RIFLE RANGE BOY

The timeline of the known history of the Malay Peninsula (40.000 BCE - 2018 CE). From the arrival of the first modern humans, the spread of cultures, the emergence of Hindu-Buddhist city-states, the era of Srivijaya Empire, rise of Islamic sultanates, European colonialism, up until modern-day states in 2018. (Reference:  Lazardi Wong Jogja  youtube) This work is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

https://kitaab.org/2019/05/25/short-story-gandom-gandom-by-farouk-gulsara/ Half a decade after the Japanese invasion, Malaya was wising up. Malayans did not believe that their colonial masters were their saviours anymore. Everyone was talking about independence and everyone was laughing a lot these days. People seemed to be in a hurry. Office workers, in long dark baggy trousers and long sleeved starched cotton shirts, wove through pedestrians, scurrying on their shiny new bicycles, ringing their bells. The cyclists appeared to be annoyed by the slow-moving bullock cart with lethargic bulls sauntering along the tarmacadam roads swishing their tails rhythmically in the tropical heat of Penang. Honking in the background on the island’s little street were the Morris Minors and the Austin multi-purpose vehicles, the latest additions to the city landscape. Oblivious to the vexation they were causing, the pullers of the bullock cart batted their lush eyelashes, seemed to mutter somet...