Notices by Just another rakyat 🇲🇾 (rakyat@hachyderm.io), page 3

@geraineon I believe were around the same age 🤣 But I was a latecomer to the internet. And my early formative internet experience was built on now defunct Taiwanese platforms. @gombang @liztai @aulia @agasramirez

@gombang Will they support activitypub?

@liztai I think it’s closest to Malaysian Chinese 的咯 but I’m not sure how it maps onto other languages. @easternblot

@liztai Plus it’s good to have records whenever the doctor asks about bowel movements

@liztai And then there’s these two demons who displayed the value of filial piety by wanting to give Tripitaka’s flesh to their demon parents instead of having it for themselves. Totally rooting for them

@liztai I remember when I heard Korean coursemates speak Korean with each other and the part that I could immediately understand was ssi-bal because it sounds almost exactly like cibai and kinda means the same lol

@liztai I saw @cendawanita and @afif mentioning having watched it

「長夜才開始，黑暗中請記得太陽的模樣，沉默中不要為魔鬼歌唱。」

Translation:
“As the long night descends, keep the sun's image in your mind. Don't let the silence lure you into singing the devil's tune.”

- anonymous Chinese internet comment from 2017

@liztai I really hope to see that climax part in book 3 adapted to screen. Would love to see how they visualize the Van Gogh painting…

@liztai …and this is very tame compared to all the stuff that will happen in the third book 🤣

@cendawanita @liztai Wait ah my wife is working now if I remember I’ll ask her later since she’s the expert on this (glances at book shelf)

@liztai But if you’re looking for Chinese book stores, she usually buys from KL Commercial Book (Jalan Sultan) and Eslite Bukit Bintang @cendawanita

@liztai @cendawanita Ok my wife has responded, she also buys from here: https://www.got1shop.com/mobile/

She says you can also buy from Taobao

Pecel lele for dinner!
#MakanApaToday

All three major Abrahamic religions have their holy texts written when their communities were persecuted minorities. I think the way this siege mentality persists until today, when in fact all three communities are now very powerful and capable of oppressing others in parts of the world where they are majorities, is an issue when oppressors are incapable of seeing themselves as anything other than victims.

@cendawanita
I remember at one point some foreign leader (I forgot who) mentioned China’s four-thousand-year history and Xi Jinping was triggered lol. (The Chinese version is 5 thousand years but that requires counting in the semi-mythical Xia Dynasty, they pushed it to 5 thousand years just to put China on the same level as Egypt)
@liztai @abhijith

@liztai
Yeah the thing is leaders cannot afford to look weak in front of their people. I’ve read somewhere that China didn’t care about Taiwan and Tibet and stuff during periods where the CCP had absolute control, but when they are weaker, hardliners inside/outside the party have more say and they also need to appear strong.
@cendawanita @abhijith

@liztai
I used to think so too but nowadays I’m not sure about Xi Jinping with his “make China great again” obsession lol.
@cendawanita @abhijith

@cendawanita
Yup, it’s like voting for Hadi Awang because PH cracked down on the LGBT community. In the grand schemes of thing, I’d prefer a hypocritical American-led world order to a cynical Chinese-led world order because at least a hypocritical superpower can be held to some kind of principles to a certain degree.
@liztai @abhijith

@liztai
That book cover aside, cynical and severe practicality does describe the Chinese worldview (and their foreign policy) very well, lol.
@cendawanita @abhijith