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Malaysian Jokes - You know you're Malaysian when... (source :[link])
1) You love to talk about food. You're already thinking about what to have for dinner while eating lunch. "I'm stuffed. What shall we have for dinner?"
2) You have roughly six meals a day (breakfast, mid-morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper). Then there's the snacking ? keropok ikan, pisang goreng, muruku, jam tarts and the like.
3) You never travel abroad without a bottle of chilli sauce, or sachets which you can sneak into restaurants.
4) You order Maggi goreng and fried chicken, complain about how oily the food is, and then proceed to finish it anyway.
5) You're willing to consume sambal petai and durian and gladly suffer the bloating and wind-breaking incidents.
6) You fail to function normally without your daily dose of teh tarik and nasi lemak.

Madre de Deus

Madre de Deus (Mother of God; also called Mãe de Deus) was a Portuguese ship, renowned for her fabulous cargo, which stoked the English appetite for trade with the Far East, then a Portuguese monopoly.

In 1592, four years after the rout of the Armada, a full century after Columbus’ landing in the New World, and Vasco da Gama’s voyage to the Indian Ocean, an English pirate (a “privateer”) xxx captured a Portuguese ship off the Azores islands on its way back home from Asia.

The Madre de Deus was brought to the port of Dartmouth; 165 feet in length with a beam of forty-five feet and some 1600 hundred tons, she was the largest ship Elizabethan England had ever seen. Beneath her hatches was a cargo of jewels, cloth, ebony and spices with an estimated value of half a million pounds sterling or about half the total holdings of the Crown's Exchequer at the time. This fabulous haul not only created a sensation, it gave England's merchants a firsthand glimpse of the wealthy trade they were missing out on.

To put this ship in perspective: the “Marquis of Wellington” which brought Thomas Blanchett to India two hundred years later, weighed in at 910 tons with a length of about xx feet. Columbus largest ship weighed about 100 tons and was about 80 feet long. The largest "EastIndiaman" built in the early 19th century was rated at about 1500 tons. The "Stratheden" on which I returned to England displaced 24,000 tons. Source :[link]

Elizabeth chartered the Honorable East India Company (HEIC) to trade in the "Indies". It was later granted the right by James 1 to “acquire territory, coin money, maintain armies and forts, form foreign alliances, declare war, conclude peace, and try and punish law breakers”.
Hetalia, England aph, Spain aph, Egypt aph, Italy aph, Macau aph & Netherlands aph belonged to Himaruya H.
Spice Islands is Maluku Islands in Indonesia.
Indonesia aph, Malaysia aph & Portugal aph based on Himaruya's sketch. ([link])
India OC & Mughal OC design by dinosaurusgede