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I just realized our "Maling Sia" aura is so good we even got Uncle Bill over here to maling for us (claiming that Obama grew up here instead of Indonesia LMAOOOOO) #tootSEA #Malaysia #Indonesia

Current round of conversations reminds me that I do find it funny that the nasi lemak is considered the de facto national dish of the country, to the point that people are very confidently stating it as fact, when I'm from the part of the country that gets slated for being "99% Melayu" and let me tell you, having decent-to-good nasi lemak is an actual recent phenomenon... Because it's not our food XD (and tbf there's a stronger connection between the south and the Riau Islands, but Riau people share stuff like songket and nasi dagang with mine XD, though because of the Arabian trading history, ours is chockful of fenugreek seeds... To the point that apparently Kedahans* can't help adding them to their nasi lemak)

*Can't get any older Malay kingdom than them.

#tootSEA #malaysia #MakanApaToday (the thing about capital cities and their navelgazing)

After complaints about unauthorized withdrawals last night — some as high as P500,000 (€7,818) — the digital bank sought to reassure its depositors this morning.

CIMB Bank PH says it’s now returning unauthorized online fund transfers

#Philippines #Asian #Finance #TootSEA #Hacking #DigitalBanks #CyberSecurity #Savings #Mobile #Apps

https://insiderph.com/cimb-bank-ph-says-its-now-returning-unauthorized-online-fund-transfers

Singapore prime minister tells a crowd of people who mostly live in public housing that a wealth tax will negatively impact people who live in ‘landed’ housing (that only the rich can afford). Silence ensues. Great.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1k8fe53/awkward_moment_during_pm_wong_speech_at_cck_rally/

i'm always sad i don't have the negatives from my early film days. but this was from my first roll of film on my first solo travel, exactly 20 years ago in cambodia.

i was 18 and i decided to travel to cambodia by land. eventually, i made it here. All photography does this for me, but especially with film: it reminds me of exactly where I was and what I felt, at the time.

Calling all digital rights activists in the Asia-Pacific region, #DRAPAC25 is happening in Kuala Lumpur this August. If you're interested in being part of the program, check out their website: https://drap.ac/25/ #TootSEA

#malaysia #tootsea

Malaysians bite back at Bill O’Reilly’s ‘poor’ claims: ‘we have free healthcare, grandpa’ https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3307939/malaysians-bite-back-bill-oreillys-poor-claims-we-have-free-healthcare-grandpa?utm_source=rss_feed

With this plugin you can enable South and Southeast Asian scripts for OpenStreetMaps rendered in Web GL

Scripts supported: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu

https://github.com/wipfli/maplibre-gl-complex-text/

Awesome article that further exacerbates Elizabeth Pisani’s premise of Indonesia being the largest invisible thing on the planet. Starting to think Indonesia is the Gen X of the region. #TootSEA

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/emerging-markets-are-betting-on-the-post-tariffs-winner.html

Sometimes, no (meal) plan is a good plan. Case in point: this miso-glazed chicken that I whipped up on the fly because I ran out of ideas for dinner. Relieved it turned out yummy.

If you happen to be in #Bangkok anytime from May 7 to 11, do check out the Mango Art Festival at River City. Lots of indie artists and galleries will be there, including Space Encounters Gallery and Vinyl on Vinyl from the PH!

#TootSEA #art

https://www.mangoartfestival.com/

*cackling in Malaysian*

(My only remark is that it's very much a post-european colonization hangup as that's what you get when we also take on romantic nationalism ala europe)

My least favorite part of Singapore elections is the xenophobia.

We have ‘interesting’ xenophobia though coz it’s mainly from the Singaporean Chinese population towards those other Chinese people who are ‘not like us’, recent mainland Chinese immigrants who arrived in Singapore.. 20-80 years after our own grandparents did.

Every urbanist who praises my home country Singapore's 'social housing' should also be beat over the head with the EIP: there are strict racial quotas (and heterosexual marriage rules) for social housing

https://kontinentalist.com/stories/hdb-ethnic-integration-policy

Oh finally caught up on the full clip of Bill O'Reilly part 2... He was reading out some news with a PMX* quote reacting to his last gaffe, and god bless love how he gets to present America's best face forward in these trying times. From "Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim", it becomes, "Datook Abraham" lmao dasar makan kerja buta, that was my first response, but you know, he really is representing what America wants to be, which is ignorant. Why does America need to care about non-WASPy naming traditions, if you have one, it just means you haven't been fully colonized or enslaved yet.

*It's literally because Anwar Ibrahim's the tenth Prime Minister, lol

my friend at UW has an exciting new book in the works:

"How to Kin an Animal: Malayophone Folklores and Race in Southeast Asia, is a decolonial project aiming to render visible epistemologies from the Global South. It examines animal lores and tropes in literature and film from the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia to articulate ‘the Malayophone’ as a bioregional imagined community that is interspecies and inter-Asian in nature."

https://asian.washington.edu/news/2025/04/14/three-all-assistant-professors-awarded-simpson-center-first-book-fellowships

Overseas Singaporeans who registered to vote abroad just received emails with voting details containing their district information and logistics for voting.

For me, I will walk down the street to Market St to our San Francisco consulate, show my digital ID on my phone and cast my vote there.

I like the provision that anyone who registerd to vote abroad but happens to be home on the day of 3 May can also just go to a local in-person polling station. You just have to make a declaration that you haven’t already voted.

Damn, Singapore media is using "walkover" for menang tanpa bertanding*. That's... cold. Very... juggernaut-y.

*No-contest victory or just "wins unopposed"

(We're not even in GE yet, it's just Nominations Day)