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Az Samad has a favourite story about his father, National Laureate A Samad Said. “He used to ask me: ‘What do people do on weekends?’ I would say, ‘They do what they like’. Then he would tell me, ‘Why do they have to work from Monday to Friday and wait until Saturday or Sunday to do what they like?’

“This thought was planted in me as a child: What if you could do whatever you like every single day? Why do you have to work five days a week and only do what you really enjoy during the weekend?

“It was a different kind of programming. The typical Asian programming would be: You have to get into a good university, find a job, buy a car, buy a house and make your family proud. My dad was like: ‘Do what makes you happy.’

“I had a very open kind of artist’s upbringing. That’s why I’m a musician lah. I wake up every morning and I do music,” says Az, who also teaches the guitar (he has written six e-books on that), does music reviews and produces podcasts.

When Az was born in December 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, “Pak” was 48. “I always felt my dad was old. He’s always had a beard and looked

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Samad Said's secret

PETALING JAYA: Not many know it, but national laureate A. Samad Said has the most distinguished looking beard and moustache by chance.

It occurred back in the 1980s when he was admitted to the hospital.

“The doctor advised to do nothing but just rest. After two or three weeks I looked at myself in the mirror and saw a different me. I came to like it and from that day adopted the look,” he told the Star Online in an interview at a coffee shop in Bangsar.

When asked about the maintenance of his beard, he laughed before saying he shampoos it once a week.

With his notable look, Pak Samad as he is fondly known has a celebrity-like status wherever he goes. People want to take pictures with him or shake his hand.

“I live around here so people recognise me,” said Samad who is often seen around the Bangsar LRT station.

When asked what he would like to drink, Samad dressed in all white declined, as he is fasting.

In fact he fasts every alternate day following the practice of prophet Daud. He has been following this for the past three to four years now.

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A. Samad Said

Malaysian novelist and poet (born 1935)

In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Mohamed Said is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Abdul Samad.

Abdul Samad bin Mohamed Said (born 9 April 1935)^[1]^[2] is a Malaysian novelist and poet. In May 1976, he was named by Malaysia literature communities and many of the country's linguists as the Pejuang Sastera [Literary Exponent] receiving, within the following decade, the 1979 Southeast Asia Write Award and, in 1986, in appreciation of his continuous writings and contributions to the nation's literary heritage, or Kesusasteraan Melayu, the title Sasterawan Negara or Malaysian National Laureate.

Education

A native of the MalaccanKampung village of Belimbing Dalam, near the town of Durian Tunggal, young Abdul Samad completed his primary education during the World War II years of 1940–46 at Singapore's Sekolah Melayu Kota Raja (Kota Raja Malay School). During the wartime occupation of Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese Emp