I have always wanted to be active in blogging, raising my concerns and delivering my point of view about our Nation’s Politics but I just don’t have the time. Of course my blog does not get hit with even hundreds of readers but I feel satisfied just talking about politics even if it meant that I get 5 hits (my family members). Although sometimes I do get some ‘Anonymous’ comments bitching about my article and myself but I really don’t give 2 cents to it. Today, I am going to freestyle my writing and ‘NO’ I am not under the influence of alcohol. I am going to talk about GAME ON between 2 big guns in our Malaysian Politics, our current Prime Minister and our current Opposition Leader.
Let’s face the facts. Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak (DSN), is actually trying to do some sort of reform. Whether he is doing it out of sheer honesty or just to be in power is another thing. The cancellation of Skim Baru Penjawat Awam (SPBA) is one of the ways moving forward to garner votes or some might say DSN is concerned about the peoples’ voice that were against this skim from the start. For those who are in the dark about what the F*%$ is SPBA, you can Google it. As a summary, this skim (if implemented), would raise the salary of government staffs. The catch is of course the salary increment for staffs that are in the upper grade is higher than the ones in the lower grade. I would bet my balls that the reason for the cancellation of SPBA was purely because of many unhappy government staffs that are in the lower grades. It’s simple math. There are many lower grade government staffs compared to the higher ones which automatically mean if you implement SPBA and the General Election is about 2-3 months ahead, most likely you are not going to get the votes from the lower grade government staffs and that could be a few millions. I say most likely but is it worth the risk? If I were DSN, I would have created fabricated evidence and throw the guy who proposed SPBA to jail for sodomy. Hey, it’s the Malaysian style remember. DSN 1 – 0 DSAI
The Malaysian Amnesia. This term is an open secret. It is a fact based on history that whatever scandal (not only sex) that has been exposed in media, would be forgotten by the rakyat within 14 days. If after the 14th day everyone forgets about it and moves on, it is done and dusted. If however even after the 14th day the rakyat and the politicians talk about it and make an outcry about it that is something worth looking into because it could very well burst into negative perception among the rakyat and it could backfire whoever is involved in that scandal whether government or opposition if the rakyat chose to teach you a lesson in the ballot box. If my memory has not deceived me, I reckon there are 2 pending scandals/issues that have surpassed the 14th day timeline. National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) and Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s (DSAI) comment on Israel. DSN 0 - negative 1 DSAI
The implementation of Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency (SELCAT) in the state government of Selangor under the Pakatan Rakyat is a start for transparency when tendering state government projects and so forth. The revenue of the Jewel State in Malaysia has grown tremendously with this implementation. You can read more about SELCAT in the Selangor Times. Some might argue that even SELCAT is not as transparent as it seems due to the recent exposure of sand scam by the EMIMEN of Malaysia, RPK. Well, I say it’s a start. Rome wasn’t built in one day. For this, the equation comes back to DSN 0 – 0 DSAI
Let’s now move to the north state of Penang. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his administration have now taught the previous Chief Minister and his administration on how to run a state. I was told that Lim Guan Eng is going to write to a book titled “How to run a state for DUMMIES” soon. I have got some hardcore Penangites friends and the word is that, “I can’t see Penang falling back to BN in the near future”. Well, this is a straight win for Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng but because we are not talking about him we will give his point to Pakatan Rakyat. DSN 0 – 1 DSAI
I can keep writing about this competition but I am getting a little anxious to close this up. Lastly I want to talk about the speech made by DSN is the last UMNO general assembly. He said a lot of things, but what I want to highlight here is that DSN stressed to his counterparts that they have to start to turun padang. This means to do ground work and that is exactly what DSN is doing. He has been on a nationwide visit to cross check with his lower ranking people on what needs to be done and how. I have to give credit to DSN on this because I cannot remember any previous PM doing this, but then again I am a young boy and most of my childhood, teenage life and youth was with our 22 years of PM administration. You know who. DSN 1 – 1 DSAI
As I was saying, the list can keep going and Microsoft Word might crash. There is the recent barring of RPK to the Wikileaks forum by DSAI. The shun away of DSAI to the talk in the India Today Conclave Forum because of the attendance of controversial writer Salman something. DSN avoiding public debate with DSAI. Setting up a probe for Attorney General Ghani Patail and ex Inspector General of Police, Musa Hassan. MAS scandal. PKFZ Scandal. Tun Mahathir’s involvement in the FOREX exchange loss back in the 90’s. The US$ 10 Million kickback requested by Pakatan Rakyat for the coming General Election. The LYNAS issue. Probe on why need youngsters in the football squad when you have Ryan Giggs and Paul Schools and so forth.
The 2 big guys (DSN and DSAI) are playing psychology among each other and with the rakyat. From my observation, its pure politics and both are not doing what they are supposed to do honestly. It is all about politics and who becomes the ultimate force. We have to agree that DSAI can talk. He has got this power to bring a large crowd of people to listen to his talks. I can only think of 2 others who can do this and most of you might not like one of them. They are YB Gobin Singh (Puchong) and YB Khairy (Rembau). DSN needs to refer to a paper when giving out speeches. It is also a fact that having to bring over large crowds to hear your talks does not mean its all votes. The Rakyat are no more in 1950’s. We are in 2012 for heaven sake. Even the kampongs have got at least Streamyx or some sort of wireless broadband.
