Political graffiti in Kuala Lumpur, #Malaysia
“Sistem ini memang fucked up
Tapi itu bukan alasan untuk kita ikut korup
Jalurmu takkan gemilang
Selagi ketuanan bangsa yang kau julang”
Translation:
“This system is indeed fucked up
But we have no excuse to be corrupt
As long as racial supremacy is your guide,
Malaysia's flag will never reach its true pride.”
#mytoots #MYPoli #tootSEA #Fedijaya #poetry #graffiti #photography
Saw this on Reddit, and i thought, where’s the MR DIY?
(Also travel agency offices and shops selling “antique” Chinese art, fengshui items or tea)
Source: https://reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/11w2a9y/old_malaysian_mall_that_used_to_be_popular_on_the/
I'm so happy this movie is still playing
https://www.malaymail.com/news/showbiz/2023/03/16/the-power-of-performances-and-word-of-mouth-behind-the-success-of-malaysian-film-imaginur-video/59902
Go watch if you haven't already, if you're in the area.
This took me a couple of days to go through, but interesting and amazing feat of data journalism from Macaranga: https://www.macaranga.org/navigating-the-multiverse-of-forest-data-peninsular-malaysia/
This is something I've encountered through one of my past positions - the state legislative oversight is pretty much a determining factor in the performance of our actual conservation efforts. The fact that the team combed through the EIA reports that are available in order to extract data that has comparative and analytical value... *Hats off*
#Malaysia #Environment #Conservation #MYPoli #MYToots #Fedijaya #TootSEA
Just like anyone multilingual, it's one of life's little pleasures to just commit acts of grammatical terrorism in service of contributing to the creole corpus of your language group. I've mentioned 'dieded' before but here's another typical use case as a #Malay speaker: the endlessly versatile Malay suffix and prefix cases. I'm basically adding an action context to these verbs. ber- indicates active motion by the object, ter- indicates an action that's reflexive, automatic, or unintended.
It can work in the other direction. Malu can mean shame or humility or self-reserve so... I have heard of 'malufying situations'.
But the one that cracks me up is friends saying "berkancheonging for no reason", because now you're adding the Cantonese kancheong just to really emphasize someone falling into pieces with some hysterical anxiety.
#Malaysia #MYToots #Fedijaya #language #linguistics #TootSEA #multilingualism
In #MYPoli news, filed under, "get a load of this guy", please enjoy the unbelievable achievement of Howard Lee, MP for Ipoh* Timur in the following interview where he managed to look like an even bigger tool than BSL: https://twitter.com/codebluenews/status/1632939132057182209?t=OyZgbtW02ime6Ofb5GrMAQ&s=19
Please also enjoy how the accent contributed to the whole effect. You can't do wanker without sounding like you're from within M25 boundaries i guess.
* Ipoh once again for the win (of some kind)
#Malaysia #Fedijaya #MYToots #TootSEA #politics #RambutSamaHitamHatiLain2 #UnlessYoureInPolitics #ThenSemuaRightWing #PantunHabisKerja (this post is threaded)
“MP @howardlee_my wants health workers to wait for the government "to look into all the necessary measures to ensure all stakeholders are taken into account, into policy" before going on strike. "I think the Ministry needs to be given the room to do everything that's necessary."”
I haven't said much about Mentega Terbang because just thinking about how it went down saddens and enrages me so much, and much of it has to do with how we don't actually have a stable majoritarian demographic - sociologically that's been key to 'tolerances' of dissident views. (It's why despite Thais' own Buddhist views on sexuality being just as conservative as Filipino Catholic ones, there's an impression that queer subpockets can live & even flourish, with caveats). So unlike other heterogeneous societies with stable majority or homogenous ones, even when tame non-mainstream views are being pushed by a majoritarian person, it cannot survive backlash. This is a recent example - what happened to that comedy club is another. This is one legacy of post-colonialism outside of the west as well as global islamic ethnofascism.
Anyway, my thoughts were jumping off on from this thread: https://twitter.com/RohanBeg/status/1632356111654453248?t=pV2s8O9TjDHZ43LaNCeHjA&s=19
#Malaysia #FilemMalaysia #ethnofascism #MelayuDahBukanMelayu #TootSEA #Fedijaya
“What's happening to Mentega Terbang is why when Michelle Yeoh wins that Oscar, the best thing Malaysians can do instead of celebrating is solemnly observe a moment of silence for our own storytellers who will never earn similar recognition because Msia might jail them for trying.”
Just another rakyat 🇲🇾
Dendan Setia (Nins)