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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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Painting the house when the pipes are leaking
NOVEMBER 3 — Ah yes, the Budget announcement or “event likely to raise my blood pressure” just happened. For my mental health I refused to watch it “live” as a...
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Big Tech, Google included, need to be held accountable
OCTOBER 27 — Facebook is under a lot of scrutiny for questionable practices and what seems to be an unwillingness to consider the harm its practices have caused. I would...
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The pandemic lessons forgotten too soon
OCTOBER 20 — I was rewatching the Hunger Games films over the weekend and it struck me how much a lot of it paralleled our current situation. Children being made to compete in a...
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Stop race-splaining, Malaysians
OCT 13 — As sure as the sun rises in the east, whenever Malaysian Indians bemoan the use of that word that starts with “k”, some non-Indian will go, “Well, actually,...
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When is our nation going to start healing?
OCTOBER 6 — I am on another mental health break, also called “clearing my leave because it's not following me to the grave.” The first day started with me being woken up by...
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Is there a plan to let our kids be smart?
SEPTEMBER 29 — I have lived long enough to have seen the results and proposals of more than one Malaysian Plan and really, I do wish we would try to stop achieving the...
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We really need to start ignoring terrible people on Twitter
SEPTEMBER 22 — Ah yes, another week of my rationing time on Twitter and it has been great for productivity and my mental health. I won't lie; there have been many times when I...
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On getting fitter by quitting Twitter
SEPTEMBER 15 — Taking care of your health these days has become very data-driven as the companies making very good money from selling fitness trackers will tell you. Xiaomi this...
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Will our new normal be a safe normal for everyone?
SEPTEMBER 8 — I got my hair cut on Monday. It was an afterthought; being in the area for a dental appointment, it made sense to stop by the hairdresser. There was fear and...
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When my rice cooker is smarter than some politicians
SEPTEMBER 1 — My body’s stress response is predictable and often inconvenient: I fall asleep. Perhaps it’s a failsafe to prevent my blood pressure from rising or to...
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Of shattered glass, terrible couriers, and claypot chicken rice
AUG 25 — I had a bad Monday. Trying to be safe and responsible, I ordered new fluorescent bulb replacements online but they arrived shattered and bent thanks to a certain...
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No, worm pills are still not going to save you
AUGUST 18 — A reader wrote to me about my last column, saying that while he usually liked what I wrote this time he had to disagree with my ivermectin stance. He wrote: “If I...
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Covid-19: Grasping for a miracle cure
AUGUST 11 — I joined the “lost family members to Covid” club this week. Granted these were distant cousins but the news was still disheartening. What was unpleasant was...
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AstraZeneca isn’t a threat, but vaccine selectiveness is the bigger danger
AUGUST 4 — A recent study found that the safety profiles of AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria vaccine and Pfizer’s Corminaty were similar. It’s good news but the damage done by EU...
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Mask 101 or how to buy and wear them correctly
JULY 28 — After watching highlights and following Parliament proceedings on social media, alas, dear reader, I had to scrap the column I wrote on the weekend. It seems many of...