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COOLER
LUMPUR
Festival

of ideas
Established in 2013, a
the festival aims on bringing together writers, artists,
musicians and thinkers from across the globe to
create connections, ideas to our cultural
conversation.
A public space for thought

The Kuala Lumpur leaders to engage discussions,

centric festival adopts gathering aims to challenge
specific themes each people to debate, learn
and stimulate ideas and issues
year with the aim to
that confronts the society and
expand the citys
the world.
cultural horizons,
build stronger
communities and
cultivate the creativity
and imagination of
people.
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BEING MALAYSIAN:
WITH LAT

Throughouttheyearshisfunnieshavecometocharacterizebeing
Malaysian.Themanisavirtuosoatcatchingourhearts,oursouls,our
identity,andwhatweseektobe.KamRaslanaddressesLattryingto
unwindtheintricatethoughtofbeingMalaysian.

Malaysians love jokes, jokes

Even today P.Ramlee's
Lat prefers the past, especially about the past.
08
14 well
Today,
many Malaysians 12 name is still
the old Malaysia
because back in the still watch P.Ramlee movies. known by almost
every Malaysians
days Malaysia was
young and old.
so care free.
During your
schooling days,
you'll always have
one fierce woman
teacher. (Malay,
Chinese or Indian)

31
EveryMalaysianhasakampung
togobacktoeventhoughyou
liveinthecity.

Based on Lat,
circumcision for
young boys is
very23
common in
Malaysia.

According to Lat,
eating is
Lat's drawings
Malaysian culture.
symbolises Malaysia.
Parenting in Malaysia
For example, lat usually
50 is very different from No
69 matter what
race, we all enjoy
draw a Chinese man
western parenting. For
Chinese food,
standing in a 'S' shape
example, if a child gets
Indian food,
posture or a Malay man
hurt, his father or
Malay food and
would usually wear their
mother would say "hah
exotic food.
songkok sideways
main lagi, sedap kan
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dapat lebam?!"
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STORIES FOR BOYS & GIRLS

BIG AND SMALL

Storytellingdefineswhereourplaceinsocietyandwherewefitin

In Malaysia, we dont
have a suitable
medium to tell our
stories.
The trend towards
marketing and story
telling made story
telling education
more important.

Story telling is to show

contact and
communicating
together and people
get to make
connection through
stories.

Kids attention is a
little bit shorter, its
better to put a slightly
simpler, quicker pace
book or kids.
To reach the right
amount of kids to know
more about stories is
through the school
system.

Find the existing

resources and share
them as widely as
Story telling also give
possible so that it
us a chance to have a
helps in story telling. Teach them stories so
they know what theyre
platform where we can
interact with each
Looking towards folks able to recognize from the
other with words that tale for wisdom is an olden devices and the
motives being used.
reflects our own life.
interesting idea
especially when its in
Our own story should modern context.
Expose to more great
be recorded before it
stories helps us in story
fades away with us.
telling.
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ENGLISH SINGLISH
MANGLISH
BY CHERYL TAN, KATE BASSET, HANNA
ALKAF & CHUAH GUAT ENG
English is important"

"

Singlish is about identity"

"

Manglish sounds aggressive"

"

People tend to use English during

There are numerous versions of English. It
serious times. Manglish and Singlish is
all depends on when and what you are
just for communication.
using English for.
Singlish is not proper, but it represents
who Singaporeans are.
People know when it is appropriate
to use Singlish or Manglish.

Manglish gives identity to Malaysians.

Just because Manglish ad Singlish is being used, it does not

mean they are stupid because of non-proper English.
Writing is easier with language we are
comfortable with.

When Manglish or Singlish gets translated to proper

English, it would not feel as good anymore and it
would not turn out to be proper.

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