"There is something profound in our catchy little exhortation, “Malaysia Boleh!”. The past two or three decades seem to have honed us into a sort of stylish resilience. Among the things “Malaysia Can Do” is sidestep insouciantly past pitfalls that routinely swallow other nations whole. We are held together in our chronic cultural disarray by — among other things — a certain gallows humour and clear-eyed realism. In Malaysia, after all, even the most horrific highway pile-up raises the possibility of lucky numbers."