In my trip to the Ummatic week that been held on March I have a very fun moment because before this I just walk by and do not ask them a question, do not wear their clothes and do not taste their water and also cookies but this time, when I come I tried everything. I had a very fun moment there. To add, some of my foreigner friends also become the host of their house. This make me more happy. We have entered the house of China, Turki, Thailand, Filipina and India.
But the house that we are focusing on is Cambodia. This is because they are very friendly towards me and humble. We think that we are more close to them and moreover only they that can give us their precious time. The other house do not have people waiting there and some of them do not want to be interviewed for the sake of our assignment and blog. Maybe it is our fault that we cannot persuade them nicely and comtinuously. In Cambodia house, there are four persons that take in charge to guard there, they are Salmah, Yusoff, Ahmad and Simon. The three of them are Muslim but only Simon is Buddha. Actually he is not IIUM students but he just come to help his friends in order to introduce Cambodia to Malaysia students. He is an excellent students and still studying at UTP( Universiti Teknologi Petronas) and just 20 years old.
There we have been introduced their clothes, cookies, the states in Cambodia. We also been told about the percentage of Buddhist and Muslim there. I think this is the first time I know that in Cambodia there are a lot of Muslim there for about 90% of them meanwhile the Muslim there is about 10 milion people only. In Cambodia, the main religion is Buddhist and Islam become as the second religion. The most Malay in Cambodia been dwelled at Kampung Champa and there is a lot of mosques there.
As been told from Salmah, when in Cambodia if they want to wear the traditional clothes they have to open their hijab and scarf. This is because when they wear the traditional clothes with scarf, everybody will look at her twice. So, she have never wear their traditional clothes. When she saw us wearing the traditional clothes, she looked really happy because she never have the opportunity to wear the clothes. In Cambodia, the clothes for male is Krama. This clothes can be used for daily used. It been used for normal people and because it is easy to use.
Meanwhile the famous temple in Cambodia is of course Angkor Wat. At first, the temple is for Hinduism religion but after a great war it is been change to buddish religion by the “ raja” that is Siem reap.
The food of Cambodian is sweet based and the main food is rice just like Malaysia and their kind of cookies is also just like Malaysia but slightly different in making it.
As I remember, in my place most of Cambodia that come to our state, Pekan, Pahang know Bahasa Melayu really well. So they said that there is a village that is south of Cambodia named Kg Champa. Many of them can speak Bahasa Melayu very well. So, I ask all of them if any of them can speak Malay but there is one brother who was able to speak in Malay language that is Yusoff. This is because Yusoff taking Bahasa Melayu class in UIA. The rest of them cannot speak Malay.
So far, our interview session went very well for about 2 hours. After all I think this experience make me fresh and life.
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