Making Puns Out of Malay Girl Names is Twitter’s Newest Trend, & Here Are Our Favourites!

Oh, Malaysians. You never fail to astonish me with your creativity, especially when it comes to incorporating multiple languages into jokes and puns.

Twitter has recently blew up with a series of puns involving Malay girl names, with Malaysians actively participating to showcase their funniest pun. #newtrendalert

What you do is ask a question and answer it with a Malay girl name that fits the answer the best!

Here are just some of the punniest ones!

If you’re a health conscious person…

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If you don’t really care much for diets or exercise…

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When you love sports and video games…

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For those city folks…

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If you love movies…

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If you’re a flower child…

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If you’re a hopeless romantic…

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If you’re a bad b*tch…

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And finally, if you’re a 1Malaysia advocate looking for some racial harmony…

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This may very well be the best trend Malaysian Twitter has seen in a while and the fact that it can diversified to incorporate Indian girl names and Chinese girl names is truly in the spirit of 1Malaysia.

There are still quite a few Malaysian girl name puns out there we didn’t manage to cover in this article. If there’s any of your favourites that we’ve missed out, feel free to drop them in the comment section below, because well, sharing is caring!

I personally can’t wait for the Indian and Chinese versions. Netizens, do your thing! 

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