Sjamsir Sjarif wrote: > > Dear John, > > It's nice to hear from you after a while. I forgot the last communication > we had, but I think last year before I left for Mecca for the Hajj > Pilgrimage. I am forwarding your question to much bigger audience with the > new generation which I think still live and keep up with the reading of > Siti Nurbaya. We do have, I believe, the park or Taman Siti Nurbaya in > Gunung Padang which is becoming a tourist attraction along with the nearby > the Rock of Malin Kundang. > > I am forwarding your email at least to three mailing lists: > 1. to usmin (my own acronym for the Minangkabau in the USA) > 2. Rantaunet, the Minangkabau in the the homeland and diaspsora. I am not > on the list now but I send dit to Bandaro who I think does not mind to > forward it to the Rantaunet. > 3. Biaronet a mailing list of young generation from my village of Biaro. > > We'll see what the comments from our oudience. > > Mano Adidunsanak nan Basamo, > > Pak John Heath adalah profesor at PTPG (Perguruan Tinggi Pendidikan Guru, > cakal bakal IKIP) Batusangkar 1950-59 dan sedang mengenangkan bahan-bahan > untuk tulisan kenangan beliau di masa bersejarah itu. > > Mudah-mudahan ada tanggapan. > > Salam, > -- Sjamsir Sjarif > X______________________________Sjamsir Sjarif > Indonesian Translator and Cultural Consultant > http://www.usindo.net/hambo > Tel (831)-426-1333 Fax (831)-426-8907 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > At 04:19 PM 5/25/01 -0700, John Heath wrote: > >Hello, Sjamsir, It is a very long time since we last corresponded. Since > >then, I have got to work to put down in writing my memories of my '56-'59 > >time in West Sumatra. It is a work permanently "in progress" it seems, and > >not likely to be published! It may, however, be of interest to my children > >(or granchildren - if any). Meanwhile I have been borrowing books from > >the Indonesian section of the UBC Asian Library. I have just finished Marah > >Rusli's Sitti Nurbaya I wondered whether this criticism caused > >controversy. However I see that was frequently reprinted; so there must > >have been an eager readership. I doubt whether it is very popular > >nowadays, with its long passages of advice to the young, but the sad > >romance of 'kasih tak sampai' probably still moves readers. Did I see > >somewhere that it has been made into a TV miniseries? I would be > >delighted to hear from you. In the meantime, my very best wishes to you. > >John Heath > > RantauNet http://www.rantaunet.com ================================================= Mendaftar atau berhenti menerima RantauNet Mailing List di http://www.rantaunet.com/subscribe.php3 ATAU Kirimkan email Ke / To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isi email / Messages, ketik pada baris/kolom pertama: - mendaftar: subscribe rantau-net [email_anda] - berhenti: unsubscribe rantau-net [email_anda] Ket: [email_anda] = isikan alamat email anda tanpa tanda kurung ================================================= WebPage RantauNet dan Mailing List RantauNet adalah servis dari EEBNET http://eebnet.com, Airland Groups, USA =================================================
