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Sigh don't say 'Malaysia made history' when if this film was made in Malaysia, everyone involved would be in jail. She succeeded because she left.
At 60, Michelle Yeoh won the first Oscar for Malaysia . Her mother Janet exalted . Cheers erupted all round at special viewing ceremony in KL . Malaysia made history,
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Dude really exposing himself as useless husband lol. If your wife is so stressed having just two kids, that means you're not helping her out
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In my 20s I was very broke. One time on my first week at a new job, my last paycheque was late so I bought one cheese bun and ate pieces from it for days at work. Colleagues thought I was a snob for not eating with them.
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If you wonder why East Malaysians are stressed during fasting month...
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It's really sad that Family Mart quality/safety standards have gone down the tube in Malaysia. They used to be really nice organised places to be. Nowadays bau macam a disorganised 7-11. Like the 7-11 near my place always bau haprak macam freezer tak kena bersih
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This is Kadazan/indigenous dress. By the weird 'standards' in West Malaysia this would be 'tak sopan'.
You really going to call East Malaysians tak sopanlah right. Oh look they're wearing skirts, their dress has no sleeves! Stop imposing yr puritan ideals on rest of us
-_-
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Male husky abandoned. Any potential owners can call Edna at 0122077351
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West Malaysians like making fun of Sabahans as 'uncultured savages who live on trees' but Tanjung Aru on the outskirts of Kota Kinabalu has a five-storey library that is the best in the country.
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Current PM (not a fangirl post) at least is responding quickly to the disaster. Our last two PMs would probably have come out with a statement only after hours of prodding. Never forget that while we were grappling with Covid Muhyi was playing golf with Tony F
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Why are women expected to suffer alone - if a mother is getting stressed/burned out by child rearing, she needs help.
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Singapore has faster internet, better wages, better public transport, tight control over car ownership...why yes why can't we be like Singapore, Mahathir? Oh yeah, because it's your fault.
Lagi dua pilihan raya umum, Malaysia akan jadi seperti Singapura – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
#malaysiagazette
#mgnews
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It's really cute Malaysia/Malaysians want to claim Michelle Yeoh when the movie she's winning all the awards for is super-gay. And everyone knows how we treat gay people/gay media in this country
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Stop claiming EEAAO as a Malaysian victory when Malaysia prides itself on being extremely un-LGBT friendly.
EEAAO only passed the censors because I suspect our censors can't really speak English and had zero idea what they were watching
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So this Malaysian obsession with 'not letting the undeserving get free stuff' is to me ridiculous. The poor have enough shit to deal with without having to demonstrate how poor they are, and at same time be judged for it.
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We dodged a bullet but had to swallow a bitter pill. We need to think about how so many Malaysians chose theocracy and race supremacy. My sister said she met a student who told her she didn't care if she/her kids lived in poverty so long as they lived in a religious country.
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Just saw someone say Michelle Yeoh is Malay because she's from Malaysia and can't read Cantonese.
"She had to learn Cantonese for the film."
Mahai. Some of you foreigners need to be slapped around with rolled up newspaper
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I'm really tired of the LGBT obsession in Malaysia. Would feel very safe in a room full of gay men or even gay women for that matter.
Where would I not feel safe? In a room of straight men.
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I sometimes wonder why US visas are even necessary for Malaysians.
Like why would you think I would want to stay forever/illegally in a country where I would miss Malaysian food/can't afford an ambulance/the chance of getting shot is a lot higher than zero.
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The basikal lajak thing isn't just abt 'bad kids' or 'bad parents'. It's about how for poorer families kids try to find escape outside and with few options, resort to thrill seeking.
We need safe spaces for kids to keep them engaged. Home is hell for many of them.
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EEAAO trying to get funding in Malaysia, a hypothetical scenario:
FINAS: kenapa LGBT tidak bertaubat/mati dalam filem ini? Sila tunjukkan nilai-nilai murni yang sesuai. Dan kenapa LHDN dipaparkan sebegitu buruk? Hormatilah petugas kerajaan
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It's so annoying when people find out you're struggling financially they become judgy and then give you advice you didn't ask for. One friend was like you have hardly enough to eat why have pets.
