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Melody Zaccheus
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While other children played on the beach and splashed about in the sea by their kampung in Pasir Panjang, four-year-old Faisal Nordin was learning how to "kill and incapacitate" people with his bare hands.
Over the next seven years, under the tutelage of his grandfather, he learnt how to use a slew of weapons such as knives (badik and keris), swords (alamang), spears (tombak) and axes for self-defence purposes.
