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stormpike
Re: Push for Sabah, S'wak's independence: Next stop UN
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Sorry for my curioscity, but:
1. How did your grandmother felt about your granddad's decision ?
2. Did they keep in touch with each other's children (your grandparents and their friend's) ?
3. Do you still keep in touch with your aunt? How is she faring now?


I do not know how my grandmother felt about the decision made by my grandfather. I think she has very little say back then. Unlike the modern society, husband and wife discuss at length over such issues. But not in those olden days.

My "Malay" uncle knows that his real parents had given him away to the Chinese. There were many attempts to reunite with his real siblings and his parents. But his real family won't "touch" him even with a ten foot pole because he is a pork-eater. His real family just won't accept him no matter what.

My given away auntie, looks exactly like the rest of my aunties. She is a muslim, brought up a muslim. But she took care of my grandparents when they were old. My grandparents regretted given her away. In order to compensate for their mistake, my grandparents had given her an undisclosed amount of inheritance, which raised a lot of jealousy among my other aunties.

When my grandparents passed away, my "given-away" auntie had her name (chinese name) on the tomb stone, so does my "Malay" uncle.

When my "Malay" uncle's real parents died, he was not allowed to attend his funeral.

I am not sure how my given away auntie is doing actually. She is very mysterious. She is not married. Not many people realy know where she is. A lot of my uncles and aunties would buy bumiputra's land and put it under my given-away auntie's name. But I guess, it will all be hers in the future because chinese are not entitled to hold those land title.

My "Malay" uncle is a buddist. My given away auntie is a muslim.

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That's pretty interesting, first ever heard but I kinda pity your "uncle" of not being accepted as part of his family though, why such feudal mindset still existed.

Speak of mysterious, her siblings never reunite once in a bluemoon?

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Well, it is a pity indeed. My grandparents came from China, spend his lifetime in Sarawak. He made many friends, including Malays, Dayaks, even the Englishmen, etc. Back then, all the different races had no problem accepting each other. They formed such a strong friendship that they can even swap babies.

But the second and third generation like us have the mentality so "conservative" that they just can't accept someone who eat pork as their brother or accept someone who is a muslim as their sister.

I wonder why religion has now become a hindrance for uniting all the Malaysian together? Our grandparents have never had this problem?

Speaking of my given away auntie, she is not very well accepted by my other uncles and aunties as well. Not so much that she was a muslim. But because some of my uncles and aunties think she cheated my grandparents and had taken a larger slice of the inheritance that she was not suppose to have because she was given away. Whether she deceived my grandparents, nobody knows. But she had her slice which was larger than anyone else.

Comparatively, she is not doing that well as my "malay" uncle, who is doing more and more successful each time. Perhaps, it has something to do with the upbringing. But certainly, I won't say chinese is more "superior" than the malay. There is no truth in it.

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Thanks for the input stompike, appreciate your shares. I guess so with the upbringing too. Family / surrounding influences are core of one's destiny. Am not against any religion here but come to think of it, I think people living under post-war era are pretty much tolerance among one another.

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what a shame to that family!!

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Isn't it cool to have Sarawak Dollar back on track?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarawak_dollar

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written in Jawi on that dollar next to chinese character at the bottom of the banknote is satu ringgit. meaning we used it long before federation of malaysia

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bytez: i believed, even until now, sarawakian (most of) can be friend to all regardless their religion, races etc. only those who are shallow and narrow minded cant mingle around.

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written in Jawi on that dollar next to chinese character at the bottom of the banknote is satu ringgit. meaning we used it long before federation of malaysia


In chinese it says "Yi Da Yuan" which also means One Dollar . If not mistaken it was also called such in Hong Kong back in the 19th Century.

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bytez: i believed, even until now, sarawakian (most of) can be friend to all regardless their religion, races etc. only those who are shallow and narrow minded cant mingle around.


I get that. it's just the government officials that most would vote for a replacement / change but unfortunately the results were displeasing. From our state election to country's, you'll noticed the unjust results.

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stormpike wrote:

My "Malay" uncle knows that his real parents had given him away to the Chinese. There were many attempts to reunite with his real siblings and his parents. But his real family won't "touch" him even with a ten foot pole because he is a pork-eater. His real family just won't accept him no matter what.

My given away auntie, looks exactly like the rest of my aunties. She is a muslim, brought up a muslim. But she took care of my grandparents when they were old. My grandparents regretted given her away. In order to compensate for their mistake, my grandparents had given her an undisclosed amount of inheritance, which raised a lot of jealousy among my other aunties.

When my grandparents passed away, my "given-away" auntie had her name (chinese name) on the tomb stone, so does my "Malay" uncle.

When my "Malay" uncle's real parents died, he was not allowed to attend his funeral.

I am not sure how my given away auntie is doing actually. She is very mysterious. She is not married. Not many people realy know where she is. A lot of my uncles and aunties would buy bumiputra's land and put it under my given-away auntie's name. But I guess, it will all be hers in the future because chinese are not entitled to hold those land title.

My "Malay" uncle is a buddist. My given away auntie is a muslim.


Sorry to hear that your Malay uncle was not accepted by his blood relatives.

Hmmm... people always said that daughter tends to be more fillial than sons when they grows up?

I agreed with you, it is not a matter of race or religion but more on upbringing and education.

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