Personally I’ll rank Atria higher and I’m not sure I’ll rank any of the Kajang malls other than IOI City Mall THIS high… I haven’t been to like 2/3 of the malls listed here tho haha #MYToots#malaysia
I was chatting with a friend that has been studying in the UK for about 1.5 years and he hasn't heard of any of the current crop of Malaysian coffee chains like ZUS, Baskbear and Kenangan. It's pretty amazing how fast things have changed in Malaysia in regards to coffee franchises.
Anyway, since we're on Malay folklore fics, this is still my fav Hang Tuah x Hang Jebat fic because it's kinda unusual in its interpretation:
Title: To the Death / The Rambutan Tree
Author's summary: A fairly straight-up retelling of the Hang Tuah story, from his first meeting with Hang Jebat, to Jebat's death at Tuah's hands.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32473
Doing my part for Friday climate protests by fucking off from work the whole day to eat at a new vegetarian place opening up in my hometown that's giving out free meals.
However being Malaysian also means that sounds like a totally reasonable excuse.
The hilarious realization over the only reason why my random self even knows about BRICS ever since the oughts is simply because if there's one thing my country is good at, it's cultivating that chip on its shoulder about how we've wasted away our potential etc etc etc persistently worrying over if we'll ever escape "the middle income trap" (another World Bank special) and I was at that age where I was busy writing scholarship application essays and prepping for interviews.
(It's no use. At one point I heard back a feedback was, we don't need another Anwar. Even then I was insulted. And I was right to be. Hahahahahahahahaha.)
Notice how instead of criticizing Anwar or UMNO, the attacks from PN, Muda, KJ and PSM (to say nothing of MCA-controlled channels) are focused squarely on DAP and (in the case of PN) “Chinese voters who support corrupt politicians”? #MyPoli#MYtoots
Y'all I am from the same ethnic minority group as model diversity hire for white supremacy Ian Miles Cheong. Fuck the need to sympathise with Twitterjaya because they like being there sucking Elon's dick and asking how high when he tells them to jump.
Stop treating global south folks here who have built community like they are invisible just so you can paint a narrative counter to the facts. They choose to be there, and we choose to be here.
Been thinking about the diversity of Malaysia TV programming when I was much younger (I haven't been back/watched non-cable/streaming TV in years so idk about now) because of that post the other day about the diversity of the movies in the theater... and that's something I really appreciate now, looking back
(I am still on the whole Bersyukur bit coz it's still 31st August here, wait la, three hours later I go back to normal)