Dream still Far Away

A housemate who works as a Modeler in a Korean company for about 3 months probation now. From what I notice he kept himself in his room modeling works even on weekends. He is a natural challenger with great diligent spirits which inspires me.

Being a Modeler takes a lot of patience of perfectly create one shape, be it an object of living organisms or fantasies. 

I have to catch up my going-dream as well.

Share, Read and Analyze about our History of Malaysia

The True History of Chinese and Indians in Malaysia
by mi1

RPK

A confusion has erupted due to ignorance. It has been stated that the Indians came here as beggars and the Chinese as prostitutes. Actually, if you were to really study Malayan and Malaysian history over the last 500 years or so, you will find that this country’s history is not just about beggars and prostitutes. It is about much more than that.

Malayan history has to be dissected into many periods. And each of these periods saw immigration involving almost all the races in Malaysia, save the Orang Asli (the Original People). In New Zealand, these Orang Asli would be the Maoris and in Australia the Aborigines. Therefore, anyone who is neither a Maori nor an Aborigine is a ‘pendatang’ or immigrant.

THE ARABS IN MALAYSIA

The Arabs and the Indians (Muslims from Gujarat) came to Malaya more than 500 years ago as traders and merchants. These were the people who brought Islam to this country. At that time, the locals were mostly Hindus while those from Negeri Sembilan were Buddhists, plus many who worshipped trees, the sea, rivers, mountains and whatnot. The coming of the Arab and Indian merchants exposed the locals to Islam.

In those days, the people followed their Rulers. Therefore, when the Rulers converted to Islam the people followed – although they may not have believed in Islam or understood the religion. In fact, many till today still do not understand Islam after more than 500 years.

THE CHINESE IN MALAYSIA

Then along came the Chinese and many were actually Muslims as well. Islam first reached China around 100 years after Prophet Muhammad. This means Islam had ‘migrated’ to China about 1,300 to 1,400 years ago, 800 to 900 years earlier than Islam in Malaysia. Of course, in the northern states bordering Thailand it was earlier than that. (Refer to the Batu Bersurat discovered in Kuala Berang in Terengganu).

Is it not ironical that Malays call Chinese Muslims ‘mualaf’ when the Chinese were Muslims almost 1,000 years before the Malays even heard of Islam?

Okay, now take my family as an example. The Selangor Sultanate was founded in 1745. The first Sultan, Raja Lumu, migrated here from the Riau islands in Indonesia. By then, of course, the Arabs, Indians and Chinese had already been here 200 to 300 years, some even longer.

But these Arabs, Indians and Chinese were traders and merchants, not warriors or fighters, whereas the Bugis from Riau only knew one occupation – fighting and plundering. In short, they were pirates, which was a noble profession back in those days where even Queen Elizabeth the First knighted those English pirates who plundered Spanish ships.

In fact, the Bugis came here because of a sort of civil war in their home country. There was a fight over a girl and the son of the local Ruler was killed in that fight. So the offending party was exiled and had to leave Riau. And that was when they came here in the 1700s and founded the Selangor Sultanate.

Do not members of the Selangor Royal Family fighting with their Ruler and going into exile sound very familiar to you? Yes, 300 years ago this was the ‘tradition’ and still is in my case.

Invariably, the Bugis, being fighters, took Selangor as their territory by the sheer force of its ‘army’. None of the traders, who although were here earlier, would dare resist the Bugis who enjoyed killing (some Bugis still do today, as you may well be aware). But Selangor was under Perak patronage.

So Raja Lumu had to make a trip to Lumut in Perak to get crowned as the First Sultan by the then 17th or so Sultan of Perak. (Can’t remember if it was the 15th or 17th but it was around that). And he took the name of Sultan Salehuddin Shah.

Selangor eventually grew in prosperity. Actually, tin had already been discovered even before Raja Lumu became Sultan in 1745. And it was the Chinese who were working the tin mines. But now, since Selangor had a ‘government’, all the land in Selangor became ‘state property’. And therefore the Chinese had to get permission from the Sultan before they could mine for tin.

Around 100 years later, only when Sultan Abdul Samad took over as the Fourth Sultan of Selangor in 1859 (he was born in 1804) did they properly organize the tin industry. New areas were opened up in Ampang, Rawang, Kajang, and whatnot. And of course, all these tin mines were owned by the Sultan and members of his family — brothers, sons, nephews, etc.

