2019/09/12

Dear everyone, Today I would like to share my trip along with two other fellow Malaysian students to the grave of Nik Yusof Bin Nik Ali, one of the Malaysian victims of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima in 6th August 1945. Ironically, the late Nik Yusof was an acquaintance of my wife's grandfather which replace himself as he was not able to further his study in Hiroshima due to circumstances at that time. Nik Yusof, along with Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, another fellow countrymen journeyed to...

DAILY LIFE · 2019/07/31

Hi everyone! Hope you're having a great day. Just want to share to you some information regarding the town where I live in right now; Saijou. One of the reasons why I choose to further my study in Hiroshima University is due to the location of the university, which is in the rural area. It really reminds me of my hometown back in Teluk Intan, Perak. But even so, the inhabitants of Saijou are not as recent as you think. There are signs of earlier settlement around the area such as Mitsushiro...

STUDENT LIFE · 2019/07/05

I would like to share my experience and little about my graduate school in Hiroshima University. As of now, I am still a first year PhD student in the Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Science since last October. It has been almost year now and I have learned a lot of things through my weekly seminar under the guidance of my supervisor Aoki Takao sensei. My focus in my study is to compare Noh and Mak Yong performing arts through Motion Capture technology. I am really glad that as I entered...

CULTURE · 2019/06/17

Noh, a 650 years old tradition is one of the world's greatest treasure, still going strong against the test of time. On 27th of May 2019, I had another opportunity to watch Noh and Kyogen in Aster Plaza, Hiroshima City. This would be my third time of watching Noh and my second time of watching Kyogen. What's interesting is this time around I get to see both Kyogen and Noh at the back to back for the very first time. Previously I had watched Kyogen's 'Rokunin Jizo' or 'Six Jizo' performed by...