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Comic Illustrations / Ilustrasi komik: Johnny Ong
I met the storyteller at the car park. I had lent the storyteller my laptop so that the storyteller could produce a digital story. The storyteller could not show me the final digital story, because the laptop was old, and had no battery life. Under a tree, the storyteller explained to me that the digital story had no images.
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I didn't use any images.
I asked the storyteller, “What about your voice recording? You recorded your voice-over didn’t you? What about music? Did you use music?”. The storyteller answered, “No”. I started to nod my head, trying to show that I was processing what the storyteller had said to me, and at the same time, a sense of panic started to set in as I started to worry about what kind of digital story is now in my hands. 
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What about your audio? You recorded your voice that day, didn't you? Did you use any music? — No. I just used my words.
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Alamak! No one has ever done a digital story this way...
In my mind, I thought, this is probably the first time ever, a digital storyteller has chosen not to use any audio track nor any images. I could not imagine what the digital story would be like. I had not expected that the storyteller would decide on not using any images nor any audio, because the storyteller is a very visual person. When I returned home and finally watched it, I was pleasantly surprised. 
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I'm sorry that I'm so late in giving feedback. But I am fascinated with your digital story. It is very different.
As I watched, even though I knew her story, I began to recall all the stories I had heard—when some people have the audacity to touch us in places we do not want them too and we have had to suffer that undesired attention. I particularly remember people who are hearing disabled and transgender children, how some people seem to think they have the right to sexually abuse them. If these children, most of them now adults, were to choose to tell such stories, who would bother to listen?
There are many more who suffer in silence. It is this silence that the storyteller carries across so profoundly. It is possibly one of the most powerful digital stories I have ever had the privilege of watching. One only has to listen very closely.

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Sering aku tertanya apa yang mungkin ku kata
Jika aku diberi suara…

Apa yang mungkin ku kata?
Apa yang mungkin kau dengar?

Aku bukan bisu atau terencat dari apa-apa segipun, dan sekiranya kamu berhadapan dengan ku….
Mesti kamu fikir aku ni sememangnya normal

Adakah kamu akan percaya?
Apakah yang kamu akan fikir?

Ingin aku berkongsi dengan kamu…
Rahsia-rahsia kecil ku

Tentang perjalanan ku
Dan impian ku….

Tentang kisah seorang kanak-kanak berumur 5 tahun, tentang pelangi dan kuda unicorn, tentang bilik stor yang gelap kesunyian
dan
loceng kuil gergasi

hanya sebab bermain,
aku diam

aku dipersalahkan

adakah ianya salahku?
Apakah mungkin kamu berkata sesuatu?

Aku menyusuri kehidupan
Dengan rasa tidak banyak yang salah di dalamnya

Masih lagi percaya kepada
Si pari-pari dan orang kerdil
Dan
Sang putera di atas kuda yang putih

Orang datang
Dan
Orang pergi…

Setiap hari, setiap
tahun…
Setiap giliran, setiap 
mukasurat…

Setiap klik, setiap
ketip…

Setiap renungan,
Setiap penolakan…

Apakah aku harus memahami bahawa segala dan sebarang
apa yang telah aku alami di sepanjang kehidupanku ini

Disebabkan salahku sendiri?

Apa yang patut aku 
buat atau kata 
Yang mungkin menjadikan
keadaan lebih reda untuk
aku…

Teruskan, kamu boleh
dengar aku, bukan?
bukankah kamu sedang
mendengari?

Sudah berjuta perkara
ku katakan, akan tetapi 
aku juga tidak…
bersuara…

Aku buka hatiku
dan mempelawa mu 
masuk

Mindaku seperti
suatu perarakan belon berlalu
Kalau satu meletup,
macam satu kejutan
Kadangkala
tidak enak
dan pada masa lain ia…
kosong…

Tetapi sekali sekala
Ia bersinar…
Dan ketika detik-detik yang paling
Berharga ini
Bila ianya begitu…

Adalah bila aku

DISAYANGI…

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Pic by A.M. Kuga Thas

    Maklumbalas cerita digital dipelawa / 
    Feedback to digital story most welcomed

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    Siapakah agaknya sipencerita ini bagi anda Who do you think the storyteller is?
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