Macanese language Jorge Remedios Macanese or Macao Creole (Patuá to its speakers) is a creole language derived mainly from Malay, Sinhalese, Cantonese, and Portuguese, which was originally spoken by the Macanese community of the Portuguese colony of Macao. It is now spoken by only a few families in Macao and in the Macanese diaspora. The […]
Our Bairro by Jorge Remedios (First published in the UMA News Bulletin circa 1999) he bairro was an area of cheap housing in Macau constructed for low-income workers in the years before the Second World War. As was true of so many other streets and areas in Macau, the bairro was named for some Portuguese
Talu by 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. As in baseball, the members of one team take their turn as batters
