Will Gawai and Kaamantan ever be recognised as national public holidays
SO this year I can’t go back to Sarawak to visit my in-laws for Gawai again because I caught the flu over the weekend (and lost my voice) and am still recovering. Not exactly in shape for festivities, so I am properly bummed out. I haven’t gone back to my wife’s longhouse since 2019. If the...
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The Malaysian Insight
2023
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| Summary: | SO this year I can’t go back to Sarawak to visit my in-laws for Gawai again because I caught the flu over the weekend (and lost my voice) and am still recovering.
Not exactly in shape for festivities, so I am properly bummed out.
I haven’t gone back to my wife’s longhouse since 2019.
If there’s one thing about Gawai I tell those who have yet to experience it, it is this: whatever you learnt in school is barely the tip of the iceberg of the real party that goes on. |
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