Why Does It Always Rain In Malaysia
March 11th, 2007
for a while now, the higher echelons of our political hierarchy have had a new rationalization when things screw up. and the rationalization is this : irresponsible, lying bloggers.
the latest in the fine art of blameshifting that many of our executives seem to be particularly adept at, is our Tourism Minister claiming that the ‘para blogger’ are creating a negative misconception of Malaysia and that all bloggers are liars.
he attributed mudslinging bloggers as one of the causes of a slow flow of tourists into the country despite it being Visit Malaysia Year 2007. apparently we should be singing praises about Msia in an attempt to lure tourists into our beautiful multi-racial, multi-ethnic country that is rich with culture and heritage and history. nevermind the fact that our multi-racial feelgood happy-clappy diversity is as real as the tourist brochures get, and that our govt has a habit of wrecking heritage sites that have such potential as tourist attractions, and the unspoken rule of our historical archiving is that the less-than-glorious parts should be forgotten and never brought up.
Tourism Minister said :
“Our airports are jam-packed daily, the occupancy rates at hotels are high and, furthermore, we are not only concentrating on Kuala Lumpur; the tourists visit other parts of the country.”
airports are jampacked. so? occupancy rates at hotels are high. so? not only concentrating on KL. so? how about not coming up with ridiculously plebeian defences, and actually doing something about the sad failure that is called Visit Malaysia Year 2007 (VMY 2007)? Tourism Minister, here is a newsflash : the tourists that are in our country right now have absolutely no flipping clue it is VMY 2007. the reasons they are here are reasons unbeknownst to us, but as a recent poll in The Star would have it, they are most definitely NOT here for the effectiveness of your campaign in their respective countries. they have no idea it exists. that means VMY is a failure because you people have no marketing savvy.
he also said : “With only one ferris wheel at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa drawing a huge crowd there, what are these people talking about VM2007 being lembab (slow)?”
it is no secret that i hate the stupid eye on fucking malaysia. spending 30 million of public funds on a stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid ferris wheel that will be dismantled by the end of the year is the most ridiculous proposition at tourism enhancement i have ever seen. and with 30mil, you’d think they’d use that money on an attraction that’s UNIQUE and not something that was ripped off another country’s attraction. and what the HELL does he mean that because the ferris wheel draws a crowd, it means VMY is a success? hello but have you not realized that everyone going to that stupid monstrosity are LOCALS???
and dont even get me started on the joke that is the idiotic RM1-for-15 minutes jamban in the middle of our city. it’s making us an international laughingstock, thank you very much tourism ministry. is malaysia so backward that self-cleaning, hygenic and presentable bathrooms have to become a fucking tourist attraction? shouldnt that be the state of toilets all over the country instead of a few strategically-placed glamourized Porta-Potties? how about putting the money that went towards those plastic huts into wages for the people who clean our public toilets? how about putting that money into TOILET ROLLS for our public toilets, for goodness’ sake? and how about not charging RM1 while you’re at it?
i dont know about y’all, but i cringe everytime i read travel guidebooks that say ‘guard your belongings; pickpocket and theft cases are abundant in Malaysia’. if our rampant crime rate is not a secret to the guidebook writers, surely it is not a secret to the people of Malaysia and the government. do something about it lah can or not. and while you’re at it, can we look into the corruption problem as well? yah yah elect Pak Lah and he’ll eradicate corruption in Msia. his service is going into 4 years now, but last month a cop wearing a “Aku Polis Anti Rasuah” (i am an anti-corruption cop) button on his lapel tried to fish for a bribe from my dad. fuck off and die lah, you teabreak-loving currypuff-eating criminal in a crimefighter’s uniform.
seriously. do the people in our tourism ministry travel? are they so saturated in politics that they no longer know what tourists look for when they go out to see the world? come on lah even an 18 year old girl knows what she wants to see when she travels. when i go to Indonesia i look for pisang goreng. when i go to Hong Kong i go shopping. when i go to Vietnam i check out the totally vibrant street life and culture. when i go to Singapore, i totally appreciate the user-friendly public transport system. so……… Malaysia oso got pisang goreng wat. our shopping is one of the cheapest in the region. our street life and culture is thankfully still very much alive. and ok so we dont have a user-friendly public transport system, but we can work on that! see, just do all these things lah. and talk more about nasi lemak. i swear to you, nasi lemak can bring in tourists by the THRONGS.
