BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...

Sexy Malaysia school uniforms

I'm too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Malaysia too sexy for Malaysia
Too sexy for Malaysia…

This is from across the straits in Malaysia:

Malaysia’s Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has insisted that blaming students or their uniforms for sexual crimes is unfair as there is
nothing sexy about school uniforms now worn by girls in government schools.

The Minister’s comments come after the little known National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia created a furor in the ultra conservative republic by suggesting that “the blouse encouraged rape and premarital sex”. (Or a bit like saying that a jewelers deserves to be robbed for having jewels on display, or that drivers of Mercs are simply asking for their cars to be nicked when they park ‘em in public).

So well done to the minister for speaking up in support of the students. But as for there being
nothing sexy about Malaysian school uniforms, well….



Comments

  1. hey, it is thai university uniform ,i see thai alphabet on the top of picture it mean udron thani province it is a province in thailand

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