#bulley

Lol. David Mark Bulley just came to me to buy tickets for his own concert in Warsaw tonight. (I don’t know him, so wasn’t aware until he told me). He told me he’s buying it “just for the sake of it”.

John Pope, a young English man, whose insightful and well-written diary records his experiences as a seventeen year-old apprentice sailing between India, Burma, Sumatra, and Melaka in the 1780s. An early port of call after leaving India was Kedah, on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, where he was received in an audience by the ruler and the king's merchant, a Tamil Muslim from Coromandel. The latter's son (probably born of a Malay mother) was about the same age as John, and they became quite close, spending a good deal of time in each other's company and even discussing matters like religious differences. "My new friend Dul Baddul," wrote John, "wishes much that I should stay here, promises me everything that I can wish." On John's departure, Dul gave him a kris "inlaid with gold"; in return, John presented his "new friend" with his own silver buckles and a pencil case, "the only things of any value in my possession," and promised to learn to write Jawi (Malay in modified Arabic) so that they could exchange letters. "We parted," he wrote, "not without many tears on both sides" (Bulley 1992, p. 60).

ISSO É BULLEY!!!!!!!