and how about revising some of the restrictions on foreign artist performances? we should hold more concerts! invite more performers! stop estranging international artistes ala Pussycat Dolls and Ang Lee! the Rainforest Music Fest in Swak is cool and all, but it is just not enough. do they not realize that music and the arts were the old black, are the new black, and will always be black! have more showcases and people will come, it is that simple. look at Bangkok .. they know that. look at Singapore.. they know that. yeah i oso know that, that’s why i’m spending a whole week there in two days time for the Mosaic festival, spending Singaporean dollars and buying Singaporean goods and raising Singapore’s GDP. the truth is you can always harp a lot about nationalism and shit like that, but at the end of the day, consumers can only have so much patriotism. we are consumers just as we are citizens. if you dont deliver, then too bad lah, we go across the causeway lah.
and what are they DOING to our night markets and wet markets? i wonder if they realize such things are what make us quintessentially south east asian, and that tourists love to see this sort of thing? why is the bangsar pasar malam, a place brimming with Malaysianness, turning into a DBKL-blue-tent and plastic-table abomination? why do they want to raze wet markets to build high-rise buildings that have bad architecture anyway? people dont travel out of a concrete jungle to see another concrete jungle.
also, if the govt is really so intent on spreading the good word about Malaysia, i honestly see no better way of doing that than via our local filmmakers who are definitely kicking ass in the international arena. but what happens to Yasmin Ahmad? she gets flak about being pencemar budaya. what happens to Tan Chui Mui? they dont give her funding for her movies. what happens to Amir Muhammad? they ban all his movies. WELL DONE LAH GOVT. I’M SURE WE LOVE THIS TEMPURUNG WE ARE UNDER.
what else what else. oh yah. our taxi drivers. but no need to say anything lah that one, you dont know meh, now they trying to clamp down on errant taxi drivers by sending undercover officials on taxi-riding sprees. very effective wan, you dont know meh. that’s why over the past week all these cabbies still tried to charge me RM 30 from mid valley to my place and tried to tell me at 10 freaking PM they have the right to impose midnight surcharge. damn effective these govt strategies! dont simply criticize!!!
and speaking of criticism. of course bloggers got all the shit lah. first of all, what is wrong with critique? why cant you deal with it? as executives, you’re supposed to make us happy first and foremost. if we are not happy, are you not supposed to do something about it? why are you shutting us up? not enough izzit you gag the mainstream media into the pathetic state it is in now? secondly, it is the media’s job to inform and to educate. well surprise surprise and i wonder why, it seems our mainstream media doesnt do a good job of that. so can you blame the information-hungry masses for turning to the internet for their education? can you blame them for finding on blogs what should be in our newspapers in the first place? our PM said at the Asian Media Summit 2006 : “the media must present different sides to a story, dismiss half truths and foster critical thinking so that people can be more informed in their daily lives”. yeah listen to your PM. how come when bloggers present different sides of a story and dismiss half truths, it’s not critical thinking.. but they are told that it is all lies and irresponsibility? oh and of course they are told to ‘check their facts’, as is the popular harumphhh of our ministers, keris-waving, one-eye-closing or otherwise.
okay i’m getting too angsty. it’s just that it’s so aggravating to read about the ministry who gave birth to VMY 2007 (which is a joke) condemning bloggers simply because they arent getting the results they want. Tourism Ministry, if anything, bloggers are the ones putting Malaysia on the map. when we write about our daily lives, people all around the world can become acquainted to Malaysian lifestyles in a way so real and personal, it surpasses all marketing campaigns. and that is something your farcical ‘Malaysia Truuuulyyyy Asiiiiaaaaaa’ ads will never be able to achieve.
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71 Comments Add your own
1. Kevin | March 11th, 2007 at 6:29 am
All I got to say is….99% of Malaysian ministers are fucking dumb as hell and the future of UMNO are Mat Rempits…
I forsee a bright future for Mas ^_^
2. pinkpau | March 11th, 2007 at 6:39 am
who is the 1% that is lucky enought to be spared from ur harshness, oh kevin the beaver? :D
3. Hishy | March 11th, 2007 at 7:34 am
I concur.
Also; kinda sad that I’m uncomfortable with how polite and efficient cashiers/waiters/etc are here compared to the ones in Malaysia.
The service industry back home could use a LOT of help, too. But I guess it’s easier to blame bloggers, huh.
4. Lalita | March 11th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Aiyoh - so embarrassing lah when my husband tells me have to be careful where you go to toilet when out and about in Malaysia - and I have nothing to say in defence! VMY 2007 - what about Clean Toilets 2007 and forever more right??
You are so right - there is a lot to be done for improvement. And yeah loh, blame everyone else except that is, the powers that be lah! And damn right about the blardy tempurung man.
