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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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Blaming Malaysians is not good Covid-19 strategy
MAY 12 — As we go into the third nationwide movement control order (MCO), there is a tiresome, repetitive narrative being repeated especially at higher levels: if only...
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It scares me how many people are scared of the vaccine
MAY 5 — I spent last weekend waging a war with the national vaccine information website, trying to book an appointment for the controversial AstraZeneca jab. Who knew...
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Of vertigo and the unpredictability of the human condition
APRIL 28 — Talking to a friend one night, she asked me: "What do you want?" I did not really have an answer and told her I would sleep on it. The next morning, I woke up,...
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More curbs on the media ahead?
APRIL 21 — In the continuing saga of my baking adventures, I’ve been too busy making pâte à choux to think about incompetent politicians or troubling new developments....
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The real preventative healthcare is poverty alleviation
APRIL 14 — As I write this column, I'm waiting for my new oven. I thought I'd given up on pandemic baking but my sourdough starter is healthy and well-fed; the cookies made on a...
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Why are Malaysian Chinese the wrong Chinese?
APRIL 7 — Twitter for me has become a place to commiserate with other non-Malays where we talk about erasure, colonialism and the everyday microaggressions we endure. I suppose...
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We should all be honoured guests at the Malaysian table
MARCH 31 — A friend tweeted how it annoyed her to read writing about Asian food that was obviously written for the “white gaze.” Yet the thing is while food is very much...
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When was it DBP’s job to make excuses for racism?
MARCH 24 — I have realised something about Malaysians: we make excuses for racism every day. We casually use Orang Asli tribe names as slurs and now the Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka...
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10,000 ringgit sticks but no carrot
MARCH 17 — It was bad enough when senior citizens couldn’t read alone in a park without being fined RM1,000 but the new menace of an RM10,000 fine is simply cruel. Police...
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Time to tell your uncle to stop forwarding things on Facebook
MARCH 10 — Social media has always been a cesspit of unsolicited opinions and problematic comments but the Harry-Meghan interview with Oprah Winfrey seems to have brought out...
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Our mysteriously disappearing Cabinet
MARCH 3 — If I could summarise one year under Perikatan Nasional in two words, they would be: quiet dreadful. As for two words that would describe the regular thoughts of the...
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On 5G and our ever-bumbling bureaucracy
FEBRUARY 24 — While the likes of China and Vietnam bustle along the 5G mobile pathway, Malaysia keeps changing its mind. At this rate by the time we start rolling out our first...
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It’s too soon to expect the vaccines to save us
FEBRUARY 17 — My birthday is next week and for me, the best gift is knowing that the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in Sabah the same day. Yet even though our...
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The pandemic showed us the dangers of incompetence
FEBRUARY 10 — I have been avoiding social media this month for the sake of my sanity as this job exposes me enough to current affairs. Likely there is plenty of anger to find...
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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...