Jannah Jailani
@jannahjailani
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Former @MScNSEG Geographer, lover of travel & the arts, political (?) researcher. Hello!
Shah Alam, Malaysia
Joined May 2009
Been wanting to share the artsy bits of my wedding last month so here it is! 🥰 Starting with my favourite arty decision for the day - my floral veil 💕 the very first 🌼 thing of my maximalist flower garden wedding (I couldn’t decide on a colour theme, so I picked All Of Them🫣)
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Why are women so often labelled as overemotional. Have yall not watched Parliament.
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Went all the way to Kajang to eat clams and mantou, and my god it was worth it. I’m not really even a mantou person but this with the chowder (?) was an exception. Savoury with a touch of heat, I actually wanted to order another one but I didn’t want to be tamak 🫠🫠 soooo sedap
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Somebody sent the iSoc group the prettiest set of ‘Dua Cards’ and I just had to share!
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So I went to eat at this place called Kungfu Ramen and it’s so nice???? I haven’t eaten this kind of Chinese hand pulled noodle soup in AGES and I missed Noodle Oodle so much so I’m so glad I found this 😭😭😭😭 sedap weh and only RM8.50 PLS what a steal
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Publika is truly the worst mall ever created and I have no words to describe my hatred for this godawful place. If it burned to the ground it would be a service to mankind. I can feel my lifespan shortening ever time I drive to this place. Hell.
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I’m in Oxford and I just got my postal vote TODAY. SPR - you've denied MANY the right to vote. You’ve WASTED taxpayer money on postal votes that didn't even arrive on time. Incompetency or tampering- either is still oppression and YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. @GlobalBersih #GE14
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One of my resolutions was to be brave going for what I want, so here’s me, being brave (powering thru even tho I’m terrified and so malu ya ALLAH 😭). This is my attempt at tweetjodohing my way to partner I can sing 00s songs with in the car, because honestly why not? @TwtJodohMY
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I finally learned embroidery yesterday!! 🌞 So happy, now I can go and embroider the thing I really I want to (ie a PIKACHU hahaha)
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Conditions for a woman to be PM: she must be capable, intelligent, motherly, emotionally stable, a shining beacon of love and light and the very best of all humanity .Conditions for a man to be PM: he must be breathing.
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Last week we took advantage of the free visa to Sri Lanka and MAN what an experience. Beautiful, cheap and only 3.5h away, this underrated destination offers so much - gooorgeous trains to the highlands, stunning beaches, safaris, colonial architecture and so so much more 🇱🇰✈️✨
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To quote my favourite ever uni lecturer and political ecologist Alex Loftus (and all political ecologists ever, probably): there is nothing “natural” about natural disasters.
Seriously Taman Sri Muda ni patutnya jadi water retention area for flood water???.#RakyatJagaRakyat #DaruratBanjir #SriMuda
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After crying like *hell* following a Cambridge rejection four years ago, your favourite local geographer now has a Masters in @MScNSEG from Oxford. 🎓 Alhamdhulillah, I’m so glad I never gave up on the dream. (Y’all can suck it Cambridge.)
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🍿 moment of the day: Pagoh debating Akta Lompat Parti
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Last year I posted this shout into the void, and now over a year later I’m back to say thank you to the many people who shared this, sent well wishes and prayers - both friends and complete strangers who were so kind when I did a really scary thing. In short…….it worked 🥺🫣❤️
One of my resolutions was to be brave going for what I want, so here’s me, being brave (powering thru even tho I’m terrified and so malu ya ALLAH 😭). This is my attempt at tweetjodohing my way to partner I can sing 00s songs with in the car, because honestly why not? @TwtJodohMY
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If you feel like watching a particularly thought-provoking film on Netflix, try ‘I am not an easy man’. It’s a French film about a male chauvinist who wakes up in a world where gender roles are flipped, and men are the ones being harassed, objectified and oppressed. by women.
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Ida and I are losing our shit over this sink/toilet set up in our Airbnb here in Tokyo. So when you pull the lever to flush you can wash your hands, and that water then refills the pot, saving water. as always the Japanese are in 3018
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There is truly nothing more glorious than an empty Klang Valley. No cars. Everybody’s gone. I love it so much I could weep from joy 😭.