Damn fine post, Su Ann! You go girl!!! =)
5. Lalita | March 11th, 2007 at 7:55 am
PS - My Malaysian-ness has been accentuated in my comments due to a recent trip home! Heh, heh …
6. LumosMaxima | March 11th, 2007 at 8:34 am
i have actually been stalking your blog for a while now, and because it’s so good, i just can’t bring myself to discontinue stalking it.
anyway, this post has got to be the most angsty, anti-patriotic one yet, even though you usually don’t have much to complain about the country. but it’s so right, so apt that my further commenting would be insulting it.
i do hope that you don’t get served. :)
7. Asyraf Lee | March 11th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Was he the one who also made the statement that “if you don’t like malaysia, go back to your country” without the “please” part?
8. The Sim | March 11th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Ok i don’t feel like returning to Malaysia now. No wonder i’m not homesick; well except for the family, friends and food (so maybe im homesick after all), but it sure feels good to escape from all these.
Anyway, i hope they publish this on The Star or something. MMMMonster kill!! fo shizzle.
9. darkhello | March 11th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Heya Su Ann!
Woh, now I’m getting all-riled up reading that article in the star!!!
“The bloggers are creating a wrong impression of the country by writing anything under the sun without getting the proper facts and figures,” he added.”
What is this man!!!! ‘Writing about anything under the sun!?’ How can we even write about anything if they don’t want to let us? (re: rocky bru and jeff ooi being sued by News Straits times). If anything at all, they should stop being so paranoid and anal about blogging!!
Hehe, great post btw. Loved reading your first anti-patriotic rant. :)
10. Jay | March 11th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Whoa! Hm. Well, you make some well points there. I assure you, I have no freaking clue what this WMY 07 was. I mean, first of all, who picked the name?! Come on now. You could have done better Mr. PM! Now, granted, even tho I never heard of WMY 07, I was planning on a South Asia Tour for myself in like the Fall, and KL was one of my stops, but now, you fucking scared the shit out of me. Corrupt taxis, high crime rate, hotels and flights are packed?! How will I ever survive? Hm…maybe I should just skip Malaysia…oh, who am I kidding, this trip will never happen, I’ll just skip the entire South Asia area and just drive to the airport and then drive back home…yeah, sounds good to me. =P
11. michael | March 11th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
why don’t u get yourself a driving license and car?
12. Michelle | March 11th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
This is certainly irritating. Man, can the ministers just keep their mouth shut about us?
13. val | March 11th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
woo..dat was good!!!
14. martian | March 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
love it when u talk dirty
15. k0k | March 11th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
farcical ‘Malaysia Truuuulyyyy Asiiiiaaaaaa’
I like that. LoL.
They really need to start getting somebody with any semblance of originality and intelligence in the tourism ministry.
16. Cat-chan | March 11th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Oh yeah. Word. Absolute word. I agree with each and every word of your post.
Am really having second thoughts about going back. -.-”
17. BADAWI | March 11th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
HI BABY , I WANT TO FUCK YOU ALL DAY ALL NIGHT AND LET YOU DRINK MY CUM
18. nick au | March 11th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
hrms… very interesting post…. Hopefully our dearest cabinet ministers rectify their mistakes quicker and start thinking about running a proper goverment body than just showcasing us as a bundle of laugh.
Otherwise, I probably, wouldn’t be around any much longer. Tee hee…
Oh yea, I’m back from MANILA!!!!
19. reallybites | March 11th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
not gonna say anything here or else my comment will be longer than your post :P
everyone bitches about it and its still the same.it will always be the same.at least for the next couple of years.
me? i’m thankful for the fantastic hawker food here, especially to the person who created fried oyster.
20. ArtificiallyVerbose | March 11th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
i feel that despite its many shortfalls, it is these flaws that make malaysia what she is. the bad government, the corrupt law enforcers, the income and education gap, the many languages, the segregation while all bad in the concepts of equality and conscience, makes malaysia esp kl unique in a way which cannot be replicated anywhere (take sg as an example)
the bad govt is a common rallying point for most people in a land which has so many areas for disagreement to sprout. the question lies in how long this fragile balance will last.