DSAI wants to be Prime Minister. He has told this many times. He was like an inch close to being one till Tun Mahathir F*^% ed him up. DSN on the other hand clearly wants to pursue his seat as Prime Minister. DSN has realized that the only way to get this done is to spend money on people which is what a government must do in the first place. It is after all the rakyat’s tax money. DSN could have made ways to garner more votes by giving out petty RM500. This move could also back fire as the rakyat might think that DSN is giving out pity cash. DSN has realized that giving out cash is not enough and that is the reason why he is coming up with more reforms but he also realizes that reforms does not give you instant fruits. It takes time which he does not have. This is the reason why DSN is going all over Malaysia to apologize and literally begging to give him and his administration a chance.
DSAI on the other hand as got very few options to push for more votes. This is because he does not have the money power as DSN has. DSAI has got the 4 states under Pakatan’s control, the Buku Jingga and his fascinating speech. Will this alone give victory to DSAI to form the federal government? Of course NOT. Let me tell you this. DSAI a season politician. He was an UMNO guy and from the government before. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. He was the Finance Minister for 8 years. He has got UMNO mentality in him. He might have changed after being in jail, but he surely has got UMNO in him. DSAI is going to play the ultimate political game and when playing this game in Malaysian Politics, there are only 2 people who are the best in this trade. Tun Mahathir and DSAI. You can sense this by DSAI’s speeches when he says he is willing to forgive Tun Mahathir. I mean come on, you put me in jail and I want to forgive you? No way. The main reason is DSAI knows for a fact that he cannot win the battle with The Maverick so just interpret to he rakyat that you are a true Muslim and a good human being by forgiving. DSAI is more focused on winning the war. Tell me, after all these years in the inner elite circle of UMNO and you think DSAI does not have contacts inside? If Pakatan Rakyat wins the coming General Election, it is not because of free and fair election BERSIH’s Dato Ambiga Sreenivasan is preaching about. It will not be because the rakyat has risen to the occasion like in the Middle East. It will be because of the cables and the strategy that DSAI will implement. It will be because Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is way more a season politician compared to Dato Seri Najib. So, stop whining about winning the General Elections freely and fairly because that is going to take a very long time. Our ultimate priority is to get a new government in and we have to play our part in it. Vote!
Sunday
Monday
54 years vs. 4 years
Before I start on the 54 years vs. 4 years, lets’ begin with a short Malaysian History. Just to give you an insight of what happened before. Not that I’m a Historian Scholar for Malaysian History, but this is after reading, listening and observing gestures of those who have lived pre and post 1957. I am once again only giving out my opinion after observation and analyzing the theory behind history. The reason why I state this is because each person who reads this has got a different mindset and it’s extremely difficult and almost impossible to satisfy everyone.
Coming back to Malaysian History, it was written in our Malaysian History books that The Federation of Malaya (now known as Malaysia) got her formal independence from the British in 1957. How we got it is a different story. Malaya at that moment had all the states we have currently (although Sabah and Sarawak was snatched from Indonesia) plus Singapore. Malaysia was only born on 16th September 1963 and on 1965, Singapore made a brilliant move to be self governed, thus Singapore became a country by its own. I have not read the 20 point agreement which refers to Sabah and Sarawak so I will not go round preaching about it. In a nutshell, apparently Sabah and Sarawak are not states inside Malaysia but they just teamed up with Malaya at that point of time to be granted independence. It was also said that these 2 Sabah and Sarawak can withdraw from Malaysia at any point of time but through a proper manner like a vote system or referendum.
*note: the texts in italic are not quoted from academic scholars but through blogs and e-media
Now, let’s go back to 1955. Why 1955? Because 1955 was the year Malaya had its first General Election. It was because the tremendous victory in 1955 that pushed for our independence in 1957. Now in 1955, we had this political coalition called ‘Parti Perikatan’. Its members are from UMNO, MIC and MCA. Very well done, out of 52 seats at that point of time, the coalition won 51. Clap! Clap! So from 1957, till 1973, it was Parti Perikatan all the way. 1973, saw the born of our now Barisan Nasional. Why scratch Parti Perikatan and substitute with Barison Nasional? That is another story. Anyhow, Parti Perikatan was substituted by Barisan Nasional and from 1973 till present, it has been Barisan Nasional. Well done once again. Clap! Clap!
2008 general election saw 5 states won by the opposition collation Pakatan Rakyat. Errm, now of course it’s 4 and probably 3 very soon. Nevertheless, on paper in 2008 GE, 5 states were won by Pakatan Rakyat and ever since then, they have been governed by Pakatan Rakyat (minus my state: The Perak fiasco). So theoretically, from 1957 till 2011 we have been under one Federal Government the Barisan Nasional. You don’t need your calculator here, but this means 53 ++ years. Now we hear a number of politicians demand what has been done by the states that is being governed by the opposition (opposition here means the federal opposition) for the past 4 years or so and this is where the title comes into the picture, 54 years vs. 4 years.
What I am going to say next is merely my point of view. You can debate, discuss or even say nasty things about me but I will remain calm and let my patience deal with it.
How can you compare a 50 odd year’s governance with 4 year governance? It’s like asking for advice from learned experienced 50 year old man and asking advice from a 4 year old kid. It’s never going to be easy to trust a 4 year old kid’s advice. I would anytime go for the 50 year old man’s advice. Experience is surely the measuring meter here. So why do some politicians and people want the 50 year old governance changed and give it to 4 year old governance? One wonders why anyone would actually want this to happen. Well although experience is a vital part of managing and governing a country, one must not push aside an upcoming talent. I mean, you could only see what one can do if you give them a chance. Just like fresh graduates, give them a chance into the working industry and they might most probably outshine current managers. Young or upcoming talents are never too dangerous for anything. The only thing lacking here is the word ‘chance’. How are we to measure 4 years of governance with 50 years of governance? The only way is to give a chance to that 4 year old kid to manage it which means they get more experience when they are given a chance. Which is exactly what I want to say, give the PR a chance to govern and you know what, you might actually like the way they do things. If you don’t like it, kick them out and vote back the latter.
