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These days you need more than a lawyer if you find yourself on the wrong side of the law. You need a psychiatrist. Someone like Dr Sigmund Froid. Dr Froid was born Simon Froid, but due to his admiration for the great Sigmund Freud, he decided to adopt Sigmund by deed poll. In fact Froid is an undeclared disciple of Freud, though his interpretion of the great meister’s theories are coloured, some say distorted, by his own early childhood experiences. Disclaimer: All characters, places and events appearing on this site are strictly the work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Watch the movie pre-visualization of Nanyang The Movie  based on a graphic novel by Tan Choon Hong. Prelude: To the south of China lies this vast and timeless land that the Chinese call Nanyang, or the Southern Ocean. The region encompasses all the waters and lands of southeast Asia, the Malay archipelago and beyond. Since ancient times the Chinese have sailed the seas of Nanyang in search of the vast riches that is the stuff of dreams. Many have become fabulously rich, others paid with their very lives. Through their enterprise great cities have sprung up linking peoples of many skins and tongues through their common desire to trade. It is in this romantic setting that my story unfolds. “Nanyang” tells of two brothers Seng and Hock who, separated during a shipwreck and after many twists and turns in their lives, eventually come face to face on opposites of the law. The outcome marks the turning point in their journey from boys to men. In telling this tale, I myself have e