The Malays, however, did not want to work those mines. Conditions were hard and diseases wiped out entire communities. Those who survived these brutal conditions were the exception rather than the rule. So they needed people who were desperate enough to work those tin mines and were prepared to take the risk and probably lose the ‘gamble’.

And who else to talk to if not the Chinese who had already been working those mines for hundreds of years?

So members of the Selangor Royal Family went into ‘joint venture’ with the Chinese, just like they did in Perak, another rich tin state. The Malay Royals would ‘arrange’ for the tin concessions and the Chinese would provide the labour force to work those concessions. In a way, you could say that the Selangor Royal Family were the first to ‘invent’ the Ali Baba system back in the 1800s, long before the New Economic Policy in 1970.

Anyway, to reach Ampang and those other surrounding rich tin areas, they had to travel up the Klang River. Raja Abdullah and Yap Ah Loy led the first expedition and they landed on the site where the Gombak River and Kelang River meet. The place where they landed is the site of the famous Masjid Jamek in Kuala Lumpur.

From there they marched overland through the jungle into Ampang. And thereafter Kuala Lumpur was never the same again. It prospered and continued to prosper over more than 200 years from the 1800s.

Yap Ah Loy bought up a lot of land in Kuala Lumpur and built his business empire. He opened bars, brothels and all sorts of businesses, legal as well as illegal (illegal by today’s standards though). Even the British Colonial ‘masters’ would patronise Yap Ah Loy’s brothels to sample the latest ‘China Dolls’ brought in from the mainland.

Of course, the normal customers would have to pay for these vices. The British masters, however, could enjoy all these services for free. Yes, even back in the 1800s the Chinese businessmen were already bribing the government officials.

Now, while Yap Ah Loy has been entered into the history books as the ‘Founder of Kuala Lumpur’, Raja Abdullah is never mentioned. The only thing associated with Raja Abdullah is that road in Kampong Baru that carries his name. Yap Ah Loy may have been the capitalist who opened up Kuala Lumpur.

But he was only able to do so because he had a ‘sleeping’ partner, Raja Abdullah, who gave him all this land to develop.

Okay, that is the Chinese story. So, yes, some did come here as prostitutes working for Yap Ah Loy. But that was incidental. Whenever frontier land is opened up the girls servicing these frontier-men follow – like in the Wild West of America. Would you say that the White immigrants to America were all prostitutes?

THE INDIANS IN MALAYSIA

Now, over to the Indians. As I said, the Indian (and Arab) traders and merchants first came here more than 500 years ago and even brought Islam to this country. But the ‘other’ Indians, the workers, came at about the time that Yap Ah Loy and Raja Abdullah were turning Kuala Lumpur into a thriving metropolis.

At that time, the British planters were in Ceylon (Sri Lanka today) growing cocoa. Then a plant disease spread throughout the island and all the trees died. But this disease not only killed all the trees but contaminated the land as well. This means the land was now useless and it was not a matter of just replanting.

Then the British looked at Malaya and decided that the conditions (land, climate, etc.) in Malaya were the same as in Ceylon. So they relocated their cocoa estates to Malaya. But there was no way they could get the Malays to work these cocoa estates. Furthermore, the Ceylonese workers were well trained and had been doing this work for years.

So, in the mid-1800s, the British brought the now unemployed Ceylonese cocoa workers to this country to work the Malayan cocoa plantations.

Then disaster struck. Brazil over-planted cocoa and this triggered a worldwide glut. It was no longer economical to plant cocoa. The price you would fetch for your cocoa was lower than your production cost. The British had no choice but to close down the cocoa plantations.

Around that time, the British, who had mischievously smuggled rubber seeds out of Brazil (which was a crime then), successfully grew rubber trees in the Kew Gardens in London. They also did some research and discovered a better way of planting rubber trees where the trees would give a better yield compared to the trees in Brazil. Rubber planting in Brazil was haphazard and not properly organized.

Since Malaya had to close down all its cocoa plantations and it now had idle plantation land and surplus Ceylonese workers, the British planters decided to switch over to rubber. And because the British took advantage of research and technology, the Malayan rubber trees were more productive and profitable. Eventually, Malaya dislodged Brazil as the top rubber producer in the world.

So, from the mid-1800s to around 1920, Indians and Chinese came to Malaya in great numbers. This was more or less the second wave of mass migration. And it was for economic reasons and to provide the labour for jobs that the Malays would never do. But there were earlier and other migrations as well.

For example, around the late 1800s and early 1900s, the British set up English medium schools for Malays. One such school, the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, was a school exclusive for sons of Royalty and the Malay elite. Invariably, they needed schoolteachers who were proficient in the English language. And India offered a good source of English medium schoolteachers (Malays could not speak English yet at that time).

