cendawanita
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Backup account. Main fedi @mefi.social. Runs @magASEAN@kbin.social
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 21 October 2023 1 year ago:
Which route? The ones that’s still with full service are apparently the ones that’s always been serviced by their in-house catering. The rest all under Brahim’s contract which mmg gone downhill
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 21 October 2023 1 year ago:
Ello - been away for quite a bit - who wants to baca my short review of the MAS inflight nasi lemak? mefi.social/@cendawanita/111271410172539602
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 27 September 2023 1 year ago:
I’ve seen anecdotes (with evidence of emails or a BFM tweet) that banks are starting to charge transaction fee for duitnow transactions. I haven’t seen anything from CIMB but I’ve seen RHB and OCBC. Anyone else?
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 22 September 2023 1 year ago:
At this point I feel mostly better (loss of smell though) but clearly get winded very very fast, and considering RTK pun still positive, I might be infectious enough so I don’t know if it’s worth going out. But stress cos sharing space with family members so I really can’t do a lot of the usual chores. Still, impressed by how well my body membiakkan this virus 😑
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 22 September 2023 1 year ago:
I’ll try and see - or maybe I’m just very … viral
🥴🏃🏽♀️🏃🏽♀️🏃🏽♀️
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 22 September 2023 1 year ago:
Henlo I am still positive on COVID RTK even after a week 😭
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- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 6 September 2023 1 year ago:
Glad you’re safe tho!
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- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 30 August 2023 1 year ago:
Waduh that’s a lot of things to kena you in half a week!
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 30 August 2023 1 year ago:
Bukan saya lol
- Comment on Instead of coffee, this PJ cafe only serves drinks made with chocolate from around the globe 1 year ago:
Caaaaan
Meetup time!!! 😂
- Comment on Instead of coffee, this PJ cafe only serves drinks made with chocolate from around the globe 1 year ago:
Genuinely never thought to have an opinion about this, but this shop is def making me curious!
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 24 August 2023 1 year ago:
got free coffee so crisis averted for another day
- Comment on Malaysian Name No-No List 1 year ago:
Kodok bin Black Mamba al-Biawak
- Comment on Malaysian Name No-No List 1 year ago:
that’s why “of what” is a big (grammatical) deal. The usual construction is “of god” and the ustaz/ahs so particular always lecture lol because konon melayu dah salah. (Anyway the usual construction is Saifuddin if properlah)
- Comment on Malaysian Name No-No List 1 year ago:
Biawak bin Ramli
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- Comment on Cool things you independently discovered 1 year ago:
Yup!! For some reason I never situated Russian and Ukrainian in the family tree lmao
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 18 August 2023 1 year ago:
Guardian dogs on hiking trails is one of the best things to exist in Malaysia, change my mind 🥹
- Comment on Cool things you independently discovered 1 year ago:
This is REALLY silly but that would be me making the absolutely unsurprising connection (to academics) between Russian and Sanskrit because I was trying to learn basic Russian and learning their word for man is basically distant cousins along the language tree as the Malay “manusia”.
Anyway out of that I learned that the etymology of punch comes from the Slavic word for five (because five fingers = a whole dang fist) which is of course related to Sanskrit as well and survives in Malay in words like “pancaindera”
Sekian terima kasih.
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- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 17 August 2023 1 year ago:
That is a great example. I guess it didn’t help if they feel like there’s no one else in their corner, like dog owners stopping to use their business because the fascists were loud 😕
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 18 August 2023 1 year ago:
Oh yeah winning combo
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 17 August 2023 1 year ago:
You can never accuse them of not knowing their own brand 😌
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 17 August 2023 1 year ago:
TLDR in meme
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 17 August 2023 1 year ago:
tbf this is the job of the government, i don’t think it’s any private citizen’s burden (regardless of race) to uplift poor individuals from poverty. by right, if you pay your taxes you have already done your part.
I absolutely agree on the obligations of the state and the purposes of taxation, and I’m noting even yourself complicated the opening position that it’s not any private citizen’s burden with your following paras. BUT-- while economic class is absolutely a complicating factor here, my main argument is on racism (both bilaterally between the main majorities but also unilaterally from those with institutional power). Weath has managed to shield to a certain extent the effects of these encroachments (to keep within the Muslim-Malay world; how can certain royals can have wine in KL hotels and some random people will get arrested for drinking beer in Setapak? and of course, no one bothered that Malays are being arrested by the religious police, until these moral vanguards decide to make it everyone’s problem by bullying your 7-11s and Famimas to change their cold drinks inventory).
Part of the valid reasons for affirmative action was because European/Asian colonialism (Britain and Japan to a large part of the country; Dutch and Siamese in certain territories) left native & indigenous groups poor while the migrant populations were oppressed and dikerah tenaga in a different way and they’re told to be satisfied that they’re serving an extractive economy because at least “we work hard, not like those natives who live in the kampungs”. I can see you also agree how racist and divisive this is. I bring this up, because the Chinese-community charitable works are great and no reason to discontinue them (and not to mention, in the absence of institutional support that’s where charity comes in, but it shouldn’t be pervasive and neither should it replace institutional support). But (small but) that ability to economically empower ourselves has been uneven (and note in this exchange I’m not even touching the situations of the Indian and OA communities respectively who have even less communal wealth to go around), and this unevenness arguablty contributed to the lack of solidarity and the don’t-bother/tidak-apa attitude.
my big thing is basically this: i love that we have a very mixed, diverse, and heterogenous society, that is still, just like other post-colonial states, is trying to make its way forward. But does that fact hinders solidarity? I don’t think it should and it’s not like the 1960s & 70s didn’t exist (and if it stopped existing, it required a lot of uh, state action). How is it PAS boleh naik minyak complaining about Pesta Songkran when it shouldn’t be their business to complain? Well, because they had practice - and that supposed almost 60% of bumiputera population also includes… Borneans, so it wasn’t much of a demographic majority either, what more an economic one, because mana Melayu at the time between 1970s to the 1990s that was wealthy enough to seed the schools, the papers, the magazines, the theatres, the cultural troupes to push back? So kena telan, kena tahan, and then nowadays kena kecam, for not trying hard enough at being moderate.
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 17 August 2023 1 year ago:
Oh yeah that social pact where they’re benefiting is extremely clear, and your comment is very much about the kind of people I’ve been sideeyeing for decades now. If anything, just fly. In the meantime the poor non-Malays can suffer sorang. The Malays, no need to say la. To quote their favourite politicians: melayu malas and mudah lupa mah. We’ll just keep scamming anyone who’s open to be scammed.
