my first assignment. Jason said it wasn't bad, i guess i'm a potential photographer after all.
on our second day, we visited a beaded shoe shop located at the famous Jonker Street for our first interview session.
these beaded-shoes are all handmade and are price-ranged around RM400 and above.
the owner, Joyce Ngiow.
and so, back to the hotel to start our assignments. each group has to come out with an article, a sound-slide/video and a photo essay.
how can we work without food/snacks? the facilitators are super thoughtful, i must say.
fresh hot naan and tandoori for dinner on the third and last night! so awesome lah.
on the third day, we went to Chitty Village located in Gajah Behrang, which is also quite near to Jonker Street. Chitty Village, is also known as Indian Peranakan, has set foot in Malacca about more than 600 years ago. The mixed marriage (assimilation) between Indians and Malays has formed the Chitty Community. The hallmark of this unique community is that the Chittys are actually Indians who adapt the local Malay culture except for the religion: the Chittys are all Hindus. Youth-spire were greeted by the chairman of the preservation department of the Chitty Village before the interview. he led us into his house where all of us sat on the floor and he began to tell us the stories of his ancestors. he was so engaged in his speech and hadn't realised almost an hour had passed (sadly, the BRATs had limited time for the interview), and we had to keep steering him back into the focus of our questions. he even brought us to a Hindu temple and it was there he expressed more of his thoughts about how the community is coping with the modernisation the current world.
our interviewee and his daughter.
he even taught us BRATs how to do a tornum.
i've never known that there is such community existing in our country (sorry, i live under a rock). i feel so lucky that me and my group got the opportunity to interview the Chittys (thanks to R.AGE). they are doing a really hard job in trying to prevent this cultural extinction, really hard indeed. but it is an extremely hard job, even our interviewee, Mr.Nadarajan, sadly admitted that their culture is slowly dying away and if the current situation continues, the Chitty Community will be gone in 30 years. for now, all they hope is to have a writer/publisher who is willing to write a book on the Chittys. they're part of the Malaysian society too, aren't they? but why does this happens to them? why the government doesn't pay attention to the minorities?
sigh.
back to work in the meeting hall of the hotel.
Thara, Sathesh and I were working on our article. (go check out last week's R.AGE)
lame games session again to relieve us our stress.
Jason kena sabotaged by the senior BRATs. heh.
taken during the last night of the workshop. i was waiting with the video crew for the video to be done editing up to 2.30am.
my girlfriend. haha.
LOL.
photo credits to Jason.
i really hope to go back as a senior BRATs because it is really good to know people who aspire to be journalist or actually like journalism.
happy sigh. that's it. goodnight.
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