On the commercial side, there were many Indian businesses, workers and whatnot. But there was no way they could qualify for loans from British owned banks. So the Indians from the Chettiar community came here to set up money-lending businesses to service their community.

When the Malayan rail network was being developed, where else to get the workers if not from the country with the largest railway in the world, India?

WE ARE ALL MALAYSIANS

 GAME : Life is Strange

Honestly, I felt nausea at the start of this game. Normally I suck with moving screens, the next thing you would expect me, is end up at toilet bowl, but this one, it's friendly at least less nausea.

The story is kind of cool about what activities that western people do in high school life. I'm actually enjoying reading all the conversations and to understand more about the storyline and characters around.

This is a 5 Episode game, based on the actions I choose, which will impact in the following stories as it goes, with different dialogues, actions, feelings or fate between characters and even with different endings. The plot is broad wide, it's like every conversations can make a clue out of it, if you missed out one, you could miss out important sub-message. SO, don't feel guilty for being nosy in this game =w=

Seriously, every actions makes my mind blows up for thinking which action TO CHOOSE to have a HAPPY ENDING !! Who likes sad ending anyway?

It's an old school theme graphic, I like the plot, hilarious. If you haven't play it, I recommend to try !

I have played 4 Episodes so far, things were gotten deeper and more confused to find out in the last episode, I can't wait for the last episode to air to play the ending (coming on mid October 2015) . Rather not waste, I made myself a game note of what will the ending be, just my theory.

First off, I will focus on certain characters that might appear or related. Just something I share here, if you never play this game, it did be a spoiler.




My angle on certain characters :

A) Rachel Amber
- A Blackwell student, not a Vortex Club member.
- Dreams to be a super model.
- Hang outs with Chloe and the skateboard students.

How she met Frank Bower?
She told Chloe she met someone who can change her life, which is Frank Bower.
Or getting quick-money to Los Angeles with Frank or Chloe?
Or helping to deal drugs just want to pay Chloe's debt?

Disappeared 6 months ago.


Little did I know about Rachel Amber,
will that explain more in Episode 5 (Last) ?




B) David Madsen
1) Present dimension (Mr.Price dead from accident)
- Chloe's step-father in the present.
- He was a soldier, 'was'... why?
- Now a Head security guard of Blackwell School
(was he assigned on a mission to research Blackwell School about Prescott?)

- A comrade with other police officers but wasn't friendly with him.
- put the house under survellience, for the purpose of protection?
- Keeping secret files, of Kate and Rachel,
on top of all he must some traces about Prescott family and Mr. Jefferson.

2) Virtual dimension (Mr.Price alived)
- Retired soldier, he's a school bus driver, friendlier.

But is he still working on secret files?


C) Kate Marsh
Kate was drugged at a Vortex Club party,
telling Max that Nathan took her to an unknown place
which she describes as white room like a hospital, but in fact the Dark Room

A file document contained Kate's dosed photo.

If Kate is alive
she might have big help in rescuing Max with David in the Episode 5 (Last)

Kate's suicide,
Led unrest

D) Chloe Price
1) Present dimension (Mr.Price dead from accident)
- A drop-out school
- Good in driving
- debts

2) Virtual dimension (Mr.Price alived)
- Paralyzed and respiratory failure from car accident.
- A total opposite personality.
- She said a Chinese proverb,
"A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie."
You know, like that butterfly thing...

(what does that have to do with butterfly?
Later found a blue butterfly drawing in Chloe's room, Max said it's a total coincidence)

So that proves Chloe's spirit insect is blue butterfly,
yet it appears in the bathroom in the Present Dimension,
for unknown reason.

Does Chloe knows she will be dead, turning into blue butterfly going back
to the bathroom time to tell Max? So that Max can scares Nathan out,
explain the time's Chloe to take David and the principal to Rachel's body
and later the Dark Room?


Charges Nathan and Mr. Jefferson for Kate's viral video to bring justice?


E)Warren
- A geek and scientist
- has crush on Max
- beats Nathan for Kate, for Max, for himself.
- gets drunk in the Vortex's 'End of The World' party,
was it to immobilize him from tailing / sticking his nose?
Or he felt down being ditched?
Or did he felt guilty about something?

Wait.. He invited Brooke to "Go Ape" movie and ride earlier, why would he be sad?
Shouldn't he be with Brooke chit-chating at the party, why drunk alone?

