"My way of joking is to tell the truth.  That's the funniest joke in the world."  ~  Muhammad Ali

This book is dedicated to my late grandparents (all four of them) - and to the next generation of Malaysians (whether they like it or not).

December Archive 1. WILL THE REAL MALAYSIAN PLEASE SHUT UP! A Pseudo-Anthropological Introduction 2. ADOI! MY TISSUES SO SENSITIVE! T...

Cartoon by Lat for Malaysian Business A Pseudo-Anthropological Introduction Whenever I leave the country I'm a Malaysian - my pass...

Just watch him tarik the teh to cool it for his customers. The tea-stall Mamak is a pretty cool customer himself. He could 'pull'...

'Kutu' sounds rather cute, doesn't it? Even though it means 'lice.' This refers to an entire sub-culture of Common Mala...

If you're not in the habit of tuning in to Radio Young Hong Kong, you're in no danger of ever turning into a Sungei Wang Jinjang. ...

Sentul is one of those rambling, run-down districts of Kuala Lumpur that sprang up like riverbank moss along the railway line and just kept...

In the old days you might have seen him steering a bullock-cart along the trunk road, oblivious of impatient hoots from motorists. Or, if y...

History is a most amazing and unlikely thing. Who would have believed, for instance, that Portugal - a tiny nation of fishermen and grape-g...

If you're white and you're walking along the street and someone says something about Mat Salleh - he's probably referring to yo...

Locked out of your house by accident? Just call Illegal Immigrants Inc, the housebreaking experts. All it will cost you is a few packs of G...

Alas, the Mini-Bus has become extinct in recent years. Instead we now have the Monorail and the LRT - and even worse traffic jams. Nonethele...

Along with other pestilent lifeforms such as the Suzuki Samseng, the Honda Hantu, and the Kawasaki Koboi, the Yamaha Yahoo forms part of a ...

Gone are the days of Free Parking, long gone! In the early 1970s the first uniformed parking attendants made their appearance. But it didn...

BMWs (and their owners) are so boringly predictable. Shall we just skip this altogether? Let's.

Remember when Nehru jackets were all the rage in New York? Or when every Chinaman in China ran around in a Mao suit waving a little red boo...

For a small group of diehards in Malaysia the King is not dead - long live Elvis! I'm not sure how all this weirdness began. For the fu...

Somebody once defined Bureaucracy as a giant machine operated by pygmies. Well, with something like 800,000* people on the government payr...

As a symbol of the cosmic order the old Yin-Yang is a tough act to follow. You know the Yin-Yang, I hope? Two graphic tadpoles clinging tog...

Aitelyu ah, nemmain wat deblardigarmen say, mose Malaysians tok Manglish . Bekoswai? Bekos we all shai oni to to spik prawper English - arf...