State Bird

Malaysia doesn't have a national bird, but if I were to have the chance to pick a state bird for just ONE out of the 14 states in Malaysia. I'll definitely pick Johor.

As some of you might have already known, I moved to JB September last year. Life in JB is boring. There's nothing interesting about this place: the food are expensive (thanks in no small part to all those Singaporeans who keep coming over here and spoil the market price), the queue in the supermarkets are always long (again, thanks to-you-know-who), and thanks to influences from across the border, people here are also very kiasu – If you say you are number one, they will say they are number zero so that they can be better than you, not knowing that zero means you're just shit.

If you ask me what's interesting in Johor, I would have to say: to walk under a row of trees and try to avoid bird shit from dropping on your head.

There are more crows here than you can find anywhere else in Malaysia. If you think Butterworth is bad, you should come to JB. It’s like playing one of those Nintendo games where you try to avoid the bomb from dropping on your head. Only in this version you literally get "shit on you".

If Sarawak is famous for the hornbill, Johor's state bird should bloody be crow!

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