Come on guys, our current government is old. 53++ years is very old indeed. Their tricks, mindset political game are orthodox. It’s an old grandmaster against a new wizard. Just like what happened to Man Utd against Liverpool. Sir Alex Ferguson is the grand old master of English Premier League and yet, when battled his technical skills on a fair battle ground, he lost against the like of a kid, Kenny Danglish (Liverpool Manager). So it’s actually not about the fear of May 16 or the racial tension that could occur if PR wins come next GE, it’s because there has not been a fair battle ground ever since. There has only been fear of losing power and this greed has overcome the very people who are supposed to be the peoples’ representative. The peoples’ outcry has become just tears that wet our land. When will the peoples’ tears become the beacon of the rise of power so strong, that even GOD will be amazed? What am I talking? First God doesn’t even exists, and Malaysians voting PR in the ballot box? Nah... !! We are just scared. And scared we are because of the political games and racial tension posed by the powers up there.
Now if you seriously think that Malaysia might end up like Egypt and Libya like how some of our opposition politicians try to create chaos, it will never happen and I will tell you why. Firstly, there are more average, middle class, rich people then compared to the poor. The ones who are going to take it to the streets are the ones, who don’t have a job, don’t have a family. This very small percentage of people is the ones going to take it to the streets because they have nothing to lose already. Maybe, just maybe, we will have another small percentage who really wants a change in government so bad that he/she might leave his job and family and join a protest because they don’t mind losing what they have. With this amount of people, I’m pretty sure our Cops can handle it. Just like what they do best, shoot some tear gas, blast some water and that’s it. They just love doing it. Human revolution is pretty difficult to happen so let’s forget about that fear.
You want a 53 year old government or a 4 year old government? That is the question. Remember, everyone needs a chance to shine. It was we who gave the mandate 53 years back because we felt that Parti Perikatan cum Barisan Nasional needed a chance to shine and yes they did. But that does not mean we cannot give the same mandate to someone else. When BN needed mandate, we gave. Now if PR needs the mandate to prove that even they can govern the country, my question is… why don’t you give a chance to the people who want to shine? Bear in mind that you and I are here today reading this because someone gave us a chance to shine. It could be our school teacher, our university lecturer or even our work boss; these are the people who gave us a chance to shine and that is the reason why we are here today doing what we do best. Ok probably we are not shining la, but at least we are doing something and getting paid right. So yeah, that was what I wanted to say, give them a chance you might be surprised of the wonders they can do. If you need an example of how they govern their states, take Penang as one. Lim Guan Eng, well done!!
And how long can you play with one toy anyway? You and I need a change. I play futsal regularly before. I bought an A brand shoe and it really lasted and I really loved how it protected my feet. I wore it for about 2 years and I decided to change. But the A brand was still usable. In fact it could be worn for another 1 year if taken care off. But yet I went for a change. I went for N brand and although the style is there for the N brand, it did not last a year. I decided to go back to A brand. So that’s how it is. You can’t be playing with your same phone gadget for ages. There are no more Nokia 3310, its all smart phones now. When technology can evolve every 8 months, government??
This is where I believe the youth of the country has to play their part. I know it’s not easy to put some sense to the elderly on the cronyism and corruption that we see on a day to day basis. But we can always try. It’s no harm trying to reason out what is good and what is bad to our elderly citizen. You can try this out with your parents first. Of course it’s against the law to brainwash, bully and threaten our elderly to vote elsewhere, but I’m pretty sure we are matured and smart enough to move the chess Knights accordingly to win over the game. After all, it would be a good start to step into politics.
Come next GE will be the most interesting GE in our country. Why I say this is because, this is going to be last chance for the opposition to win over our hearts and get our trust to vote for them. If they fail to do so this coming GE, they are never going to get into power for a long time. It is going to be the filthiest and dirtiest politics we are ever going to see, but it is also going to be the dawn of a new era for Malaysia even if we don’t see change in the federal power. I adore my country and I love the politics. I would vote for a change, but how about you?
Coming back to Malaysian History, it was written in our Malaysian History books that The Federation of Malaya (now known as Malaysia) got her formal independence from the British in 1957. How we got it is a different story. Malaya at that moment had all the states we have currently (although Sabah and Sarawak was snatched from Indonesia) plus Singapore. Malaysia was only born on 16th September 1963 and on 1965, Singapore made a brilliant move to be self governed, thus Singapore became a country by its own. I have not read the 20 point agreement which refers to Sabah and Sarawak so I will not go round preaching about it. In a nutshell, apparently Sabah and Sarawak are not states inside Malaysia but they just teamed up with Malaya at that point of time to be granted independence. It was also said that these 2 Sabah and Sarawak can withdraw from Malaysia at any point of time but through a proper manner like a vote system or referendum.
*note: the texts in italic are not quoted from academic scholars but through blogs and e-media
Now, let’s go back to 1955. Why 1955? Because 1955 was the year Malaya had its first General Election. It was because the tremendous victory in 1955 that pushed for our independence in 1957. Now in 1955, we had this political coalition called ‘Parti Perikatan’. Its members are from UMNO, MIC and MCA. Very well done, out of 52 seats at that point of time, the coalition won 51. Clap! Clap! So from 1957, till 1973, it was Parti Perikatan all the way. 1973, saw the born of our now Barisan Nasional. Why scratch Parti Perikatan and substitute with Barison Nasional? That is another story. Anyhow, Parti Perikatan was substituted by Barisan Nasional and from 1973 till present, it has been Barisan Nasional. Well done once again. Clap! Clap!
