I’m halfway through the Satanic Verses. Literally starts with a bang by having two characters falling off an exploding plane, assuming 69 position mid-air, and then one of the characters grabbed the balls of the other and forced him to flap his arms like wings and the two miraculously survived (while transforming into… things). It only gets better from there.

The infamous parts are just minor subplots but I can see why they are very incendiary under specific social contexts, though IMO it shouldn’t be. Reminds me a lot of The Master and Margarita, which also contains a subplot about Jesus, and which Rushdie confirmed as his inspiration. The main theme has nothing to do with religion at all however, and mostly about the immigrant experience, racism, changing (and non-changing) identities and so on.

Nice cold rainy morning, perfect for sleeping but here I am in office after braving the storms and floods.

Oh no I tried

Nothing special, just a photo of Malaysians working in a Starbucks:

Happy birthday!

Just want to share this pun here:

Here in Malaysia, we do drink coffee and we generally prefer the strong and thick types (though there’s also the well-known white coffee), but our favorite drinks remain tea (such as teh tarik).

Well, we don’t check our own (or our friends’) crotch that often haha

I also have no idea, maybe just a subtle nudge and point? A paper slip might also work.

But whichever way it is I’ll thank you for it!

Luckily you said last week so confirm not me.

But maybe right now someone is tweeting “This morning, while I was seated on the LRT, there’s this guy in front of me who had his zipper undone.”

Ttook the train to KL this morning and when sampai at KL only realized that my zipper is undone. Here’s hoping that my long sweater covered it up enough for ppl not to notice… I hope 😔

Hello!

I’ve been looking at local batik shirts on shopee and they have batik patterns based on buildings, oyster shells and kuih lol.

Share some photos and let us judge! 😁

That’s a hard question to answer as there are so many great places to eat everywhere! Probably easier to answer if you narrow it down to a particular area.

Anyway, because we Malaysians like talking about food, we have a food community/channel here at food@monyet.cc

Elsewhere on the Fediverse (on Mastodon/Firefish), there’s also a hashtag #MakanApaToday which initially was used by Malaysian users to post about food but it’s now used by our friends in other Southeast Asian countries as well!

23C is pretty cold for Malaysian weather, usually we only reach that level on particularly cool nights. However, the weather in highland regions can drop to 17 - 15C at night. (Maybe even lower than that on mountaintops)

7th month is perfect for human-ghost romance

At least some festivals like moon cake festival make their presences known in advance lol

I’m a failed cina for not realizing until I saw this post.

Oh nice, since that’s my hood maybe I should investigate a bit.