Suryakumar

Malaysian ,Music (rahman), Dance (Bharatanaytam) , Football (BPL for now)

[Joel A. Adejola @joeladejola]

Marcus Rashford.

"Impact substitute when losing" - 7 matches, subbed ON while losing.
"Removed when team needs a goal" – 6 different matches, subbed OFF while losing.

(The copy can be more precise because these two things corroborate but are difficult to reconcile at first glance.)

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

@chunhang7 Gusto a WB. Almost like pedro porro. Porro just slightly better defensively

[h @htomufc]

Are there any clearer indications as to what Xabi Alonso is going to play at Chelsea, shape wise? 3-4-3 with Rogers-Pedro-Palmer has serious potential. Not too sure on Rogers as a 10 in a 4-2-3-1 I prefer him in that inside left pocket, particularly, arriving into that space from wide.

[Danial @masterofnone]

The Network School (@ns) drama is all over the Internet

What's really happening?

I'm Malaysian & Irish ~ born and raised in London. Recently moved back to 🇲🇾 for good.

My plan?

To help build Malaysia's AI Builders Hub (@KrackedDevs) ~ upskilling our people, pulling Malaysian builders together, and pushing for Malaysian-made tech products.

Turning Malaysians from consumers into producers.

Here's a thread - a simple breakdown of the NS Drama, from my humble perspective 👇

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

👀👀👀 Can replicate in first team?

[FergieStandards @FergieStandards]

This is the start of everyone knowing Jim Thwaites.

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

@chunhang7 😫😫 Wanted some comparisons of Scott, Kone, Sangare, Baleba.

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

@chunhang7 your player comparison site still up? data updated with last season data? :D

[Jon Mackenzie @Jon_Mackenzie]

I think that people are potentially misreading Man United's transfer window this summer and so I made a video about it.

[Balaji @balajis]

Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia?

Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (@anwaribrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital funds like a16z and Polychain.

As context, I am the former CTO of Coinbase and former General Partner at a16z. In October 2024, I opened a startup society called Network School in Malaysia, because I felt I’d been invited in by the government’s pro-tech policies.

Specifically, the KL20 initiative set out Malaysia’s ambition of becoming a top 20 global tech hub. Their MDEC digital nomad visas and MM2H investor visas were created to facilitate an influx of global talent and capital. And the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone was announced to facilitate the flow of capital and talent between Malaysia and Singapore, where I live. When taken in combination with Malaysia’s datacenter buildout and its policy of welcoming visa-free visits for 98% of the world, it seemed like Malaysia might be a great place to build a global tech hub that was simultaneously inexpensive and easy to visit (especially for non-Westerners).

And that’s what we did, by creating Network School. It’s an international tech community with its first node in Forest City, Malaysia. We picked Forest City because it had millions of square feet of empty space, because it was one hour from Singapore’s capital markets, and because it was within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Then, within 18 months, without a single penny of government money, we built Network School into a global attraction that brought thousands of engineers, investors, and builders from 70+ countries to learn technology, burn calories, earn online, and have fun, integrating with the local Malaysian economy along the way.

Indeed, in terms of quantifiable contribution to the Malaysian economy, we’ve already invested 100M+ MYR in our campus to make it startup-friendly. For perspective, that’s about 4% of the budget of Johor, the Malaysian state where Forest City is located. We employ dozens of Malaysians directly and indirectly at every level from executive to staff. We’ve backed Malaysian tech startups like Collektr, hosted events for local teams like Superteam Malaysia, and are major customers of many local businesses like barbers, laundromats, and restaurants. We’ve also revitalized the multibillion-dollar Forest City project, causing millions of MYR in real estate appreciation. And, as the video below describes, we were on the cusp of a 500M+ MYR expansion to grow our community, as well as a global merit scholarship with my friend Amjad Masad of Replit.

However, that emerging multi-billion dollar success story — which should rightfully have been hailed as a huge victory for the pro-tech policies of the Malaysian government — is at risk of being derailed by a fake story spread by an anonymous account named MP4P.

In short: on the day before the July 11 Johor elections, MP4P posted an Instagram post falsely accusing Network School of harboring illegal aliens. The sensational accusations caused a tizzy in Malaysia, until Malaysian authorities came to our campus on July 14 to investigate. (I should note that the officers were very polite and professional.) After checking hundreds of physical passports from 40 countries, including dual passport holders, the authorities confirmed to the press on July 15 that all travel documents were in order. During the process, we cooperated fully; in the thread below you can see a photo of the men, women, and children of Network School smiling and holding up their passports in the bright daylight. Our faces are shown and our names are known; we have nothing to hide.

With that said, the process is the punishment. What MP4P did is very similar to the American crime of “swatting”, because MP4P created a hoax report of a serious threat, thereby forcing the Malaysian police to take time away from protecting the Malaysian people towards investigating a nonexistent issue. Moreover, this anonymous MP4P account has also called for Malaysia to boycott Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft…a move that would cost ordinary Malaysians thousands of jobs…even while MP4P’s own Instagram collaborators promote their Apple and Google apps! I mean, we aren’t talking about a credible accuser, but just someone screaming inconsistently at the top of their lungs on social media for traffic, an all-too-common phenomenon these days.

Anyway, at this point, all further investment we were planning to make in Malaysia is on hold until we get sufficient assurance that such issues won’t recur. So are the investment plans of many of our friends, including the execs and investors at global tech firms that we brought to Forest City. Because to put it very plainly: we have invested 100M+ MYR in Malaysia, while creating jobs for dozens of Malaysians, and our faces and names are known. Our Malaysian executives and employees deserve the benefit of the doubt over anonymous internet trolls.

