u/abu_nawas

Last Saturday I was in the gay bar and it was... ass.

My ex (41) and his friends were there as usual and he tried to cheer me up, gave me a lot of attention and we caught up but I find myself physically unable to join him on the dance floor. Instead I just... gazed at shoes. Yeah.

Then there was the local creep who kept harassing me and I just decided it was time to go home. I called my boyfriend. He's been abroad for exactly a month, and coming home soon. It was a huge damper in our relationship.

And he picked up.

And I said the unthinkable - "I was here looking for new connections but all I can think about is how better it would be with you." Which is exactly where I met him.

And just like that we're okay again, today he sent me a song that I listened to on my commute home from work.

Am I... slowing down? I used to have a 100% success rate of finding an older man to go home with at the bar. I don't know. I feel less fun. And my idea of a romantic date is accompanying him to the dentist appointment. Which we did.

I'm only 27. My ex haunts the dance floor almost every week lol.

I have Super because I'm part of a family plan. I really want to enjoy it but every small exercise gets bloated by these casino games aspect of the app.

For me it's makan babi. Yum. It's like chicken but in the form of beef.

So this is a big year of Malaysian tourism. The minister of tourism (non-Muslim) threw a water festival. Malaysia and Thailand have a long standing history, and on a side note, a lot of Thai Malaysians can finally ammend their race on paper to "Siamese."

In honesty, it's a shit show. We KL natives know how to party (usually underground) and this one was not it... Controversies surrounding artists being asked to perform for free. Low spirits. But it was large-scaled and had a lot of funding. It picked up later.

But the Malay Muslim majority (MMM) is absolutely opposed to this. There are mass prayers, social media channels are jammed with AI slop and spam messages decrying this festival, and they're driving around in buses to heckle the people attending the water festival.

Most of the online outcry come from the North, the tin, timber, and rubber belt that has been historically poor, underdeveloped, and uneducated. It's a racist conservative stronghold. Their ministers have literally told them to dig wells to handle climate change— aggressive rains and droughts. We stopped going up there because we felt unsafe. I was attacked by the police for wearing shorts. My mother was bullied by her in-laws for not being a submissive wife. She studied. She worked in evolutionary science/microbiology. She left that area when she retired.

The northerners are sooo concerned about what we big city folks are doing. They don't even live here. But you can tell their worldview is so small, perhaps due to entitlement.

There is a bigger outcry for this water festival than the 50M USD stolen from zakat funds by a few internal people.

I never knew a life without the internet and honestly it made me want to stop opening anything. I feel like all the small city folks are breathing down my neck.