All in the Same Sampan
July 2023 PICKING ON THE PAST
First published by Pulau Pinang Magazine, a celebrated bi-monthly magazine that covered the culture, history, traditions and lifestyle of Penang. Edited by Khoo Salma, the magazine ran from the late 1980s until the early 1990s.THE SUN NEVER set on the British empire, at the height of imperial rule. The British picked up many Oriental words as they colonized eastward, on their long sea journeys through the Indian Ocean, the Malay archipelago and the South China Sea.Those were the days when...
