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Tamparuli Sabah - A place to visit

Tamparuli Sabah was known as an old town rich with cultural value and fascinating places. The town located in the middle of Tuaran District, 36KM from the main city of Kota Kinabalu, easy to be found and a lot of surprises waiting for the visitors. The visitor will be fascinated with The Extreme Para Gliding Sport, The legendary of “Bukit Perahu”, Hatob-hatob Waterfall, Hanging Bridge and The Old Suspension Bridge Made by the British in the early 50s, The one and only "The Upside House Of Borneo" and Chantek Borneo Gallery if you visit Tamparuli Sabah. ( Please read more inside this website). For local tourist who likes to travel outside Malaysia, you can e-mail to D7tours and Travel Co through Harry.george@gmail.com. For International tourist who wish to visit Sabah The Land Below The Wind, you can e-mail or call to our correspondent travel agency:

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Happy Halloween, All souls Day and Graveyard Prayer



Happy Halloween 2013


- In my tradition as Dusun Origin from Tamparuli Sabah we pray for our relatives who have died and visited their grave yard at the end of October and Pray for "All Souls Day" on November 2. Halloween have connection with this two fact and celebrated from all over the world. Happy Halloween 2013 -

History of Halloween

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31.  The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.

Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"). 
The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.

The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. These are additional attributes of the history of Halloween.

Masks and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease them.

Trick-or-treating, is an activity for children on or around Halloween in which they proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as confectionery with the question, "Trick or treat?" The "trick" part of "trick or treat" is a threat to play a trick on the homeowner or his property if no treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters.

The history of Halloween has evolved.  The activity is popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and due to increased American cultural influence in recent years, imported through exposure to US television and other media, trick-or-treating has started to occur among children in many parts of Europe, and in the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran, Akaria compounds and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia. The most significant growth and resistance is in the United Kingdom, where the police have threatened to prosecute parents who allow their children to carry out the "trick" element. In continental Europe, where the commerce-driven importation of Halloween is seen with more skepticism, numerous destructive or illegal "tricks" and police warnings have further raised suspicion about this game and Halloween in general.

In Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts, the night designated for Trick-or-treating is often referred to as Beggars Night.

Part of the history of Halloween  is Halloween costumes. The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages, and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering, whining], like a beggar at Hallowmas."

Yet there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in America, and trick-or-treating may have developed in America independent of any Irish or British antecedent. There is little primary Halloween history documentation of masking or costuming on Halloween in Ireland, the UK, or America before 1900. The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go street guising (see below) on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs. Another isolated reference appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920. The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating. Ruth Edna Kelley, in her 1919 history of the holiday, The Book of Hallowe'en, makes no mention of such a custom in the chapter "Hallowe'en in America." It does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the earliest known uses in print of the term "trick or treat" appearing in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939. Thus, although a quarter million Scots-Irish immigrated to America between 1717 and 1770, the Irish Potato Famine brought almost a million immigrants in 1845-1849, and British and Irish immigration to America peaked in the 1880s, ritualized begging on Halloween was virtually unknown in America until generations later.

Trick-or-treating spread from the western United States eastward, stalled by sugar rationing that began in April 1942 during World War II and did not end until June 1947.

Early national attention to trick-or-treating was given in October 1947 issues of the children's magazines Jack and Jill and Children's Activities, and by Halloween episodes of the network radio programs The Baby Snooks Show in 1946 and The Jack Benny Show and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1948. The custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952, when Walt Disney portrayed it in the cartoon Trick or Treat, Ozzie and Harriet were besieged by trick-or-treaters on an episode of their television show, and UNICEF first conducted a national campaign for children to raise funds for the charity while trick-or-treating.

Jack O'Lantern

Trick-or-treating on the prairie. Although some popular histories of Halloween have characterized trick-or-treating as an adult invention to re-channel Halloween activities away from vandalism, nothing in the historical record supports this theory. To the contrary, adults, as reported in newspapers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, typically saw it as a form of extortion, with reactions ranging from bemused indulgence to anger. Likewise, as portrayed on radio shows, children would have to explain what trick-or-treating was to puzzled adults, and not the other way around. Sometimes even the children protested: for Halloween 1948, members of the Madison Square Boys Club in New York City carried a parade banner that read "American Boys Don't Beg."

