It’s Our 2,000th Post!

LoyarBurok turns 2,000

It was about 14 months ago that we celebrated our 1,000th post. We thought we had exploded in 2010 with 537 posts compared to 349 in the previous 4 years. But to then reach 2,000 in just over a year is truly phenomenal and a testament to the creative talents of the millions of LoyarBurokkers around (there are more than 400 registered writers, thousands more LoyarBurokking in non-writerly ways, and millions more who don’t even know they are LoyarBurokkers yet!).

The past year has seen some banana-riffic stories (and a new skin which upped the ante) which have much pleased His Supreme Eminenceness Lord Bobo. Here’s a taster:

• June Rubis curated several series, including Stories from the East which included Chong Yu Tyng’s excellent biography of her father, the Judge, the late Chong Siew Fai and #LoyarBerkasih, which saw Dina Zaman’s Halal Fuckbuddies.
• Alter Ego began her series on Livin La Vida Loyar, whilst Lisa Ng curated the Loyarfacai special that saw various new authors write for the first time.
• We also saw June Low curate what became a rather controversial porn week, to stop LoyarBurok from becoming boring.
• Wai continued his excellent movie reviews, whilst more people began to Thank God Its Friday with more travelogues, movie reviews and LoyarBermakan special reviews.

81 of the articles in the past year were on the Pusat Rakyat LB’s new initiative, UndiMsia! which is, as you are reading this, changing Malaysia.

• Liam Hanlon was there when it all began, and reported on the retreat where the broad parameters of UndiMsia! were first developed
• Shortly after that, we finally got ourselves a physical home! Ops Pisang was a fantastic event held to celebrate the launch of the Pusat Rakyat LoyarBurok
• Hangatkan Langat then began, as did UndiMsia! Chats which even saw Minister Idris Jala come to the Centre to talk to some LoyarBurokkers. Now the buzzword is #IdolaDemokrasi

There were tonnes of other stuff:

• Founding LoyarBurokker Fahri Azzat remains our most prolific contributor.
• The weekly Ask Lord Bobo column in the Selangor Times was launched, whilst the Monkeysuit Protocol is published every month in August Man.
• After curating a series on feminism and equality with #LoyarEqual, Alicia Izharuddin sparked an online uproar against the Reggae Mansion’s policy of excluding certain nationalities from their budget hotel which they eventually said they would change.

A big thank you to the more than 400 contributors who’ve contributed to these 2,000 posts. Let’s see how fast we get to 3,000!

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