Things fall apart

How things start to change and fall apart.

Pi(e)sang was change to banana, letap or pi(e)sang brood become banana cake, with some alterations to the original recipe made of flour, sugar, banana, tapioca, etc. wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. Some may still remember jemput or banana fries.

One way or the other yogurt become yogurt or the other way around? Small pieces in culture that gone lost easily, if we do not focus on what is important in our cultures as a people.

Needless to say, concentration on one clan's culture is enough, when we are combined to one culture. Susu is over the world known as milk or latex and tairu have become sour milk.

Gigi or milk tooth has maybe disappear, but so we grew out of our baby shoes or boots and the barut (a piece of cloth wrapped around abdomen of a newborn baby, a long badage). So we see how the napkin for babies to protect garments change to nappy and later diaper.

Our parents or elders were not in any position to prevent this from happening, now we pay a dear price for their silence and the silence of those before us. The self made wooden cart has metaphorically become a go kart, with a steel frame and lawn-mover engine. The toys that brought joy to the faces of many.

I personally agree it is not at all good to keep remembering the past, but some many good things changed so swiftly and more are changing daily in a world where technology dominates over everything else. There is the equal amount of good in it, but some nostalgic memories will be with us for a very long time. Today we can carry on with our culture in different  ways such as farming goats, cattle, fruit or vegetables on a very small scale. We can also do it commercially or as a hobby. It reflects our roots and what was common then.