Because w/o them I'd have jumped off a building a long time ago.
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I don't usually like commenting on celeb marriages but dah kau sibuk menyundal kat luar, bini kau suri rumah. And then salahkan dia sebab stress? lol memang lelaki ni anggap isteri sebagai maid free je
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Mahathir’s time was genuinely terrifying. People thrown into windowless detention rooms - couldn’t tell if it was day or night. Politicians, activists locked away without being allowed visits from anyone - family or lawyers. Protests were met with riot police, batons, tear gas.
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You wouldn't be able to tell I had no money. From all appearances I seemed while not rich, but not hard up. I didn't tell people my $$ struggles and could not get help from family as my family also had no $$ to spare, and I was the eldest.
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Maybe if we taught Indian and Chinese civilizations in schools some of you would be less obsessed with yourselves and your supposed history.
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Reminder to Malaysians: yes make your demands but don't be like the first year of PH when people complained changes weren't happening immediately.
Push. Speak up. Ask for what you want.
But don't be that 'like this I vote for BN next timelah teach them a lesson' person.
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During the pandemic when people struggled to get into hospitals, he was flown to SG in a helicopter. When the pandemic started, he was golfing.
Buat apa nak kesian.
not to be mahiaddin apologist but do people forget he had pancreatic cancer before
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I remember having no money during my first mid-semester break. Hiding in my dorm, eating just a cup of nestum with a spoonful of condensed milk.
By the end of it, I could see my ribs.
It's very rich to see people who cannot fathom being poor telling us how to treat them.
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DAP is the best representation of minorities in this country - bending over backwards trying to appease people who just want them to literally not exist.
Sedih juga. Harap sangat Anthony Loke dan Steven Sim diberi peluang berbakti.
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Mahathir willing to destroy the country to remain relevant by playing up racial sentiment...his selfishness truly has no limit
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You cannot save people who cannot be saved. Best example of that is Kelantan.
They already believe that voting PAS is the express ticket to heaven and nothing will change their minds. If their state sinks, they will say 'ini dugaan/takdir' as they die.
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Yeah so when there are initiatives for free pads? And not make it hard for people to get them? I'm all for it. If you're so scared the well-off will benefit then TAX THEM MORE. So they can shut up about 'i have to pay for yr benefits' well you use them too so STFU
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@harbs16
@CarrieCnh12
Asian is an ethnicity - Malaysian is nationality. Basically we’re just saying don’t call her American? And she pretty much mentions her hometown/being Malaysian fairly often? Maybe read?
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Some days were bad, I didn't want to go to work, to go out, to do anything. When I joke about going to work to keep my pets alive, it's not a joke. When I felt I had nothing to live for, I just reminded myself my pets needed me. They tethered me to life.
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Maybank data has been sold off so change your Maybank passwords now
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Poverty doesn’t always look like beggars on the street or torn clothes. Something poverty is letting my friends think I’m a flake because I don’t come to their weddings - because I can’t tell them I can’t afford the angpao or the flight tickets back to Sabah.
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Brown people cosplaying as Nazis and doing the salute. It's no wonder Malaysia produces people like Ian Perasan Mat Saleh Cheong. Apparently this was at KLCC -_-
Please ship these people to Germany, they can enjoy being fined/jailed there since they like it so much
(source: FB)
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If we forced employers to also pay for the hours/expense of commuting we would suddenly see WFH becoming very popular.
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Whenever someone brings up nuclear in Malaysia, I have to tiredly say, again, "You know how bad we are at upkeep in Malaysia right? We'd be the Chernobyl of SE Asia because some dude MC and his colleague forgot to secure some doors."
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Focus less on the undeserving, focus more on the people who need help. Also men stop shitting on women who are excited about free pads because it's unfair to women that they need to spend money on something that should be a basic right.
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When I became a tech journo, there was lots of free food. I inhaled that. It made up for not having much money for anything else. But everything else I had to scrounge. Stuff like pads? I stretched as much as I could, wearing them as long as I could stand but that meant leaks.
