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The date  was 1st Aug 2009. I attended my family wedding ceremony in Ipoh, Malaysia. We are just ordinary people so does the wedding. What makes this date  a memorable happenings ?. This is my birthday. Which means an increase of complete one year to my age.
All along I celebrate this dates many times. Meaning that it come every year and and every other  years.  My celebrations more often than not ,were sometime done quitely.  My father and mother think that birthday was not important. Thus they were having a very short memory of their children's birthday. So I have to live with it. At this era birthday was not important.
Come my wife and my children. They remember my birthday. Sometime they present  me with gifts. My wife have got one weird theory about birthday. This is the day one will passed away. So much so that she does not encourage me to move about. She lets me to just stay at home. But that above wedding I have to go. I did not mind anyway If I left this world. I had lived more than half a century now.
My dreams were not big. But  at birthday it comes very clear in my mind.. When I was 10 years old I wanted a bike. My father cant afford. when I was 11 years old my grandfather gave me an old bike . That was good enough.
During my secondry school  I was crazy to get a scholarship. Finally I  got one. I was called 'junior scholarship' It was just enough to by extra reading book.
At the end of my secondry school I failed to continue my  higher study. Every birthday this feeling comes strongly. Sometime after that I kept on dreaming at night I was in the classroom. But I continue working as clerk and keep on dreaming. Some how I succed to be admitted to University Utara  Malaysia, full time. and got a bachelor degree.
People out there celebrate bithday with a number of friends, family and all.  Happy birthday song, blowing candles and having a good time is a norm.
But I celebrate it differently.

That was during middle 1950.  Infrastuctures was basic. The road leading out  of Malim Nawar was one. only one. Cars?, you can count easily. Count your fingers but only one hand.
Basically middle class Malaysian own that much of cars in one family today. Till now I remember my uncle visits my mother using car. For that visit my head swells. Because of that car. I still remember the ' Morris Minor' the British car it looks so beautiful at those time.
Yes the majority use bicycles. Hence no road leading to my house. Only bicycle tracks. Of course it was enough at those time to carry any body to Kampar town and nearby village like Kota Bharu and Kuala Dipang. But most of us- like today- every body were happy and some not so happy. Money was no problem because every body had very little money. So nobody worry about money.
We dont have to worry about overweight. Most of us were slim. That was Malim Nawar a small town with tin mines ponds. Each ponds equals to 10 football fields.
My Kampong now was mined so that now it become a very small village with 14 houses only.

Kampar being the nearest town  provides us with  the feeling of a little change in our daily mood. Everyday looking at Malim Nawar town would be dull moments. Those time especially before the 60's  secondary school only found at Kampar. A town 15 minits by bicycles using the railway sideway track and 20 minutes by car through federal road.  Besides going to school Kampar town accomodates  better shoping facilities, more choices and better bargains. What more, where else could we find Americans films, Kampar prvides few cinimas. That were we heard film star like John Whine and rock singer like Cliff Richard and Elvice Presley.
A number of peoples from Malim Nawar made their way to universities in Malaysia.  Finally most of them migrate from the small town to a bigger cities like Kuala lumpur.

The road to Malim Nawar

Straight ahead a very small town of Malim Nawar. A junction at  left is the main entrance to Kampar 6 KM, Gopeng 10KM and Ipoh 36KM. Malim Nawar originated from the name of a learned and a very religious man called Mualim Anwar. Having a profound number of religious students it was once  said that food was barely enough  for 4 students(one day) however miracle emerge and the food can accomodate more than 30 students. Now Malim  Nawar remain  a small town. Nothing to be proud of, but it was here Perak Hydro an electricity hydro set up by British from England. Perak Hydro itself resembles small town but  with a very steady infrastructures with worker's house accupying more than 100 barracts. 20 bunglows for the senior staffs. As for the managers mostly British 7 luxurious bonglows could easily seen from  my kampong. A hugh contrast to my tiny Kampong Bata that had nighter electricity nor water pipe. But we had slight flood of light from Perak Hydro  electricity at night. Perak Hydro supplied electricity for tin mines belong to Chinese towkey in Kinta Valley (Ipoh). It was here the British entrepreneur did tin mine dredging. A big scale at that.  Together with Chinese open dredging tin mining.

The Perak Hydro and British tin dredging however accomodate employmens for the local. Now both are history the Perak Hydro was taken by TNB and tin mine as every body know was a history.

One upon a time Perak Hydro as seen from Kg Bata

I took one for my blog. Taken during our encaunter in our brothers wedding at Medan recently.  They are my family (Brother, sister and all)
I took a lot of pictures.

KENANGAN ABADI

Ketika ini boleh dikatakan jenerasi emak saudara dan ayah saudara kesemuanya sudah tiada lagi. Tiba masanya mereka telah menumui Allah, iaitu tempat semuanya kita manusia akan pergi.Tinggallah kami untuk meneruskan kehidupan ini, sebaik yang mungkin. Kg Bata kampong yang saya ceritakan tadi sebenarnya sudah ketandusan penduduk.

