of unity and diversity...

[zhihau]

at the turn of a century after Raffles first arrived, Singapore was already a place filling up quickly with migrants from all over. at the turn of another century, we're still at the same phase. seems almost natural that it's in our cultural genome that we inherited this trait.

unity in diversity doesn't occur overnight, it's a painstaking process and it takes a tremendously big heart to be forgiving and to embrace diversity and it's richness. this is the second unique trait that we've inherited from our forefathers.

yes, we poke fun of each other's quirkiness and stuffs but all in the good name of fun. we knew where to draw the lines and at times the boundaries are tested every now and then but which relationship isn't dynamic anyway?

a real pity when labels like xenophobes and bigots are loosely hung over our heads and across our chests and our accusers are somewhat perpetrating these allegations they threw upon us? why the need of a race in our ICs when we're all of the human race? aren't we all Homo sapiens at the end of the day?

 

[eatshitndie]

before raffles the ruffian arrived, the sea routes around temasick were already busy with trading boats and junks bringing porcelain ware from china to the ports and villages of the malay peninsula and indon archipelago. there were whole loads of chinese cargo recovered from the sea floor of the area. 500 years before raffles' arrival there were already inter-species, inter-genre, and inter-racial sex happening from melaka in the west to borneo and the philippines in the east. :p

 

[zhihau]

my bad, i was under the impression that Temasek is the pirate's lair...

 

[frenchbriefs]

raffles too section off the natives via different enclaves,thus giving birth to chinatown,little india and woodlands.....unity only came much later,a time span of nearly 150 years from the founding of singapore to singapore independence........by then all the races picked up the language of the land which was melayu which was sadly lost thanks to old fart's anglolisation of singapore.

 

[zhihau]

by then all the races picked up the language of the land which was melayu

even my Malay neighbors swore better than me in Cantonese, my Indian neighbor spoke Hokkien fluently, whilst i struggled hard with my half baked Bahasa and only learnt "koteh muleh!" :o:o:o

 

[eatshitndie]

my bad, i was under the impression that Temasek is the pirate's lair...

you need to know your sg much better. even though i'm a foreigner, i know more about sg's history for the last 6 centuries than most sinkies. :p

http://www.worldoftemasek.com/index.php/article/archaeology

 

[eatshitndie]

chinese junks with goods (a.k.a. "treasures" today) were plying the seas off borneo over 500 years ago...

http://www.ambafrance-bn.org/The-Sunken-Treasures-of-Brunei

a more detailed transcript from nova...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2801sultan.html

c'mon guys, all these info are all over the internet. you just need to look them up.

 

[frenchbriefs]

you need to know your sg much better. even though i'm a foreigner, i know more about sg's history for the last 6 centuries than most sinkies. :p

http://www.worldoftemasek.com/index.php/article/archaeology

temasek is the pirate's lair according to pirates of the carribean.

 

[eatshitndie]

malaysian gov presentation on sunken treasures off melaka...

http://www.mima.gov.my/mima/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/cms/uploads/presentation/158.nik.pdf

 

[zhihau]

damn those pirates then, plundered and slaughtered till we only had about 5000 folks on the island when the ruffian came along...

 

[eatshitndie]

temasek is the pirate's lair according to pirates of the carribean.

the native ladies of that era wear gold ornaments, lofty head dress, and armed themselves with bows and arrows. the minah amazon if you wish to call her. if disney productions did proper research, the leader of the "lair" would not be chow yuen fatt but chow ah m&d. :p

 

[frenchbriefs]

damn those pirates then, plundered and slaughtered till we only had about 5000 folks on the island when the ruffian came along...

i wonder how those 5000 felt when raffles started giving away citizenship to shit anywhere tiongs and ah nehs.

 

[frenchbriefs]

the native ladies of that era wear gold ornaments, lofty head dress, and armed themselves with bows and arrows. the minah amazon if you wish to call her. if disney productions did proper research, the leader of the "lair" would not be chow yuen fatt but chow ah m&d. :p

too confusing for the american public.,they might mistake us for malaysia.between was temasek even called singapore back when it was a pirates lair?

 

[eatshitndie]

damn those pirates then, plundered and slaughtered till we only had about 5000 folks on the island when the ruffian came along...

some flu-like viral infection came from a foreign land, and the local inhabitants were decimated. pulau blakang mati was named for mass death for a reason. very likely, the virus was a combination of avian, porcine and human genetic material. where else was ducks, pigs, and humans in such close proximity? :p

 

[zhihau]

if disney productions did proper research, the leader of the "lair" would not be chow yuen fatt but chow ah m&d. :p

fantasy isn't too far off from the truth... after Majapahit, Temasek was largely forgotten and abandoned, save for the route taken by the traders from the oriental East and the mystic West.

 

[zhihau]

pulau blakang mati was named for mass death for a reason.

more likely a place where bodies washed up after traders caught by the pirated were forced walk the plank.

 

[eatshitndie]

fantasy isn't too far off from the truth... after Majapahit, Temasek was largely forgotten and abandoned, save for the route taken by the traders from the oriental East and the mystic West.

along with them came disease and death. :p

 

[zhihau]

i wonder how those 5000 felt when raffles started giving away citizenship to shit anywhere tiongs and ah nehs.

it was truly a fishing village, where the sea would provide fresh catch of the day, fruits and vegetables in your own back yard, barter trade for poultry and beasts, eggs and feathers...

 

[zhihau]

along with them came disease and death. :p

possibly the Black Death?
malaria and typhoid were good enough :o:o:o

 

[eatshitndie]

more likely a place where bodies washed up after traders caught by the pirated were forced walk the plank.

native pirates were no match for the ming junks. they were mostly bodies of pirates after jumping off their boats upon seeing fuckfaces of chinese sailors looking for sex after weeks in the sea. :p