MR.WONG PHUI NAM

In my opinion, Wong Phui Nam is a humble person. We have the opportunity to see him live as we have one session with him. He taught us on how to appreciate and enjoy poem and it is a good experience for me to listen from a poet himself. Now I know that one of the ways to enjoy poetry is by reciting it aloud so that it goes straight to your heart. There is a fact that I would really agree with him as he said that readers have to have background knowledge about that poetry so that they can make sense and enjoy poem. I think that is the reason why it is hard for me to understand and enjoy poetry. Besides that, the choice of words or dictions is also important in order to make a good and meaningful poem. But what make me interested the most is when we have discussed about his first play, Anike. He said that the reason of him did the version of Antigone is because this is his first time doing play, so he needs a guide to do so and I agree with him as we always need guide when we want to learn and do something new. All in all, it is a great pleasure for me to see him and I am looking forward to his lay, Anike, being performed.

Shirley Lim

It is a pleasure to have a writer in the campus and my group has been invited to go to the session with Shirley Lim. Frankly, I just read her work because I have to do so for the sake of the Malaysian Literature course. I am not really into her work because I think her work is quite difficult for me to understand especially the poem. In the session with her, she is promoting her new book which is Sister’s Swing and she said that she has to make 12 drafts only for the part where the Manglish (Malaysian English ) is concerned so that it would sounded like Manglish. But sadly, when she read out the chapter to us, I cannot really detect the Manglish language at all, that’s only my opinion. But the storyline in her novel is good as it is about siblings’ relationship. I hope she will always succeed in her career as an Asean writers.