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Feb 18, '08 5:25 AM
for everyone

Second installment to my pictographic diary about Bawm life.

Keep on supporting my efforts by leaving your valuable comments.

A Lone Sailor On the Sangu
4 Comments

Food for Thought

A Vanishing Lifestyle
2 Comments

Barren Hills

Cai
4 Comments

Vhak Thau Sariak

Fuel For Wood

Lung Mai Chang Beckons

The Menu

Plank in the White

Khuri in the Cave

A Beached Carcass

The Old Storyteller

Dangerous Vocations

A Sleeping Worshipper

Left to Fallow

Till Death Do Us Apart

The Sage

Whew That Was Tough

It's Puan Time

The Essence of A Paiper

Whispering Death

An Endless Persuit For Perfection

Thoughtful Presence

Melancholy

A Bygone Era
2 Comments

Timeless
9 Comments

A Helping Hand

Counting Time

Search For The Right Materials

Delight

Reflection of Passion
2 Comments

Natural (36).JPG

A Village Called Basatlang

I Delight In The Search of God

Last of Genus

A Hungry Worshipper

Music Of The Heart

Sangu Beckons

Where Art Thou
3 Comments

Search For A Golden Heart
2 Comments

Goodwill Crafting

Afflicted Intelligence

Sumvel Pa in Panorama

A Journey, A Tale

Amidst Whiteness (edited)
4 Comments

Lung Mai Chang Beckons

Source of the Poly

Sumvel Pa Lum Puk
2 Comments

Groves

Where Khuris Live
1 Comment

Plantation

Flowing Rapids

Darkness Beckons

Zoomic Destruction

Polymorphic

The Earth Cries Out

A Lonely Branch in Heaven

A View To A Termination

Lonely Hill

Life

Natural Beauty
2 Comments

Two Drops That Give Life

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Polymorphysis
2 Comments

A Vanishing Lifestyle

Whispering Lullabye

Barely Alive

Where To Sailor

The Table Goes Red

Whites in the Wild

Reflective Surface

Tags: anthropology, banderban, bawm, cultures, nature

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52 CommentsChronological Reverse Threaded

jlamaria wrote on Feb 18, '08

Excellent photography... this is the only way we now know to preserve the indigenous culture...

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pinknailzz wrote on Feb 18, '08

Woah, this looks really great!

kidae71 wrote on Feb 19, '08

wow.. love this photo so much.. so nat geo!!!

kidae71 wrote on Feb 19, '08

I love this pic too, bring peace to our soul!

kidae71 wrote on Feb 19, '08

all photos are beautifully taken, you put your heart in taking them..

kidae71 wrote on Feb 19, '08

even the rocks looks beautiful!!
I like all the photos! wonderful!!

pananaw wrote on Feb 19, '08

beautiful photos!
very inspiring!

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 19, '08

jlamaria said

Excellent photography... this is the only way we now know to preserve the indigenous culture...

Yes, and time maybe running out for some... thanks for droppin by.

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flyingzypher wrote on Feb 19, '08

pinknailzz said

Woah, this looks really great!

hey, thanx for droppin by, you're always an inspiration...

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 19, '08

kidae71 said

wow.. love this photo so much.. so nat geo!!!

*hehehe, I got to borrow my first issue of the National Geographic megazine as a budding 5 year old from my dad's study and it has never left me since.

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 19, '08

kidae71 said

I love this pic too, bring peace to our soul!

So, you like boats?

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 19, '08

kidae71 said

all photos are beautifully taken, you put your heart in taking them..

Thanks, I'm so happy u got to like them... every picture has within itself an essence which, permits a detached onlooker to connect with the prevailing emotions of the moment when the picture was taken...

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 19, '08

pananaw said

beautiful photos!
very inspiring!

Thanks for the vote!!!

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 19, '08

kidae71 said

even the rocks looks beautiful!!
I like all the photos! wonderful!!

I'm flattered!!!

2m79 wrote on Feb 20, '08

fantastic shot..beautiful !

2m79 wrote on Feb 20, '08

this is what you say Timeless! the composition and every detail is excellent. very authentic...oh, you have a beautiful penmanship !

2m79 wrote on Feb 20, '08

beautiful..can be a magazine cover !

2m79 wrote on Feb 20, '08

beautiful !

2m79 wrote on Feb 20, '08

wow! the color hues, pleasing to the eyes! beautiful shot!

2m79 wrote on Feb 20, '08

i like this one...so different and cool !

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 21, '08

2m79 said

fantastic shot..beautiful !

