Thursday, September 21, 2006

Pok Ciks in Marang

These are simple kampung folks, they are actually fishermen.

I dropped by their "pot" by the river, to capture beautiful Marang river mouth.

Struck a conversation with them in Terengganu lingo (mine is totally rusty, compared to theirs), managed to get permission to capture their images.

According to them, if I go upstream, I can find people making manisan (palm sugar) and ataps (roof made of leaves).

A couple of Pak Ciks have been friends since they were kids.

A bunch of them in their 60's playing cards, joking and taking the piss out of each other..

They were talking about new fishing boats and their powerful engines....

Boys will be boys.... they always have toys...



He is very friendly and funny. Ever ready to pose....



Smiles all the time, but did not say much.



I think he was a naughty boy when he was a kid and now probably a very responsible grand dad. The fact that he smokes the rokok daun, reminded so much of my own grand dad who use to smoke the same stuff, apart from teching me how to select nyior muda whenever we balik kampung during cuti sekolah.....





Best friend to the first Pak Cik, since they were kids!

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