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Still can’t get over how surreal life is sometimes. I took this during a talk at UCL 6 years ago as a young and dumb student wishing I could be even half this eloquent, having absolutely no inkling where I’d end up years later. Man, 22 year old me would have never believed it.
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I met Prof Fatimah Kari our UM poverty expert for the first time since COVID. She was practically in tears recounting the suffering she encountered on her humanitarian/research trips. Yet here we have a govt pretending everything isn't utterly awful. Here's a reality check for u.
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I just would like to announce that this snap testing here is basically a cluster waiting to happen, there’s so many people in an enclosed air conditioned space. Madness
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Seriously hope to god Saifuddin Nasution leads KDN with compassion. If there's a ministry that severely, severely needs reforms (prisons, drug policy, police, refugees). it's this one. This is a ministry that has the power to deal out a great amount of suffering. Please, no more.
Saifuddin Nasution - Home Affairs Minister . Tengku Zafrul - International Trade & Industries Minister . Mohd Khaled Nordin - Higher Education Minister . Chang Lih Kang - Science & Technology Minister . Nancy Shukri - Women, Family & Community Development Minister.
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Another thing I absolutely loved and put my heart into - making sure there was a flower bar at my wedding!! People who know me know I am #obsessed with flowers and I just wanted to share that love with all my guests on the day. GOD. I love flowers. I don’t know what to tell you.
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For those who can actually go out and vote tomorrow. Please go. Vote for a better country. It’s breaking my heart that I can’t, and that I did everything right and still failed to get the chance.
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I’ve been doing MY gender policy work for a while, and not ONCE have I seen this suggested. Were you not listening to what activists were actually advocating for. An acknowledgement of UNEQUAL UNPAID CARE WORK and fostering healthier, more equitable gender dynamics. WTF IS THIS!!.
1. Putrajaya will consider shorter working hours for women employees to enable them better care for their families, said PM Anwar Ibrahim. “Kalau bekerja 4 jam, mengikut kadar upah mungkin kurang, tetapi kita boleh manfaatkan wanita yang merasa terdesak untuk jaga anak-anak.”
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An older relative gave me the following dating advice: “don’t talk so much, and don’t act like you’re too smart.” I love her but. no. I’d be nothing but supportive of my partner and I’d never belittle him, but I’ll be damned if I have to make myself small for some man to like me.
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Doesn’t Jacinda get tired of always saying the right thing. Oh my god.
'I'm not the priority': New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern won't be first in line for coronavirus vaccine via @SBSNews.
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Taylor releasing ‘You’re Losing Me’ to more or less confirm her breakup instead of making an outright public statement or something is very…her. It’s a heartbreaking listen, one of the saddest songs she’s written. She wrote Lover about Joe when she rly loved him, but this…?🥺💔
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Next is my pelamin! Fun fact: my theme was originally “wildflower garden” but that felt too restrictive so went with the max floral route to cover all my bases 🤣 I only saw the final design on the day itself, they rly nailed it🥰 (and there were no hydrangeas as I requested…🌚)
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The Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park is a thing a beauty. Rugged landscapes and New Zealand’s highest peak. This is the Hooker Valley track. Snowy mountains right in front of your face yet you somehow still feel panas nak mati. Amazing.
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For anyone wondering where this is - I went to the Kungfu Ramen branch in Bandar Sunway, but there’s also one in Taman Melawati!. 📍
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We live to fight another day. I’ll be DAMNED if I just stand by and watch selfish corrupt self-enriching assholes do whatever they damn well please with this country, I WILL NOT HAVE IT.
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A morning musing on relationships and valuing yourself.
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Somebody lovely sent me the real life 💐 emoji today for my birthday 🥺💕
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Doing research on women in politics and once again I'm awed at women who do end up taking the plunge to become MPs ADUNs etc. Politics - like all too many spaces in public life- is severely hostile to women. I salute you for your courage, and hope one day things will be different.