2008 general election saw 5 states won by the opposition collation Pakatan Rakyat. Errm, now of course it’s 4 and probably 3 very soon. Nevertheless, on paper in 2008 GE, 5 states were won by Pakatan Rakyat and ever since then, they have been governed by Pakatan Rakyat (minus my state: The Perak fiasco). So theoretically, from 1957 till 2011 we have been under one Federal Government the Barisan Nasional. You don’t need your calculator here, but this means 53 ++ years. Now we hear a number of politicians demand what has been done by the states that is being governed by the opposition (opposition here means the federal opposition) for the past 4 years or so and this is where the title comes into the picture, 54 years vs. 4 years.
What I am going to say next is merely my point of view. You can debate, discuss or even say nasty things about me but I will remain calm and let my patience deal with it.
How can you compare a 50 odd year’s governance with 4 year governance? It’s like asking for advice from learned experienced 50 year old man and asking advice from a 4 year old kid. It’s never going to be easy to trust a 4 year old kid’s advice. I would anytime go for the 50 year old man’s advice. Experience is surely the measuring meter here. So why do some politicians and people want the 50 year old governance changed and give it to 4 year old governance? One wonders why anyone would actually want this to happen. Well although experience is a vital part of managing and governing a country, one must not push aside an upcoming talent. I mean, you could only see what one can do if you give them a chance. Just like fresh graduates, give them a chance into the working industry and they might most probably outshine current managers. Young or upcoming talents are never too dangerous for anything. The only thing lacking here is the word ‘chance’. How are we to measure 4 years of governance with 50 years of governance? The only way is to give a chance to that 4 year old kid to manage it which means they get more experience when they are given a chance. Which is exactly what I want to say, give the PR a chance to govern and you know what, you might actually like the way they do things. If you don’t like it, kick them out and vote back the latter.
Come on guys, our current government is old. 53++ years is very old indeed. Their tricks, mindset political game are orthodox. It’s an old grandmaster against a new wizard. Just like what happened to Man Utd against Liverpool. Sir Alex Ferguson is the grand old master of English Premier League and yet, when battled his technical skills on a fair battle ground, he lost against the like of a kid, Kenny Danglish (Liverpool Manager). So it’s actually not about the fear of May 16 or the racial tension that could occur if PR wins come next GE, it’s because there has not been a fair battle ground ever since. There has only been fear of losing power and this greed has overcome the very people who are supposed to be the peoples’ representative. The peoples’ outcry has become just tears that wet our land. When will the peoples’ tears become the beacon of the rise of power so strong, that even GOD will be amazed? What am I talking? First God doesn’t even exists, and Malaysians voting PR in the ballot box? Nah... !! We are just scared. And scared we are because of the political games and racial tension posed by the powers up there.
Now if you seriously think that Malaysia might end up like Egypt and Libya like how some of our opposition politicians try to create chaos, it will never happen and I will tell you why. Firstly, there are more average, middle class, rich people then compared to the poor. The ones who are going to take it to the streets are the ones, who don’t have a job, don’t have a family. This very small percentage of people is the ones going to take it to the streets because they have nothing to lose already. Maybe, just maybe, we will have another small percentage who really wants a change in government so bad that he/she might leave his job and family and join a protest because they don’t mind losing what they have. With this amount of people, I’m pretty sure our Cops can handle it. Just like what they do best, shoot some tear gas, blast some water and that’s it. They just love doing it. Human revolution is pretty difficult to happen so let’s forget about that fear.
You want a 53 year old government or a 4 year old government? That is the question. Remember, everyone needs a chance to shine. It was we who gave the mandate 53 years back because we felt that Parti Perikatan cum Barisan Nasional needed a chance to shine and yes they did. But that does not mean we cannot give the same mandate to someone else. When BN needed mandate, we gave. Now if PR needs the mandate to prove that even they can govern the country, my question is… why don’t you give a chance to the people who want to shine? Bear in mind that you and I are here today reading this because someone gave us a chance to shine. It could be our school teacher, our university lecturer or even our work boss; these are the people who gave us a chance to shine and that is the reason why we are here today doing what we do best. Ok probably we are not shining la, but at least we are doing something and getting paid right. So yeah, that was what I wanted to say, give them a chance you might be surprised of the wonders they can do. If you need an example of how they govern their states, take Penang as one. Lim Guan Eng, well done!!
And how long can you play with one toy anyway? You and I need a change. I play futsal regularly before. I bought an A brand shoe and it really lasted and I really loved how it protected my feet. I wore it for about 2 years and I decided to change. But the A brand was still usable. In fact it could be worn for another 1 year if taken care off. But yet I went for a change. I went for N brand and although the style is there for the N brand, it did not last a year. I decided to go back to A brand. So that’s how it is. You can’t be playing with your same phone gadget for ages. There are no more Nokia 3310, its all smart phones now. When technology can evolve every 8 months, government??
This is where I believe the youth of the country has to play their part. I know it’s not easy to put some sense to the elderly on the cronyism and corruption that we see on a day to day basis. But we can always try. It’s no harm trying to reason out what is good and what is bad to our elderly citizen. You can try this out with your parents first. Of course it’s against the law to brainwash, bully and threaten our elderly to vote elsewhere, but I’m pretty sure we are matured and smart enough to move the chess Knights accordingly to win over the game. After all, it would be a good start to step into politics.
