Memang Budak Minang
KCESB & VADs,
Thank you for your inputs and thoughts.. yes we are all on the same train wanting to give Ujang the due recognition that he deserves. I'm sure we all wholeheartedly agree that there has been no cartoonist before that has touched our hearts like Ujang.
Although Ujang still seems perplexed as to what the whole fuss is all about, Ujang does not realise that he has touched the hearts of many of his readers worldwide. Getting mails from Malaysian as far as Minnesota for example shows how far his comics and writings are missed.
Contrary to public perception, Me and Maine are not exactly Ujang’s old time friends. We only met him the first time at Pesta Buku Malaysia in April 2006 and that was when the ball started rolling.
But vividly I remember the green centrefold pullout from Ujang’s Aku Budak Minang’s compilation published in 1987. That was the only book that I bought at Pesta Buku Malaysia 1987 with the limited money that I had as a form 3 student. The poster was proudly stuck in my wardrobe and I use to look at it everyday when I combed my hair before going to school.
So nineteen years later, after buying CESB’s hardcopy reprint of Aku Budak Minang which I bought at the Pesta Buku Malaysia 2006 was indeed, a surreal case of Déjà vu.
Ujang needs to know that he still has a lot of fans from the days of yesteryears and that his work has transcended all class barriers. There are many 30 something professionals who, though are western educated, still have a soft spot for his works as we grew up with it.
It is therefore without a doubt that Ujang’s comeback is long anticipated and he is one Anak Bangsa whom we can truly be proud of sans all the hypocrisy, shallowness and hype of others who we are beginning to detest.
He is truly a Budak Minang.
Thank you for your inputs and thoughts.. yes we are all on the same train wanting to give Ujang the due recognition that he deserves. I'm sure we all wholeheartedly agree that there has been no cartoonist before that has touched our hearts like Ujang.
Although Ujang still seems perplexed as to what the whole fuss is all about, Ujang does not realise that he has touched the hearts of many of his readers worldwide. Getting mails from Malaysian as far as Minnesota for example shows how far his comics and writings are missed.
Contrary to public perception, Me and Maine are not exactly Ujang’s old time friends. We only met him the first time at Pesta Buku Malaysia in April 2006 and that was when the ball started rolling.
But vividly I remember the green centrefold pullout from Ujang’s Aku Budak Minang’s compilation published in 1987. That was the only book that I bought at Pesta Buku Malaysia 1987 with the limited money that I had as a form 3 student. The poster was proudly stuck in my wardrobe and I use to look at it everyday when I combed my hair before going to school.
So nineteen years later, after buying CESB’s hardcopy reprint of Aku Budak Minang which I bought at the Pesta Buku Malaysia 2006 was indeed, a surreal case of Déjà vu.
Ujang needs to know that he still has a lot of fans from the days of yesteryears and that his work has transcended all class barriers. There are many 30 something professionals who, though are western educated, still have a soft spot for his works as we grew up with it.
It is therefore without a doubt that Ujang’s comeback is long anticipated and he is one Anak Bangsa whom we can truly be proud of sans all the hypocrisy, shallowness and hype of others who we are beginning to detest.
He is truly a Budak Minang.
Ponchomaine
posted by Maine at 4:19 PM
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