Me leaving tomorrow for the SiJoRi Silat Championship held at The Karimun Islands,Indonesia. It's a silat competition where teams from Johor,Singapore and the Riau Islands compete against one another.

Before the British and Dutch colonization took place,the Singapore,Johor,Riau Islands were somewhat known as the Malay Riau region.Till today if one visit the three provinces,the lingua franca(language) is spoken in the same accent of the malay language. The culture shared among the people is also quite similiar and the Malay-muslim sultanate governed the three provinces before each three provinces were taken by two countries(Johor&Singapore(Malaysia),(Riau(Indonesia).

It will be interesting for me to compete with my fellow 'malay' competitiors and share the similiarites between us Riau malays. Even though genetically speaking,I'm not an ethnic malay(Javanese/Bengali),I've grown up in a malay-muslim society and I feel like one of them.

Wish me the very best of luck for the competition!

(The Horse Neighsssss off) Pendekar Kuda Jantan...................

Da Stallion