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Erna Mahyuni
Erna tweets too much on @ernamh. Angry Sabah native, slave to her dog/cat and blogs at ernamahyuni.com
More from Erna Mahyuni
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The necessity of dissent
FEBRUARY 3 — I laugh sometimes when people go on a self-righteous preachy streak about social media. Without social media, many of us (myself included) would have been doomed to...
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Covid-19 has shown us just how wide the digital divide goes
JANUARY 27 — During the last year, I saw desperate pleas for food all over my social media. This year, I’m seeing parents at home struggling to help their children with...
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People will go hungry again this MCO
JANUARY 20 — You would think after going through a movement control order (MCO), a conditional MCO (CMCO) and a recovery MCO (RMCO) we would have gotten this sort-of,...
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'The Dissident' film: How many concessions must we make for evil?
JANUARY 13 — I spent the weekend watching Bryan Fogel's documentary on Jamal Khashoggi's murder, The Dissident. It is difficult to watch as it unflinchingly recounts the details...
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‘Cuti-cuti’ pandemic: The new scourge
JANUARY 6 — Social media has been very depressing the past few weeks as I've had to open my pages to see various friends and acquaintances going on holiday. It seems the new...
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Is the CMCO just Covid theatre?
DECEMBER 30 ― The conditional movement control order (CMCO) has been extended in most states in Malaysia and I'm struggling to answer the question: what difference does it make?...
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The tainted meat of Malaysian corruption
DECEMBER 23 — Forty years: That is how long a meat-smuggling cartel has been operating, aided by government officials paid to turn a blind eye. It is funny that weeks after a...
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Why are they only Malaysians when they leave?
DECEMBER 16 — It gets a little nauseating sometimes how quickly we claim Malaysian connections to people doing well in foreign lands. Never mind if it's the faintest tie, so...
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MCMC needs to grow a funny bone
DECEMBER 9 — You would think that by now our government would have learned to understand the differences between satire, parody and sedition. Alas, no. The entertaining parody...
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No going home yet, Malaysians
DECEMBER 2 — It is easy to be caught up in a bubble on social media. We curate and prune until we see only what we want to see and it is easy to forget that bubble is but a...
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Are Malaysian politicians so unpopular they're buying self-aggrandising tweets?
NOVEMBER 25 — Paid tweets aren't a new thing. What is new, however, is our politicians buying them to boost their public image. Yesterday, a tweet from the account @JatIkhwan...
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'Rakyat jaga rakyat' is not uplifting, but a sad necessity
NOVEMBER 18 — I bought a T-shirt yesterday. It was from one of my favourite local artists, Fahmi Reza, who constantly amazes me with his prolific output that unfortunately gets...
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Propagandists are not the solution to the ‘rakyat’s’ woes
NOVEMBER 11 — Watching the annual national Budget presentation is a special kind of torture. The ridiculous table banging, the smugness of whoever’s presenting as though we,...
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Letting hope take root, even in the shifting sands of politics
NOVEMBER 4 — I love gardenias. I have loved them ever since my family moved to a house with a tall gardenia tree, with its dark leaves and heavy-scented blooms that still live...
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It's more income, not financial literacy that the poor need
OCTOBER 28 — There are a lot of terrible things on Twitter, myself included, but one particularly irksome thing is personal finance Twitter. As someone who's actually been poor,...