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To everyone who asked about my veil - it was custom made by Ambianze by Schaawwall 🥰 Awwal was so excited when I came to her with the idea bc she is as obsessed with flowers as I am!! You can find her wonderful work here: PS: her cat Abu COMEL nak mati
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Last week I bought some mini delphinium, in the most gorgeous shade of cobalt blue. Did you know blue flowers are the rarest in the natural world? Obsessed. Best of all: they’re resilient and last a week! 🥰 (ps this was the colour I actually wanted in my wedding bouquet…emo 🥺)
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Also a lot of love for the bridge over the pool - I wanted it to look like I was walking through a wildflower meadow and they really pulled through 🥺🥺
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Finally got to see the compost machine and the finished compost at Pusat Khidmat Permatang Pauh!! We compost the kenduri waste at Yayasan Aman and give out the compost for free. (Smells like coffee.) Next project - to find a way to distribute it without using plastic baggies. !
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Having fun buying stocks on Bursa Malaysia with fake money ✌️🏽✌️🏽✌️🏽For people just starting to learn about the stock market (like me), this is a pretty freakin wicked tool. Not only do they have this simulator, they've also got loads of free resources for beginners. Check it out!
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My first time making a custom bouquet and my first time handling peonies….my hands, back and arms hurt for the hundred millionth time dealing with flowers is seriously no joke 💀💀💀 I’m not sure how to stop the peonies being extra mekar but at least they smell nice? 🫠
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Today we had a office field trip to Cultiveats precision farming centre. So cool. The sayurs grow from seeds to fully grown plants in biodegradable capsules. And sold while it’s still alive in those same capsules to maintain freshness and reduce waste. Totally pesticide free too!
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This was one of the books I borrowed from the Parliament library that day, and I’ve been finding it massively entertaining. It’s a collection of Malaysian diplomats’ stories of their postings. There’s drama, there’s war, there’s romance and there’s. a whole lot of braggy men.
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I've learned there is absolutely nothing noble about loving and investing in somebody who does not equally love & invest him/herself in you.
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From this, to this! Today @fatimahzaini & I begin our adventure as Cyberjaya florists 🤣 We’re prepping to have a pop up stall soon but for today we’re selling these limited bunches for the extremely dirt cheap introductory price of RM25 (excl delivery). DM me if you’d like one!
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I was too tired to design unified cards/welcome boards/place cards etc myself so I found a gorgeous wildflower template on Etsy and used it for various printed items across my venue 🌸🌼🍃🌷
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Just witnessed the breakup of a 10 year friendship. It was far more civil and emotionless than I anticipated. Which was a pleasant surprise. As we get older our priorities shift. And like any relationship, even a friendship needs to be maintained. Sometimes it’s better to let go.
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My (v. squashed) mail from Parliament just arrived - a copy of the first ever vol. of the Journal of the Malaysian Parliament! I‘ve never had anything written under my name published before, so I’m super thrilled and grateful this happened 😭 thank u YB for letting me co-author!
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What I def love more than flowers is my sweet girls who ran the flower bar for me on the day. But I will cry about them on another tweet 🥺 I was adamant about giving flowers bc I knew I didn’t want to give something that would collect dust…flowers are pretty and biodegradable💐
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Moody Milford Sound, home to lush rainforests and gushing waterfalls. Formed through glaciation over millions of years, it is a UNESCO heritage site and apparently also one of the wettest places on earth. It was misty and rainy which made it look ~mysterious~ but GOD was it cold
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What it looked like at the nikah 💕 The Seavoy House truly is the garden/outdoor wedding venue of my dreams
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Finally had time for a severely overdue spring clean of my room - I have way too many books 💀 here’s a few of them (and by a few, I mean literally over 50…), individual prices are above each book. DM me if interested, or to request condition pics of the books 📚📖
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There are random people on Twitter I follow who I think are cool and funny as hell but I’m too scared to talk to them so I just sit there appreciating their existence and pray they aren’t totally creeped out by how many times I’ve liked their tweets.
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Found this excerpt of an essay very comforting, especially at times when I feel like I’m just so behind
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Not me watching The Crown and yelling at Diana through the screen to get the hell away from the royal family 😩 oh it’s so painful to watch. we all know how it ends but still SIS SAVE URSELF 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
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Proud member of the Pasar Seni/Petaling Street Starter Pack ™️ Community . (PS Lee Wah’s selection of loose stems was glorious today, I got so many pretty blooms together to make my own bouquet 😭💕)
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I've struggled with crippling self doubt for ages. Yet the longer I've been working, the more I see people in leadership roles who are paid INSANE $$$ yet can't think, manage or actually do anything useful themselves. They're just coasting, while I'm out here beating myself up 🤡.
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Alhamdhulillah I just found out I got a distinction for my dissertation and I’m so happy I could scream I SUFFERED SO MUCH FOR SO LONG THANK GOD 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 MY DISSERTATION GETS TO BE ARCHIVED IN THE OXFORD @bodleianlibs AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHJHH.
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In this episode of “Jannah and Ida finally go to ramen shops that aren’t Maruki”, we went to Analog KL to try their ramen. It’s good. Creamy full bodied broth and smokiness from the meat, a winning combination. Would have preferred a pedas version, but this was still v good 🍜
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Reminder that this disease and its associated hell won’t magically disappear just bc it’s a new year.
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Mitty&beans invited me to their shop again for a meal on the house bc of this tweet🥺🥺🥺❤️ I ate the clams and mantou again and it was still as creamy and delicious…and I loved the strawberry mint mocktail I got too (it had refreshing lime bits!) ANYWAY I’m a lifelong fan now😩
Went all the way to Kajang to eat clams and mantou, and my god it was worth it. I’m not really even a mantou person but this with the chowder (?) was an exception. Savoury with a touch of heat, I actually wanted to order another one but I didn’t want to be tamak 🫠🫠 soooo sedap
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Went back to my Happy Place™️ (ie the flower wholesalers) for a project (stay tuned 🌚) and I got delphiniums again in a lighter shade of blue, and a flower I’m totally new to: pink campanula. Once again, I’m humbled by the process of processing flower bunches (it took me 1hr 🫠)
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Girls who support and hype up other girls are the loveliest best kind.
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YAY my grandpa finally got his first vaccine dose 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
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I don't typically care for celebrity breakups, but given my attachment to her songwriting and her lyrics (I know the lore of almost every song) this news has been incredibly difficult to swallow. How she can sing anything on Lover anymore without throwing up I have no idea.
taylor swift breaking up with the person she wrote peace about has the potential to be absolutely catastrophic for the girls.
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Refused to waste money on a 2nd baju for my same day reception, and like a gift from god I got the idea to change into a floral veil from my earlier selendang. I thought it was crazy at first to match such a wild veil with a kebaya but @fyzajol validated me and my sketch 🥺🥺❤️
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Hello from the Pauh open house 🌞 def last open house of the year for me lmaoo
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For anybody who needs to hear this, I hope you know that one person’s “I’m not sure” is another’s “I knew the moment I met you”. You are lovable as you are. There is nothing wrong with you, and you are enough.
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Overheard while watching: aku puasa aku puasa aku puasa aku puasa.
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I cannot even begin to explain how much I love beraya in KL.
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Every day I thank god my parents didn’t raise me a racist.
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As per (the new) usual I went to my happy place…this time to make cheerful yellow bouquets 🌞🌼 you’ll be seeing floral arrangements every week now, I’m doing this every Friday 🤣 These are RM36 a bunch excl delivery (📍Cyberjaya, Putrajaya, Bangi, Pesta Buku for 27/5 delivery)
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This morning I went walking round Jakarta alone, and (ofc) I decided to find the local flower market. It’s called Pasar Bunga Rawa Belong, and what’s incredible is they have all these buckets of flowers hanging around tepi jalan completely unrefrigerated?? Some fave flowers tadi:
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What a wonderfully written thread, capturing conversations I’ve had with my own friends across time. Unlike a test, finding love is not something you can “study” for or put max effort in for a guaranteed result - I’ve come to terms with the fact that it is indeed just rezeki 🥺.
Will probably delete this but want to post for those who feel similar because it's maddening thinking you're the only one/one of very few. I am very sad about but making peace with the fact that romantic love is sthg that eludes some of us for reasons we cannot know or control.
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I’m back! 🥰 To address the allegations that my veil is giving Taylor Swift vibes…ma’am you are right. This wedding is inspired not only by my flower obsession, but also my undying long-standing love for @taylorswift13 - particularly her colourful saccharine sweet album Lover 💘
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So u tryna tell me the people of Queenstown just casually wake up to a view like this every single morning
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Happy International Women’s Day from your fave all female Parliamentary team ✨✨ hahaha #IWD2022
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So my old MSc supervisor and ASEAN Elective lecturer called me out of the blue to ask me to present an essay I once wrote about the ASEAN Way and the haze to her new students this coming term???? WEH terharu and so honoured but I am also terrified of Oxford students????????😭😭😭.
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Me: apparently Najib’s coming to Permatang Pauh .My grandma in a thick Northern accent: kurang ajiaq.
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In honour of my favourite artist in this life @taylorswift13 returning to SEA and the rerelease of Speak Now, for this week’s bunch Fatimah & I made this bouquet - fluffy purple flowers for her fluffy purple dress 💜 RM36/bunch as usual, for delivery to Cyberjaya, KL & beyond 🌞
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Let me a share a tip with girlies on a budget (or like me simply malas bangun awal on my wedding morning): consider these ~RM20 glittery white henna stickers I literally just got off Shopee lmaooo. Took only like 5mins, so didn’t have to wake up at 5am 🤣
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@SyedSaddiq In my video I talk about why I'd invest RM #1Juta in sponsorships for students to study environmental degrees abroad
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Every time she says something right I think to myself. people working in her political office must be some seriously cool people.
This week, New Zealand marked the one year anniversary of their first lockdown. They listened to science, acted hard, and moved fast. On the anniversary, Jacinda Ardern spoke to her people. She didn't boast, or take any credit. She just wanted to say thank you. #Leadership
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After a stressful week preparing for something important, I was rly looking forward to going back to the flower shop…and as expected I was sooo happy seeing the blooms 🥺 For today, I made a peony bouquet for my mother in law, with pink mums, mini delphiniums and riceflower 🌾🌸
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“If you’re not patient with the small things, how are you going to be patient with the big things?”.
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I have been mentally preparing myself to be stuck inside the house until May - I desperately want to be positive but given our case numbers I just cannot see them releasing us on the 14th. But God, I’d really love to be wrong.
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I AM SCREECHING DSAI JUST READ MY TWEET THREAD IN PARLIAMENT.
To quote my favourite ever uni lecturer and political ecologist Alex Loftus (and all political ecologists ever, probably): there is nothing “natural” about natural disasters.
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I’m so angry because somebody went and abandoned this kitten in a locked carrier at the big masjid Bukit Jelutong. Kesian gila tengok. Now we’re trying to find a home for it, if you have room in your heart for a fluffy orange kitten please message me. Please help RT +spread this!
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I see 5 women (re)appointed as full ministers in this "new" cabinet, 4 timbalan. I want to yell at how our female representation is basically the same clowns we all know and loathe (I'm talking about you KPWKM and former KPKT), surely there are far more competent women out there.
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But all the love in the world will never be enough for a person who doesn't first love themselves enough to feel like they deserve it.
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MPI report’s launched - and that’s a wrap! 🌞 Finally I may now know peace (. sort of)
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I drew some kids stickers for the office and they made it much bigger, printed it on boards and stuck it around the open house field? 🥺
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Batik is officially allowed in the Dewan for the first time ever, so to commemorate this historic day everyone wearing it was invited to YB @bakhtiarm’s “studio” to be photographed 🌞
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also wanna say: 1. the person who first thought of using questionnaires to find romantic candidates is an absolute GENIUS (10/10 💯💯perfect method for a nerd like me) and 2. thank you forever @TwtJodohMY 🤪 function nak mati and 3. we both love 00s songs (and Taylor Swift 🥺🥺)
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