After five years and one crazy pandemic, Kantah Kristang is back, with two original compositions ja skribeh prumiru na nus sa linggu mai.
Ja bai na rentu? Have you gone within? Bida mutu tantu trabalu; life has been difficult for everyone around the world, and my journey has been no different, a struggle with my own mental health and the long-term effects of sexual, emotional and institutional abuse. But there has been hope as well, and these two songs are meant to duel with and connect to each other and all of the above, as one would expect in a normal Kristang Mata Kantiga within one song.
KANTIGA DI MUNDU RENTU
Bersu 1:
Kora yo krensa
Jenti impodih intindeh
Kifoi yo sa saiki
ja impoku diferenti kriseh
Tantempu yo nteh palabra
Nteh forsa gadrah onsong
Mistih brigah
Pra mostrah yo sa korsang teng bong
Korus:
Sertu teng midu
Sertu kaminyu lonzi
Sertu fila-filu di mundu tudu pun podih
Sertu teng bergonya
Sertu teng trabalu
Nang asih, fikah pesua
Sertu bai na rentu
Bersu 2:
Kora yo mestri
Studanti impodih kriseh
Kifoi olotu sa saiki
Ngka sabeh klai rakuleh
Prumiru yo nteh amostra
Ngka sabeh klai andah bong
Bagah prendeh
Klai bai buskah tudu sa song
Bersu 3: Kora teng naki
Yo impodih skundeh
Kifoi isti saiki
Ta mutu tantu diferenti kureh
Membes yo nteh speransa
Nadi olah seu
Aguentah!
Isti tudu jenti presizu
Kantiga di Mundu Rentu / Song of the Inner World is dedicated to the first and greatest of all Kodrah Kristang teachers, Mr Bernard Stephen Mesenas (1938-2021).
BERSU DI KUARTU
Kabesa di ila
Komprador bai na mar
Nusenti di lunga
Animu beng di strela
Saiki animu
Saiki birah mundu
Saiki alebah,
alegrah ardansa
Nubu ja chegah
Mistih trukah andasang:
mulera, korpu
saiki kung korasang
Armador gadrah
Beng konselu
Fitiseru kantah
Trukah-trukah diabu
Anju, rejidor
astrang, marineru
Desperadu, jaga
brigador, stranjeru
Mbai
Mbai lonzi
Ja beng
Ja beng berdadi
Saiki kaminyu
Saiki andah nubu
Saiki, impeh
Kriseh, bibeh
Sandeh fogu, ja kemah Mistih buskah fortidang
Mulera, korpu,
saiki kung korasang
Korasang animu
Korasang nubu
Bersu di Kuartu / Verse of the Four is dedicated to my great-grandfather, Mr Frederick Joseph Rowsing Martens (1888-1944), pianist and conductor of the Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore, which formerly was located on the site of today's Singapore National Gallery.
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