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Expect FINAS and Fahmi Sellout to put out statements saying Michelle's win is proof that Malaysia can produce Oscar-winning talent/works.
YES BUT ONLY IF THEY LEAVE MALAYSIA.
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Basic pads should be free for every menstruating person tbh. And if you want fancy pads, then you spring for them. Non-menstruating people - do you even think about how much you're not spending? That you don't have to fork out money to deal with bleeding you can't stop?
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This is the craziest story. Man fights over inheritance with MIL, hits her car with a stick, she gets spooked and tries to drive away - he chases her and mows down a cop on a bike in the process.
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PH/BN: blabla ekonomi, blabla
PN/PAS: GAAAYYYYYY
...this is the level of Malaysian political discourse ladies and gents
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Am not going to mind (much) HK claiming Michelle Yeoh because they embraced her and gave her a career.
But China? Cannot. Sorry you don't get to claim your diaspora only when you want credit.
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Cops not going after all those Tik-Tokkers spreading lies/hate speech.
But they arrest some kid because a teacher got butthurt about the kid being angry about a history paper.
I hope that teacher leaves the profession permanently. Don't teach if you hate children.
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Malaysians in disbelief that they have a functioning govt is hilarious but sad because it took us this long to get here.
Meanwhile PAS/PN won't stop shrieking and trying to bait populace with religious/racial sentiment
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Thinking about the mother whose baby died on a bus ride to Kuching from Julau. People were like 'why didn't she just go to Sarikei hospital' 'why didn't she ask the hospital or KK to transport the baby'.
Maybe she just didn't know better.
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Again, Muhyiddin is learning he can't depend on just one race to stay in power. His anti-Christian/anti non-Muslim rhetoric will alienate Borneo. Even the Church Association told Christians to vote - a big deal because it likes to be as apolitical as possible.
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Or they see my paycheque and think ‘you should be OK what’. They don’t know I was paying both my and my brother’s rent and I had debt from being in between jobs. It is actually really not that easy to ‘prove’ you’re poor. And in the end you get blamed for ‘poor financial choices’
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KLCC making Bisou leave. I loved their cupcakes. The spot is going to be taken over by Havaiana sandals 🙄 wtaf.
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I hate that Malaysia is hostage to developers. We have more condos and office space than we need but all we do is keep building more and more, and keep making excuses for even more f-ing highways.
Fuck developers. They're scum.
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I 'love' how so many of you have sudden amnesia about how we had a monster for home minister. Did you forget how he called foreign-born children of Malaysian women security threats? Or his callous disregard for the lives of foreign workers? Even I was scared abt tweeting abt him
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Suicidal ideation comes from a very dark place. A pain so overwhelming it feels that it will never stop, a well of hurt that goes on forever.
Having been there I would never wish it on anyone and it hurts to know someone else felt it too…and tried to make it go in the worst way.
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One far-right dude burns a book, you blame the entire country (which he is not even a citizen of).
One country kills hundreds/thousands of a certain people, forcing them to flee and your reaction is "they probably deserved it".
Morality in Malaysia is fucking twisted.
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PAS/PN rejoinder is really easy. Just ask them "Well, what did you do the last couple of years?"
And all they can answer is "We let you use your EPF money". That's it. No reform. No worthwhile programs. No betterment in standards of living. Except for Kelantan reps who got Merces
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Colour is…not suitable for CNY. Must we erase cultures for ‘practicality’. Giving money for ALL festivals isn’t really a thing and wow thanks for putting East Malaysian festivals under ‘lain-lain’ 🙄 are we mythical unicorns to you. Being ignorant of other customs =not cool
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Increasing tax on rich people means one less mansion or fancy car.
Increasing the burden of tax on the poor means one less meal, or no meals at all some days.
If you think they are equal, I hope karma teaches you what empathy means.
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Sometimes there are no good choices. Or only one choice. The poor don’t have options and sometimes it takes just one event to fuck your life up. I’m not sharing for pity. But so you understand that people can’t budget their way out of poverty and it doesn’t look the way you think
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Rafizi would do everyone and his party a favour by just not opening his mouth.
