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BUDDHIST 1
This is my experience during my time in the National Service (NS) or in Bahasa Malaysia it is also known as the ‘Program Khidmat Negara’(PKN). Initially, I only assumed that almost all Chinese in Malaysia are Christians. I was lucky that I met some friendly Chinese friends during my stay for this programme. I tried to be friendly with them, and after we had a few short conversations, I knew that there are still many Chinese who professes Buddhism. After a few weeks in camp, I had bravely asked one of my Chinese friends about his religion. He is a Buddhist. He occasionally went to the temple with other Buddhists due to the rules which states that all trainees must perform obedience to their religion. I asked him how many times he had been to temples for any religious rites since he was born. He told me that he had been to temples about 4 times before, including an additional 3 times in National Service Program. I was surprised on his daily life as a Buddhist. Then he asked me about Islam. I tried to answer very carefully and I understood his curiosity in asking. Finally he came to this question, “if Muslims are asked to do their prayer 5 times per day, why there is still many of them (he was referring to some NS trainees in our room) are not observing their daily prayers?”.
A few weeks then, after the Chinese New Year holidays, he came back to camp bringing with him many books that was written in Chinese handwriting/cursive. During every leisure time, he will read the books. My first impression on his actions were: I think that he was reading novels from the cover of the books. Then, I asked him what kind of the books that he read. He told me, “This is Buddhism Book”. The statement had attracted me to know more about the books. When I asked him about the books, he said that many philosophies about what humans must do in their life are widely explained and elaborated.
BUDDHIST 2
One Saturday evening in the 20th August 2005, an old man who was about 74 years old had asked me at which counter can he buy tickets to Singapore. We were at Pudu Bus Station. After I answered his question, I couldn’t resist the temptation to chat with him. In our conversation, I knew that he was a Vietnamese and his religion is Buddhism. Then, I asked him about the holy book in his religion. Upon this part, I couldn’t catch up with his pronounciation clearly although he had recited it 3 times; maybe he had said: ‘ Vietnam’s Buddhist Book’ and ‘Thai Buddhism Book’. But I didn’t want to waste my time on thinking of the names of those books as he was having difficulties to pronounce them clearly, so I proceed to asked him what are the permissions and prohibitions in Buddism. During this stage, he did not understands my question, so I tried to repeat and also change the structure of the question until he understood. He replied by saying that as a Buddhist, he must perform good behaviour with other people and by not doing anything bad. When I wanted to ask more, his friend came and told him something that I didn’t want to know. He said to me he must leave quickly. So our chat/conversation ended there.
HINDU
On 20th August 2005, I met an old woman on a bus that went to Sabak Bernam and Teluk Intan. She tried to chat with me at first, and from there, I could see that she was a friendly person. So I continued chatting with her in/regarding general matters like on her family and her life. After a few short conversations, I tried to ask about her religion. Dash! Her face changed abruptly and she frowned as if she had something heavy in her mind, but, she answered my question nevertheless, and told me that her religion is Hindu. I proceeded the conversation with me questioning her about the holy books in her religion. She didn’t answer my question, but merely turned her head to the opposite direction. I repeated my question and tried to make it light by adding, “Is your religion using books like in the Hindustan movies?”. She smiled and said, “No, that is another type of Hinduism in India”. “So what books do you read?,” I asked her again. “I don’t know because I don’t read any”. “Ok, I understand”. So how about your religion’s celebration?” I tried asking her again but she started doing the same thing like what she did before; turning her head to the opposite direction. Her actions did little to discourage me and I tried again, “Ermm… do you celebrate Deepavali, Thaipusam, Wesak etc…”. She followed what I said, “Yes, Deepavali, Thaipusam, Wesak…ehh… don’t celebrate Wesak day. That is a Buddhist’s celebration.”
I stopped to ask about her religion when I realized that she is not very comfortable with all the questions on religious matters that I have been asking. The idea of her having to answer my questions for many times did not entertain her. Our conversation finished/ended there.
