Malaysia visited my blog and neither one of us got a stupid tee-shirt

Seems wrong, somehow, but, tee-shirt or not, welcome to Eff You nation, Malaysia! Malaysia is a southeast Asian nation located on the Malay Peninsula (mostly). It was first inhabited about 40,000 years ago, apparently, but the Portuguese came in 1511, only to be tossed by the Dutch in 1641. The British snaked their way in in 1786 and were running things by 1824. Singapore, which used to sorta be part of Malaysia, being at the tip of the Malay Peninsula and all, became British in 1819 and has been separate from Malaysia ever since.

The country has about 28 million residents, mostly Muslims. The economy has been gangbusters for freaking forever, based largely on natural resources and tourism, but with the industrial sector dominating since the 1980s.

Kuala Lumpur, the capital, is a pretty modern major city, with shit like this:

That's the Petronas Towers, which holds the headquarters of the national oil company Petronas. Apparently, they are the tallest twin-towers in the world.

So welcome, Malaysia. Glad to have you.