Bugis by Alfian Sa'at is mainly about pretending issue within Salmah, who wearing 'tudung' after she saw

a guy name Sazalie at one place. Well, she is not being the truth on what she supposed to be and it is such not a good example to the readers. It clearly show that she make the tudung as her toy, which, she will wear it anytime as her wish. She also can be considered as hypocrite due to that. She never thought that if Sazalie know that she is just pretending by wearing tudung because of him, maybe Salmah will be rejected by Sazalie. Meanwhile, as for Muslim, she suppose to wear it as it is demand in our religion and there is no excuses on that.

B ugis is a short story writted byAlfian Sa atwho is the famouse Singaporean author. My lecture had give us a task to predict what will happened after the narrator pull Salmah's hair. Well, i think maybe Sazalie will left her because she had cheating on him, and maybe he will find another girlfriend. She pretend like a good girl by wearing tudung, but the truth is she just pretending. Salmah and the narrator maybe not be a best friend anymore after the incident. It's not easy to forgive someone that ever embarrased us in front of the person that we love, but like people said, time heals everything.. And perhaps, after the incident Salmah will learn that pretending will jeopardize everything, her love, friendship, and her pride.

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Bugis by Alfian Saat We had discussed this story of Bugis on Friday, 16 January 2009. The characters of this story are Salmah, a narrator which is Salmahs friend and Sazalie. This story took place at MRT station and also Bugis Street. The story is about a narrator, who is jealous with her friend which is Salmah. She is jealous because Salmah had a boyfriend name Sazalie who she had feelings to. A narrator feels that Salmah is a pretentious wearing tudung because before this Salmah never used to wear and within one month, Salmah wearing her tudung. She also feels that Salmah is pretentious because Salmah is wearing tudung but she still hold her boyfriends hand. She also said that she feeling sick of pretending. She was angry because Sazalie did not realized that she falls in love with Sazalie. At last, a narrator pull Salmahs tudung from her head. But Salmahs tudung is crumpled and silent in her hands. In my opinion, not all people who are wearing tudung are a good person but a good person must wearing tudung and people also sometimes pretending in any aspects.

In the short story of Bugis written by Alfian Saat shows about the issue of pretending. As a human we need to pretend for various reasons. In the story the narrator speaks to herself the reason for the whole world has to pretend. Firstly, about Salmah that becoming very religious all of sudden. Then, the pondan and the Bangladeshi workers .The Bugis Street also have been seen pretending not to be the place it once was before. From my point of view in the story, the narrator also pretend even she looks as Salmah friend at last she expose about Salmah. In contrast, I often think what will be to human life without pretending. It will seem as unaccomplished.

Bugis offers a reflection on the gap between appearance and substance, not so much in an ironic sense as in a profound awareness of the futility of pretence. Irony is more evident in the case of Salim, a young student and the main character in the story called Project, who refuses to protect a frightened boy from another ethnic group from a harsh beating by his mother. Somehow, the school project that preoccupies Salim and his cronies, as well as their enthusiasm for coke and french fries, pales in significance when compared to the mistreatment and suffering of a fellow young Singaporean. The theme of sexual ambiguity returns in the final story of Alfians collection, just entitled Disco. However, Alfian Saat is not the only young Singaporean author to pursue issues of ennui, social divergence, and unconventionality in his fiction. So, too, does Claire Tham, indisputably one of Singapores brightest and best.

Alfian Sa'at...Bugis

ALFIAN SA'AT Biography Early life Alfian bin Sa'at (born July 18, 1977) is a Singaporeanwriter, poet and playwright.

A Malay Muslim ofMinangkabau, Javanese and Hakka descent,he is often referred to as his country's enfant terrible, known for his provocative works.An alumnus of Tampines Primary School, Raffles Institution, and Raffles Junior College,Alfian was the chairman of the drama societies in both RI and RJC. He also took part in the Creative Arts Programmetwice - once at fifteen, and a second time at seventeen - both times under the mentorship of Haresh Sharma. He has since returned to the programme as an occasional mentor.During his two years at RJC, Alfian received the Kripalani

Award for Outstanding Contribution to Creative Arts.Alfian attended medical classes at the National Career In 1998, Alfian published his first collection of poetry,One Fierce Hour at the age of twenty-one. The book was acclaimed as "truly a landmark for poetry [in Singapore]" by The Straits Times, and Alfian himself was described byMalaysia's New Straits Times as "one of the most acclaimed poets in his country... a prankish provocateur, libertarian hipster". A year later, Alfian published his first collection of short stories, Corridor, which won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award. Seven of the short stories from the collection have since been adapted for television. In 2001, he published his second collection of poetry, 'A History of Amnesia', which was hailed by The Straits Times as "one of the most powerful collections by a Singaporean" in addition to being shortlisted for aKiriyama Asia-Pacific Book Prize. Alfian won both the inaugural National Arts Council-Singapore Press HoldingsGolden Point Award for Poetry in the same year, as well as the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award for Literature. Alfian's plays, written in both English and Malay, have received broad attention in both Singapore and Malaysia. His first play was produced when he was 19, and he has had a long association as a playwright with theatre group The Necessary Stage as well as with Teater Ekamatra, a Malay theatre group known for articulating minority concerns in Chinese-majority Singapore. Alfian is currently enrolled the an resident playwright of theatre group W!LD RICE. He is University of Singapore but did not graduate.

