essays-2025-revisited
Archives from past writeups in 2025 with updated commentary and revisions.
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The Golden Ratio & The Keris: A Spiralling Fallacy
Author’s Note | Revisited, September 2026 I originally published this essay on Facebook on 6 July 2025. Its target was a claim I had increasingly encountered within discussions about the…
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Tun Abdul Jamil and the Myth of Heroism: Reading Between the Lines of History
Author’s Note | Revisited, September 2026 I first published this essay on Facebook on 6 July 2025. Its purpose was to challenge the tendency to turn complicated historical figures into…
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The Golden Ratio and the Keris: Measurement, Pattern-Seeking and the Burden of Proof
Author’s Note | Revisited, September 2026 I originally published the following short piece on Facebook on 5 July 2025. It was written in response to claims that the keris was…
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Between Legend and History: Rethinking Hang Tuah with Facts, Not Fantasies
Author’s Note | Revisited, September 2026 I first published this essay on Facebook on 5 July 2025. Its central argument was simple: cultural importance is not the same thing as…
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Was the Malay World Truly a Trading Powerhouse?
Revisiting a Romanticised Narrative of Malay Commerce Author’s Note | September 2026 I first published this essay on my Facebook page on 4 July 2025. At the time, I was…
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Mat Kilau: When Legend Becomes a Substitute for History
Revisiting Evidence, Memory and the Return of a Pahang Warrior Author’s Note | September 2026 I first published this essay on my Facebook page on 3 July 2025. At the…
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Romancing Spices: The Danger of Oversimplified History
Revisiting the Spice Trade, the Malay World and the Stories We Tell About the Past Author’s Note | September 2026 I first published this essay on my Facebook page on…