21. percy | March 11th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
what i can say is that the goverment is not doing much in preventing corruption and lots more (e.g. our local council and politician is damn rich that they afford to built their own mansion beside likes to talking nonsense hurting the rakyat and just go off by saying sorry or even accused the rakyat they had misunderstood him )…we will need to wait a see just how long the mas and proton will last…
22. entwined | March 11th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
is what asyraf said is true, then omglah we’re so doomed for having this dumbass being at the forefront of our tourism ministry. great first impression he’s gonna give.
talking about msian govt and its stupidity always gets me riled up. so freaking narrow-minded and completely missing the BIG PICTURE omg hello…our politicians’ stupidity never cease to amaze. aih. i want to say a lot more, but err don’t want to get you into trouble ala jeff ooi. so i better stop. :P
23. slurp | March 11th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
ei, u can read Chinese one ah? (the sin chew daily)
24. justakid | March 11th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
GO PINKPAU!!!! WOOOO!!! :D
25. ch | March 11th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
are u taking sth like political economy? this entry looks tooooooo looooooooooooog. perhaps u should tidy it up and submit to some journo…. haaaaaaaaaaaa
26. Kim | March 11th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
this so proves how Malaysia is on the way down the drain……sad case man…..Malaysia everything boleh rite.. they’re just jealous of us bloggers cuz we garner more interest than their freaking tax-money-eating VMY “campaigns”…our tourism minister should actually READ blogs…
you go girl~~
27. anonymous | March 11th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
getting a bunch of ppl to view ur blog either to get attention/popularity/ by defaming the country wont help malaysia go further. if you’re really that concerned abt msia, do sth more practical than typin shit loads. if you hated msia govt. so much ,why dont you leave?what’s the point of staying and whinning ?
28. clem | March 11th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
^ because we bloggers are being hit out and attempt to be gagged for ‘lies’, which I find quite insulting.
i like this post su ann, now if only the govt reads this and make a change.
29. MichelleSY | March 11th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
I feel ya babe!
30. melvin | March 12th, 2007 at 12:05 am
fuiyo..getting political..heh. i think, well i hope the govt will take note of this post. anyway, i believe u should come up with more of these ‘rants’, u certainly can argue them well. keep it up :)
31. RandomSurfer | March 12th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Goddamn girl, you tell ‘em! Tell it like it is!
/dreads the return home in Aug
32. tze | March 12th, 2007 at 12:35 am
how can you find it in yourself to be so knowledgeable about all these! you make me feel so self centered in comparison, heh.
anyways yeah la cibai policeman with an anti rasuah badge once took rm8 from me because i had no license (i lost it wtf) and was driving on the emergency lane. rm8 was all that i had la but rm8 also he want! once also i bribed a police rm30 cuz i was going at 110km/h!
you know what i wanna do, i wanna.. start a revolution wtf
33. pinkpau | March 12th, 2007 at 12:49 am
anonymous at #27 : so you’re one of those fools who think that citizens speaking their mind ‘wont help the country go further’. look - progress is made when you learn from your mistakes and correct them. our govt has this tendency to live in denial abt their mistakes, so if people like us dont ‘whine’ and ‘type shitloads’ as you obnoxiously put it, who else is going to tell them that they’re fucking up?
“if you dont like it, leave” is the most ignorant thing that anyone can say. the worst kind of patriots are those who leave the country when things go wrong, as is ur suggestion. and if we ‘marginalized’ folk get pissed off enough one day to pull an exodus on the country, do you honestly think that msia will be able to sustain itself? backboneless and uneducated and uninformed people will then be running the country’s politics and economy - let’s see what fireworks happen lah when that rolls around.
i completely abhor people like you, who think that people have no right to air their opinions. so, what you want, everyone just sit around being ignorant and play congkak izzit? sit around and let the govt manipulate you like puppets izzit? and as for doing something practical, why dont you give me a suggestion, seeing how when people attempt to ‘do something practical’, they either get arrested, remanded or slapped with a lawsuit? oh and then there are the anonymous fuckers who come around squealing “ooooh if you dont like it why dont u leave!!” u know what, u and tengku adnan should get together and have a fucking tea party - he seems to enjoy telling people to ‘leave if they dont like it’ as well.
get out of my blog lah. stupid little idiot.
34. Waifon | March 12th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Eh I thought good bloggers always return a gentle, polite, and yet sarcastic remark when answering to anonymouses and flamers’ nonsensicle comments. And now the theory is proven wrong! You rock pinks! Your comment above is so true. Very angst! Terpegun already! O_O !!!
I’m not saying that cos I’m one of the people you get to ” view ur blog either to get attention/popularity/ by defaming the country” . I’m a peace lover so anonymous don’t flame back me ar. I’m not trying to insinuate that you should be flamed like that cos you’re an idiot. Plus my dog just died today I swear so I need to stop being bitch for a bit to get some karma for him in doggie heaven :) Would seriously love to share my 2 cents worth of an unemployed woman’s thoughts but later they say I’m spreading lies and causing disharmony how !? No can do, no can do.
