Childhood Games

Badau talks about childhood games and making toys in the Ba Kelalan dialect of Lun Bawang. The recording was made in Buduk Nur on 1st November 2017.

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00:00:01uih mada' cerita kerab kai suut
ok, I'm going to tell a story about when we were young

00:00:05a luk kaya' kai
we didn't have any toys

00:00:07naru' senapang sendiri rat ku bulu'
we made our own guns out of bamboo

00:00:11kai nalap laa bukuh, laa kertas
we collected extra books, extra paper

00:00:19anun-anun pakai kai ku kaya' kai
we used whatever we could find as our toys

00:00:24a kai miek mele kapal maun
we couldn't buy toy planes back then

00:00:27kai naru' kapal sendiri pakai tana' sia'
we made our own planes from clay

00:00:32pakai botol kai naru' burur ieh
we used a bottle to make the body

00:00:38dih naru' ilad ieh pakai kayuh
then we made the wings from sticks

00:00:41dih pakai kai meraut
and we used that to play

00:00:45inan suleng senapang uen kai maun to'
we also had another gun that we used

00:00:48senapang sit
an air rifle

00:00:54dih kai lamud bua' ladeh
we mixed chilli

00:00:56kerab kai meraut kai ngelamud bua' ladeh
we mixed chilli when we played

00:00:58dih kai nguwit bua' ladeh dih
and we took that chilli

00:00:59dih kai mecit dih nan kawan kai
and we squeezed it near our friends' eyes

00:01:02keneh mateh
if it gets in their eyes

00:01:03nangi'
they cry

00:01:04sama, a luk kidih gula' kai maun
before, we didn't have any sweets

00:01:11kai ngalap gula tefuh luk rat kedai dih
we got sugarcane from the shops

00:01:18dih kai nelau' ih bang tin
and we made it hot in a tin

00:01:20pengeh kai nelau' ih bang tin
after we heated it in the tin

00:01:22dih kai nalap suleng usi'
we got a toothpick

00:01:24dih kai lulun-lulun gula dih su dih
and then we roll the sugar on it

00:01:27dih kai naru' ih bang raun baung
then we but it on a banana leaf

00:01:29metueh ieh
when it's hard

00:01:29dih ko nalan luun tana'
then you walk around

00:01:31ana'-ana' ko nimet ieh
proudly holding it

00:01:32inan gula uih kedeh
saying you have sweets

00:01:34neh mo'
that's the end