There are two paths forward. In the first case, if Malaysia still wants continued global tech investment, if it wants to be a top 20 tech hub, if it wants us to revitalize Forest City, then we request an audience with the Prime Minister’s office to discuss the terms of a memorandum of understanding between Network School and the Malaysian government, similar to the document recently signed between the Solana Foundation and the Kazakhstan government.

Specifics can of course be discussed, but we would publicly commit to abiding by all Malaysian laws (we already do) and respecting Malaysia’s sovereignty (never in question). In return, they’d get to know our friendly community, and realize that we actually chose Malaysia because we thought it was a great place to build a tech hub where engineers from the global South, investors from the West, and builders from Malaysia itself could meet new people, build cool things, and perhaps create millions of dollars in economic growth in the fullness of time.

That vision of peace and trade, internationalism and entrepreneurialism, is still on the table. We aren’t asking for any money — just a meeting, to help restore confidence in Malaysia as an investable jurisdiction. Alternatively, if you don’t want our investment, or those of our colleagues at billion dollar funds and trillion dollar companies, we will of course respect your wishes, and reallocate our capital to other countries instead.

Either way, we will remain friends and abide by your decision. Please let us know.

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

@eyemeroll Dia do buka untuk masuk jail serdang.

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

Yeap. Don't give Argentina space. Did it clr 70 mins then decided to flip.
No team in the recent history has every did well trying to defend a lead by sitting for 20 mins. Game has become heavily technical. No more Jose Rafa ball

[Meia Armador - Mufaddal Idris Burhani @MeiaArmador__]

Argentina created nothing until England sat deep after scoring.

Look at the sheer difference in reaction to going 1-0 up by Spain, and compare it to England. It’s the only reason I put Argentina above them.

[🧘🏾 CARRILLO 🧘🏾🧙🏾🇵🇹 @carrill69o]

Daley Blind, signed after the 2014 World Cup, he made 141 appearances, playing at left-back, centre-back and defensive midfield without ever complaining. Intelligent, technically secure and one of the club's most reliable ball progressors during a turbulent period.

He won:
🏆 FA Cup (2015/16)
🏆 EFL Cup (2016/17)
🏆 UEFA Europa League (2016/17)
🏆 FA Community Shield (2016)

He wasn't the flashiest player, but he was one of the smartest. A footballer's footballer.

[Yenze Mee @yenzemee]

Football fans can relate

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

@htomufc Add rashford and amad

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

101 years old. There were non Malay candidates who won for BN. Malaysia is moving away from race based politics. Whatever your narrative is all the parties out there except PN are moving forward as mutiravial

[Dr Mahathir Mohamad @chedetofficial]

𝗣𝗥𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗢𝗥

1. Pilihan raya Negeri Johor yang baru selesai memperlihat apabila orang Melayu bersatu, kekuatan politik akan kembali kepada kita.

2. Walaupun bentuk kerjasama masih samar-samar dari segi bentuk dan ikatan, ianya perlu kita terima sebagai satu langkah ke arah keberkesanan untuk memperkukuhkan kekuatan politik orang Melayu.

3. Tetapi perlu kita ingat bahawa penyatuan ini yang membawa kepada kekuatan politik bukan untuk mempertahankan kebatilan atau melakukan perkara-perkara buruk.

4. Ianya harus diguna untuk mengangkat martabat orang Melayu, agama Islam dan kedaulatan tanah air kita.

5. Ia juga bukan mencari kekuatan untuk menekan atau menidakkan hak serta kepentingan kaum lain malah sebaliknya.

6. Apabila orang Melayu bersatu dan mempunyai kekuatan politik, ia memberi keyakinan kepada mereka untuk memperjuangkan kepentingan kaumnya tanpa mempertikai hak-hak kaum lain.

7. Inilah cara yang kita pegang sejak dari kita merdeka dan ianya telah berjaya memakmurkan orang Melayu dan kaum-kaum lain.

8. Kerana itu Melayu perlu bersatu dan memperkukuh kekuatan politik mereka. Hanya dengan cara ini tanah air kita akan kekal hak kita.

DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD
15 Julai 2026

[Suryakumar @theeSKB]

The DNA is still there if the right manager is in charge. This is their identity which Pep rubber stamped when he was in barca. Emphasizes why Rodri was so crucial for him also

[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

This is mindblowing

[Jon Mackenzie @Jon_Mackenzie]

A player who has given me so much joy watching but who had reached a point where I had feared the joy had dried up. What do I know? Such a pleasure to be given the chance to enjoy him again.

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

A woman had Netflix for 6 years.

She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.

Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.

Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.

She said "it feels like a completely different app."

He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."

Here's every setting he changed 🧵

[𝚜𝚞𝚢𝚊𝚜𝚑 @suyashft]

For the 3rd midfielder, looking at some of the names linked with and starting from the bottom (as per their overall quality) and grading based on who is needed more. *PART 1*
10. Baleba [C] – Has seen a noticeable drop-off and still needs another season to develop, particularly in possession and overall midfield involvement. His passing remains inconsistent, and he is prone to costly errors. Defensively and athletically, however, he is the standout in this group.
9. Bouaddi [B] – Easily the strongest defender on this list. Not as athletic as Baleba but very comfortable on the ball and an excellent dribbler. His passing is solid rather than exceptional, although the potential to develop a wider passing range is evident.
8. Gomes [C] – The most dynamic midfielder in this group, thriving through his dribbling and ball carrying. Offers an average passing range but provides reliable defensive cover and energy across midfield.
7. Berge [B] – An experienced and mature option. Excels through intelligent positioning rather than aggressive defending [although he does cover lot of ground, sprints a lot- see bottom LHS on his image], while his passing is composed, varied and always purposeful. His athleticism is underrated [except for short distance burst/speed]. Also the strongest aerially in today's set.
PART 2 - later this week...