Every day, we’ve been through a lot of things. Sometimes you like it; sometimes you don’t even want it to happen. That is life. What I have been through was unbearably a lot. Especially when you live in a freaking small village with no internet connection (they have it but lame server). When I was little (I mean really), my father used to take me watching Mak Yong. I was born in Kelantan so literally, whether I like it or not, I used to watch all these kind of pathetic shows but later I really missed them. I did watched Main Puteri, Wayang Kulit, and Mak Yong, long time ago. Right now, I didn’t know where all those beautiful memory of mine gone and the shows gone too. People started to look as if all these dances and art as sinful or sometimes against the religion practices so they were disappeared. Frankly speaking, I don’t understand why. Why must we abundant ourselves with a lot of thoughts about religion practices. If we stick to the religion but at the same time enjoy all these traditional art performances, I guess the issue is not there. Come on! Long time ago(during 1920), Mak Yong was a royal performances wherever the Sultan heard about beautiful Mak Yong dancers, they will be called and performed in front of him. They will be given paddy field and their foods or drinks will be taking care of. I still remember when Mak Yong dancers dancing gracefully, some audience will get on stage and dancing with them. I don’t think there is such thing right now. Now, you watch people dancing but not intentionally go on stage and started to dance with them unless you want to get caught. One main reason why Mak Yong was disappeared because people look down morally on Mak Yong dancers because they were wearing beautiful clothes and beautifully crafted ornaments so a lot of men are falling for them. They were being accused of doing bad things so the dancers stop performing and the numbers were decreasing drastically. That was what I’ve heard. I don’t know whether it is true or not but Malay have these belief “Tak tumbuh tak melata, tak sungguh orang tak kata”, which suggest that whatever we hear is always true or else why people talking about it. I may have a doubt but what I hope is people can accept it again because we are not stupid. We have our boundaries and as long as we practice our religion, I don’t see that entire problem coming. Living in this world seems fine, but people always make small thing big. Anyway, UNESCO already registered Mak Yong as one of the world heritage, and I can’t say anything but give a round of applause to those who really work their a** to make these happen again. That’s even better. Memories aren’t supposed to fade and that is why they called it memory. Hmm…
