Chow Yun Fatt
Basics
Chow Yun Fatt is a virtually unknown sailor, more widely known as his alter ego Captain Sao Feng, skipper of The Empress. While he has long since been declared deceased, Chow is directly responsible for the discovery and founding of island nation Singapore, located in South-East Asia, close to Peninsular Malaysia.
Accolades
Chow's exploits have gone seemingly unnoticed, as the general public has been misinformed as to the ancient history of the nation, with names such as Sang Nila Utama, Sir Stamford Raffles and Neil Armstrong having been credited for the discovery and/or founding of Singapore.
Only recently has this been rectified, with acclaimed documentary Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End paying homage to the extraordinary skills of navigation as Chow steered his ship single-handedly across tsunamis and past a black hole to land on the Northern coast of Singapore after sailing from an unknown location.
The phrase that Chow utters in the documentary ("Welcome to Singapore!"), is in fact historically accurate, though he stopped welcoming guests, seals and driftwood after approximately 5 years of living on the beach. He then appointed several men who he had rescued from the black hole mentioned previously as Singaporean Pirate Greeters (SPG's).
Inconsistencies on Film
The afore-mentioned documentary, however, received flak from much of the sea-going community, especially members of the TSEACSFASOSEA (The South-East Asian Captain Sao Feng Appreciation Society Of South-East Asia), who have vehemently protested against the portrayal of his on-screen death via a stray cannonball. In reality, as Absolute Facts have uncovered and proven, it took two cannonballs, which impaled him onto his own sword, which resulted in Chow bleeding to death.
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