Come next GE will be the most interesting GE in our country. Why I say this is because, this is going to be last chance for the opposition to win over our hearts and get our trust to vote for them. If they fail to do so this coming GE, they are never going to get into power for a long time. It is going to be the filthiest and dirtiest politics we are ever going to see, but it is also going to be the dawn of a new era for Malaysia even if we don’t see change in the federal power. I adore my country and I love the politics. I would vote for a change, but how about you?
Saturday
Another hike in Petrol
Haizz!! The moment I started to think that our dear prime minister Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak is actually trying to genuinely bring up our country’s economy, dismiss the corruption and so forth I get another blow of news stating the petrol price is hiked up again. I’m no economists; nether am I a politician but surely you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that this is burdening the RAKYAT.
At the beginning, I really thought that our current prime minister is no better that the corrupted UNMO politician, but as time passed I began to think that he is not bad after all. I was in the impression that he is actually the leader we have all been waiting for only that he is not getting any positive response from his own circle of power house, The Putrajaya. The plans he introduced and his dreams of 1Malaysia were not bad after all. All good and well except for his spouse and his deputy. Well, that is another episode you just have to wait, because there is a whole of shit awaiting her and him in the future. I actually had a dream giving our deputy prime minister a choke slam in a WWE wrestling field. That how much I dislike him. Nevertheless, I had this impression that our prime minister was a person of vision only that he is not getting enough support within because of the corruption among the politician in the major political party in BN.
Now I drive a performance a car which surely needs RON 97. RON 97 is now 2 ringgit 30 cents per liter. Initially when I pour full tank for my car it was about 84 ringgit. That could last me about a week. So a simple calculation should be around 340 ringgit. Now it is almost 100 ringgit which means I have to keep aside 400 ringgit monthly just for my petrol expenses. This excludes the time where I go out for a drink with my friends. Basically I need to keep aside 400 ringgit just for petrol and the route from my house to my work place. I am now planning to get myself a motorbike. Seriously!! This is no joke. I think I can save a lot if ride a bike to work. It is kind of a pain but I think I have no choice. Our government is giving us no choice. This is ridiculous!! 400 ringgit just for petrol is bizarre.
Yeah we hear the crap that the government is scratching the subsidy they have been providing us form day 1 for petrol. But you see it is the responsibility of the government to not burden the RAKYAT. We are the ones who gave the mandate to these leeches to lead the country. Actually not me, but the other blind believing RAKYAT. The government came up with the statement that other country’s petrol price is way up higher compare to Malaysia. The government is basically saying ‘shut the fuck up because I am in power’. Well guess what, the other part of the story they denied to explain is one, Malaysia is petrol producing country and two, although the petrol price is lower compared to other countries, our living standards are still low. Our monthly income per capita is still way lower. How are you going to afford the petrol price hike when your employer is not giving you additional pocket money or increase in salary? You cannot blame your employer because they are also running a business. So who do you blame? You know who.
The hike in petrol price means all the other daily goods are going to go high as well. The reason is because of logistics. You need to bring these goods from place to another and to do this you need transportation. To use transportation you need a vehicle. For a vehicle to move you need to petrol. Walaa!! We go back to petrol and the price is high. You know what; I am sick and tired of writing so I am going to cut this short.
VOTE OPPOSITION and hope for a change or just MIGRATE!!
At the beginning, I really thought that our current prime minister is no better that the corrupted UNMO politician, but as time passed I began to think that he is not bad after all. I was in the impression that he is actually the leader we have all been waiting for only that he is not getting any positive response from his own circle of power house, The Putrajaya. The plans he introduced and his dreams of 1Malaysia were not bad after all. All good and well except for his spouse and his deputy. Well, that is another episode you just have to wait, because there is a whole of shit awaiting her and him in the future. I actually had a dream giving our deputy prime minister a choke slam in a WWE wrestling field. That how much I dislike him. Nevertheless, I had this impression that our prime minister was a person of vision only that he is not getting enough support within because of the corruption among the politician in the major political party in BN.
Now I drive a performance a car which surely needs RON 97. RON 97 is now 2 ringgit 30 cents per liter. Initially when I pour full tank for my car it was about 84 ringgit. That could last me about a week. So a simple calculation should be around 340 ringgit. Now it is almost 100 ringgit which means I have to keep aside 400 ringgit monthly just for my petrol expenses. This excludes the time where I go out for a drink with my friends. Basically I need to keep aside 400 ringgit just for petrol and the route from my house to my work place. I am now planning to get myself a motorbike. Seriously!! This is no joke. I think I can save a lot if ride a bike to work. It is kind of a pain but I think I have no choice. Our government is giving us no choice. This is ridiculous!! 400 ringgit just for petrol is bizarre.
Yeah we hear the crap that the government is scratching the subsidy they have been providing us form day 1 for petrol. But you see it is the responsibility of the government to not burden the RAKYAT. We are the ones who gave the mandate to these leeches to lead the country. Actually not me, but the other blind believing RAKYAT. The government came up with the statement that other country’s petrol price is way up higher compare to Malaysia. The government is basically saying ‘shut the fuck up because I am in power’. Well guess what, the other part of the story they denied to explain is one, Malaysia is petrol producing country and two, although the petrol price is lower compared to other countries, our living standards are still low. Our monthly income per capita is still way lower. How are you going to afford the petrol price hike when your employer is not giving you additional pocket money or increase in salary? You cannot blame your employer because they are also running a business. So who do you blame? You know who.