35. stellaboo | March 12th, 2007 at 1:45 am
very nicely put!
unfortunately, from what i’ve seen and heard, the same kids griping about the anti-rasuah cops asking for bribes are the SAME people paying the bribes. if you truly want a change, let’s start at home.
let’s hope they are more people like you, who complains productively (for lack of a better word)
and i had no idea the ferris wheel cost 30mil, thats an absurd amount of money spent but whats new lah, we’ve always known the government to spend stupidly on stupid things locals are swarming there to “view malaysia from the top” but again these are the same people who don’t even travel within their own country.
36. tze | March 12th, 2007 at 2:58 am
aiyah anonymous you seem to have a pathetic existence in the world, so leave the earth la wtf. go to the middle crust la wtf. or travel back in time since your mind seems to belong in the dark ages
37. kenji | March 12th, 2007 at 8:00 am
hmmm. one nasty anonymous comment and you only reply to him/her. what about the rest?
38. pinkpau | March 12th, 2007 at 9:33 am
kenji : wait gimme 24 hrs :P so busy wrapping up things before i leave kl
39. T.U | March 12th, 2007 at 10:35 am
That is one angry Pink. But I totally agree with Pink on the Eye (Patch) on Malaysia contraption. Those who visits or went on a ride on that thing are locals. Tourists from London must be thinking that we ciplak their idea. The tourism department should expose Malaysian cultures, traditions, foods and local stuffs. That’s how VMY2007 should be and so that tourists who visits the country can appreciate something Malaysian.
40. ronin | March 12th, 2007 at 11:00 am
I don’t agree that some of you call this post ‘unpatriotic’. Standing up against such callous remark by a Malaysian minister takes guts. It’s helluva lot more patriotic than ‘anonymous #27′.
41. A for Anomie | March 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Su Ann, this is impressive writing.
I’ve personally given up on reading our newspapers, watching tv or listening to radio, because it provides such an “edited” view of our world. I’m glad that I can come to a site written by an 18 year old and it makes more sense than some of our country’s short term and long term plans.
I hope in time (at least in our life time), we, the people who have had enough of this bullshit from our elected officials (I cringe at calling them our leaders), will rise up to kick them out of office and provide better governance.
Patriotism is about love of our country and it’s people, not the government, or the choices made by the government. As a democracy it is the very responsibility of the people to voice their opinions and to demand that the government listen.
42. sweat | March 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
aiyah everyone already puji-ed your writing so i just wanna say..i enjoyed the eye of msia wor >.
43. melvin | March 12th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Menteri Pelancongan, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor Khamis lalu (8 Mac) menyifatkan kesemua pengendali blog (bloggers) di dalam Internet sebagai pembohong dan 80 peratus dari mereka ialah wanita-wanita yang tidak mempunyai pekerjaan.
“Kesemua bloggers adalah pembohong, mereka menipu orang ramai dengan menggunakan pelbagai helah. Berdasarkan apa yang saya difahamkan, dari 10,000 bloggers yang menganggur, 8,000 adalah wanita”.
Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang media Jualan Murah GP Malaysia apabila ditanya mengenai tuduhan di dalam blog seorang penyampai TV. Mereka yang hadir pada mulanya terperanjat tetapi kemudiannya tertawa.
Beliau berkata, beliau mungkin akan kehilangan sebahagian pengundi wanita tetapi beliau tidak menarik balik kenyataannya atau membayangkan beliau hanya bergurau.
Beliau berkata, bloggers menyebarkan khabar angin, menganggu keharmonian sosial dan kebanyakan bloggers suka memfitnah dan menipu orang ramai melalui blog mereka.
“Kesemua bloggers tidak mahukan perpaduan nasional. Negara kita berjaya kerana kita bertolak ansur antara satu sama lain, jika tidak, akan berlaku perang saudara, Melayu membunuh Cina, Cina membalas dendam dan membunuh Melayu, orang-orang India pula akan membunuh setiap orang”.
Beliau menggesa rakyat Malaysia supaya jangan mudah mempercayai bloggers dan memperjudikan masa hadapan kita kerana pencapaian kita setelah 50 tahun merdeka bukanlah sesuatu yang mudah.
“Kita mesti menunjukkan sikap yang positif, jika dunia belajar bersikap tolak ansur seperti kita, dunia akan aman, tanpa perang atau perang saudara”.
