Seriously one can easily got hooked by his heavy sarcasm and deliberate ultramundane on Malaysia's hottest, most sensitive mine fields, frequent over edged repertoire of caricatures, seemingly denigratory gestures which has made him lived up to his reputation as one of the most forefront think tank in modern social circumstances at the time. 

 
A fucking smoker, puffing sarcasm everywhere.
Artist, film-maker and former political prisoner, Hishamuddin Rais called himself NGI ( Non Governmental Individual), and who also the owner of Tukar Tiub, part comedy, part satire, part jokes, and part political commentary blog of one of a kind Hisahmuddin's experimental genre in manifestation. In less than two years the blog  had almost nine million unique hits. Certainly he got the perfect temperature on the nations's nerves. People worshipped him as the voice for the voiceless. Interesting enough, in mid-1970s, the 20 years old Hishamuddin Rais already cultivated an fetishsm of radicalism in anything coming near his brain, with a prominent and conscious decision he became active member of Kelab Socialis,UM.


He too underwent hectic Form6 period with readings Like Opinion featuring many opposition's leader articles and writings, Malcolm X and left wing writes like Dr.Tan Che Khoon. (Well, I have no idea how lefty he was but he is a noble figure of humanism.) Hishamuddin is certainly a champion in spewing excoriation on the face of wrongly veered society. Elected Secretary General of now banned University of Malaya Students Union (UMSU) in 1973. Left Malaysia in 1974 after a huge student demonstration now historically known as The Baling Peasant Protest 1974. This was when the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA) was amended again. Then he ran away from Malaysia to study French Language at University Catholic of Leuven la Neuve 1984. Studied Arts at Brixton College London. Graduated in film and video from University of Westminster London 1992. He returned to Malaysia in 1994 and became a freelance writer who was once again active in politics.


In his 20 years of exile, which took him through more then 30 countries! Lebanon was followed by stints in Jordan, Iraq, Australia and Pakistan – where he helped Iranian exiles out to topple the Shah. He was the runaway Che Guevara of Malaysia, making me wonder, at a robust age of 20, it would be wise to make adept of Sun Tzu's final resort. Nothing is wrong when you're under insane oppression of government's nuisance, it's getting your nose. ''Upon his return to the homeland after 20 years of exile, he was very much still a rebel at his heart.'', Andrew Sia. ( Here )


Interview : Hishamuddin Rais on ISA, Sex and Duck Rice. And wassup with that apparel of sorry tatterdemalion?


When asked how was it like to be in ISA detention upon his arrival in the embrace of the nation's arms, Hishamuddin Rais gave yet another sarcasm into the face of his incarceration in Kamunting camp, ''The thing I remember most about the time was looking at the lock on my cell and observing how small it was - and yet so impossible to overcome!''. Obviously his socialist mind has yet to amend from his budding age in tertiary institution, where about the passionate fighter explained '' I engaged my mind much more than what Lennon was doing with Yoko Ono.” Very charming quote, Mr Rais.


It might be a very interesting lightbulb to be light up when it comes to the question of W's. A spark to be embraced, what stoked his passion to the cause? And why?


“It was a combination of ideology and also the knowledge we had about what was going on. Corruption was rampant and poverty was widespread. In parts of the country like Baling, there was even starvation,” explains Bhaskaran Subramaniam, Hisham's comrade in the Socialist Club.
“Information on this was suppressed by politicians and the media. When we told other students about this, they were shocked and angry. They asked how this could happen in Malaysia,” adds the lecturer and management trainer. So could I make a simple assumption why most of the students too are in mirror of such stereotypical activism? Opps, the answer is too obvious. Need not me to add a little spicy metaphor, be clear with your mind, the answer is there all this long.


Certainly his writes worth a reading, and when it comes to the socio-political free mundane of life - Food!
A sangfroid Kolaj by the goat-man
In 2010, he penned his worthy affections for foods around Malaysia into a travel styled collection named Tapai, which stems more or less an par excellence to his socialist stature in general. RM40-50 is the price to share all the authentic Malaysian foods' hideouts from this ulam lover. Generally believed his is partly goat for his excessive crush for ulam.








According to Malaysian reader, the bad part of the book lies all in his ventripotence for alcohol. He drinks like a fish and is not ashamed about it. Well, I suppose we have to applaud him for his honesty. From Tiger Beer to Chateau  Whatever 1972, he’s gulped them all. He even had red wine when he stopped for a satay feast in Keramat and begrudgingly swallows boiled water while in Trengganu, which he calls a ‘dry state’.  A self confessed “born again agnostic”, Hishamuddin detests art exhibits that do not serve free alcohol. But he takes the Eid celebration seriously, though. Not for the religious significance but for the tapai which her sister makes for the occasion. ( Here )

Despite a mix of coprolalia and logorrhea in common, Hishamuddin Rais is a drastically maniloquent composure in the field with his one of a kind way to reach the nerves of society. He is an alternate alexipharmic, and not recommended for constant use by weak minds. But I wondered what would he says on the coming/ upcoming/ expected to come brady-gaited but certainly not on March 8th.   With his sense of humor, politics in Malaysia is getting a brush up, no yuppie pretentious and not too dry like Martini. Maybe I would say, if he isn't the most modernized caveman, he would be the most sophisticated Pak Lebai of all time.



12:39am , 1st of Jan 2011,  C!<