Dude is just incapable of displaying any kind of empathy and his unlike-ability is just...off the charts
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Mahathir loves insulting the Malays. He insinuates that they can never be the richest, smartest, strongest. That they can never achieve anything via merit so must be given the advantage always.
He is the number one reason why they can't succeed.
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You all really expecting brand new Cabinet members of complex ministries such as Health and Education to come up with directives or be able to immediately answer your questions. Many of them didn’t even know they’d be in the Cabinet until the very last minute. Calm down.
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Remembering when people tried to cancel me when I pointed out that if Michelle Yeoh had never left Malaysia she'd just be the 'special guest star' in the odd sitcom or token minority in shitty TV shows and not have anywhere near the career she has now because she's the wrong race
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You complain our grads can't get work. Then you insist they need even more religious teaching/history in schools. And then you complain, again, that minority kids get better jobs and cushy overseas offers. All you want is yr kids selling krim kilo and cheese leleh by roadside ah?
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Do some of you even understand how hard it can be for urban poor to demonstrate their poverty. If I told them I was broke that month paying off my mother’s car repairs I’d be told to suggest to my mom she sell her car if she can’t afford it. She lives in Sabahlah cibai.
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Can someone explain to me why so many Malaysians mix up 'deadline' with 'dateline'?
Deadline: cut off date for something 'the deadline for submission is 20 Aug'.
Dateline: a line on document/printed publication that states the date 'The article was missing a dateline'
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Why should they need to do that? And do you even read, motherfucker? They showed IC pun tak kena percaya, tanya Bidayuh tu rekaan ke?
Not E.Msian's fault some of you tidur in school.
Buat teruk apanya?, Letak je la IC atas meja, dah muka hang nampak cam melayu, mesti la depa tanya, xyah buat teruk la sial, bukan orang xbagi order ngan makan kalau hang bukan muslim pun, depa tanya sebab depa xtau, bodo betina ni asyik2 dok stoke sentiment perkauman.
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I did my best not to borrow money from friends. Many of you have family or significant others you can ask for help. Me? Sometimes it was just me and Citibank. So yeah maybe just maybe be less shitty thanks.
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There is a lot of shame in poverty - and a lot of my ex-colleagues at past jobs would probably be surprised to hear how broke I was. They never knew. I turned down invites. Said I was sick. Or busy. But I couldn’t afford cab fare or drinks. No cash or I was overextended on the cc
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Don't forgetlah - Anwar also ex-ABIM and those guys were also concert protesters.
He is very much a believer in performative acts of religion. Because it's the Malaysian way -to forever prove how religious you are and force ppl to 'respect' you.
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@HeyLaurenSummer
@davidmackau
They did though? On the Mattel Creations site? Sold out now though it just went up on site last night
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On FB: a great summary of how religion is practiced in Malaysia. What’s the point of pilgrimages every year when your neighbour is starving?
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What annoys me is that no matter how many people explain that 'char kuey teow' literally means 'charred or stir-fried' food...we still gets the kuey teow basah people insisting it is CKT.
Eh korang please panggil je-lah kuey teow basah yg degil nak pakai CKT apasal
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My metabolism is also fucked because of all the times I starved either because of lack of funds or depression. So I’m slightly overweight and I’m cool with it. Because it sure beats the times I saw my ribs because I had nothing to eat
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Lol ‘tak kongsi aib’- Mizz Nina’s husband let her go. Divorce was private and amicable. The other women felt they had no choice but to reveal why they wanted a divorce - and their husbands refused to grant one. Y’all really like women suffering in private to ‘jaga air muka’
Seorang lagi artis aibkan pasangan. Esok lusa tak tahu siapa pula, minta dijauhkan. Ketika ini saya teringat Noh dan Mizz Nina. Tidak sepatah pun perkataan buruk keluar dari mulut mereka. They don't wash their dirty linen in public.
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I’m doing ‘ok’ I guess. My siblings/mom don’t need me to help with expenses anymore, I don’t have to juggle 3 jobs or deal with biawak hidup cheating boyfriends. Now it’s me, my pets and my Switch. Not having to be responsible for people is freeing.
