Spending some time with books!!

Hello people...

It’s been a while since my last post.What have i been doing all this time? Aside from my courseworks...ermm.let see... watching movies,playing computer games,viewing pictures of my newborn niece (for those who have read my previous entry, her name is Alleya Zandra) and...etc..etc..

I finished reading ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen for the first time..reread my favourite chapters.love the book!!! My favorite character will be Elizabeth Bennet. Her stubbornness really is adorable. The best part will be  when Mr Darcy finally confesses his feeling. You know..
after all those hatred,unnecessary debates and confusions..

“In vain i have struggled. It will not do. My feeling will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love u,”

                                    Mr. Darcy,Pride and Prejudice

It blew my mind figuratively...what i like the most about Mr Darcy is how he changes for the better.. from stiff and cold to someone friendlier :) ..so adorable... I strongly suggest everyone to read this book.. Maybe it will be hard at first (it was written long ago and is in classic English) but it was a lot of fun to read... (^_^)

By the way..about another book that i have read.I was reading  A Pocketful Or Rye by Agatha Christie when I came across this one nursery rhyme in one of its chapters. 

The verses seemed very much familiar to me until I realized that it was apparently the English version of our Lagu Tiga Kupang. You know the one about a king counting in his ' house’ while the queen eats 'roti gula’..

Lagu 3 kupang

Saku penuh padi

6 ekor burung masuk dalam kuali

Bila sudah masak burung nyanyi saja

Tentu sedap makan , beri pada raja...

Raja dalam rumah ,buat kira-kira.

Suri dalam dapur makan roti gula..hey..

Dayang tepi kolam, mahu jemur tepung

Datang burung hitam patuk batang hidung hidung hidung...

This is the nursery rhyme that I told u about..

 it is called Sing a Song of Sixpence (Blackbirds Baked in A Pie)

Sing a song of sixpence a pocketful of rye,

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie,

When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,

Oh wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?

The king was in his counting house counting out his money

The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey

The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,

When down comes a blackbird and pecked off her nose.

This nursery rhyme was published around 1744 and it was among the earliest nursery rhyme ever created..Awesome right?

I just found out later on that the rhyme includes happier endings for the maid:

They sent for the king's doctor,
who sewed it on again,
he sewed it on so neatly,
the seam was never seen.

This verse wasn’t included in its original version though.

A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie

A Pocket Full of Rye, Chapter 14

When I was a kid I used to keep wondering everything about the song. Why 3 kupang?why 6 birds?Is it some sort of code or something?the birds that are singing later on, they obviously are not the same birds that ‘masuk dalam kuali’ right?why are they singing when their same species were cooked?why not the king lives in a castle? And etc...

(hmm.. must be one complicated ‘budak kecik’ who always questions unnecessary things.)

But then, as I grow up.. Everything gets answered on its own... it just a song.. People can be creative and who cares whether it’s ‘istana’ or ‘rumah’, 3 kupang or 4 kupang or 5 kupang or..etc...as long as the song sounds good...
(^_^)...