The hike in petrol price means all the other daily goods are going to go high as well. The reason is because of logistics. You need to bring these goods from place to another and to do this you need transportation. To use transportation you need a vehicle. For a vehicle to move you need to petrol. Walaa!! We go back to petrol and the price is high. You know what; I am sick and tired of writing so I am going to cut this short.
VOTE OPPOSITION and hope for a change or just MIGRATE!!
Where’s the “whoo whaa” for Malaysian Independence Day?
31st August, 1957. I was not born that year so I would not know what actually took place. I only know what took place by the stories narrated to me by my dad and by the history books in school. History books my friends, are written and published by the people who were in power of the government. Whatever the government before wants the Rakyat to believe, they will make sure it reaches the Rakyat and that’s how our school history books influence our understanding of Malaysian History today. Of course these history books could be replaced by another version which could very well be contradicting to the initial history books. However you need to substitute that very government of yesteryears that wrote and published the book in the first place. Now you know where I’m getting. Well, for 52 years (2 more days for 53 years from this date), Malaysia previously known as Malaya has been ruled by the Barisan Nasional political party previously known as Parti Perikatan. For 52 years we have been reading the bullshit they have fed us with in schools. For 52 years we have been told to compromise with not other races but compromise with the government policies if you look at it the right the way. For 52 years we were petrified to even speak about the government policies what not their attitudes. For 52 years my dear readers, we were so proud of Malaysia that we celebrated with cheers and joy the Independence of Malaysia on 31st August. 2 more days for 31st August 2010, where is the joy now?
The fact is, the only joy we get on the 31st August is a Public Holiday. For those who work on this day, the joy is getting double or in some organization triples pay and that’s about it. The joy for the younglings/teenagers are probably to get involved in the Independence Parade held in each state or just to site see the parade. When I was younger in my early teens, my friends and I would site see the parade back in Ipoh not because we are patriotic but because we want to check out the girls in their respective school uniforms or club uniforms. Hey, don’t give me that look. You and I both know we all did the same thing. It’s the hormone kicking. Anyway, that my friends are just about the most we feel about Malaysian Independence Day.
Well, I’ve got my own theory on how Malaysia or Malaya of yesteryears gained its Independence Day. This of course is not solely my view, but also some other small percentage of people who took the effort to learn more about the history of Malaya just by a click of a mouse. I will make is as simple as one sentence. The British who were in control of our country back then, got so tired of us being so lazy of not wanting to take responsibilities of governing the country that they decided to leave Malaya. That’s right. The Brits left Malaya because they could not stand our attitude. The popular Malaysian attitude of ‘apa apa lah’. However, since the Brits are more responsible people then we are, they left us with a constitution so that we don’t end up in a mess. Well, a country needs to have standard to be in the Commonwealth Organization. That’s how I see Malaya gained its Independence. True or false, I would not know but that’s how I see it.
Coming back, since most of us were not present pre-Malaya Independence and the day the declaration took place, we only experience the post-independence day which is Malaysian Independence Day. From what we see or better still from what I see, its compromise, compromise, compromise all the way. I really don’t mind compromising but to the extent of having quotas for GLCs and public universities is a little too much. Actually coming to think of it, I even don’t mind compromising on GLCs rate of hiring, but public universities, is a no! no!. When the current government is replaced in the next GE, which I believe it will, I really hope that they scrap the quota in public universities. First the petrol price of course, and then the public university quota. Hey, I’m not going to enroll in any university no more, so let it come second. I am being selfish just like you. Thus; we have not been fed by patriotism for us to feel proud to be Malaysian. Don’t blame the Rakyat for feeling this, blame the government. What on earth is a patriotic drama aired in TV going to teach us. Even in those sick dramas, its compromise, compromise and compromise. We also have lame patriotic songs. The lyrics are so well written that you will switch the TV channel to MTV. It does not bring even a bit of patriotism. With all the money spent on first class infrastructure, I’m pretty sure we can spend more for quality composers and directors in our soil. From what I can recall, Yasmin Ahmad was a fantastic director and scripter. It’s a pity she has left us. Rest in peace dear Yasmin. I’m sure there are others, but with the rate of corruption we are going through, the talented will never prevail.
Below is a piece of advice from me.
Dear Malaysian Citizens,
Let’s vote for a change. May 13, 1969 is not going to happen if you do. We are much better informed now compared to back then. You can spend so much time for entertainment, why can’t you spend a little time to register as a valid voter. And what are you going to lose, if it’s voting day, you get to take time off or even a holiday from your employers. Remember you get paid for this day. This, your employer have to give. It’s their duty to give you a day off and your responsibility to vote. If you are really terrified that things are going to go out of hand if you vote for a change come next GE, think of it this way. Minus the university/college students, almost all of us have got a job to do to put food on the table. Our employers will not pay us if we don’t go to work. It’s either you leave your job and let the people under your care suffer with no food and money by getting involved in petty rallies or take the day off given by your employers, vote for a change and get back to work the next day. Everything will be fine. If you don’t like the way things are being administered after the next GE, then vote for a change again the following GE.
I just love politics!
Wednesday
You and I are God
I have been perceived by many among my circle of friends, colleagues and family as a Freethinker, which I don’t deny as I am very well a freethinker of my own kind. With all due respect to the religion believers, let me get one fact right. There might be several reputable sites over in the internet that states Freethinker as a religion by its own, but this is not true. Freethinkers do not indulge themselves to be the children of God; in fact Freethinkers question the existence of the path towards God. Actually we take a very liberal approach when it comes to God. We are nice people; we don’t want to engage in a heated argument about religion and the path to meet God. We respect and adhere the believe and faith of others. However, let me warn you. Do not take the opportunity to question our liberal thinking because you are in for a fatal blow. Remember, Freethinkers take an easier approach because we do not have faith or believe in religion. You as the religion believer take the more difficult approach as you need to answer questions posed by us on the practicality of one’s believe.
