Ha! This is interesting. What it's basically saying is that Malay lost the word for earthquake (which is still extant in other Austronesian language cousins eg Indonesian languages for example, like Javanese) that we had to re-import it from Sanskrit because we have so few of it 
Bukhoor achieved! The Turkish censer was too fiddly even with the chain, or rather I don't have the cultural memory on how to handle it well, so went with what's probably a family heirloom at this point, a Malay-style one. The big one is where the whole charcoal and incense/oud goes in, the smaller one is where you store the resins, oud, or incense. The tray is also heavy. Pretty sure the whole thing is bronze but I'm just guessing.
Anyway unlocked family lore on how one of my Arab aunts uses them in the mornings.
Speaking of local MVs though, I'm so gutted that this song is under 3 mins long??? It's got everything I love - pop-rap fusion but with local popular music genre, killer dance moves and a nusantara setting (though in recent years I'm noticing there's been more and more of this). Oh, and incorporating the Malaysian Sign Language!
*feeling vindicated in Malay lmao*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAbz3v5KJSw
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
The books are filled with names of kings.
Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?
And Babylon, so many times destroyed.
Who built the city up each time?
- a worker who reads Bertolt Brecht.
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Actually did buy the expensive handmade watercolours after all, and in part because I'm intrigued by the heavily waxed cotton batik cloth the seller used as packaging. Intrigued because I've seen those (western hobbyist) recipes before, and I could see the resulting material is a reflection on the fragility of cultural knowledge transfer. This is related to colonialism, sure, but this is more directly a consequence of the industrial age. It's amazing something as integral to human civilization as textiles is now considered the arcane arts because so much of it is taken up by manufacturing.
Anyway, here's the result of some light, janky (ie not with the appropriate tools) calendering (or gerus in Malay). It's one of the final steps to finishing a cloth, and sort of a sister process to fulling (as cellulose fibres like cotton cannot be felted to even up the weave, like wool/protein fibres can). (1/?) #textiles #handmade #weaving #history #histodon #tootSEA #Malaysia #nusantara
