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Can anyone explain the origins of the Battle Cry ; BUNG WAK?

Thank you very much,Dato!

1.Finally enlightened ONE of the MYSTERIES of Koleq - THE BUNG WAK story

2.I was instrumental in putting LIGA ALUMNI MALAYSIA together after nearly a quarter century.I
have come across TOO MANY alumnus from OTHER establishments about their so called disatisfaction
about WHY we were called THE ALL BLACKS then.The gesture became paramount lately as in one
incident:if i recall correctly after MCKK's defeat by Alam Shah in the Premier Schools Rugby
knockout game in Putrajaya in 2003/2004.Pathetic refereeing did not help at all on top of lack
of discipline by The All Blacks on the field.The WHOLE school performed The HAKKA,surrounding
the MCKK camp whilst shouting "What makes you given the right to be called The All Blacks?"

3.Perhaps it was juvenile deliquency then,BUT I believe MANY would want to know why ALL BLACKS?

4.The only hint we got was Mr.Ryan was inspired by the ALL BLACKS in 1955 to label it as
such,since the actual team was established in New Zealand in 1905.

Perhaps our beloved Dato N,Dato SD and Sdr. Rosli Ali can FORMER ALL BLACKS can enlightenen ALL of us on this matter.

Thank you very much,Dato!

Finally,let the others do the HAKKA in front of us,lets just stick to BUNGWAK:and let the rest of the world wonder what on earth its all about!Its all about OUR heritage,culture and traditions :)

Bung kek kek was purposely corrupted to conceal the word Bungkak ( snobs )
that many others considered budak Kolet to be, especially the Malay-educated in those years. Now find out who suggested the meaningless so-called battlecry?
That's also when Kolet (as pronounced by KK Malays) became Koleq as written by Usman Awang who definitely did not know the KK style of pronunciation.

-SD

Hakkamate (= I am alive!) was the exclamation of a Maori warrior who passed out and was about to be interred in the ground when he suddenly came to. He then rose and shouted 'hakkamate hakkamate' and continued fighting.
It was adopted by the Maoriland (aka NZealand as named by the colonialist-immigrants)players as their team's pre-match show.
The hakkamate or its 'bungkak' pseudo equivalent never was used during the Ryan era, who in all likelihood would have asked what the concealed meaning of "who are we? we are koleq....the bungkekkek (read 'bungkak-bungkak' ones)".

-SD

No special reason and definitely not because of the NZ team colours. NJ Headmaster Ryan must have thought that since Malay silat invariably used all-black tengkolok/sampin/baju & seluar and that any fabric of that colour was most suitable to be soiled during play. Furthermore as it is one of MCKK colours, he adopted the colour as the main rugby uniform with a modification that a simplifed Kolet crest was sewn on the upper left jersey's chest.
Please note that during those years 1956 i.e. when rugby was introduced initially wth an Under 15 XV by history teacher NJ Ryan during the temporary headmastership of GHB Hughes (1956) through 1965 when headmaster NJ Ryan left Kolet, the Kolet soccer and hockey teams used somewhat funny uniforms like white shorts and four-colour tops sewn by the KK tailors from pieces of cotton cloth viz white collar, black shirt sleeves and four rectangles of yellow/red diagonally arranged for front and back of shirt. Difficult to sew and easy to tear especially after frequent sweating. Certainly it was better to have off-the-shelf jerseys of a single black colour modified slightly to provide the MCKK identity by having a crest without the padi laurel, tiger head and keris, sewn thereon.
Of course we also had the team's cheer gang to sing their rugby song to boost the confidence of the MCKK All-blacks on the field.
The lyrics of the Kolet rugby song is available in the MCOBA Offside.

-SD