I for one person do not believe in religion. I might have belief in God, but who is God first of all. Has anyone seen God? And why do we always regard God as a male? Why not a female? Nevertheless, you cannot negate the fact that there are scenarios and situations that cannot be explained by science. These mysteries can be found and read all over the internet. Most are dramas for entertainment purpose, but some are really true. For instance the Hindu idol Ganapthy drinking milk from a spoon. How on earth do you explain that? The climax of this mystery is that these Hindu idol Ganapathys around the world refused to take a drop more of milk pass noon on the 21st September 1995. Guys, I saw this phenomenon myself. Ecstatic!! Sathya Sai Baba takes out a Linggam (Idol of Lord Shiva in Hindu Mythology) from his mouth. Ok that one of course is untrue. In fact, there was a documentary by the British Broadcasting Center (BBC) about the whole fallacious act.
Nevertheless, there are circumstances that go beyond the theory of science. God is very objective for me. If you ask me do I believe in God, I would answer your question with a question, for instance do you believe in weather? When you discuss about weather, they say its Mother Nature so just let her do her wonders or disaster. Again in here, we are being sexist by generalizing Weather as a female. We never learn do we? So for me, God is just a word that human kind created so that we can all depend on God when none are to lend a helping hand. Most might raise an eyebrow reading the last sentence just now. Most might argue that I don’t pray to God only when I am in trouble or when I need something to happen, I pray to God all the time. Crap! You might be praying to God all the time, but when you want something to happen your way, you just pray harder and promise to give God something if he helps you through your troubles. This is bribing my friend. You are no better than our PDRM. You create the word God and then proceed to bribe him as well. Why don’t you just promise to yourself that you will get yourself some cool gift if things happen the way you wanted? It’s a false world you are living in.
Already God is beyond reality, and then we create religion. Religion my friends, I am totally against. Reason being of the wars and hypocrisy we see today. Israel is one religious affair which has been going on for ages. Jews claim Jerusalem is theirs, Christians claim it’s their holy city and Muslims claim Prophet Muhammad was there and 3 largest religions in the world come together to fight each other in the name of their religion and their God. Funny that when we have judicial system that takes into consideration the logic, practicality and motif behind a scene, we flush those aspects down the toilet when it comes to religion. We are living in one world with 2 different systems. The religious and the legal system. Just like in our Boleh Land, the syariah court and the civil court. Things are going to get out of hand if this is applied. In fact, this is already out of hand and almost way beyond repair.
Hypocrisy of the religionist is another aspect that makes me puke and hate the sight off. Now being a person who have read several Holy Scriptures / book which in some cases translated in English, I can assure you that from the different religious point of view, none teaches human kind immoral stuffs. They all teach us to be good, kind, caring, loving and all the 16 moral values we memorize for our Moral subject in SPM. However, to my surprise we do see religious fanatics that say aloud about the don’ts of ones’ religion to a field of believers but at the backyard of their homes’, they do the total opposite. You promise in the holy matrimonial culture to be one for one and yet you wag your tail when you see another opposite sex. You preach about not receiving or giving bribes, but you do the opposite behind the scenes. Who am I referring to? It’s for me to know and for you to find out.
I just cannot lay my faith on God or religion for that matter because of one thing only. I am unable to speak or see God. I would rather have faith on humans of which I can feel and speak. I would rather trust you who are reading this now. I would surely trust and lay faith in my parents who brought me into this world in the first place. You and I are living species in this world that can provide advice or feedback if we go through difficult times or even offer materialistic help when needed. These are tangible characteristic that I can see and feel good about when offered. Help doesn’t always come your way, you need to seek for help and who do you seek help? Not God, you seek help with the ones close to you. In your terms, they are your God. Flip back a few pages in your life history right now and remember who helped you when you really needed it, was it God? No, it was the person next to you when you were in a classroom, when you were in a lecture room, when you were in the living hall watching television, the person next to you at your office. These are the people you thank and remember for the rest of your life.
Allow me to share an experience my mom conveyed to me recently. Now my mom is an extremist when it comes to religious faith. Luckily she takes an approach of, it’s okay if you don’t have faith, just don’t ruin other people’s faith. I for one follow this carefully. Well, my mom and sis went to a devotional center recently to be involved in a religious talk of some sort. Everything went fine and they both left the center after the talk and headed home. Upon reaching home, my mom realized that her gold chain was missing. Knowing my mom or any women for that matter, she started to feel bad and was down questioning God why do you do this to me and all that drama. However, my sis taking the more practical approach, persuaded my mom to get in the car and start looking for the chain at the center, and so they did. Upon reaching the center and trying to look for the gold chain, my sis somehow found it on the grass field where the car was parked. With a happy and joyful look I presume, my sis gave the chain to my mom. The climax of the story is when my mom received the chain from my sis. Guess what, my mom thanked God. After the hard work my sis went through persuading my mom, and trust me it’s not a simple task to do so, my mom actually thanked God. I guess she did thank my sis, but she thanked God more.
