Saturday, September 26, 2009

Songket hok Mok saya Tenung!

At the lobby of Primula Hotel, I was sitting down, busy sms-ing raya greetings.

The conciege or perhaps the door man clad in Baju Melayu and sampin (songket) approached me. Friendly.


His name, from the name tag, is Husain.

I can’t resist but to notice the beautiful songket he was wearing.

Being straight forward I actually commented:

Nice songket (chomey songket awok))

And then he told me in detail about the songket he was wearing.

He went:

This is actually a piece of songket weaved / woven by my own mother.

(songket ning hok Mok saya tenung sdiri)

Wow! That’s the first.

I have never met anybody wearing a piece of songket weaved by their mothers.. and it’s beautiful.

I can tell from the design. It’s classic and the workmanship was very refined.

There was no trace of modern songket at all – which I prefer.

Timeless


didn't manage to snap a pic of him *sigh*

3 comments:

Emir's Dad said...

Assalamualikum,

I stumbled across ur blog as I was browsing through blogs by friends and and relatives. Honestly speaking, I really like the things that u write on, your travels, your perspectives and views and especially the pictures taken, which I am sure are pictures taken by yourself. Do keep up ur view and thoughts on this blog. Anyway, salam perkenalan from me, orang Melayu kat Kentucky, USA.

Emir's Dad said...

Assalamualikum,

I stumbled across ur blog as I was browsing through blogs by friends and and relatives. Honestly speaking, I really like the things that u write on, your travels, your perspectives and views and especially the pictures taken, which I am sure are pictures taken by yourself. Do keep up ur view and thoughts on this blog. Anyway, salam perkenalan from me, orang Melayu kat Kentucky, USA.

shemeq said...

Dear Emir's Dad,

I am glad u stumbled upon this website.

To me it's nothing much. Just a simple on-line journal which I created for myself. Fortunately it has also become a platform through which I can share my passions (or obsession?) with my friends or whoever interested.

I appreciate comments like yours and others'. Hopefully we can appreciate certain issue together.

Yes, those photos (about 99%) are mine.

Do drop by again and enjoy!