Sunday, September 21, 2008

Sunday dementia

Evening rose in a blink as I sat quietly pampered in my lovely couch going through every channel in subscription. Sunday has its way to leap me to dementia; I thought of philosophy and should cry into ‘eureka’ as food was always on my mind ‘these’ days. I surf the net looking for traditional ‘Kimarangang’ clothes and just to be frustrated as I not know the looks of it. I’m lost in world of modernity still my heart is more harmonious thinking of the old days of Tandek. Realizing changes, I found out Tandek is not the one I know back then. People change some of them left Tandek in search of new opportunities and some people changed to vile as news of murder saddens the community there. Tandek! What have we forsaken thee? And I’ll give my moment of silent in respect of the victim’s family God bless.
Still I’m looking for kimaragang traditional costume. The original looks & design as it was told from my grandmother to my mom. I wanted to see the crafts back in the pre-british era. What the kimaragang have offered to the world of fashion. I have few photos I got from the internet
Above: I don’t know if this is the real kimaragang costume but the photogrpher (mewot) claimed this picture is a choir group from kota marudu.





Left: If I’m not mistaken this are dancers from Kg. Tingkalalon, Dancing on pinakang music. I was there but didn’t take any picture. (thanks my sabah.com)
Below: This is the same dancers from Tandek with different Kimaragang costume, dancing the momiluk (warior dance kalau nda silap la)



Bottom: Kimaragang from Pitas district.


10 comments:

Kee Heritage said...

pewittt cantik tul yang dari pitas tu... arwah nenek tu dulu kalau ada orang mau kawin dorang pi rumah minta tolong dia jahit baju tradisional kimarang. lain lagi adat perkahwinan yang duduk membelakang2 tu.. hehehe..

Badrogon said...

bah kasi dulu info pasal perkahwinan ala kimaragang tu & kalau buli baju pengantin hehehe mana la tau sautu hari nanti.

Bunga Negara said...

Yang kak ingat dulu Arwah Babu Rukina waktu kawin dikasi duduk diatas tikar diatas lantai. Dibelakang disusun pula bantal-bantal lebihkurang juga macam Bajau. Di kasi pusing-pusing itu ayam atas kepala baru dua-dua makan beradap. Makanan di taruh dalam pinggan dihidang dalam talam tembaga. Itulah kak/mm simpan tu talam. he he he. Sayang dulu-dulu susah tiada kamera ba.

Kee Heritage said...

ia bah, sekarang ni tiada sudah orang mau kawin stail tradisi, bah pamacam juga payah tu mo kasi taru manuk lagi hahaha..

bah sly, nanti ko kawin mo pakai manuk juga ka?

Eddus said...

apa pun perkara tradisi perlu di pertahankankan...wlu pun dalam era kemajuan

Yoku said...

obubuli koi bala diti oi tanak wagu. baa.. nunu poh dot indadon nu, pogi'im no boh dot sumandak dot kimarangang. Ongo lalanji mari ki. Peeloon nopo di tidi nu, aiso masaalah dino.

Day Dreamer~ said...

I love the traditional food, forgot the name but my mom used to make it when i was small. fish and some stuff kept inside a bottle.

Hana Kee said...

Hmmm...itu aku ingat. Aku rasa namanya dipanggil 'tonsom' ba kan, itu jeruk ikan dalam botol tu. Kalau orang di semenanjung panggil ikan pekasam mengkali tapi lain sikit stail dorang membikin. Kalau arwah nenek dulu dicampur sama pangi, beras sama garam tu baru di peram kasi jeruk...hehehe inda la ku tau sangat ba macam mana mo bikin ni tapi aku pun suka betul makan tu tonsom. Ada ka lagi keluarga kita yang tau resipi mo bikin tonsom tu? Cuba ka kasi taruh di blog ni, mau juga aku mencuba try testing...

AragangTandik said...

ko tanyala durang babu2 dtongkungan - mana tau durang masi ingat, selagi masi ada yang tua-tua tu...jangan lepas peluang. MMtua ingat sinalau sama payau salai saja.

Mu Rong said...

aku mo makan tonsom, osodop... nyam nyam..