Dear anonymous no.27, based on this news report, i believe you’re targeting the wrong person.
Dear badawi no.17, this is not a site to show immaturity LAH!!
44. sweat | March 12th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
wtf my comment is cut into half.
anyway i said i really love this country to bits, with or without all its flawed splendour. although at times i wish this place is a tiny bit better, the govt is a tiny bit more efficient, just slightly less corrupted, ministers just a little less ridiculous, ppl just slightly less obnoxious.
but i’m tired of wishing. and i don’t have the guts to write something like this. i think i’m succumbing to the mentality this govt is trying to brainwash me into. it’s like i wish i can stop eating but i can’t sort of thing.
and i think by the time i am 30, i’ll be one of those anonymous-es who leave ugly comments telling ppl to just goddamn leave the country and not complain so much, pretending everything is fine and dandy when it’s clearly not.
i don’t know what i’m trying to say so here’s my abrupt end to this comment.
(i love your reply to that guy. full of angst. i’m so turned on wtf)
45. elections | March 12th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Su Ann for Prime Minister. vote her in next general election. Pink cabinet.
46. naz | March 12th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
spot on, su ann.
47. Az1 | March 12th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Totally agree with PinkPau. Those who do not like what PinkPau posted here, butt off. She’s is 110% correct and those who can think, agrees.
Yay PinkPau!!
48. alea | March 12th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
su ann. i salute you. you have said what i’ve wanted to say in a VERY long time about our uniquely stupid government. The ferris wheel? A BIG JOKE AND A WASTE OF MONEY. Then end of this year they’re gonna demolish it. HURRAY A WASTE OF GOOD 15 million down in the drain!
about the film industry, i totally agree. Yasmin Ahmad have created a new meaning of Malaysia’s film. It’s raw and it’s the real life. It’s modern yet very traditional. compare to other stupid movies like Anak Mami and low class movies making lame immature jokes. BURN THOSE MOVIES. waste of cinema space, and money.
right on, su ann. i agree with you 500%. i think you should run for minister. =D make MALAYSIA MAJU! Make it more pink and happier!
Badawi and the ministers should kiss your feet.
49. alea | March 12th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
and oh yeah, about the cashiers/waiters and every body. note to them, SMILE LAH. and be polite can or not? especially the cashiers, go do the things so slow. Ignore us customers and talk to their colleagues so happily like they’re so free but THERE’S A BIG ASS LINE WAITING FOR HER. and alot of counters are closed, because of what?! because of them busy talking to their friends. ROARRRRR. Everytime a slow cashier do her job so slow, i would have to tegur her and tell her im in hurry, and they showed me their ‘jeling’. BABI.
such imbeciles.
50. bs | March 12th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
lol @ sweat. i think martian was turned on too.
OMG U GOOOOO GIRL! I RESPECT u!! *salute*
u’re so damn mature n acerbic for ur age. if u run for PM ar, i surely vote for u one ar.
51. alvin anak kampung | March 12th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
eh, janganlah macam tu. Ish ish ish, anak anak muda generasi ini, tidak pikir sebelum blog. Kalau mahu kutuk pun lah tunggu berbulu dahulu. Kita ini government lebih pandai dan berpengetahuan dari little brat like you, tahu?! Next time report ISA kena tangkap, tengok kamu takut tidak. Jangan paksa kami hantar kamu balik ke China.
Cibai.
52. Aimee | March 12th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
kudos, my friend, kudos!
53. jess | March 12th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
RM1-for-15 minutes jamban is actually rm0.20 only…
54. Adrian C | March 13th, 2007 at 1:50 am
wow. your blog looks like Raja Petra’s MalaysiaToday!! Hats off to u girl, u show great maturity in this post. excellent. Malaysia is wonderfully gifted to hv people like u living here. don’t worry about getting served … freeeedom!!!
55. pinkpau | March 13th, 2007 at 2:53 am
hishy : yea tell me abt it. are we just an impolite culture or is it a lack of service training? sigh. at least we have milo.
lalita : u know some guidebooks say, ‘when in msia, always bring toilet paper with you’. -_____- we are that reknowned for our toilet paper shortage. how was ur trip bak? had a lot of good CNY food i hope? :D
lumosmaxima : yeah my Rant category is only a month or so old :P no matter, it shall be filled up quickly! aiyo i think my post is mild compared to what a lot of others write.. so im not worried
asyraf : dat is correct
the sim : u kidding me ah.. haha The Star didnt even bother to carry a report on tengku adnan’s foot-in-mouth incident. chicken as always. aiya dont deny, i know u very homesick! pods and timtams will never make up for good ol nasi lemak and maggi goreng!