*hehe, thanks... i asked him to take me upstream to the Bazzar, he charged me 30 cents!!! It's actually hard work pushing loads upstream and it gets even more difficult during the wet season when the currents are forbidding.

pinknailzz wrote on Feb 21, '08

Hope your book comes out soon~

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 21, '08

2m79 said

this is what you say Timeless! the composition and every detail is excellent. very authentic...oh, you have a beautiful penmanship !

mmm, it's been like this for centuries... change has been slow over here, thankfully!!!

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 21, '08

2m79 said

beautiful..can be a magazine cover !

([:-} thanks, the Bawms call this particular basket, "Paiper"... used for hauling medium to small loads via a strap that rests on top the head, the basket is weaved with thin strips of bamboo cut out by the hand... some of the straps here are made of bark strips cut out from selective fauna.

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 21, '08

pinknailzz said

Hope your book comes out soon~

Hmmm, wat do u think? I was thinkin of going for a home grown publisher for this... i'm not sure whether The Straits Times Press and SPH would be willing to publish this genre...time for quick search in the yellow pages...

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 21, '08, edited on Feb 21, '08

2m79 said

beautiful !

We propped up this fire with the bamboo we gathered from the nearby forest... later on, we used the same to cook us dinner!!! I placed the body on a tripod for a seven second expsure at mid apperture.
Sumvel Pa in Bawm translates into "Sumvel's Father", in english... the cave is named after the man who discovered it... very much like other SE dialects the Bawms addresses ppl by clarifying their relation to their closest kin... for instance, if you were to address my father the correct way to go by it would be to call him, "Zia's father"... this cave was carved out of a steep sandstone incline by the incessant work of a stream that flows on its floor.

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 21, '08

2m79 said

i like this one...so different and cool !

This is definitely one of those chance shots, I was walking along a trail that runs along the stream floor to Elim when I accidentally came up on this... I had to take several exposures before finally getting it right.

crimsonbelt wrote on Feb 22, '08, edited on Feb 22, '08

nice and live photography!

flyingzypher wrote on Feb 22, '08

crimsonbelt said

nice and live photography!

{(:->) thanks...

danikook wrote on Jul 13, '08

A very powerful shot.

danikook wrote on Jul 13, '08

Wow. Amazing.

danikook wrote on Jul 13, '08

Very nice. NatGeo level.

danikook wrote on Jul 13, '08

Just passing by to admire your beautiful photos.

danikook wrote on Jul 13, '08

Timeless, indeed.

flyingzypher wrote on Jul 13, '08

danikook said

A very powerful shot.

One of those chance shots, definitely worth telling a story.

danikook wrote on Jul 13, '08

flyingzypher said

One of those chance shots, definitely worth telling a story.

Indeed.. I stared at the photo for a longer time to savour its strong message and story.. May you have many more photos that tell great stories..

flyingzypher wrote on Jul 13, '08

danikook said

Wow. Amazing.

Thanks, i think they were leaving it to fallow after cultivating cotton for a season.

flyingzypher wrote on Jul 13, '08

danikook said

Very nice. NatGeo level.

*hehe, thanks man, i'm also a nat geo fan, i started off with borrowed copies from my dads study, it's never left me since.

flyingzypher wrote on Jul 13, '08

danikook said

Timeless, indeed.

Thanks, please feel free to visit anytime.

danikook wrote on Jul 13, '08

flyingzypher said

Thanks, please feel free to visit anytime.

Pleasure is mine.. Thanks

aniaflorek wrote on Jul 28, '08

love your pictures !! :))

flyingzypher wrote on Jul 28, '08

aniaflorek said

love your pictures !! :))

Hey, thanks for droppin by!!!

crimsonbelt wrote on Oct 14, '08

outstanding photos!

flyingzypher wrote on Oct 14, '08

crimsonbelt said

outstanding photos!

Thanks Zoemies, it's great to hear from you, I've merged two seperate albums to one, in that way, I'm able to distinguish between those taken seperately.

filipeantunes wrote on Nov 13, '08

Great shot. Marvelous.

flyingzypher wrote on Nov 14, '08

filipeantunes said

Great shot. Marvelous.

Thank you!!

liangch wrote on Jan 15, '09

That is interesting.

flyingzypher wrote on Jan 18, '09

liangch said

That is interesting.

Thanks for dropping by, I appreciate your feedback. It's a mixed cotton plantation, about two kms away from the closest village. Villagers or plantation owners construct temporary huts such as these to support their planting and harvesting activities, they are also used as guard houses... although, theft in these parts is unheard of.