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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-23 at 23:44

Malaysia invented this form of look dancing on poles. Who knew?

Also, there are non-Chinese performers

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iGIYLjC_IAA

[#]ChineseNewYear #Malaysia #Chinese

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-23 at 14:06

Barbeque Nation - Pavilion KL is seriously the best thing in the world.

https://g.co/kgs/zSDvtGV

[#]MakanApaToday #Malaysia #Lunch

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-23 at 10:52

Chinese New Year at Pavillion mall, #KualaLumpur. Our malls, especially the big ones, do try to out do each other with the deco. This weekend I hope to visit Sunway Pyramid to see what they did :)

[#]Malaysia #TootSEA #ChineseNewYear

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-23 at 10:16

"In the storm, the lightning arrester of Umno building along the road crashed to the road below, burying Lim’s car underneath and damaging seven other vehicles.

Efforts to recover his body were called off after four days of digging due to concerns that further digging could affect the surrounding buildings so Lim’s body was never recovered.

Only parts of his Honda City were recovered from the crater."

My dad told me this story over dinner, like he was telling me about the weather 😬☠️

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2013/09/02/man-missing-in-umno-building-crash-was-on-school-run-inquest-told/518637

[#]Malaysia #TootSEA

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Shared by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 23:58 (original by Karen Mardahl)

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 10:44

Every #tech person's fear

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Shared by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 10:34 (original by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾)

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 10:01

"Also eye-opening is exposure to Chinese rules for posting content, which are largely rules of common decency and respectful communication, so lacking in the disgusting US "free speech" marketplace whose net outcome is that the biggest dickheads silence normal decent voices"

Exactly my thoughts about moderation on #Xiaohongshu

via @VancityKai

https://kaichang.typepad.com/zuky/2025/01/xiaohongshu-honeymoon.html

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Shared by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 10:00 (original by PhDog)

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 09:03

US folks mistakenly think #Xiaohongshu a Tiktok clone (that's literally Douyin). Calling it an Instagram/Pinterest hybrid is also not 100% right either. Remember how we search for useful information on Google by appending Reddit to our searches? XHS is actually that, but prettier and much, much nicer than Reddit. This is not because Chinese people are generally nicer (have you been to Weibo, dear god). It's because it has strict moderation, kinda like Mastodon style where the xhs community actively participates by reporting content. Also, it's algorithm is the fastest and most intiuitive i've seen.

[#]socialmedia #tiktok

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 06:00

Another thing I found out from #xiaohongshu is that Chinese people really HATE term Lunar New Year, so please don't say that to them. It's actually "Spring Festival" (chun jie) or "Guo Nian" (passing of a year). In Malaysia we simply call it Chinese New Year. In Hokkien, we call it "xin jia".

I don't know if we're sensitive about the Lunar bit in Malaysia though.

[#]Chinese #China #RedNote #Xiaohongshu #ChineseNewYear

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 05:47

Had to cancel my credit card because someone hacked it and used it to pay for #Facebook ads.

Another reason for me to hate #Meta, I guess lol

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 04:52

I think the most mind blowing thing I learned from 小红书 is that Malaysia is way more festive about Chinese New Year than China 😅

[#]Xiaohongshu #Tiktok

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Shared by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 04:50 (original by Tony)

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Shared by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 04:48 (original by Kai Chang 張文愷)

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-21 at 23:48

Chinese celebrity rescued after disappearance following trip to Thailand, 2nd case in days - VnExpress International

He's actually NOT a celebrity neither was Wang Xing, but due to Wang Xing's case, more Chinese human traficking victims are being rescued.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/crime/chinese-celebrity-rescued-after-disappearance-following-trip-to-thailand-2nd-case-in-days-4840794.html

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-21 at 15:23

The developers at #xiaohongshu are probably working their asses off omg. Not only did they create translation capabilities in 3 days, they just added auto bilingual subtitles right after Capcut was discontinued in the US two days ago. I work in a software co and lemme assure you that kind of speed is INSANE 😆

[#]RedNote #tech

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-21 at 14:34

I know it will be a struggle for some of my US friends today, but lemme reassure you that we Malaysians get it. We had a coup during the pandemic and parliament was frozen. They were very dark times for us.

But we got through to the other end. You can too. The most important thing is u need to unite, left and right, to beat this. If you continue to be divided, the powerful will always have the upper hand. Learn it from us.

https://thesun.my/home-news/journey-from-prison-to-power-AB10774127

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-21 at 09:42

Military Prosecutor Doberman review

As shallow as it sounds, I was initially drawn to the drama because of the lead actor. Man, he is FINE. Lest you think I'm that shallow, I was also a sucker for a redemption arc, and this drama turned out to be quite a redemption journey. The story Initially, I got the impression that this was a very serious show about soldierly stuff, that the lead character hunts deserters.

https://dramatea88.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/military-prosecutor-doberman-review/

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-20 at 14:34

I am going to ask a possibly stupid question.

Why do Americans film themselves talking while lying in bed? They're bringing this over to #xiaohongshu and it's driving me crazy 🤣

Ps: I haven't noticed people from other countries do this so far lol

[#]Tiktok #socialmedia

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