Naqib Shamsuri🦕

Eclectic half-assed all-rounder. Not an ideologue.
XXII.

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

All Malaysian authorities need to do is spend one single day dishing out 1000s of summons to people who litter. The PR alone would deter future litterers.

But here we are…

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

Where’s the best Nasi Kerabu in KL?

[Zaid Ibrahim @zaidibrahim]

Tengku Taufiq, the CEO of PETRONAS, has apologised for his so-called “exuberance” at the Singapore Grand Prix. I feel sorry for him. He was not drinking champagne ; ( he should have taken a sip) he was celebrating a world-class event where PETRONAS was a major sponsor ; yet he had to apologise because he was cornered by the hypocrisy of a community that confuses symbolic sin with real sin

What’s truly absurd is that the same society that condemned him remains silent when our govt colluded with national footballers to cheat FIFA by falsifying their documents. That, somehow, is forgivable. But a man holding a bottle of champagne he didn’t drink becomes a national scandal.

This inversion of morality reveals a dangerous sickness. We have become a people more obsessed with appearances than ethics. We don’t feel the same outrage when politicians tell lies or plunder billions, when athletes falsify records, or when officials abuse their power. But a mere image of wine celebration triggers pious outrage.

Islam does not ask us to perform morality ; it asks us to live it. The Qur’an condemns hypocrisy far more than it condemns the splashing of wine. Yet in Malaysia, pretending to be pious is often rewarded, while integrity is discarded

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

@sixshotshahril I’ll take it shaken even. Just mix my shit!

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

Baristas, would it hurt to stir my iced latte before handing it to me in a covered cup that I now have to take off and stir with my finger because any other way will make my $7 drink spill?

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

There’s no player I’m more excited to see leave United than Diogo Dalot.

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

United has had a lot of shite players over the years but no one quite as bad as @DalotDiogo

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

Malaysia must have some of the worst building managers in the world. Everything’s falling apart.

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

Remember when flat lay was all the rage? How old am I!?

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

Antisemitism isn't what it used to be

[Dafrosty @Dafrosty]

🍿POPCORN🍿 ft. @glazedbaguette

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

a friend sent this to me

[Jesse Onslow @JesseOnslow]

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[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

Grab uncle in SG playing Malaysian radio.

Me: uncle how come you’re playing Malaysian radio?

Uncle: Malaysian music is better.

End of conversation. Proceeds to drop me off. I walk away chuffed af.

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

SG is run by a bunch of pedantic nerds. And that’s a good thing.

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

Never wanted Untied to lose more.

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

John Williams > Hans Zimmer

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

Loved that RHB Raya ad, but a bank hijacking the story of a selfless lawyer addressing the failures of capitalism is peak bank behaviour. Like honestly, what does it have anything to do with RHB?

[Naqib Shamsuri🦕 @QiBreezy]

When your nation building abilities are so bankrupt, you scrape for political mileage through socks. 🤡

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

These are eight slightly different versions of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa from eight different museums.

So which is the real one? That's the thing — they're all the real one.

Here's a brief history of art's most famous wave...