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Malaysians really be saying ‘we can’t execute LGBT so let’s withhold lifesaving medical care from them until they repent’. 🙄 fuckers
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Happy 45th to me! Sometimes life is just about reconciling yourself to its fragility and carrying on with grace and gratitude.
This is my ‘thinking about all the cake I’ll eat later’ face
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Sometimes I’d get irked by people casually saying ‘aiya no moneylah’ and laughing. When I know damn well they have adequate savings and I’m the one with 50 to last me the week before payday.
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Comel-lah nak appropriate East Malaysian culture when you keep threatening to ban aspects of it like drinking of alcohol and shame people for having tattoos
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So pardon me if I can barely contain my rage when you talk about targeted aid or worry ‘what if the people who can afford it get the free stuff instead?’ I bet in your eyes you assumed I was one of the ‘don’t need aid’ people. And you would have judged me for ‘freeloading’.
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Anyway kids this is why you learn to speak more than one language - when you're PM, other leaders can call you during your PC for you to flex
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Today's discourse:
"Hey Melayu 11A pun tak dapat scholarship tahu! Tak payah nak tunjuk race card semua!"
...sebab Melayu kaya yang ambik tempatlah bangang.
Scholarships (degree/masters) should take into account needs. Don't use merit as excuse to give rich ppl free scholarships
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She had to leave to even have a career. Can you at least acknowledge that? "Discredit" - all our best ones from Yuna to Michelle Yeoh to Alvin Wee all had to LEAVE. That's how little we respect what they do. In Malaysia, talent dies.
Despite starting her career in Hong Kong, it took decades for Michelle Yeoh to win her Oscar.
I know la, we do 'nothing' for her career etc. Tapi nk tumpang gembira pon susah without seeing tweet discrediting her own country at every opportunity.
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It was hard because whenever I saved a bit and thought I would be fine - suddenly my mom would text me for money for car repairs. Or plane tickets for my sister. Miscellaneous expenses. And I would be in the hole again.
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Wow nasty people really bullied someone for having very reasonable expectations for a partner.
I'll tell you this - the wrong partner will fuck you up worse more than being alone. She knew what she wanted and would settle for.
I wish I hadn't settled for all my terrible bfs
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Anyway before you try to assume things about poverty and aid, maybe open your eyes a little. Examine your own prejudices and assumptions. And maybe understand when it would be kinder to just not be so judgey.
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@uuliuu
You're living the urban reality man. The ones who can afford all that lifestyle stuff have family support/connections. Life is shit and sometimes it's just about damn luck lol. Some days I look at my bank account and am like wow it's not the end of month I still have cash
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Momo cares not that I have to vacuum her fur off the bed later
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Let’s also not forget they couldn’t even hire an Iban actor to play an Iban hero - and he isn’t even wearing traditional clothes because they need to cover the actor’s aurat…which wouldn’t be a problem if they had just hired an Iban in first place 🤷♀️
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This dude is super entertaining - his tips on arranging furniture etc are practical while still managing to adhere to basic feng shui elements. He managed to make a room shared by 2 kids and parents more liveable w/o them needing to spend money - just place things better
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Read sad story by Sino-Kadazan dude living in W.Msia - how a customer yelled at him 'you're Chinese, why can't you speak Mandarin?'
Sino-Kadazans is Sabahans with one Chinese parent and the other being Kadazandusun. They're basically their own ethnic group in Sabah
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One of the saddest things I've seen on here was parents forcing their kids to withdraw their EPF money or make personal loans.
"You owe me" was the reason. Crazy shit.
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The rentseekers in PN/PAS are now panicked because that lovely gravy train of lobster parliament dinners, cushy GLC appointments and overseas trips/free family holidays is gone. They tasted the fruits of power and now are upset they can't have them.
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Sometimes poverty is having to chew on cloves to numb your hurting tooth because you can’t go to the dentist until payday. Then because you waited too long now you need a root canal but at least the dentist lets you pay in instalments.
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Your silly shaky cam film is nothing worth venerating. I’m not a fan of the CCP but if you want to talk about civilization or history, the Chinese and Indians have longer, richer traditions. And maybe they have some right to be stuck up about that
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