Max and Chloe didn't want Warren to be involved for his safety.


Photo
Possible to travel back to
A) Butterfly photo (taken from washroom)
After hitting the fire alarm, report to the principal
of Mr. Jefferson about murder connection of :
1) Rachel's death
2) Kate's fate (viral video / photo)
3) Dark Room.
However, there's no proof of Mr. Jefferson's doing and Nathan behind.

B) Chloe and Rachel group photo (from Chloe's secret box)
To safe Rachel Amber, travel back to warn them of Rachel's danger.

C) Max and Chloe group photo (young age)
After knowing what had happened in the other dimension,
Chloe had a car accident, paralyzed and respiratory failure.

Max burns the photo in the fireplace as a final decision of no turning back.
Before Max was to go back to the present,
she told Chloe she will still be with her even if she's not present.
I wonder if this has slightly changes in the present Chloe.

D) Max and Warren group photo
(Episode 4) Taken at the school campus before Max and Chloe
read a threaten message from 'Nathan' that he's going to dispose evidence.

Was it really texted by Nathan?

It was Mr. Jefferson's set trap to lure them out of surveillance campus in a motive
to kill them.

If Max can go back to that time and warn Chloe of that false message,
they would not driving out of campus and caused Chloe dead.
Moreover, Max could ask Warren to call the police/David.
Max and Chloe will straight confront Mr. Jefferson at the party.

But that wouldn't change of the tornado arriving the following day.
How will Max save Arcadia Bay?

Spirit animal
A. Doe

Max sees the spirit doe in her 'nightmare' vision, which leads her :

1) to the lighthouse, discovering the date of the tornado.
2) to find Rachel, unfortunately, the body in Chloe's secret hideout (junkyard).

(Episode 1) A real doe is at the lighthouse hill. Are they the same/related?

(Episode 4) The spirit doe watches Max and Chloe after finding Rachel's body at the junkyard
it then bows down and disappeared. Could this be Rachel's spirit animal?
Or could this be William Price, Chloe's late father spirit animal?

AND, Max been wearing t-shirts that has a doe picture in it. Coincidence?
So... What's Max's spirit animal?

B. Snow doe
Appears in both Max's dimension has in Chloe's house:

1) Present dimension (Mr.Price dead from accident)
(Episode 1) in Chloe's room, placed on top cabinet when Max first explore Chloe's room.
OPTION : Max rewind to avoid breaking it.

(Episode 4) Appears in Chloe's blue table.

2) Virtual dimension (Mr.Price alived)
(Episode 4) in Chloe's room, with more snowing bowls.
Chloe never knew Rachel Amber except knowing her disappearance in news.

So... does snow doe and the spirit doe related?

C. Squirrel
Samuel's spirit animal.

He seems to know a lot about Rachel Amber and the Prescott's doing,
but never spoken about Mr. Jefferson.
when Max first spoke to him outside the girls' dormitory.

(Episode 4) At the Barn, a squirrel leads Max to the door.
It's like Samuel know something, and is helping them to discover the Dark Room.

D. Blue Butterfly
It appears in the washroom, I bet it's no coincidence. Question is, why?
Who does this spirit insect belong to?

I have this in mind, Chloe.
Just the same as the doe leads them to Rachel's body;
The blue butterfly leads Max to save Chloe.

But why the doe didn't lead Max to save Rachel before she was killed?
Was it too late? Or no way to turn back to past?

Virtual dimension (Mr.Price alived)
(Episode 4) A drawing of blue butterfuly appears in Chloe's actual room.
Is this a coincidence? Or does this telling me it's Chloe's spirit animal/insect?

E. Owl
Secretive and spooky

From others theory, owl is like the presence of Mr.Jefferson,
assuming to be his spirit animal:

Owl tantum is watching the dormitory.
Does this has anything related to Mr.Jefferson always watching every move
and searching his next target on his photo art?

(Episode 4) inside the barn and the night in the junkyard when it flew by
before ending with Mr. Jefferson drugged Max and shot Chloe,
begging for mercy in the Dark Room, Mr. Jefferson once filling a needle shot.

F. Whale
Nathan Prescott's animal spirit. When sneak in Nathan's room, Max play his speaker,
voice of whale can be heard.



As some of the gamer's theories mentioned about 

A) Rachel Amber's body in plastic bag buried in junkyard, is not 100% sure if it's hers, it can possibly be other victims. (For me, if it wasn't hers.. why would a spirit doe watching them when the girls found the body and gave a sad bow, disappears after? Plus, why would Mr. Jefferson chose not to disarm Chloe but killed her on the spot?)

