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Ha! This is interesting. What it's basically saying is that Malay lost the word for earthquake (which is still extant in other Austronesian language cousins eg Indonesian languages for example, like Javanese) that we had to re-import it from Sanskrit because we have so few of it 
US$2M apartment in a ‘burby part of Singapore
Ahahahahahahaha
Disgusting
https://www.99.co/singapore/insider/triple-record-breaking-s3-06m-ec/
Photos of Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and elsewhere in SE Asia between in the early and mid 1900s by a Taiwanese collector
Think China · [Photo story] A Taiwanese collector's treasured photos of old Southeast Asia and Singapore
Burmese-Singaporean thinker Yan Naung Oak has a lovely piece on 'Seapunks':
Not scifi, which romanticizes technology; not cyberpunk, nor solarpunk.
But a uniquely SE Asian concept. Mandalas, Myanmar, environmentalism, capitalism and other topics:
'Captures our culture of living with and finding ways to thrive in a world that will continue to be neither completely utopian nor dystopian.'
I always enjoy Yan's work
https://livingwithshoggoths.substack.com/p/we-have-always-been-seapunks
Living with Shoggoths · We have always been Seapunks
#Mangosteens from #Chinatown 
I love them. Rarely buy because they aren't cheap here.
#Myanmar and #Thailand earthquake live updates: Hundreds feared dead, with 81 trapped in collapsed #Bangkok building - BBC News
BBC NewsMyanmar and Thailand earthquake live updates: Huge quake kills at least 144 in Myanmar, with many trapped as buildings collapseAt least 144 people have died in Myanmar after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake, felt by Thailand and other neighbouring countries.
Several killed as strong earthquake strikes central Myanmar, shakes buildings in Thailand
> A powerful #earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killing several people, bringing down a skyscraper under construction in #Bangkok and toppling buildings in neighbouring #Myanmar, where the ruling junta declared a state of emergency in some areas.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-1.7495795 #Thailand #SouthEastAsia #expatasia #TootSEA
I helped a friend apply for a tourist visa to Singapore and it was approved in 1.5 hours
I wrote how to do it (any Singapore citizen, permanent resident or Singapore company can do it)
Most people don't need visas, but people from India / China do
https://popagandhi.com/posts/applying-for-singapore-visa-for-your-friend/
popagandhi.comPopagandhilong form essays, photos, recipes and other interests by adrianna tan
$1 eggs in Singapore!
Mass protests across 14 Indonesian cities rejecting the newly passed military legislation allowing active members to hold civilian government and private sector positions. Mass violence by cops and the military against protesters, illegal seizure of ambulance by the police, members of parliament clashing with protesters, and Jakarta is about to unleash its latest wave of protests tomorrow outside of the parliament building.
This is building up to match the 1998 anti government civil disobedience crisis. Hopefully it won’t devolve into mass riots, waves of racial violence, and private property looting and destruction like it did back then.
The state of the economy isn’t great either despite statements from the President and Ministers. Since the President slashed the national budget to fund the free school meal program and the sovereign fund Danantara (more than $20 billion each), government projects and programs have been cut, contractors are struggling, and consumer spending collapsed.
We also have had mass layoffs in the tens of thousands across various industries including manufacturing, since January. Those jobs aren’t coming back.
This country is not doing okay.
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#dogNamedBana with a ribbon (1/3)
So this came out earlier than scheduled (please disregard the postdated publication date since this was supposed to come out next month; it'll soon by updated accdg to my editor). Wrote about rediscovering Makati City, which is fast becoming a hub for local culture and creativity. Took some of the photos as well. 
Please check out the article on Smile online (the digital space of Cebu Pacific's in-flight magazine).
www.cebupacificair.comCebu Pacific Air
When I was in college in Singapore, I lived walking distance from Little India. I was a bit of a night owl then. Most of my friends were students from India and Nepal. No special reason, it just was. I found the local Singaporean students very boring and I never got on with them (I’m Singaporean).
One of my friends from Nepal took me to an apartment in little India where you had to knock a secret knock, then someone would open, and if they recognized you, they’d open the door and you could go in and sit in the living room and they’d give you homemade noodles, momo and tea.
The other customers were often Bhutanese monks and Nepali salespeople. My friend introduced me to everyone.
Sometimes when I see the shiny fancy veneer of shiny Singapore, I remember how my favorite parts of Singapore are these fleeting moments and spaces I got to experience as a local with deep networks and curiosity. I prefer that Singapore of my memories.
It made the news that Singapore was 71F today! Rare. Almost never. Haha
https://mothership.sg/2025/03/monsoon-surge-singapore-cold-weather/
Singapore ‘politician’ (who has never won anything): I will stop using homophobia as my party platform if you don’t field an openly lesbian candidate
Fuck off, GMS and your ‘party’
I feel like I can laugh about him coz he’s such a loser and has no chance in hell, but all of this is making me concerned about what happens when we have a homophobic populist politician
I’ve been thinking lately about how I grew up very strictly Anglophone in an Asian society, when my parents barely spoke English (not the same way my brother and I do). Like when we speak, we sound like we are speaking different languages (even in English). Depending on where I am, I can sound like the local native English speaker.
Many of my compatriots do not sound like me. There’s Singlish, which is a type of creole combining English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Malay and some Tamil. But that’s not quite it either: there is a ‘basolectal English’, the one that is grammatically ‘correct’ but unmistakeably places the English speaker in the location they come from (Singaporean, Aussie, Kiwi basolectal are very obvious).
It is usually a function of class and society and privilege that a person in a colonial society speaks English a certain way. In my parents’ time, our English teachers and newscasters spoke with a ‘stiff upper lip’. Maybe that was class, then. When I was a teenager, upper middle class people spoke like the BBC newscasters. But not stiff upper lip. Today, we sound.. American or some form of British.
And I don’t know how I started to speak like that. I went to an elite school, but my family barely spoke English. My language at home was not even Mandarin, the language of the upper class Sinophones, it was Teochew and Hokkien; the language of the pasar (the wet market). In formal situations in Singapore, I can code switch into basolectal English, kind of less American sounding formal English, so more older professional people understand me. In the cab, I can curse in Singlish at taxi drivers who ask me if I’m American.
In this video; I sound ‘generic American’, maybe Californian: https://youtu.be/I6m82wB2qhY
When I speak with people from ‘back home’ I sound completely different.
US sanctions Thailand’s officials over deportation of Uighurs to China
> US Secretary of State #MarcoRubio has announced sanctions against an unidentified number of officials in #Thailand for deporting at least 40 #Uighurs to China last month, despite apprehensions they could be persecuted.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/us-sanctions-thailand-officials-china-uighurs #deportations #immigration #ICE #MAGA #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #China