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// artist with perpetual artist block - sarawak bornean chinese // nb, alphabet army, better red than dead
I got straight A's for SPM, became an engineer and earned B40 wages in the construction industry. I left the field because I hated it, and now I still earn B40 wages. My advice is to abolish capitalism. Sekian.
Relatively popular M'sians on Instagram: hottie, posts ootds, drinks matcha lattes, runs 5K at 7am, lots of friends
Relatively popular M'sians on Twitter: depressed, hates the government, spends all day in gremlin clothes, has executive dysfunction but is funny about it
Malaysians cyberbullied an official government twitter into deletion within a night, but it took America four years to get Trump suspended? Asian Superiority confirmed
Prasarana chairman Tajuddin Abd Rahman regrets what happened and promised RM1000 for each of 213 passengers. Prasarana will also foot their hospitalization costs and compensate them for loss of income. 21 are hospitalized, 6 in ICU, 3 require ventilators .The rest have gone back.
Can confirm, she makes incredible cakes, like this custom Laksa cake she made for my dad's 60th (the spill was an accident but it adds to the vibes honestly). It was a chocolate salted caramel cake inside and it was DANK
Literally security guards are the MOST vulnerable group because of how they are the ones being tasked with checking temperatures and directing flows - and they are so very often housed en masse in a single low cost flat unit. Do NOT blame them for this. Blame greedy employers.
Kluster Utama guys!
Nampak macam takde tempat yang selamat sekarang melainkan duk rumah diam-diam. Lagi teruk dari PKP dulu. Kali ni, susah nak detect source. It's scattered around.
Stay safe semua 🙏
It's so fucking upsetting how SEA was *actually* queer friendly until colonisation happened and we've just had to ✨ Deal With It ✨ because it's more convenient to just say "this is our culture" than unpacking these beliefs to see where they actually came from.
They're prohibiting the sale of stationary now? They don't wanna let kids do arts and crafts cause they've seen what
@kuasasiswa
can do with a Sharpie kot.
It's always "Malaysian" when someone of Chinese-Malaysian descent does something impressive overseas but "pendatang" when they do something impressive in Malaysia.
Remember the first few hours after PH won the election in 2018 and Astro Awani immediately began criticising BN kawkaw live on air because they finally could? And today we have police calling up supporters of a graphic artist for questioning. Penat la.
malaysian companies are so lembik bro. US Pizza sebab ur selling american style pizza la. Zus coffee sebab Zeus is cool la. please for the love of god stand UPPPPP why are you kowtowing to the most nonsense shit?
1. US Pizza Malaysia says it will change its name to “KITA Pizza” if its social media post receives 10,000 likes and comments.
The company recently clarified that the “US” in its name stands for “kita” in Malay.
Not gonna lie, I was brought up in a very pro-Israel environment. The Church (particularly evangelicals, can't speak for Catholicism) in Malaysia conflates religious oppression of Christians with the supposed struggle of Israel, and it's taken a while for me to untangle/ unlearn.
CW: racism
Our families have been here for more than a hundred years masih nak panggil "outsiders", and these attitudes are so common.
Today I'm so tired of young hip urban middle class people perpetuating this shit.
I did some math: In 1995 RM 1,800 was worth $708.66. Calculating for inflation in 2019 that's worth $1,193.93. That's RM 4,942.27.
Live within our means and take a part time job? OK, Boomer.
All across SEA, politicians attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator through food while forgetting that they're wearing watches that cost more than most people make in an entire year's wages huh
LOOK: Korina Sanchez posted pictures of Senator Manny Pacquiao eating with his hands, a move criticized by online Filipinos who say the post was a political tactic now the elections are fast approaching.
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@korina
/Instagram
Hi international followers, especially those in the global north: if you would like to contribute some of your good good exchange rate money to flood relief efforts in Malaysia, please consider donating to Mercy through PayPal. 1 USD ≈ 4 MYR. Ten dollars can feed a family.
Sex continues to be the most taboo topic in Malaysia. Corporations will stand their ground for "controversial" jokes and anti-lgbtq slant ads but a body positive, empowering ad about vulvas gets shut immediately, because people are so afraid of frank discussions about sex.
imagine being upset by SJK (C) when there exists an entire elite school that prohibit non-bumi's and non-cismales from enrolling because at the end of it you get a stripey tie that you can wear to interviews and wink wink nudge nudge at the CEO
This country will say we support Palestine in one breath and then turn around and destroy the homes of Indigenous Sabahans in the next. The same forces driving Zionism are alive and thriving in our own land.
Dari Sungai ke Segara, Solidariti dengan masyarakat Adat Laut ✊
Suka tanya kenapa, tugas kami kah perlu jawab? Kau tanya lah pemerintah kenapa mereka tergamak. Biar apapun alasan, TIADA MANUSIA PATUT DILAYAN SEPERTI INI.
Bajau laut adalah masyarakat adat laut yg wujud sebelum sempadan dicipta. Apa yg berlaku hari ini di luar waras manusia!
This is why we have no data. The moment a whistleblower brings to light the issues, they're belittled, they're threatened, they're expelled. The system is rigged against young women who don't conform to patriarchy's expectations.
#MakeSchoolASaferPlace
I can't fucking believe that after coordinating a flood response twitterjaya is now having to coordinate the booster shots for everyone I'm telling you guys we don't need a government we /can/ do anarchism
Apparently this entire apartment block got overrun by mosquitos and there are only like 10 units currently occupied so goes to show that haphazardly putting plants everywhere to make a building "green" isn't the vibe
Conspiracy theory but it feels like Yana Razak has shares in Berjaya Starbucks Coffee Sdn Bhd and is now profiting off y'all weirdos buying caramel macchiatos.
Ya I consent to being on twitter and to twitter having my data. Twitter doesn't have my IC number and other private details. I did not, however, consent to my private data being passed over to a dodgy corporation by the fucking government without a single notice.
How the fuck did they manage to send a train in the wrong fucking direction during PEAK HOURS like my DUDES this is negligence of the highest degree and if you allow them to get away with it on the first infraction you will allow it to happen again in the future.
When I first started working I would either eat cheaply and pay rent or eat healthy and not pay rent so that meant a lot of instant food and "unhealthy" eating (cheap carbs/little protein). Healthy food is inaccessible to a lot of people in Malaysia because of income inequality.
Controversial take but firms and lawyers who cow to money and take defamation cases against 17 year olds who exposed sexual harassment and abuse in schools do not deserve respect. Nor do they deserve to be lawyers.
I want to make a joke about Timah so bad but rly nothing is funnier than the fact that they really said that this is "like drinking Malay women" in parliament. THE PARLIAMENT. OF MALAYSIA!!
IT'S 2020!!!!! WOMEN CAN HAVE SHORT HAIR. MEN CAN HAVE LONG HAIR. WE HAVE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT WHO HAVE NATURAL HAIR!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS NONSENSE
Attn: Sarawakian Students of voting age
The Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference of Methodist Churches is sponsoring air tickets for all Sarawakian IPTA/IPTS students (irrespective of race & religion)
It's a Saturday. The people lining up to get into grocery stores today aren't doing it for fun. A lot of them are doing it because they have dependents in the high risk catagories who haven't gotten vaccinated. They probably work office hours, or maybe they can't drive.
Because she understands the individual contributions to climate change are basically net 0 while only 100 companies are responsible for 70% of the earth's emissions
Hello before things get out of hand I would like to clarify that dessert soup to me is a sweet liquid (water or viscous from bring thickened) with stuff in it ok pls... 🙏
Y'all will watch Abang Adik and cry but then say that the stateless Indigenous Bajau Laut people deserve to have their homes cut down because they are "not Malaysians" 😮💨
Their dad (a citizen) couldn’t marry their stateless/undocumented mom legally as she doesn’t have any document to register their marriage.
The procedure that we created 60 years ago itself is the reason why we end up with more than 1,000,000 stateless persons in Malaysia.
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when I was a child we had a very compelling tv jingle for pizza hut. fellow Malaysians sing along:
755 2525
755 2525
755 2525
pizza hut special delivery
anyway
I was a child, and understood how phones worked and I knew my address. so I ordered a hawaiian, my favorite...
Just be honest, the reason some people are unhappy with this man doing a hunger strike is racism. You can't imagine someone who doesn't look like you having the same level of "conviction", so clearly this person is trying to "scam" you.
There are so many "biblical scholars" in Malaysia who emphasise learning Hebrew and taking pilgrimages to Jerusalem to "understand the Bible better". All while forgetting that Jesus spoke out against oppression. It means jack shit if you understand Hebrew but not Jesus' message.
Will the guy, gal or non-binary pal who lost their honour or had a similarly life changing experience in Damansara Uptown please collect their ponytail
Idk how anyone can be unperturbed by the MySJ shenanigans with private citizens' data being sold en masse to some fucking corporation that has 0 interest in protecting us and which will eventually be leaked once it's no longer profitable to maintain and/or be sold to advertisers
60% of the private sector is nearly 5 million people. 20% ot the public sector is about 370,000 people. Say each of them lives with 2 people. That's 16.1 million people who still face exposure because someone in the house has to work in the office. That's 50% of the population.
Couple face death penalty over cannabis cookies & cake
Couple, aged 34 and 28, sold the goods for RM100/jar of cookies and RM50/cake weighing 100g.
Cops seized 43.275kg cookies, 9.625kg cake, 7.82kg cannabis dough and 31kg of cannabis liquid.
Mahathir is correct in that Malaysia is a "Malay" country, the same way America/Canada/Australia are "White" countries: through colonisation and the subjugation of Indigenous and Native peoples
@raishussin
Instead of tablets, we would like to propose that Raspberry Pi kits are to be given to these students as it is much cheaper than a laptop and it can also be used for to learn programming languages like Python.
1. PM Anwar Ibrahim says the recent confiscation of Swatch watches was done due to their association with the LGBT community, and not because of the rainbow colours.
He notes that the Home Ministry will clarify the matter.
I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF.
When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening.
