Just wondering.... Or is it the language barrier?

1Malaysia...hahaha

Yes Isma, that's the irony of it :)

FT kata dalam harakah, pesta buku antarabangsa baru-baru ini tidak majmuk, apa kata kakak?

Wan, bukan saja pesta buku, bahkan jualan buku dalam skala lebih kecil. Misalnya jualan gudang MPH, hanya beberapa kerat saja orang Melayu yang ke sana, selebihnya etnik India dan Cina.

Saya pun sedang mencari jawapan. Kita hidup dalam negara majmuk, berkongsi banyak perkara fizikal, tapi terpisah dari sudut emosi, jati diri dan banyak lagi.

sudah jadi 3malaysia, bukan lagi 1

Yalah. Bukan semua orang hendak menghunus dan mencium kerisss!!

(maaf terpolitik, byk ref. pada peristiwa keris dalam Ketupat)

Betullah tu Najibah.Masa saya pergi jualan gudang kat MPH hari tu memang rasanya kita sebenarnya terpisah dari sudut emosi tapi berkongsi dari sudut fizikal sahaja.

Absolutely I agreed with u Saniah.....dr segi fizikal ramai yang membelek2 buku...macam bersemangat je nak memborong buku2...tapi last2 cuma yang lekat pen, pensel, notebook atau pun buku rujukan wajib bagi remaja dan kanak yang akan menghadapi exam...saya ada sekali berkunjung ke Popular Penang ramainya chinese yang membelek2 buku2 yang agak berat isi kandungan untuk dibaca...mungkin pendedahan drpd parents rasanya masyarakat kita pula lebih terarah pada komik dan majalah hiburan...namun persepsi sedemikian sukar untuk kita tafsirkan kerana setiap individu ada minat grend pembacaan yang tersendiri....kekadang pengaruh rakan juga banyak mempengaruhi minat membaca kita

Absolutely I agreed with u Saniah.....dr segi fizikal ramai yang membelek2 buku...macam bersemangat je nak memborong buku2...tapi last2 cuma yang lekat pen, pensel, notebook atau pun buku rujukan wajib bagi remaja dan kanak yang akan menghadapi exam...saya ada sekali berkunjung ke Popular Penang ramainya chinese yang membelek2 buku2 yang agak berat isi kandungan untuk dibaca...mungkin pendedahan drpd parents rasanya masyarakat kita pula lebih terarah pada komik dan majalah hiburan...namun persepsi sedemikian sukar untuk kita tafsirkan kerana setiap individu ada minat grend pembacaan yang tersendiri....kekadang pengaruh rakan juga banyak mempengaruhi minat membaca kita

Oh, kita sejak skolah lg telah dipetak2kan....

Saniah wrote: "Betullah tu Najibah.Masa saya pergi jualan gudang kat MPH hari tu memang rasanya kita sebenarnya terpisah dari sudut emosi tapi berkongsi dari sudut fizikal sahaja.
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TQ for mentioning this. Just the other day I was discussing with my hubby regarding the spiritual essence of racial harmony. The accent is on "spiritual". If it is there, there is no need to howler multitudes of slogans. The fact that to date the power that be is still shouting slogans every National Day etc, it isn't there. I came across this view while doing reserch many years ago while still in school during a preparation for an speech contest- part of the National Day celeberation activity. What would be your opinion? If you agree, how do you think racial harmony may be taken to a spiritual level?

Nakamura wrote: "Absolutely I agreed with u Saniah.....dr segi fizikal ramai yang membelek2 buku...macam bersemangat je nak memborong buku2...tapi last2 cuma yang lekat pen, pensel, notebook atau pun buku rujukan w..."

Pilihan banyak bergantung kepada minat dan harga buku. Buku2 di Malaysia ni masih lagi mahal dan ini akan menjadi limitasi terutama sekali kepada remaja2.Difahamkan dinegeri seperti India, mereka cetak semula buku2 dalam bentuk yang lebih murah supaya lebih ramai rakyat boleh membelinya.

Semasa kecil, kanak2 didorong untuk membaca apapun...komik, Enid Blyton, dll. Apabila mereka membesar kita mahukan mereka lebih cenderong membaca genre yang boleh memberi manafaat seperti sejarah, sastera dll. Minat biasanya tertakluk kepada semangat ingin tahu. Masaalahnya ...ingin tahu apa? Some people love to know for the sake of knowledge itself. Some as a means to generate income.....all depends on your needs in life. We may be able to steer one's needs to a degree say, through some means of indoctrination by parents and teachers. In the end he makes his own selection.

Najibah wrote: "Where are our Chinese and Indian friends?"

Hi all! Newly migrated to GoodReads from GuruLib and newly joined this group.

Hi David! Welcome, make yourself at home :D We've got a good bunch here, altho it's been kinda quiet since Ramadhan (mayhaps people are still lethargic from all that Raya spread teeheehee)

Hamizao wrote: What would be your opinion? If you agree, how do you think racial harmony may be taken to a spiritual level?

Puan Hamizao, it's a difficult question to answer, tilting towards philosophical, and I still cannot answer it till today - I think the higher up someone is on the social ladder, the multiracial relations would be somewhat different in their eyes.

To be honest, I grew up in almost all-Malay community, never had Chinese and Indian friends (except exchanging a few lines of casual conversation at their shops or clinics) until I attend university. I do have Chinese teachers teaching music and English in primary, but the relationship was not that deep for me to make useful evaluation.

But I believe this matter is worth immersing our head into, because multiraciality and all the consequences of it's long history in Malaysia is a reality that everyone have to live by (like it or not).

Hello David! Hope your voice as the first Chinese friend in GR (Malaysian nevertheless) will attract the others who are so quiet so far. Whenever there's only Malay around and no other ethnics, I always feel detached from Malaysian reality :)

I think ppl are quiet cos they just use this for collection aje, just add book, then forget about it. I just wan a place where I can search for what books I have - I bought books that I already owned a few times oredi >.<

You and me both, bro! :D

I thought they wanted to connect with other book-lovers from Malaysia also :D

BTW, have anyone tried LibraryThing? It's more organized and business-looking, have the feel of real library system, with some cost after we registered more than 200 books.

And that's why I never joined LibraryThing. It's not free. I was so happy when I found out about Goodreads from another forum. It's exactly what I wanted from an online book cataloging site.

Yeah, I think Goodreads is the best at the moment. Better than Shelfari and LibraryThing.

LibraryThing has a lot of features though, but me too, din bother joining cos of the 200-book limit for free users.

This post compares a couple of them:

http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/...

May be a bit old, but some of it is still true. Look at the comments, there's a guy from LibraryThing there kinda of like "advertising" why LibraryThing is better (but his points are valid justification for them charging users I guess).

HAH one indian joined in LOL
Now we got 1 malaysia
I'm itching to buy new books today but i just don't have the time !!!
Must get it tomorrow !!!

Hi ya Deviki! Welcome to GR Malaysia!

Hey Faizah ! Thanks and hope to enjoy topics shared here ...

David and deviki..welcome to GR Malaysia too...

thank you nakamura .....cheers!!!

David wrote: "I think ppl are quiet cos they just use this for collection aje, just add book, then forget about it. I just wan a place where I can search for what books I have - I bought books that I already own..."

wah, ur collection must be heaps till u cant remember what u already have! bestnyaa :) me i'm actually 'missing' the books lent to others i dont remember, hmm

Yea, if you check to to-read, I have way too many books to read... I must stop visiting bookstores and actually read books :D I'm scared to lend books to others cos there one time I did and my friend practically split coffee onto it... I never lent that fella another book ever since.