GUEST POST - Malaysia - standing in the eyes of da world

REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION

So I'm taking this World Anthropology course on edx, and one of the subjects we covered was refugee/immigrations in Malaysia. There's an interview with an "illegal" immigrant, that really got to me:

Robert: Malaysia for me is a world of trauma and a place of distress.
I don't say good things about living in Malaysia.

Gerhard: Nothing at all?

Robert: Nothing, because we cannot hope; we cannot have dreams. We can't plan for the future, and we don't have rights. We don't have rights for education. We don't have rights for employment. We don't have a voice. We can't say anything. We cannot complain.

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Because, you know, we have more than they do, but we don't really have a voice, either.

— Melissa Ariffin

GUEST POST - Independence Day - Glow

57 years of independence

means freedom to use at least 

six typefaces 

in one ad.

- from ipfrsch, a friend of UGLY MALAYSIANA

It's da weekend again, be safe

Malaysia safest country in Southeast Asia, 19th in the world - Latuk Seri Hishammudin Tun Hussein

Trikaseh kepada 

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR TERKENAL, MS. DILL MALIK.

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COMMENT BY UGLY MALAYSIANA:

DO U FEEL SAFE walking alone around badly maintained 'sidewalks' in Cheras trying to reach a STAR LRT STATION that seems kilometers away as you pass by seedy commuters trying to sell you things or borrow money, or when you're taking in the midnight air in your neighbourhood lake gardens (in other words, cruising perhaps), or as you walk to work in the morning when the sun is just coming up, clutching an office bag tightly because of all the stories from friends and coworkers about 'ragut' and snatch thieves. 

DO U FEEL SAFE at the mamak in Ampang leaving your iFon 4S on the table to your friends' disapproval, or your LV PURSE terkepit at your sweaty armpits as you brave hundreds of others for kangkung and peha ayam at your favourite Pasar Malam?  

DO U FEEL SAFE having a laptop in your car as you rush out to buy a Chatime because you've heard so many laptop thefts from people in your life — how they left it in the car for 10 minutes and it's gone, and these real stories from everyone you know, have happened, and how crime is really real, and how we're all paranoid and have a huge distrust towards strangers of another race, how it's a really real problem, and now a minister tells us we're the safest country in South East Asia based on an index... and you know their reality is skewed because they have bodyguards everywhere, and they never take public transport, and never have to walk alone on dingy alleys to get home from work...

Guest Post from an esteemed Asian Public Intellectual (posh exclusive coverage from Japan)

UGLY MALAYSIANA WORTHY STORY,

AS TOLD BY THE ARTIST CHI TOO.

Recent events in my motherland has prompted me to register as an overseas voter, so I cycled all the way to Shibuya to my country's embassy... 

... only to be confronted with this.

Impeccable guest post from MERAUNG KESEPIAN

Impeccable day.

"KEDAI RUNCIT", says MERAUNG KESEPIAN.

 

 Impeccable beauty.

"ROSMAH DAPAT AWARD"

NOTE:

The opinions expressed in this paper are the guest poster's own and should not be attributed to those of UGLY MALAYSIANA.

Guest Post

Kontribusi Dari Gadis Melayu Terakhir Yang Suci Dan Maseh Chantique...

 "UGLY BAGS"

"Can I complain that this is an ugly bunting?"

Guest Post: SLIM TIM

DARI PUAN BERNAMA "Meraung Kesepian"

GUEST POST by Ms Shieko Reto

Kind comment from UGLY MALAYSIANA:

Background macam Vietkong punya komunist propaganda poster... 

eh keRAJAan, kenapa tak ban benda macam ni? Ingatkan kamu tak suka perkara seks ataupun komunis? Seks songsang x suka ajer ko? Cis... diskriminasi ni...

ANOTHER GUEST POST BY DILL MALIK

A collection of images by the beautiful Ms Dill Malik for your consideration.

Taken in the states of Wilayah Perseketuan, Sarawak, dan lain-lain...

UPDATED with captions by UGLY MALAYSIANA.

Amateur Fatalist Centre with a row of scary Mat Salleh smiling girls that resemble a more cheerfully dressed hantu of a certain kind (the kind that doesnt have legs — only a severed torso — flying around kampungs or highways with innards waving around like bloody jellyfish tendrils! (The author of UGLY MALAYSIANA read about this type in TRUE SINGAPOREAN GHOST STORIES once when he was a teen...)

A true Malaysian sight of cheeky rebellion:

Literally rubbish below a 'DILARANG MEMBUANG SAMPAH' sign!

Be Online, Not In Line. Photoshop blurry edges and lots of ARIAL is conducive for government related produce.

Peppery seduction with badly adjusted font ligatures!

No comment. 

No comment. 

Anonymous SMS horny short form language.

Fesyen polis hot V shaped torso and mat salleh nose towering above the smaller Asian copz.

"Why do you think I'm hiding? I'm not hiding, I'm dead..." :(

GUEST POST: Grace Chin

Seen at paramount garden. Awning without window is like baseball cap without the face.

ANOTHER GUEST POST BY DILL MALIK WITH CAPTIONS BY UGLY MALAYSIANA

Gadis yang 'berattitude' semestinya ada limbs yang slim dan langsing bagaikan kaki belalang ANOREXIA. 

CURLZ ON TOP, TIMES BELOW YO......

Pleasant PREGGERZ CAUCASZN mannequins acting as white guardian angels to two AZN MAMAs.

Note how they are so far in front of the radioactive globes disappearing behind them into a hazy 50% opacity oblivion............................ 

Swirls of green vapour behind them, or did the camera capture PREGR AZN MAMA pheromones or aura ah?

I WOULD LOVE FOR A MALE CUSTOMER TO ENTER SHABU ONE STEAMBOAT BUFFET IN A MINISKIRT DESIGNED IN A WAY WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE YOUR GENITALS BLINDFOLDED BY A SLIGHT PIECE OF WINE-RED VELOUR.

GUEST POST BY MS. DILL MALIK

"purple, green, red. EYEW BUTA COLOUR KE"

Would you join the Government's crusade against Najis Rasuah after seeing this?

Lo & Behold



~Constructive criticism appreciated~

 [Guest post by bunian siber Dill]

A glance from afar, i thought it was a Kindergarten(Tadika) Ad..upon close up i realize it's designed Mike Miere from O32C. Labelled as the 'New Ugly' by Jeremy Lesley of Magculture.com.
These type of design was made to be thought provoking, anti design esthetic with odd spacing and stretched fonts.

Perangi Rasuah while listening to Buck Fizz & The Bangles, Mike simply takes it to the next level, and that level is Sungai Wang level 6.  

 

-- from a commenter by the name of ArtOf.

Thank you for the very sharp insight into the New Ugly! 

 

Note from UGLYMALAYSIANA to ArtOf: 032C has badly proportioned or squished Arials in front of immaculate photographs by the likes of Inez Van Lamsweerde wor... ironic or not, high and low?

FIRST UGLY MALAYSIANA (UM) GUEST POST

Lovingly done futuristic Led Art of Malaysia's current first lady gingerly walking down the 2d analogue stairs.

From i-City.

Photography: Dill Malik

Words: Bill Malik