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When you realise just how many atuk and nenek live in the outskirts of Kuching and Miri....... how will this speed up the main Phase 2 queue in the whole of Sarawak with just 2 vaccination centres?? Just say you don't care about East Malaysians bro
Sarawak’s size is 124,450km2, while the size of Kuching is 450km2 and size of Miri 997.4km2.
How is it that we only have 2 vaccination centre for AZ? Kuching and Miri😢
101 people died alone at home, or had their families and housemates watch them pass away. The generational trauma is going to take years to overcome. This is happening every day.
Ringkasan kes kematian baharu
#COVID19
, 15 Ogos 2021.
282 kes kematian dilaporkan dan 101 daripadanya adalah Brought-In-Dead (BID).
KKM mengucapkan takziah kepada ahli keluarga mereka.
Bro so hey you know how refugees in Malaysia can't integrate into our society because they're not legally recognised as refugees here? Kinda wild right but you could probably fix this.
Mana dia demokrasi? Mana dia hak asasi? Mana dia hak kemanusiaan? Saya tempik laungan solidariti sewaktu menghadiri “Himpunan Malaysia Bersama Palestin” bersama ribuan masyarakat di Axiata Arena, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur malam ini.
Sayugia, himpunan ini merupakan salah satu
"Hey muda, tell us about your principles"
Muda: youth good
"Is that it?"
Muda: *Listicle for Budget 2021*
"Come on, we need to know what you believe before we can support you"
Muda: We make Tiktok!
"I mean, I guess you're against casual racism which is good..."
Muda:
The point isn't "don't have kids if poor" it's "the working class are exploited at every turn, wages are unliveable, for hire childcare under capitalism is seen as a profit making endeavour rather than a mutual aid collective action, yet not having children is still
Thus the other races were allowed to retain their identification with their countries of origin, their languages and cultures, their schools, their NGO’s and civil organisations, their Chambers of Commerce, associations, assembly halls, sporting teams and clubs etc.
Spicy take but the best way to prevent Olympic athletes from having sex and potentially spreading a life threatening virus in the time of a pandemic during the Olympics is to not hold the Olympics during a pandemic caused by a life threatening virus.
Langkah ini diambil bagi meningkatkan lagi kecekapan pengurusan kemasukan warga asing ke
#Malaysia
dan penggunaan kemudahan itu bergantung kepada jenis pasport yang mempunyai cip dan mengikut standard penetapan Pertubuhan Penerbangan Awam Antarabangsa (ICAO).
What a nice take. In the Chinese version, mirrors are covered or removed because seeing yourself in the mirror after a death has occurred means another might follow.
In Jewish houses of mourning, we cover the mirrors to direct our attention away from our outsides to peer into our insides. The passing of a beloved person is an opportunity to re-assess our sense of the world and our place in it.
Misconception: "Sarawak and Sabah masuk Malaysia in 1963 so they should celebrate Merdeka Day also!"
Reality: Malaysia wasn't formed until Malaysia Day, when Sarawak, Sabah, Singapore /and/ Malaya joined forces as independent states. To say otherwise is erasure!
Borneo-Malaysians: what’s the one thing you think every Malaysian should know about Merdeka Day and Malaysia Day? What are some misconceptions you’ve heard that you’ve always wanted to correct?
1. Putrajaya may consider incorporating ChatGPT into government services to handle the public’s inquiries, the Star reports.
MOSTI says the government currently allocates a lot of resources to handle questions from the public.
The incredible amount of swag in these photosets, the understated Malaysian flag tiger stripes, the lack of orange... *Chefs kiss* our Paralympians stay winning fr
𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗳𝗶𝘁
We are unveiling our latest outfit worn by the incredible Malaysian para-athletes for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games!
Meet Muhammad Imaan Aiman from Para Swimming
✨ Aggressive ✨ reminder that you don't get to claim Malaysia is diverse if the outcome you're aiming for is that everyone speaks the same way, thinks the same way, and acts the same way.
This is what drove me to leave the construction industry. This is the reality of migrant labourers in Malaysia. They earn an average of less than RM5 an hour, they work a minimum of 6 days a week. Fuck capitalism and everything it stands for.
We rarely see photographers get credit, and I wanna know who captured this iconic moment. I want to know the technical aspects of this photo: What camera? What lens? What film? Shutter speed? How did we get this image!!!
Why are there always lawyers upset about another lawyer or firm being criticised? Kenapa kau terasa pula? Surely your firm would never take on a frivolous defamation case to intimidate a child and/or sexual harassment/abuse victims? 🤷♀️
Guys that Berlin Vs Malaysia edit got me heated like... All of those "flaws" are problems because of crime, over-reliance on cars, bad design for the climate, lack of safe/accessible public recreation areas.... But they're making out like they're personal aesthetic choices???
This is the toll of corruption allowing this highway to continue to be built by the same people, this is the toll of thinking labour is expendable so you don't need heightened health and safety precautions.
Oopsies looks like someone doesn't know history. South East Asian culture in its original form coexisted with Buddhism since the 5th century and then Islam since the 7th. Only during colonialism did attitudes towards queerness change.
My grandfather brought out our family birth and death records and my family has been in Malaya since before the first world war don't you fucking dare call me a pendatang ever again.