A guy of poet :)

Whom I met last nite? Just someone. I salute this guy. He is so poetic and analytical. I rarely meet someone like him.  HaHa.. He explained about his interest in poetic kinda stuff, songs lyric, theatre and poem. Cool! U go boy!  I support you. And yeah I agree, in Brunei, its not that we do not have talented writers or composer, but the fact is, each of us might have thought about this, and knock knock, we do have talented writers, you yourself might even have write sumthing once or twice in your life and realizing there is no place for you to publish this. To publish yourself? You need to think about all the capital, marketing, target market, publishing and the list go on. To let publisher to publish? Look around you, how many organization publish your work and you get the royalty? Well, I guess the best you can go is DBP and, you won’t have any royalty, you will only get a one time payment, which is if you wanna know, is really really really tiny meeny bucks. The next place is Pelita Brunei and its not very encouraging :P Oops! Why did I say that? Because they limit what you write. I mean..hellew the ideas come and flowing without we knowing it, so??? How can you limit writers for writing stuff, no love, no war?? Ermm!! Wake up, that’s life. We write based on what we see, hear, experience, felt. =) some might be direct, some might not(metaphor), but the fact, it is unlimited and should not be control. Well, not to say, totally no control at all, but what I’m trying to say is, yes you control all the badword and stuff or issue that might be sensitive to certain part of the country but hellew, love story? Poems?war that we hear, see? The tears that we felt…. I guess that is sumthing that someone should write down.  But I can say that through out the years, it does improve, but limitation is there. So…open up PB 

Our next discussion is about book writing, regardless academically, fiction, non-fiction. I meant look around the bookshop, tips about this and that (tips how to be a successful owner manager), guide to exams and stuff, and look who is the writer and the publisher? 99.9% its overseas writer. Where is our book? We have our own tips? Our own values? Our own Bruneian ways of handling whatever thing, and where is the writing on this?? None. Its not because of no one ever think about it, or care to do it, but think about it. If you do it, where will u go for publishing? Publish yourself? Haha.. I ever thought about this when I start writing an academic book, because of this issue, I lose focus, and know my books abandon at its first phase  But I’m gonna continue tho’ :p I’m not good at writing story book but…I have interest in writing academic books of my field ;) Wish me luck.