The Jacks of all trades of Ba Kelalan
By Carolyn Hong
September 2015 FOOTPRINTS
Living in a near-isolated village means one has to acquire a myriad of skills.Looking up at the high roofs of Ba Kelalan’s many churches – with their exposed rafters forming intricate patterns – it doesn’t seem possible that they had been built entirely by hand.Yet, they were. These huge churches, which can seat up to 2,000 people, were built by the villagers based on experience and, well, just figuring it out as they went along. As school teacher Sang Sigar...
Carolyn Hong
lives in Ba Kelalan sometimes, in KL sometimes. A former journalist who once chased the big stories for a regional newspaper, she now hunts for the small stories in Malaysia’s smallest places.
