I wonder (2)

I wonder whether the fabled city-island of Atlantis could lie in the South Indian Ocean instead of being in the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea as ancient-history-&-archaeological experts have been telling us.

If so, that might not be surprising, because Christopher Columbus set sail to India and the East Indies (SE Asia) to further Spain's spice trade, and using a westward route, found America instead, which was why the island-nations in the Caribbean Sea where he reached, came to be known as the West Indies.

I was fcking lost   

Of course prior to that, the Portuguese had already found South-East Asia, our magnificent archipelago, which they called the East Indies. I have to say (ie. the name East Indies) was a bit of a tautology, wakakaka.

Then, some bloody spoilsports in the 18th Century re-named the East Indies as Indonesia which in Greek means Indian islands or archipelago. T'was then said Lord Shiva upon hearing that, went to Indonesia to proselytise the natives, wakakaka.

Yes sir, as early as 1CE (1AD) He converted those animist natives into good Hindus (and somehow the Buddhist sneaked in their religion as well), which after several wars involving the Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms of Mataram, Kediri, Singhasari and various other smaller kingdoms, we got the powerful Majapahit Empire in 14CE.

Prambanan or Rara Jonggrang is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in Central Java, dedicated to the Trimurti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Preserver (Vishnu) and the Transformer (Shiva)

As I learnt in my earlier years in Penang, Shiva was called The Destroyer

As fate has it, because of the Hindu empire of Majapahit, a succession of events forced a Buddhist bloke named Parameswara to run away from his Buddhist Empire of Srivijaya in Palembang to Temasik (today's Singapore) and then finally to Melaka. The rest is history, our history.

During a hunt near the mouth of a river called Bertam, he saw a ”pelanduk” kick one of his hunting dogs. So impressed was he by the mouse-deer’s brave gesture that he decided immediately to build a city on the spot.

He asked one of his servants the name of the tree under which he was resting and, being informed that the tree was called a Malaka, gave that name to the city. The year was 1400

Thus, Plato who mentioned Atlantis in his book Timaeus and Critias might have been looking in the wrong direction and tok-kok. If still alive today, he would have made a good Malaysian politician, that is, for his tok-kok and navigational ability.

Now, I ask about Atlantis because I have been very much taken by what Mahathir, yes the Dear Leader of the Blue Moon opposition, had told the World of his belief, to wit, that the missing MH370 might have been taken over remotely by unknown forces in a bid to foil a hijack, reviving one of the many conspiracy theories surrounding its disappearance.

Atlantis city 

If we were to recollect, MH370, the MAS Boeing 777 jet disappeared four years ago, in March 2014, with 239 people on board while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Despite extensive searches in the southern Indian Ocean and the Australian-led hunt, the largest in aviation history, MH370 is yet to be found.

Mahathir, due to his exceptional wise years, knows this sort of UFO-Bermuda Triangle stuff. Of course he wasn't thinking of Boeing and the Yanks being responsible. Sheesh, he loves the Yanks which was why he went to see Dubya because "someone" paid US$1.2 million to Jack Abramoff, a corrupt US lobbyist just to arrange that meeting in the White House coupled with of course a photo-ops.

NBC reported: Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said disgraced U.S. lobbyist Jack Abramoff was paid $1.2 million to organize a meeting between him and President Bush in 2002, but denied the money came from the Malaysian government.

Mahathir told reporters late Monday he was aware the payment was made to Abramoff, but he didn’t know who made it.

“I understood some people paid a sum of money to lobbyists in America but I do not know who these people were and it was not the Malaysian government,” Mahathir said.

He wasn't even curious about who paid that humongous sum or as usual, he didn't know anything, or perhaps it was a sad case of Melayu tua memang mudah lupa.

 From Malaysiakini:

Najib mocks Dr M's 'selamba' denial of jailing opposition, recalls black eye.

However, I heard rumours that the US$1.2 million (RM4.65 million) might have fallen down from a cempedak tree (artocarpus integer) in Kubang Pasu, Kedah, though this hasn't yet been confirmed.

now, let's see how Malaysian you are.
tell me which is cempedak (artocarpus integer) and which is nangka (jackfruit or artocarpus heterophyllus) 

Mahathir told The Australian newspaper in an interview that it was possible the plane might have been taken over remotely.

He stated, “It was reported in 2006 that Boeing was given a licence to operate the takeover of a hijacked plane while it is flying so I wonder whether that’s what happened or not,” said Mahathir. “It’s very strange that a plane leaves no trace at all."

“The capacity to remotely control the Boeing is there. The technology is there”.

“You know how good people are now with operating planes without pilots. Even fighter planes are to be without pilots. Some technology we can read in the press but many of military significance is not published.”

Yes, the mystery of the final resting place for MH370 has spawned numerous theories, including that it was a hijacking or terror plot, and also Mahathir's brilliant deduction.

But I am inclined to believe Mahathir, yes and a very resounding yes to his brilliant mind, that the plane might have been remotely controlled to neutralise-frustrate a hijacking, and that it was NOT the naughtiness of the Yanks whom he loves, blokes like Jack Abramoff, George Bush and possibly even Al Gore.

Then, I reckon the plane was remotely flown to the island-city of Atlantis which since had either secluded itself from our 3-dimensional world by way of the strange Bermuda-Triangle-like forces, or the city-island transformed itself into a flying saucer which has since left Earth for the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), just a mere 2.5 million light-years from our own Milky Way Galaxy.

Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

Astronomers have informed us the Andromeda Galaxy is our nearest galaxy-neighbour, and which is approaching us (the Milky Way) at about 110 kilometres per second. Our two galaxies is likely to collide in 4 billion years time but dinna fret, we will long be gone because gradual increasing luminosity of our own Sun will make Earth far too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life. Aloha Oe, mateys, wakakaka.

But aren't we lucky that this clever man Mahathir, who has brilliantly deducted that MH370 was remotely flown away (to somewhere?) because of likely hijacking, may become our next PM, becoming his own 3rd successor.

I know everything 

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I know nothing 

For more, read MM Online's Dr M raises ‘remote takeover’ theory in MH370 mystery.