darkhello : yes they are SO anal. everything oso want to blame bloggers. haha this will be the first angsty post of many to come!
jay : awwwwww you know you wanna come to KL and show me all your magic tricks!!
michael : coz im damn scared of driving. i could kill someone, man! plus i cant tell what double lines or single lines or dotted lines mean.. having said that i got a 49/50 for my undang. hahaha!
michelle : they’d rather shut us up, it seems
val : haha thank u!
martian : i need to be spanked..
kok : totally agree. originality! creativity! and TALENT! who designs their stuff, man!
cat chan : no no no u must come back!
badawi : you’re technically not alive anymore.. geez.. do malaysians not know the name of their own prime minister..
reallybites : wei tonight i ate this or jien in singapore.. he claims his or jien better than penang’s wan. hahaha!
artificially : i agree with u abt the sum of all this making msia what she is. but our welfare is not being looked out for, and if this keeps going on, we are going to regress as a society and a nation.
percy : they dont even say sorry in some cases. mas and proton already down the drain, my friend.
entwined : no worries, my blog very small only.. nobody monitor me wan. actually i wonder what the requirement is to be minister of tourism. must one be well-traveled and knowledgeable abt the cultures of the world? or must he be a good strategist and visionary? or must he be diplomatic? coz it seems like this dude is none of those.
slurp : i must admit that no i cannot :P i had it translated.
justakid : hee hee :D
ch : haha sorry lah i was damn sleepy (look at the time of post!) and angsty when i wrote it, the last thing on my mind was word economy and correct grammar.
kim : but of coz he reads blogs.. how else would he come up with the fact that all bloggers are liars and 80% of that is unemployed women!
clem : more than enough ppl have spoken up, but unfortunately those words fall on deaf ears. self-importance and mule-like attitudes will be the fall of our leaders.
michellesy : thank u! good to know im not the only angsty one!
melvin : haha why thank u! i thought ppl lazy to read coz it’s so long and i didnt bother to pen it all out in proper english
randomsurfer : aiyo dont lah. u will miss home
tze : what, rm8 oso want??? ok u start revolution, i join u! can we wear kookai headbands?
waifon : haha u are more vocal on ur blog than on comments
stellaboo : ya tell me abt it. all the hypocrisy. everyone just wants an easy way out these days, cops and errant drivers alike
t.u : the hop-on-hop-off bus as well is not an original msian brainchild either, yet the VM 2007 board are oh so proud of it. stupid wan lah, damn beh tahan. heritage gems like our mak yong dance oso they wanna keep under wraps….. does it not mean anything that UNESCO granted it world heritage recognition???
ronin : thank u :) ur comment means a lot.
a for anomie : for unbiased and REAL news, there’s always the internet and blogs.. much to the chagrin of our govt, heehee. totally concur abt definition of patriotism. i dont think our govt is very patriotic either.
melvin : WALAU which malay newspaper berani run that report!!! i am so impressed!!
sweat : it’s good to love the country. i love malaysia too.. as do a lot of others. but this kinda blind love is what the corrupt and the sneaky feed on. they turn our own patriotism against us, and precisely because we dont realize it until it’s too late, we become the downfall of our country.
election : oooooh yeahhhh pink cabinet!!! hahaha!! my cabinet meetings will have ice cream and chocolate cake instead of karipap and gula melaka kuih..
naz : hehe do i deserve a brownie?
az1 : thank u :) im very touched.
alea : YEAH i know what u mean about the jeling. those bitches. nvm we jeling them back. hey have u watched mukhsin? and how did u do for spm!
bs : aiyo where can have chinese pm. some more i’m female… recent events show that our ministers dont think very highly of women in msia!
alvin anak kampung : haha u jangan buat bising. pergi minum ur starbucks lah! ataupun pergi melayan pinkpau kesayangan anda di msn. pantat.
aimee : thank u, my friend, thank u :) im just ranting away.
jess : izzit? i thought rm1.00?
adrian c : so if i get served then how!
56. reallybites | March 13th, 2007 at 2:59 am
really ar! hahaha which one do you think is nicer? sg’s or pg’s ? tell me wheres the sg stall! I wanna go try when i’m there! then I shall tell you which is nicer!
57. pinkpau | March 13th, 2007 at 3:03 am
reallybites : it’s in this open-air hawker place (or food court as the sings would call it) called makansutra, next to the esplanade. aiyo it’s quite hard to pick which is nicer! penang one the texture is a bit too mushy for my liking, but the taste is fantastic. singapore one crispier a bit but doesnt taste as good.
