The Malaysian Insider

MARCH 17 — I’m pretty secure about my sexuality, and I hope most people by their 20s are the same.

Unfortunately, that’s never the case in Malaysia where guys can somehow get married and then find themselves a transsexual on the street, or even continue to frequent gay clubs.

Seriously, straight people, unless the gay fellow is hitting on you, who are you to judge? Just mind your own business and move on with your life. I say the same thing about adulterers, apostates, drug users and even women who have had an abortion.

MARCH 9 — When writing about politics and Malaysian society in general, it truly helps to have some alcohol available just to make everything have a lick of sense, because if there is anything to say about Malaysia, most things are just truly nonsensical beyond the world’s wildest imaginations.

Let’s start with what we do know. We know that now our government, in its infinite (but questionable) wisdom, has started a campaign called 1 Malaysia.

MARCH 6 — Oddly enough, the goods and services tax (GST) talk hosted by Pakatan Rakyat was the second time in my life I set foot in the MBSA auditorium; the first being a kindergarten performance of dancing to “New York, New York”, while wearing a suit, white gloves and a hat with my face daubed in makeup.

As a side note, do you ever notice how such places seem so much smaller than you remember?

FEB 24 — I’ll start with a deep sigh and state the obvious. We are not practising Sharia law. It’s a farce to make most Muslims feel good about their ‘holier than thou’ selves.

And honestly, if we were to truly follow Islamic law to the core, then most members of Parliament would have had their right hands surgically removed. If this was Pakistan, their arms would be road bumps.

Most banks would be closed down and their employees lose their lives for usury.

FEB 20 — 1 Malaysia or a Malaysian Malaysia.

That’s the choice we’re being offered on a political level which, interestingly enough, are both equally ambiguous. Both promote policies that scream unity regardless of race and religion. But of course, like all mottos, no mention of unity regardless of gender and sexual orientation. The latter being taboo, and the former is more of a punch-line in Parliament where lewd jokes go unpunished.

However, regardless of politics, Malaysians are not as racially integrated as we think. Heck, if anything, the current populous is more towards promoting racial tolerance. We tolerate one another and frankly, such attitudes annoy me.