Musings of Suresh “Great Baron” Jeyaverasingam

August 15, 2007

I’ve always wondered…

Filed under: Malaysia

I’ve always wondered how the term ‘Mat Salleh’ came about. In school we learnt it was the name of a freedom fighter (rebel to the British). So how come his name has come to be known as a reference to  orang putih? To my understanding, the term Mat Salleh is an ethnic slur in modern Malaysia. Err…so how did this come about?

 

did a bit of research and came up about this information at this website. So head over there and read about it but before you do, check out the pic below. Yeah…isn’t she a beauty. Jeremy Clarkson opines that the Porshe designers are one of the laziest on Earth. That maybe so, but hey a beauty is a beauty.

 

 

 P.S: that’s the Cayman S. All dressed in black. Yeah, Hitam itu Emas!

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