all a privileged family could offer presented at their feet. A large bungalow with grounds, servants, lavish children's parties, the best toys, apparel, and education available to a Colonial-styled household of children. Her father, a direct descendent of an exiled Sultan from Dutch-colonised Indonesia, served in the Colonial British Army as a senior military officer and was posted to Singapore shortly after WWII. This is her memoir of that youth during that one year; a time when she had access to corners of the Colony normally closed to children of Asian parents. From the karangoni man and his ongoing altercation with the family's cook to the resident Sufi priest, and from a mysterious Mystic Moulana to a kacang putih man (a crazed Indian peddler who inadvertently encountered a collision with a large bamboo pole), she saw it all--but her memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in her parents; a regimental father, and a prim and proper mother, with leanings towards being OCD. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past. Unrestricted by guardian control, but fortuitously shielded from her mother's cane-wielding outbursts by their protective police driver, also doubling as her father's batman, she had free access to hidden corners of the Colony normally closed to children like her. Befriending the servants' children and local hawkers, she spoke Malay as a first language, and British English to her parents. She tasted delicacies such as boiled jackfruit seeds, raw petai (stinky beans), salted duck eggs, and partook of ethnic festivals and ceremonies hosted by her parents. She even entered the parameters of the forbidden death houses in Chinatown, wandered along its streets amongst a group of Triad members gathered at a Chinese funeral and even visited a Muslim cemetery, seeing for the first time a Muslim corpse. Along the way she encountered a colourful array of people, from the South Indian fresh milk peddler, with his bedraggled cow and cart in tow, a semi-blind Chinese kindergarten caretaker with whom she struck a mutually beneficial deal, an old Chinese fortune teller, a bare-chested salacious Indian gardener to whom she sent packing, and an unsuspecting Chettiar moneychanger with whom her brother performed an impressive sleight-of-hand. Ultimately, she introduces her psychic and clairvoyant eldest sister from whom she was parted as a toddler, and only reunited 25 years down the road. Shadowed by the quirkiness of an obsessive mother and a regimentally disciplined father, she was keen to experience and understand all the customs, cultures, and behavioural patterns of a multi-racial old Singapore, and this was largely instrumented by the family's driver, her nanny and their housekeeper. N.A.R. Kashwin's compelling memoir is a journey into Singapore's multi-racial customs and cultures within a near extinct Colonial way of life that is peppered with infectious humour, and intrigue.
Anti Clock
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Author : V. James
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Books
Release Date : 2022-08-25
Anti Clock written by V. James and has been published by Vintage Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with categories.
Hendri, a coffin maker, has one goal in life: to see the dead body of his nemesis Satan Loppo being lowered into the coffin he has painstakingly carved. For it was Loppo who defiled his beloved Beatrice, and let loose his hellhound Hitler upon Hendri, giving him a permanent limp. From inside his coffin shop, Hendri watches the world go by even as he prepares to deliver justice upon Loppo. He is confronted by the son of his best friend becoming enamored with Loppo's wealth, Loppo's evil designs towards the hills of Aadi Nadu, and his own Christian guilt that regularly comes to haunt him. Then he meets Pundit, a 112-year-old watchmaker who was part of Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army and is building an 'Anti-Clock', which can turn back time. When Loppo too hears of the Anti-Clock and desires to possess it, the inevitable battle becomes a reality.
Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema
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Author : Ashish Rajadhyaksha
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema written by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Social Science categories.
The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film, this new revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema includes vastly expanded coverage of mainstream productions from the 1970s to the 1990s and, for the first time, a comprehensive name index. Illustrated throughout, there is no comparable guide to the incredible vitality and diversity of historical and contemporary Indian film.