Can't remember the last time I ate at a paluto diner.

Yes, my husband and I were in food coma right after. And yes, we had bulalo in this crazy heat. 😅

#MakanApaToday #food #TootSEA

This should be interesting...

#Philippines #TootSEA

https://www.spot.ph/entertainment/movies-music-tv/111537/dreamworks-is-making-a-movie-about-philippine-mythology-a5229-20250416?ref=home_wgt2-sections6-entertainment_1&s=s4fa2cgcok3gnnnkf68ce4s90c

When everyone else was throwing praise and cash at a fish-feeder startup like it’s the second coming of Grameen Bank, it’s easy to start wondering if maybe you’re just being cynical. Maybe you’re jaded. Maybe the founder *really is* a scrappy visionary from East Jakarta.

People in the Indonesian tech scene knew how cynical, critical, and skeptical I was whenever I came across new startup ideas or concepts. People probably called me the dream killer with all the startup ideas I shat on as a judge at various tech startup events over the years but I was the judge, not the executioner.

For the most part I asked hard questions about their ideas and they mostly couldn’t find the answers. That’s on them. It’s on the founders to decide how to proceed after my grilling. But this one, this fishy fish feeding idea, this was blowing red flags in my head but it already had far too many major backers at the time. I chose to stay quiet and distanced myself from the hype.

#startup #Indonesia #efishery #TootSEA

http://aulia.me/2025/04/16/i-wanted-to-be-wrong-about-efishery-i-really-did/

Singapore elections soon. I’ll be voting at the consulate on Market St in San Francisco

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-general-election-may-3-parliament-dissolved-5064316

#Singapore #TootSea #GE2025

The Philippine Pavilion at the Osaka Expo is a stunner! (Though I'm still not a fan of the tourism slogan.)

#Philippines #TootSEA #OsakaExpo2025

https://www.spot.ph/things-to-do/the-latest-things-to-do/111513/philippine-pavilion-at-osaka-expo-2025-a5138-20250415-lfrm?ref=section_feed_1

One of the major hits in this year's Raya songs is Mimifly's Serumpun (which also has a dance portion with stylized Malaysian Sign Language) and one of the more enjoyable things I've seen are the various dance vids being performed to it (the title means "of the same root/source/group" and in her MV it was explicit with how she had other people showing up Nusantara/SEAsian native attire) from various Malaysians *AND* SEAns especially if you're in the aforementioned Nusantara grouping so I've seen videos from as far north as Cambodia. Anyway, this must be the fault of my algorithm because while I'm getting gorgeous Malaysian Indian dancers in full traditional attire why is the only properly choreographed non-nyonya non-baju Melayu videos from Malaysian Chinese is this Zumba video clearly from somewhere in my neighbourhood if the basketball court in the local park doesn't give it away... I guess at this point that's a cultural dress....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmnGz8rPLWE

#tootSEA #Malaysia #raya

A former Malaysian Prime Minister is reported to have passed away today.

No, not the one you think.

Innalillah regardless.

#tootSEA #malaysia

The take-home point here is that somehow Kuala Lumpur somehow got the MCU blue "advanced economy" colour grading rather than the yellow "global south" one RIP to Nairobi that market scene will always be famous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZvlQObjL8o

So over the weekend in SEA/nusantara socmed it was a bit popping on my feed because of two unrelated things, but they're all revolving around southeast asia as the Balkans of Asia (iykyk) and in the middle of the well-deserved lashings being poured on Malaysian transphobes suddenly this Thai account was like, lol Malaysia is a neocolonial project to destabilize the region, and most people are like, 1) wtf does that make you; 1a) axis collaborator; 1a-ii) collaborated so hard you simped for Hirohito and Hitler.

Anyway, the point of all that is that I'm being reminded that in a lot (A LOT) of border territories in the maritime SEA, and no judgement, you will not find it strange to find Malaysian flags as part of the local separatist expressions 😭😭😭 whyyyy don't get us involved (it's related to sociocultural facts about what constituted the "Malay World") #tootSEA #malaysia

'Everybody wants one' Apple's iPhone 16 hits Indonesia stores after months-long ban

> the US tech announced last month that its latest #smartphone models would hit the shelves, weeks after striking a deal with the Indonesian government to invest in the country.
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2025/04/12/039everybody-wants-one039-apple039s-iphone-16-hits-indonesia-stores-after-months-long-ban #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #iPhone #Apple #expatasia #smartphones