So that's what they mean by ORANG LAUT

"That world belongs to the Moken, a nomadic sea culture of Austronesian people who likely migrated from southern China some 4,000 years ago, and, moving through Malaysia, eventually split off from other migrant groups in the late 17th century. "

DID U KNOW?

Well, i was slouching in my sofa with my pj's and brunch yesterday and this documentary of sea gypsies caught my attention.

A british journalist was filming a documentary on these so-called sea gypsies, their life and culture. If you're in just as much curiosity as i am, let me tell you what sea gypsies are. They're this clan of people who have been brought up on the seas. They live on their boats their whole lives! Cook, eat, sleep, shit, make babies... everything on the boat, i kid you not. So the documentary i watched was about this 2 families who shared the same boat.


HOW ON EARTH DO YOU CONFINE YOURSELF TO SUCH A SMALL PLACE WITH ANOTHER FAMILY? I'd get sick of the people around me if i saw them like 24/7.

Anyway, they have no citizenship anywhere. Hence, they could be arrested by the police if they went on shore. The only time they go to bay is when they need money go buy fuel for their boats. They sell their day's labour of fishing to get this money. They don't stay long on land either. After about what, less than an hr of trading, they set on their boat into the sea again.

One of the sea gypsies claimed that they can't get used to land. They get sick on land, cos they're so used to the motion of the sea.



i don't know about you, but i found this so INTERESTING, especially when they took out their ringgit notes while trading.



**since when Malaysia got such thing? I never knew**



http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2005/04/sea-gypsies/ivanoff-text