Patuá PoemsPoemas em Patuá The eminent scholar, José “Adé” dos Santos Ferreira, wrote many works on the patuá; in his booklet Papiá Cristám di Macau he included a dictionary. At the start of each letter of the alphabet was a patuá poem and its Portuguese translation. These have been collated and reproduced here, with an English translation.O […]
Macanese Nursery Rhyme.Rima de Embalar Macaense .This is an old Macanese nursery rhyme commonly known as “Senhor Capitam”. Esta é uma rima de embalar Macaense antiga, conhecida por “Senhor Capitam”. Patuá English Tum-ta-tum-ta-tum, Sinhô Capitám, Co espada na cinta, co rota na mam. Tum-ta-tum-ta-tum. Here’s the Captain, With a sword in his sash and a cane
Talu Jorge Remedios.The basic requirements are just two sticks: a ‘bat’ about 18 inches long and a talu or peewee which is a wooden dowel about 1 inch in diameter and 3 to 5 inches long, sharpened at both ends.The batter begins by flicking the talu with the bat from a hole in the ground
Pastimesby Frederic A. “Jim” da SilvaEdited extract of an article, Times Past and PastimesSome old childhood games of Hong Kong are now obsolete or forgotten, but some others remain – marbles, for instance. As children, we had different games involving marbles. There was the traditional game with marbles placed in a ring drawn in the sand. These
ConsoadaChristmas Eve SupperMeno Baptista Filhos de Macau of pre-Vatican 2 era took their religious obligations very seriously, religiously observing all the Holy Days of Obligations, abstaining from eating meat on Fridays and other proscribed days, confessing and receiving the Eucharist at least once a year as required by Church law. They attended, en masse, the
Christmas Customs of MacauRudolfo BaptistaAn article that first appeared in the Hong Kong Sunday Examiner in 1959For generations the people of Macau have faithfully observed some beautiful Christmas customs taught them, probably, by the missionaries and nuns who were among the earliest settlers in that outpost of the Portuguese empire. When many of her sons
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On Macanese NicknamesFrederic A. (Jim) SilvaEdited version of an article first published in the UMA BulletinIntroductionI shall take a chance and risk offending 49% of our Macanese community in order to raise a chuckle or two from the other 51%. Here goes.Besides the preparation and consumption of “our kind” of food, one other notable talent
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Music There are only a few pieces of music entirely attributable to Macau, notably Macau Lullaby, an old, traditional nursery rhyme, and its score here by Harry Ore and John Braga.Existem apenas algumas peças musicais inteiramente atribuíveis a Macau, nomeadamente Macao Lullaby, uma antiga canção de embalar tradicional e sua partitura aqui por Harry Ore
