Greetings from Malaysia!

Currently sitting in a little cafe I found around the corner of my apartment while in search of coffee and pastries for my usual morning routine. Stayed for lunch and the most delicious peach iced tea I’ve ever tasted. This is definitely my new spot.

Spent the morning doing research about the history and culture of Malaysia. I found some… uhhh… pretty interesting videos on YouTube, which reminded me why I don’t do research on YouTube. Literally any idiot off the street can just put whatever crazy AI-generated slop they want out there and people will believe it. It’s not okay!

I watched this one video that featured so many crazy AI-generated pictures that I had to keep stopping to examine the slop up close. I don’t know why anyone thinks AI is so amazing. It literally just makes shit up. Bullshit in, bullshit out. Consider me unimpressed, though I realized I have a much-desired skillset as an “AI Fact Checker.” I don’t know if that’s a job yet, but it should be. New freelance occupation, y/y? I bet I could make a surprising amount of money doing it if I play my cards right.

Anyway, in the end I settled for reading a few scholarly, peer-reviewed articles instead. I learned a lot! I didn’t know anything about this country at all, but I really like the vibe. One thing I learned is that they see their diverse population as a strength. They want to create a country where everyone is equal, regardless of race or faith. Or so the theory goes…

Obviously, I can totally vibe with that philosophy. I’ve had it with this crazy western white supremacy bullshit. Ugh. It’s even worse when you consider the fact that the West only had its alleged Greco-Roman heritage preserved because of Islamic scholars. How can you claim to be superior to everyone else when you almost lost all of your own history because you were a bunch of illiterate, plague-infested barbarians?

I learned nothing in my history classes. My History degree is a bunch of bullshit. I have to work so hard to fill in the gaps. I watched a too-short documentary on AJE this morning on the effects of colonialism and World War II in the Pacific Islands. I was so mad. Nobody taught me any of that shit! I might as well take my USD diploma and wipe my ass with it for all the good it’s done me while traveling through SEA.

Now I’m just sitting here people-watching. Low-key obsessed with all of the different types of people I see walking around. I love it. I also love Muslim women’s fashion. Some of the younger women get really creative with the dress code. I love all the colors, the patterns, the designs, the textiles, the mix of fabrics. I am just obsessed with fashion in general, regardless of who is wearing it or how.

I am living right downtown in the city-center, so I’m seeing all types right now. Groups of students walking to and from class at the university, business types on lunch break from work, digital nomads and remote workers on their laptops, families walking to the park with strollers in tow. Malays, Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Japanese, Koreans, Australians, Europeans, and of course, Americans. Everyone from everywhere in between. This is the vibe for me.

The difference in how I feel right now compared to the last few days is striking. I feel alive again, inspired again, motivated, and ready to get back to reality. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about this city, but in the end, I’m glad I chose to come here instead of Vietnam. I’ll make my way up there eventually, but “KL” (as they say) is definitely the vibe I need right now. Modern, clean, diverse, vibrant, bright. Yassss!

Maybe the SEA *is* for me.

Lesson Learned: Do not take advice from the Digital Nomad sub on Reddit. It’s full of white Passport Bros on a mission to exploit as many foreign women as they can for the lowest possible price. This is why they like places like Thailand and Colombia and hate places like Kuala Lumpur. I have no idea why they’re saying KL isn’t safe for women. Must be Ye Olde Islamophobia again.

Lesson learned.

Reddit fed me some posts from the Passport Bros sub recently and they were absolutely fucking vile. One of them was ranking women by how “easy” they are for gross, ugly troglodytes to pick up. It literally made me gag when I read it. It was disgusting. These men are disgusting. Someone needs to fight back against the sickening, colonizer narrative. Who else but me? Let’s give these jerks a run for their money, ne?

That reminds me… yes, there are so very beautiful men here. Oh lord, help me. KL is about to give Dubai a run for its money in terms of sexy men with good jobs and better clothes. It is what it is.

That being said, I’m not about to convert religions to date anyone. Organized religion is not me. I am not interested in jointing anyone. No thank you. I can appreciate different faiths and different philosophies, but I don’t want to join in with any of them. I also don’t want to do the New Age thing either, so I guess I’ll just be chillin’ over here in the corner by myself, content to watch the world pass me by.

If there’s one thing that my experience with the Indian Guy taught me, it’s that I should not enter into a relationship with anyone whose cultural and religious background is more strongly-engrained than my own. I need someone who is interested in meeting me halfway.

Alright, time to get out of here. I need to find a grocery store or a 7/11 or something so I can pick up some snacks, bottled water, and laundry detergent. Looks like there’s one just across the way. Gonna pick up my necessities and head back to my ridiculously massive apartment to do laundry and do some more research on Malaysia.

Have a nice day!