So, Rachel Amber is dead.

Nathan Prescott knows Amber Rachel in the Dark Room, his jacket was found in the Dark Room, more like he's shocked about seeing her (found a drawing from principal's computer file wrote "Rachel in the Dark Room over and over", somebody must have shown him of his devil photography, Mr.Jefferson... I assumed)


B) Sean Prescott, Nathan's father is Mark Jefferson himself. I agreed too, no one ever seen Sean Prescott in person except in the Dark Room, I found letters of Nathan written by Sean Prescott, the details was about the father angry over Nathan for using his phone calling to him and screamed his name in the public. Suspicious and doubt he is Mark Jefferson.

Students around mentioned Sean Prescott sponsored the bar and deejays at "The End of The World" Vortex Club party. Mark Jefferson even shows up to announce the photo contest winner, which most would hold during assembly hall.. I don't know if I'm stupid or smart, I even snap as many shots of Mark Jefferson and compare characteristic of Nathan, and father and son picture in Nathan's room.

They do look alike, try put Nathan with glasses =w= unless he looks like mother.



It may have very difficult option to choose for different endings, so this is My Theory of Possibility :

Chloe was shot dead, Max was dosed, only Mr.Jefferson is revealed.  The last scene in the Dark Room, a desperate voice of a girl (who is it? Max? or Rachel still alive? or a past scene?) comes with Mr. Jefferson filling some dope to a syringe.

So, what happen next?

 Any question will reveal on the Episode 5 (Last)
Okay, we found out Mr.Jefferson is behind the missing Rachel Amber and poor Kate Marsh. Since Max knows the secret, she will either ends with the fate like all the missing people in Arcadia Bay or successfully escape.

In the Dark Room, possible to have Nathan and Mark Jefferson with, so there may be some more conversation to explain more about Nathan whether being involved with or he's innocent and regrets, could lead to free Max from captive.

Obviously, Max will escape the ill-fated, if not there wouldn't be a long story ahead.

If Max is conscious, she could use her powers to rewind, but how many hours has passed then? So, this could be impossible.

If she's still weak from the dose, the only thing she probably could undo back to the past is find any possible photos to Jump-Travel to save herself and Chloe. BUT, wait... even if she Jump-Travels to change the past, she still be Jump back to present, is that right? or it wasn't? Anyway, will she be blindfolded?

Will there be a possibly of rescue team to save Max?
 If Max is saved, she may ended up like Kate with viral videos and dropped out of school? No no

Will there be a possibility of discover more about her power?



What happen in the Dark Room?
1) Will Max face her fate just like Rachel Amber?
2) Will Max ever have the chance to conscious-wake and rewind?
- Will there be any photos around for Max to rewind to undo everything?
As far as saving Rachel Amber? and know how to stop the tornado on 11th October?
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3) What can be known about tornado from Mr.Jefferson?
This whole serial killer doesn't has relation with
the tornado going to wipe up Arcadia Bay, right...?

About William's accident.. does that ends without why?

The gun rack of David's, another gun was missing.
Is it David armed or Mr. Jefferson stole it, use it to kill Chloe and trying to put David at fault?

Will David discovers Chloe's room, call police and rescue Max?

Why would Max appears in vision,
watching Arcadia Bay to be destroyed by tornado at the lighthouse?

About saving Arcadia Bay from tornado, is a natural disaster due to climate change.
But what if it's the power of Max
great disturbed the time cycle of tornado which should happens once every 20 years
in Arcadia Bay has shorten to 5 years?

OR
does Max's power isn't just about rewind time that simple?
Can Max able to travel back to find out about Pan Estate
(might be the cause of climate change) and destroy it?

When Kate jumps, Max was able to pause the time and got to the rooftop to talk Kate off.

But the ending, 
Max will probably die with internal brain injuries from overusing her power, leaving Chloe alone again (if she's alive), maybe she turns over a new leaf, and continue to live on for Max or she was be tossed with that 'gift to bring back Max?

Borneo

10 days break, it's like 3 days just passed.

Security Guard? I'm stranger.

Fresh air.

Beautiful night sky.

Not familiar with the kitchen.

 Slow, unstable internet, normal.

Problems with washing machine? If I ask "why not let me change a new one?" 100% sure she would oppose the idea, and yea... she did, without me speaking.

Bersih? I joined, very disappointed.

The truth about me here, hanging out myself with the nature.

I ate tarap and durian. That's it. Fly to KL.

KL? Home shit home..