58. Asyraf Lee | March 13th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Eh my bad, the dude I mentioned earlier was Jerai MP :P
Anyhow, both are monkeys in suits.
59. alea | March 13th, 2007 at 9:40 am
yes, we shall. no, haven’t watch yet. too many people booked the movie, i shall watch it one day. Spm? i got the A’s that i wanted la. ;D but me, being the worst Malay ever, i deserved my BM marks, that Uitm also wont accept me. aiyo.
60. BADAWI | March 13th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I WANT TO FUCK YOU UP YOUR ASS!!
61. violet | March 13th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
yeah all that “berbudi bahasa bersopan santun” shite are all brochure materials only. In fact, we are all not really like that. we don’t give a rat’s ass.
no one says thank you to me everytime i open doors for them. No one returns my smile when I try to be polite. Which is rare. When I speak nicely, they yell back at me.
Did i tell you abt the time I fell sick and passed out at a side of a road near the curve? I thought i was gonna die. And one staff from the curve came and banged on my window - not to help or to offer help - but to scold me as to why i am SLEEPING there. SLEEPING you know. Already no fucking brains. and then yell “Nevermind la!” and walk off.
I saw The Curve plastered all over his tag so I know he works there.
Hypocrites = malaysia.
And that’s only the manners. Don’t get me started on religion and culture (work/social). Sheesh.
62. elections | March 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
how to vote u liddat. waste time fuking ppl instead of managing the country and addressing all the problems.
63. pinkpau | March 13th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
asyraf : not tengku adnan meh?!
alea : go watch, its a good movie :) congrats bout ur results!
badawi : stop it lah
violet : wow that’s downright horrible of that guy. such a helpful and concerned society we are..
elections : he aint fuking me.. Martian will not be happy :P
64. Adrian C | March 13th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
if u get served, I will do all in my power to come to your defense milady. do not let your heart be troubled, u are not alone in this struggle for freedom yea.
65. :ares: | March 13th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
sweet post! I love that, just blasting away the windpipes.
66. melvin | March 14th, 2007 at 3:09 am
check this out…damn funny!
Tourism Minister Baffled by Truthful Blogger
Kuala Lumpur - Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor was allegedly baffled today when a woman blogger told him an astounding piece of truth.
“She came up to me and said that I have a very large dick,” Tengku Adnan allegedly said. “And then she proceeded to blog about it. About my dick. And how big it is. This is unprecedented on so many levels.”
The minister came under cyber-fire in recent weeks for calling all bloggers, most of them he identified as women in an unannounced study, as liars and unemployed rumour-mongers.
“The Government spend billions each year on employed liars already - they’re called politicians,” Tengku Adnan allegedly said. “There is no need for more unemployed liars on the interweb.”
This new development, however, have thrown some doubts to Tengku Adnan’s gross generalisation.
“I don’t understand how she could have uncovered the secret about my extra-large dick as it is classified under OSA. And she’s a woman, and a blogger, so she should be spreading rumours that my dick is small. This new move just doesn’t make any sense,” the minister was rumoured to have said.
However, the issue will not affect Malaysia’s Visit Malaysia Year 2007 as Tengku Adnan was rumoured to have made assurances that we have enough lying female bloggers to contribute to the event.
When contacted, the female blogger in question refused to comment on how she managed to get hold of the information as well as rumours saying that she, in fact, is a he.
“i dun wanna tok abt it. Even tho it is big. Like cucumber liddat,” came her/his short e-mailed reply
67. Cat-chan | March 14th, 2007 at 6:45 am
I’m working on it! Would you believe me if I said I have a plan? *grins slyly* Anyways, just another thought. I don’t see anything wrong with calling it as you see it, which, IMHO, is what you’re doing at the moment. After all, different people different viewpoints. I’m just wondering if the gov thinks we all ought to have homogenus thoughts/ thinking. Bah.
68. Peter | March 14th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
YOU ROCK!!!!!
69. Michelle | March 14th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Fact: The government is uber shallow
The fiction: They call us liars. Bloody hell lah.
70. Anon | March 19th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Malaysia is run by these bull shit generating asshole, where the only thing they’re good at is making up excuses and complaining, how the fuck they expect the things they plan to succeed?
What other options they have than to find irrelevant reasons to blame others for their own pathetic failure.
Everything they do is a hopeless failure, take a look at the education department.
Malaysia, you piece of shit.
71. badawi | March 27th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
i still wan ; p
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