About
Who are you?
While I won’t tell you my name just yet (some of you might know my identity, but let’s keep it at that), I’m a on-and-off Malaysian writer who has spent his time in, around and out of the country. Enough to give me both a bird’s eye view and an understanding of how things are on the ground.
If you’ve got something to say about my posts, my site, or just want to bitch, just leave some comments on the posts or drop me an email (separated to prevent spam) at: s a t i r e [] a t [] c a d r a v e r [] d o t [] n e t
Why do you blog?
There are many, very many blogs out in what we call the Malaysian blogosphere. While we do have the usual look-at-me sites like Kenny Sia and XiaXue, you also have a few others that are dedicated to niche markets, like technology and even automobiles ala-Paul Tan.
But the vast popularity of the Malaysian scene (and I don’t mean majority, different thing altogether) seems to revolve around socio-political commentaries. While there are a few good ones -even if you may not agree with their opinion- thus highlighting the scope and issues regarding local politics, there are many others out there which don’t really contribute much in return. Either they rehash what has already been written, or they end up cursing the government and worshipping elements of the opposition like most of the commentators in the Malaysia Today domain.
Then I thought, why not satire? Pundits like Stephen Colbert do it well, and execute their style with finesse, earning praise from both sides of the American political divide. However, we live in a country where satire seems to occur in real life, and if you’re a Malaysian, you know what I’m talking about.
We’re a nation of complainers. We love to complain about how lacakadasial the government is, how high the crime has risen and how our national football team can’t even beat Vietnam. We also like to mutter about rising prices and the fact that general salaries haven’t changed since pre-1997 economic crisis times.
But we’re also a people who love to joke. We like to hear about funny situations that make our lives a little bit brighter in a world gone mad, even if we do shake our heads if we read about them in the dailies.
At that is why I choose to write satire. It’s not just a collection of funny statements that you read in a 1001-jokes book. They are stories that affect our way of life, the way we think, and how we perceive ourselves as Malaysians in the eyes of the world. They affect us and we are bothered by it, but at the same time we can laugh because sometimes there’s nothing more hilarious than tragic comedy.
What does Cadraver mean?
Its a product of an browser-based sci-fi game that I once used to play. Kind of stuck after I chose it.
Do you have a corporate press-whatsit?
Oh yes, I do. Courtesy of Andrew Davidson, and I can’t make this shit up:
We here at cadraver.net believe we know that it is better to transition holistically than to transition interactively. Do you have a game plan to become leading-edge? What do we incentivize? Anything and everything, regardless of obscurity! If you scale compellingly, you may have to reintermediate vertically. What does the buzzword “portals” really mean? The C2C factor is turn-key. The users factor can be summed up in one word: integrated.
What does it really mean to target “intuitively”? Our feature set is second to none, but our blog-based deliverables and newbie-proof operation is constantly considered a remarkable achievement. The project management factor is cross-media. The metrics for mega-customized re-sizing are more well-understood if they are not efficient. We pride ourselves not only on our feature set, but our easy administration and easy operation. Think extensible.