Ain’s problem is OUR problem
If you’re not familiar with the story of teen Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam, perhaps it’s time you get familiar. Last April, hot on the heels of revelations that debasing period spot checks were still widely happening in our high schools, Ain stepped forward with a claim of her own. A male teacher, she’d alleged, had […]
Takiyuddin’s Terrible Thursday
How do you solve a problem like Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan and his parliamentary shenanigans? If you’re the Agong, the answer would be to hand down a powerful, thundering, resounding — but sadly, figurative — slap in the form of a very regal, very blunt PDF document. We’re referring to a royal move no one […]
O Doctors! Our Doctors!
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills,For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding,For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning – From the poem O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman […]
Read The Room, Moo!
You know who can tell a joke? Douglas Lim. The actor-turn-comedian has racked up hordes of fans with videos featuring his cheeky, good-natured, sometimes poignant but always on-point takes on the latest issues facing Malaysians. Meanwhile, our man Fahmi Reza is known for his…err… unique satirical, take-no-prisoner political graphics calling out various leaders’ dumbassery and ineptitude. Not everyone’s a fan, of […]
Be The Crown, Izzy!
Heard the quote, “Smilers wear a crown, losers wear a frown“? Well, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s definitely smiling. Izzy, our Umno man, was given the golden ticket last Wednesday to become “Mr C̶o̶n̶g̶e̶n̶i̶a̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ Deputy Prime Minister 2021“. We’re sure he left many frowns in his wake as he pranced up to accept his sash […]
Feasting In A Famine
As legend has it, Nero fiddled while Rome burned. 2,000 years later, our politicians feast while Malaysia’s aflame. Are we being hyperbolic? Exaggerating? Let’s look at the week that was. Highly, extremely frustrated Malaysians have been calling for a different approach to the long, drawn-out lockdown which has been no closer to getting the Covid-19 problem in hand. It’s […]
#MenangBersama or #MenangisBersama?
They say a family that laughs together, stays together. What about a family that cries together? ‘Cos according to netizens in that hallowed space of unfiltered expressions, epic trolls and the birthplace of hashtags a.k.a. Twitterjaya, while our big, multiracial Malaysian family isn’t winning the war on Covid-19, we’re sure as hell crying together over it. It all began after the […]
ASAP ≠ As Slow As Possible
3 whole paragraphs. That’s not very long. But that’s all the response our glorious leader Muhyiddin “Mahiaddin” Yassin could muster in regards to 2 entire statements from the Malay rulers last Wednesday that essentially called bluff to his gomen’s insistence that Parliament isn’t safe from Covid-19 to be un-prorogued. C’mon Moo! A 3-para statement’s practically […]
Mahathir and the Mageran
It’s truly amazing how Dr Mahathir Mohamad has managed to keep his backside on or close to the seat of power for close to all of Malaysia’s history. The dude’s been around so long, we’re sure there’s a yet-undiscovered cave drawing of him somewhere in Alor Setar. And like the hero or villain (depending on where you […]
Between A Beer And A Hard Place
Thank you Anwar Ibrahim. With all the shit that’s been going on in Malaysia – you know, the out-of-control pandemic, the emergency, the screw-ups in Covid-19 SOPs and vaccination-related shenanigans – our erstwhile opposition leader and PM forever wannabe decided one thing above all others deserved his attention. What was it? It wasn’t any of the […]