Kepada mereka di luar sana Untuk mencari tempat yang saya sebutkan ini, carilah negeri Perak. Negeri di di barat Malaysia hampir ke utara. Ipoh adalah ibu negeri Perak. Dari Ipoh 36 kilometer keselatan terdapat simpang ke Malim Nawar. Di Malim Nawar masuk ke Mesjid(jalan) jalan terus dan masuk kesimpang kiri. Kg Bata adalah jalan mati. Di sinilah Jalibah tinggal hingga ke akhir hayat. Anak cucunya semua sudah keluar dengan kehidupan masing masing. Ramai yang sudah berjaya tinggal di rumah yang selesa. Contohnya Lan anak Pak Doi, tinggal dirumah 2 tingkat yang serba mewah.

Hanya saya sering ke Kg Bata mengingati dan menghayati kisah silam. Mungkin ada tak tahu tetapi Kg Bata amat nyaman, segar dan selesa bila berada di sana. Tambahan saya cucu Jalibah smemangnya kenangan amat mengusik jiwa di Kg Bata.

Saya berkeyakinan satu hari cucu Jalibah akan kembali ditempat ini mendiri kan rumah masing masing, hidup gembira seperti Jalibah dulu, juga seperti anaknya Wang Nyah, Wan Mi, Yong dan etin (nama apa ni). Pusingan kehidupan sememangnya begitu.

Rumpun kami di Masjid Tanah Melaka tidak mengetahui ini tetapi tetapi ketahuilah kami di Kg Bata adalah rumpun kamu juga. Mungkin orang tua anda tahu tok kami Endin di Perak dulu yang meninggal pada 1911. Rumpun kami akan berjumpa juga kamu serumpun yang dulu menetap di Masjid Tanah. Orang masjid kamu ye.

KG BATA MALIM NAWAR

Saya nak terangkan sedikit tentang asal usul Jalibah. Asalnya Jalibah dalah dari keturunan Ibrahim. Antara keturunan Ibrahim adalah Alang Hasan (ayah Jalibah) yang berkahwin dengan Andak (Ibu Jalibah). Alang Hasan mempunyai beberapa orang anak ia itu Teh Sofiah, Ngah Ismail, Alang Mohd Abbas, Hj Abdul Manas, Hajah Jalibah dan Alang Mitap.

Itu lah Jalibah yang saya terangkan sebelum ini yang duduk di Kg Bata. Dia berkahwin dengan Abu Talib tok saya dan mempunyai 11 orang anak ia itu Salamiah, Rokiah,Aminah@Mi , Abd Aziz (etin) apa ha nye nama ini, Hajah Som,Hj Abd Rahman, Puteh, Hj Arshad, Hajah Atikah, Othman.

Manakala Abu Talib pula mempunyai heraki yang agak meluas yang akan saya terangkan di sini, Ngah Abu Talib, nama sebenarnya, berasal dari Sayed Abd Aziz zaman kesultanan Melayu Melaka hinggalah sampai ke 3 orang keturunannya ia itu Syed Arshad, Syed Salam dan Syed Endin. Syed Enden telah pergi ke Teja Changkat Tualang di Kota Baru Perak dan meninggal pada tahun 1915

Semasa mudanya Syed Endin berkahwin dengan Alang Kenek dan mempunyai beberapa orang anak termasuklah Haji Daud. Haji Daud telah berkahwin dengan Aishah, mempunyai beberapa orang anak antaranya ialah Ngah Abu Talib. Ngah Abu Taliblah lah datuk kami yang berkahwin dengan Jalibah.

Keluarga Jalibah berasal dari malim nawar.  Jalibah adalah seorang perempuan yang telah hidup sebagai lambang keluarga. Ia mempunyai 11 orang anak  6 lelaki dan 5 perempuan.
Keluarga  ini tinggal di Kampong Bata Malim Nawar Perak. Pada hari ini kampong ini telah ditinggalkan dan tiada ramai penduduk yang ada sana kecuali saya yang datang sekali sekala.

Apabila anda datang dari pekan Malim Nawar dan masuk ke simpang mesjid Malim Nawar sila jalan terus hingga ke dua simpang. Simpang kekanan ke Kg Malim Nawar dan simpang ke kiri ke Kg Bata. Di tengah tengah simpang ini anda lihat kedepan di sini lah terdirinya rumah Jalibah. Terdapat beberapa buah rumah semasa dahulu ia itu 3 buah rumah anak perempuannya Rokian,Mee dan dan Yong rumah emak Harun.

Nun di belakang rumah Jalibah merentasi paya sejauh 300 meter terdapat sebuah rumah anak lelakinya aziz atau etin. Kerana itu lah anak etin ia itu saya ketika ini sudah berumur ? tahun sering ke Kg Bata. Dia membersih kan semak semak di samping itu sambil mengenang kembali nostalgia ketika dia kanak kanak dahulu. Walau pon dia tahu tah berapa lamakan dia boleh berbuat begitu.