World Cup Reminders For Backward Malaysian Leaders

Look in a different direction, Mahathir, you might see people not colour.

JULY 9 — Happy birthday, Mahathir Mohamad!

(The World Cup is on, we’ll get back to it in a bit. Fun fact, you been alive for all editions since 1930, well done.)

Tomorrow, you turn 101, and it must underwhelm to be wished by a working-class twat from Cheras without the appropriate race credentials. I sense it’s borderline contemptuous. Pardon, my egregiousness. 

As penance, I’ll send AI generated wishes to my pals, who are of the appropriate race, and ask them to send you greetings. Yes, these wishes will be cut and paste. But their cut and paste reforwards must mean more than all the moons and stars from galaxies near and far to you. Hopefully, as a healthy corollary, these galaxies are dominated by the appropriate race within their alien species.

Anyways, back to the reforwarded greetings. They will cheer you up. Raise your spirits.

Who’s To Question Johor’s Blissful Joys with BN?: PRN Johor

Stuck in a moment it rather not get out of. Muar Town. 5 July 2026.

Started the day working my way around Taman Wawasan in Sungai Mati. The homestay is in a fully built but hardly occupied development with palm oil estate land still crisscrossed. One end to walk to the Sungai Mati BP petrol station involves a long single lane stretch with palm trees on both sides and the occassional house. The old and new meet each other. This is still Tangkak town council.

Twenty five minutes drive to Muar town, figured I bus it. And to witness an inelegant convoy with police escorts to presumably the northsouth highway, north to KL if Pakatan, and south to JB if BN. Oh, I’m oversimplifying it. While four different folks have taken turns to run the country since 2018, the culture that some of us deserve to get to places quicker than the rest of you riff-raff has never gone away. The elites train us well.

Expect The Same, Loops, Tangkak Stop: PRN Johor

Jalan Payamas, Tangkak. 4 July, 2026. Do not expect fireworks tonight! This is peak Saturday.

A Saturday in Tangkak Town. Half away around the world, Americans celebrate the 4th of July, 250 years of the republic. Lunch time and the streets are emptish.

The Azam Baki Imbalance, Anwar’s will tested

For now, walking in lock step.

FEB 19 – The fasting month could not have started at a better time for the prime minister. It is the quintessential time delay mechanism in local politics. Shouting, screaming and general displays of impatience are quickly characterised as uncharacteristic behaviours of leaders in a month of reflection. Requests for restraint overlap. And best of all, rallies won’t happen. It’s undignified. 

Which now begs for a decision. Will the prime minister ask Azam to go on leave? 

Anwar Ibrahim needs these shields and the option to hide behind them as and when in the coming weeks. 

Because he has to manoeuvre the minefield laid for him by both opponents and supposed friends over the latest furore over his anti-corruption czar, Azam Baki. To say that the chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is under scrutiny is to put it politely, since the disclosures by the international media company Bloomberg last week have upped the temperature to somewhere between very hot and volcanic lava.