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Information at Nanyang Technological University. Works Plays

English

Fighting (1994) Korban (1995) Black Boards, White Walls (1997) Yesterday My Classmate Died (1997) sex.violence.blood.gore (co-written with Chong Tze Chien) (1999) Asian Boys Vol. 1 (2000) What's The Difference? (2001)


Malay

Don't Say I Say (2001) poppy dot dream (2001) The Corrected Poems of Minah Jambu (2001) The Optic Trilogy (2001) 7 Ten: Seven Original 10-minute Plays: Not In (2003) Landmarks: Asian Boys Vol. 2 (2004) Tekka Voices (2004) Mengapa Isa? (2004) The Importance of Being Kaypoh (2005) Harmony Daze (2005) Confessions of 300 Unmarried Men: Blush (2006) Homesick (2006)
Happy Endings: Asian Boys Vol 3 (2007)

Deklamasi Malas (Declamation of Indolence) (1997) Dongeng (Myth) (1997) Anak Bulan di Kampung Wa' Hassan (The New Moon at Kampung Wa' Hassan) (1998) Madu II (Polygamy) (1998) Causeway (1998) Peti Kayu Ibuku (My Mother's Wooden Chest) (translated into Malay from Kuo Pao Kun's translation of Ng Xin Yue's original Mandarin text) (1999) The Miseducation of Minah Bukit (2001) Tapak 7 (Seven Steps) (2001) Selamat Malam Ibu (adapted from 'night Mother byMarsha Norman) (2003) Keturunan Laksmana Tak Ada Anu (adapted from Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral by Kuo Pao Kun) (2003) Minah & Monyet (Minah & Monkey) (2003)

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Fugitives ()(co-written with Ng How Wee) (2002)

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Corridor (SNP, 1999) ISBN 981-4032-40-9

Bisik: Antologi Drama Melayu Singapura (Whisper: Anthology of Malay Singaporean Drama) (Pustaka Cipta, 2003)

Poetry

One Fierce Hour (Landmark Books, 1998) ISBN 981-3065-18-4 A History of Amnesia (Ethos Books, 2001) ISBN 981-04-3704-8

AWARDS

1995 - Kripalani Award for Outstanding Contribution to Creative Arts 1998 - Commendation Award by the Malay Language Council for Causeway 1999 - Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award for Corridor 2001 - Golden Point Award for Poetry 2001 - Young Artist Award for Literature 2005 - Life! Theatre Awards for Best Script for Landmarks: Asian Boys Vol. 2 2006 - FRONT Award

Short story: Bugis by Alfian Sa'at

The ending for Bugis..

The next day, the narrator went to school like usually and pretends like nothing

happened yesterday. Then, she get into her class and Salmah was already at her place. Both of them keep silent and not talking like they don't know each other. Time passing very fast and the bell rang which means the end of the day for their school. The narrator walked home at the same way and place like before she used to be but the different is she is alone without Salmah. While she walked at the skateboard place, she saw Sazalie was playing his skate with his other friends. The narrator keep walking and suddenly Sazalie stands in front of her. She felt a little bit scared but she stay calm and make herself look brave to face with Sazalie. Then, Sazalie ask her that they need to talk about what had happened yesterday. They went to the chair not to far from the place and talked. The narrator felt very nervous because it was her first time sitting next to Sazalie alone with just the two of them in the same chair. She felt very happy and glad at least she got the chance to talked to Sazalie face to face after what had happened between her and Salmah. Then, Sazalie ask her to told him the reason why actually she pulled Salmah's tudung yesterday. So, the narrator decided to tell Sazalie about everything about her feelings towards Salmah as long as they be as a friend before.

After heard what the narrator said, Sazalie then understand about her action towards Salmah and he forgive her. Then, she went home and felt so relief from the pressure about thinking Sazalie will misunderstanding her about yesterday. But, she doesn't tell Sazalie her feelings toward him and decided to see Salmah the next day at school. At school, the narrator and Salmah had a talked. They tells everything about their satisfaction towards each other and they become friends again. Everything back to normal like before and they become a good and close friend than before.