Author: MyCerita Rakyat

This blog is repository of stories of Malaysian life from anyone who wants to contribute to share with us a true experience as a Malaysian and anyone who lives in Malaysia. We accept stories from all ethnicities and groups. Our only request is that you honor diversity and inclusion and use this forum only to share experiences that reflect the reality of Malaysian living. We ask that you restrict political commentary and stereotyping, and not go beyond the facts of the story you share.
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Growing up in JB by Manga Thayee

The following video is from a public-speaking community project in Johor Bahru. It involves the Speakers Club, a group of mainly elderly Chinese living in and around Taman Pelangi, and the Kangkar Pulai Speakers, a group of Tamil housewives in Kangkar Pulai, a JB suburb. Club members create and deliver brief speeches on topics they… Continue reading Growing up in JB by Manga Thayee

Voices of Malaysians by Charlie Ng Weng Jeng

Charlie Ng is a student at UTAR and one of our young contributors. It is heartening to see the sincerity and effort put into this piece. We welcome Malaysian youth to share this space …

My Father by Valaiammal Karmegam

My Hometown by Wang Toon Jui

My Life as a Pensioner by Ooi Kean Seng

Guard Your Tongue

by Mary Jeanne Small is the tongue but In the mouth of a wrong person It can become a weapon of destruction! How much slander/gossip is your tongue guilty of? We came with nothing & will leave with nothing Except… That which we have sown through our words and deeds. How gross are the sins… Continue reading Guard Your Tongue

The Swimming Pool

by M P Prabhakar This was just after the war and a lot of things were hard to come by. My friends and I were about ten years old, so playing back then was a lot different from today’s young. If we were not in school, we got together outside looking for adventure and went off… Continue reading The Swimming Pool

Ain’t No Place to Call Home

by Kruz Aibrahms Not many of us can claim having more than ten homes while growing up yet I had sixteen by the age of thirty. This was due to my father’s vagrant duty stints. He was a cop with uncompromising loyalty to his master. In the sixties, transfers were the order of the day for policemen. We never… Continue reading Ain’t No Place to Call Home

The Lonely Years

by Zara Marissa It all started in 2019 I was so happy my first day of school yay I said I’ll make a lot of friends as I prepared all of my school books I thought it would be like this until I heard the news of a virus the teacher told us at school… Continue reading The Lonely Years

In the Shade of a Mango Tree

Dato' Dr. Andrew Mohanraj

By Aneeta Sundararaj On Boxing Day in 2004, an earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The subsequent tsunami caused devastation in more than 14 countries in the region. By midnight, 16 hours later, more than 250,000 people died and millions more lost everything. In the following… Continue reading In the Shade of a Mango Tree