Monday, October 21, 2013

Hank's book launch.

21.10.2013.

This Sunday 10th. November Hank has invited me to the Lake Club for his book's launching - I'm looking forward to it, except I've also signed up for my golf club's monthly medal the same day. So I might be a bit late, but better late than never, they say. I didn't think Hank had it in him, but I suppose you can't know about everything in a friend. He has mentioned something about poetry before, but I've not registered it. So this is it, eh ?

I've been thinking about writing years ago, after I'd started working, and in fact I enrolled in a writing correspondent course and had  submitted a first, and last, assignment. I just lost interest, although the first comments returned to me was encouraging. Over the years I've collected several books on essay and short-story writing, but I've not actually sat down to pore over them. Maybe after this I might just do that.

I remember writing several Malay "sajaks" while in school and just after the SPM, but the late Dr. Anuar Arai took them and never returned them to me. He was also into "sajak" then. In fact he went on to do his PhD in Theatre or something. He taught at one of the local universities until retirement and passed away some years ago.

Hank says in his invitation card "Rainbow poetry and prose". So he's got both forms in the same book. Let's see how it turns out. I wish him all the best. I hope he's an inspiration.

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