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Good Morning Sunday


Hello good morning, peace be upon us. What a lovely Sunday to rest with family and relatives. The weekend schedule is a little bit pack with family activity. How about the life my fellow friends and readers?. What a wonderful country.... Peace and God protect our beloved country of Sabah and Malaysia. Have a nice weekend and God speed. 


Kundasang Ranau Sabah


Harry George
Co-Founder: www.tamparulisabah.com and Star Stream Group


Ethnicity, religion are separate and far apart

Ethnicity, religion are separate and far apart 
By: Tan Sri Panglima Herman Luping 

Reading the comments made by various people - Muslims and Non-Muslims - regarding the separation of ethnic origin and religion, it seems that the majority are in favour of distinguishing separating ethnicity and religion - that the two must not be confused as one.

If your religion is Islam, then you are Islam, and follows all the precepts of that religion. But if at the same time, your ethnic origin is say, Kadazan, then you belong to this particular ethnic group or community and whether the Kadazan's religion is Islam or Christian, it really does not matter.

His religion does not alter his ethnicity.

This is the view of the Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman in a statement. His statement made it clear that the Mufti spoke on his own and was "out of turn" in his views on the matter.

This is also the considered opinion of one Kadazandusun Muslim leader, Datuk Masidi Manjun. He is reported to have said that ethnicity and religion should not be confused. And I agree with him.

The confusion came from the suggestion of the State Mufti - Bungsu @Aziz Jaafar who called for a programme to 'Malaynise" Sabah's indigenous Muslims. He made this suggestion at the symposium discussing the Malay leadership Crisis in Putrajaya where he said many indigenous Muslims in Sabah still refused to call themselves Malay. "We need a programme to meMelayukan (make Malay) these Malay tribes - "For the sake of the Malay Muslim community, these Malay tribes who are already Muslims must be made Malay", he said.

He also made a stupid assumption of the "Kadazan which according to him was an "allegedly "invented" ethnic group made of non-Muslim Dusun people who are mostly Catholics".

I will comment on his allegation that the term Kadazan is an "invented" ethnic group of non-Muslim Dusun who are mostly Catholics" later.

It deserves a longer comment.

His suggestion to "meMelayukan these Malay tribes" for the Malay Muslim communities - and I supposed this include the Bajau and Suluk communities who are mostly Muslims - received rebuttals from various ethnic leaders.

Two of them I have already mentioned - that of the Chief Minister and Datuk Masidi Manjun - a Kadazandusun born Muslim from Ranau. Their suggestion that ethnicity and religion should not mixed or be confused is the most reasoned views and deserves our support. For indeed, our leaders must make reasonable suggestions devoid of emotionalism.

The views expressed by the PBS leaders - Datuk Johnny Mositiun and Datuk Herbert Lagadan also deserve our attention and support.

Both have expressed a fear that this proposed programme to meMalayukan the Malay tribes could heralds misunderstanding amongst the various indigenous communities in Sabah.

UPKO's youth chief, Ewon Benedict who accused the Mufti's suggestion as a total disregard to racial harmony in Sabah. He questioned the Mufti's motives as "politically motivated and part of a plan to change the demographical landscape in Sabah that was started during the era of the USNO government".

"It is also confirmed now that an Islamisation programme in the 1970s was implemented to change the State's demography and making Islam the official religion of the State as the Mufti himself admitted", he continued.

That nearly all Sabah indigenous leaders in Sabah do not agree or support the "programme" by the Mufti bodes well for the future wellbeing of the State.

1Malaysia is still the catch call, the number one agenda for and of the people.

And the fear that the Mufti's motivation might have a hidden agenda - to change the demography of the State and nation, does not really holds.

I have read it somewhere and also heard from many sources, that the demography of Sabah has been changing for more than 100 years.

