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By The CK | It’s not funny
“A satirical take on Malaysia’s latest navigation app.”
Talk about timing. After a long hiatus, I finally reinstalled Waze, only to discover on this very day that the government is directing people away from it and urging them towards TuJu instead.
So how many Waze do we need to arrive at a destination?
Honestly, I’m a Google Maps person. I never saw the need for Waze until that dang map made me late for a meeting recently.
Anyway, TuJu, which means “towards” in English, sounds very much like tujuh, which means seven in Malay.
Well, seven is a special number indeed. There are seven days in a week, seven colours in a rainbow, seven notes in a musical scale, and so on.
But since TuJu isn’t tujuh (we’re missing an h), we’d have to shave off one, and that becomes sux. Oops, six! Or sic, Sikh, or whatever spelling suits in Malaysian English.
On top of that, I’m hearing that it’s not actually six, but a half-past-six app.
And whether you’ll actually get there on time is another matter.
So there you have it. Six ways to get to your destination, alternative routes and all.
But there are actually only five. TuJu has an additional super-feature.
In case you missed the joke, TuJu apparently directs people to “fly” directly from destination A to B, without even checking whether the user owns a Tesla flying car. That’s the sixth route. Very much a sixth-sense kinda thing, no doubt.
Now, where were we? OK, four.
Fork. It’s not a joke. Nobody knows whether to take the ramp or stay on the road below.
Three. It took three years to develop the TuJu app, which began in 2022. It was officially launched in November 2025.
Two. No two apps are exactly the same. But for TuJu, how we all wished it was! I mean, who wouldn’t love knowing where all the speed traps and police blocks are, right?
And one. The number one reason why TuJu is such a great big joke.
If Israel was the reason not to use Waze, which, by the way, has been bought over by Google, then why, in the name of the great Madani, why not just ban Facebook and all other Israeli-related tech, too?
Don’t just stop at Waze, na?
Carolyn Khor is an independent journalist who contributes to several print and online publications. Selected articles from her archive are published here for Newswav readers.
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