ORANG ASLI CHILDREN

I was in Kuala Lipis (Pahang) last week to study the education programmes among the orang asli. These are some of the orang asli children. The are as cute as can be. The children, ranging from 5 to 7 are painfully shy. Yours truly in the first photo is admiring the children's art work. The children entertained us with a song "You are my sunshine" I felt the song was totally out of place !! In the 2nd photo, Mr. Lucas tried to interact with one of the younger ones - almost reducing the poor chap to tears. Note that the boy has enormously huge eyes. The last photo shot showcased the orang asli's handicrafts and
stuff they used in their everyday lives.
The government is on a MISSION to bring the orang asli to the mainstream of Malay culture. However, they still prefer their jungle lifestyle of hunting and gathering. Some of the more educted orang asli have left the settlement to live and work in nearby town like Raub and Kuala Lipis. (By the way, Kuala Lipis is Malaysia's famous singer, Siti Norhaliza's hometown)

The orang asli has limited vocabluray on numbers. One is "nanek"; two is "nar"; three is "nik" and they have no words beyionf "nik" SO they adopt the Malay language of "{empat, lima, enam and so on" Elephat is called "Cig", Tiger is called"Mergas"; Banana is "Telei"; Durian is "Sempa"; Call a dog "Co" and called a chicken "pug" You want 'pug' for dinner tonight??