The large and extensive hitherto unpatrolled border between Sabah and its near neighbours, have made the "borders" very "porous" and easy to enter by people from the other side of the border and this has been going on for ages.

The North Borneo Chartered Company government actually welcomed these people to come and "help built" the State - as man power was needed to work in the plantations (rubber) and also in the construction works.

This process has been going on for years - and not just in 1970s.

Perhaps in the 1970s, the process was accelerated for various reasons, mostly political as one Professor, Dr Karmal Sadiq of the University of California, wrote recently; but it has been going on for years. And if there were people who called themselves "Malay" because they are Muslims and fit the definition of what constitutes a Malay in accordance with article 160 of the Federal Constitution, then so be it.

He is a Malay. Such a person is the former Prime Minister - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed. I have read about him and also what other people - mostly his detractors called him - that he should be an Indian by ethnicity.

But he preferred to identify himself as a Malay and to me, in all his dealings as a politician and leader, he spoke for the Malay and Malay unity.

Surely there is nothing wrong with this. It is only when we become bigoted and narrow minded in our attitude about our origin and religion must we become alarm. It does not auger well for the future of the country.

Further more, It is clear now that the Mufti was speaking on his own behalf and not on behalf of any one else. The Chief Minister made it very clear that the State BN government under him does not tolerate the Mufti's suggestion to "meMalayukan" Sabah native Muslims. In any case, he, the Mufti also ridiculed and made slur remarks about the Kadazandusun leaders who are the coalition partners of the Sabah BN coalition government. For the Mufti to say that the term "Kadazan" is an invented Dusun race does not only show ignorance on his part but also a great insult to the Kadazandusun indigenous community.

The term Kadazan is the original name of the community from the Nunuk Ragang days. It means the "people" and the term is used in the Bobohizan incantations or rinait - prayers. In fact, in the Penampang district in which the term Kadazan has been in use since time immemorial, there are two types of Bobohizan - Kadazan and Tangaah.

Tangaah is the tribal name of the people in Penampang and Papar districts.

The orher tribes of the same speech- community now referred to as the Kadazandusun, are: Rungus, (Matunggung) Kimaragang (Kota Merudu-Pitas) Liwan (Ranau and Tambunan) Kwijau (Keningau) Lotud (Tuaran-Temparuli), Tindal (Tempasuk) Bongi (Banggi), Tatanah (Kuala Penyu) Bisaya (Klias) and many more subtribes. All these people speak the same language.

Differentiated only by the dialects they use.

What is new is the term "dusun" and it is not even a race.

It was used by the Brunei overlords as a slur word for the Kadazan of Penampang. I have written about this before.

For the Mufti to say that the term Kadazan is "invented" and was meant largely for the Catholics is, as I said, not only due to ignorance on his part about the native indigenous communities of Sabah but I am afraid an insult to the Kadazandusun leaders, the Huguan Siou, Tan Sri Joeph Pairin Kitingan and more more, amongst them, the great Kadazandusun leader (a Kwijau) the late Sodomon Gunsanad - who happens to be also the direct ancestor of the present Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman. And yes, Musa is Muslim, but he is also part Kadazandusun - belonging to the Kwijau tribe.

Some one also mentioned about the " mass conversion" or pangislaman in the 70s and early 80s. I only have this to say. The great Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Prime Minister, questioned that "episode" and called it "farcical" to a group of us who went to see him. And there was a judge from Kelantan - a very devout Muslim who told us a peculiar experience he encountered in Sabah.

He told us that he was driving on his way to the interior one day.

He saw a man wearing a Malay Songkok carrying a live pig in a cage.

He stopped to ask him why he was wearing a Songkok and whether he was a Muslim, and was told that he got the hat together with a sarong and shirt from an organisation.

He was told that the hat and sarong was his uniform.

He said he is not a Muslim! I think this encounter with the judge and the man wearing a Songkok speaks volumes about the so-called "mass conversion".

What I know about this episode is that the "culprits" who were in the forefront of the so-called "mass conversion" were the newly converts who had agendas of their own. Enough said. This episode is treated elsewhere by writers and this is now part of Sabah's history.

Daily Express Newspaper

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