The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the
thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi
magazine covers for Wednesday January 3rd, 2024
Malaysia: A Review of Pendatang – Was it fantasy or a window into a near reality? By Murray Hunter
On the night of December 21, a film created by Kuman Pictures “Pendatang”,
which literally means immigrant in Malay, had its world livestreaming
premiere on YouTube. This dystopian film was set in a Malaysia, after
both Sabah and Sarawak had left the Federation.
In this parallel reality, Malaysia had now become a segregated
nation, where the various races lived within respective controlled
areas.Different races were forbidden to mix with each other. In the
story, the Wong family were ordered to relocate to an old wooden kampong
house, previously occupied by Malays in a remote rural area, after
committing a traffic offence.
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Lightness Of Being #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“In the end,
There is wine,
Olives and grapes,
The roar of the sea,
The sun on our face”
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eBook: Pangborn’s Paradox by David Mason
A time-travel short story.
“So you know all the punchlines to the old kill-your-own-grandfather gag, eh? Wanna bet?”
“See,” Von Juntz whispered. “He has forgotten to uncock the safety.
Now he has. Now he creeps closer. Soon now we shall know the paradox.”
Grandpa
Pangborn had put down his cigar. His hand had slid under the lapel of
his frock coat. Just before he whirled, I realized that he had been
watching Pangborn in the mirror all the time.
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Fika bonding! #073 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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