The essence of the story above is thanking the people who helped you. Remember, the term God in this story would be my sister. Why? Do you need to be an old man with long white beard and an orange or white cloth covering his body to be God or claiming to be God like Swami Nityanandan? No such rule. If someone helped you when you really needed help, that someone is God to you. Be it a man, women, transgender or animal. A phrase in a recent Tamil Movie comes to my mind here. This was from the movie Dasavatharam by Kamal Hassan. Towards the end of the movie, the lead female actress and the lead male actor have this short conversation below:-
Note: The movie was taken in Tamil Language, but the below conversation is a translation in English
Lead Actress : …… But please, just don’t say that there is no God.
Lead Actor : I never did say that there is no God …. [5 seconds silence….].I just said it would be nice if there is one.
At the end of one’s life in this world, he, she or it doesn’t bring back what they possess materialistically back to the grave. They leave everything to the ones still living in this world and the one thing that matters most is the good old memories they fed you with. The memories when they came to you to lend a helping hand or even a shoulder to cry when times were difficult for you. Memories my friends last forever. God on the other hand, we would never know.
Drop me an e-mail at kuhan_83@hotmail.com if you are pissed with my article.
I for one person do not believe in religion. I might have belief in God, but who is God first of all. Has anyone seen God? And why do we always regard God as a male? Why not a female? Nevertheless, you cannot negate the fact that there are scenarios and situations that cannot be explained by science. These mysteries can be found and read all over the internet. Most are dramas for entertainment purpose, but some are really true. For instance the Hindu idol Ganapthy drinking milk from a spoon. How on earth do you explain that? The climax of this mystery is that these Hindu idol Ganapathys around the world refused to take a drop more of milk pass noon on the 21st September 1995. Guys, I saw this phenomenon myself. Ecstatic!! Sathya Sai Baba takes out a Linggam (Idol of Lord Shiva in Hindu Mythology) from his mouth. Ok that one of course is untrue. In fact, there was a documentary by the British Broadcasting Center (BBC) about the whole fallacious act.
Nevertheless, there are circumstances that go beyond the theory of science. God is very objective for me. If you ask me do I believe in God, I would answer your question with a question, for instance do you believe in weather? When you discuss about weather, they say its Mother Nature so just let her do her wonders or disaster. Again in here, we are being sexist by generalizing Weather as a female. We never learn do we? So for me, God is just a word that human kind created so that we can all depend on God when none are to lend a helping hand. Most might raise an eyebrow reading the last sentence just now. Most might argue that I don’t pray to God only when I am in trouble or when I need something to happen, I pray to God all the time. Crap! You might be praying to God all the time, but when you want something to happen your way, you just pray harder and promise to give God something if he helps you through your troubles. This is bribing my friend. You are no better than our PDRM. You create the word God and then proceed to bribe him as well. Why don’t you just promise to yourself that you will get yourself some cool gift if things happen the way you wanted? It’s a false world you are living in.
Already God is beyond reality, and then we create religion. Religion my friends, I am totally against. Reason being of the wars and hypocrisy we see today. Israel is one religious affair which has been going on for ages. Jews claim Jerusalem is theirs, Christians claim it’s their holy city and Muslims claim Prophet Muhammad was there and 3 largest religions in the world come together to fight each other in the name of their religion and their God. Funny that when we have judicial system that takes into consideration the logic, practicality and motif behind a scene, we flush those aspects down the toilet when it comes to religion. We are living in one world with 2 different systems. The religious and the legal system. Just like in our Boleh Land, the syariah court and the civil court. Things are going to get out of hand if this is applied. In fact, this is already out of hand and almost way beyond repair.
Hypocrisy of the religionist is another aspect that makes me puke and hate the sight off. Now being a person who have read several Holy Scriptures / book which in some cases translated in English, I can assure you that from the different religious point of view, none teaches human kind immoral stuffs. They all teach us to be good, kind, caring, loving and all the 16 moral values we memorize for our Moral subject in SPM. However, to my surprise we do see religious fanatics that say aloud about the don’ts of ones’ religion to a field of believers but at the backyard of their homes’, they do the total opposite. You promise in the holy matrimonial culture to be one for one and yet you wag your tail when you see another opposite sex. You preach about not receiving or giving bribes, but you do the opposite behind the scenes. Who am I referring to? It’s for me to know and for you to find out.
I just cannot lay my faith on God or religion for that matter because of one thing only. I am unable to speak or see God. I would rather have faith on humans of which I can feel and speak. I would rather trust you who are reading this now. I would surely trust and lay faith in my parents who brought me into this world in the first place. You and I are living species in this world that can provide advice or feedback if we go through difficult times or even offer materialistic help when needed. These are tangible characteristic that I can see and feel good about when offered. Help doesn’t always come your way, you need to seek for help and who do you seek help? Not God, you seek help with the ones close to you. In your terms, they are your God. Flip back a few pages in your life history right now and remember who helped you when you really needed it, was it God? No, it was the person next to you when you were in a classroom, when you were in a lecture room, when you were in the living hall watching television, the person next to you at your office. These are the people you thank and remember for the rest of your life.
Allow me to share an experience my mom conveyed to me recently. Now my mom is an extremist when it comes to religious faith. Luckily she takes an approach of, it’s okay if you don’t have faith, just don’t ruin other people’s faith. I for one follow this carefully. Well, my mom and sis went to a devotional center recently to be involved in a religious talk of some sort. Everything went fine and they both left the center after the talk and headed home. Upon reaching home, my mom realized that her gold chain was missing. Knowing my mom or any women for that matter, she started to feel bad and was down questioning God why do you do this to me and all that drama. However, my sis taking the more practical approach, persuaded my mom to get in the car and start looking for the chain at the center, and so they did. Upon reaching the center and trying to look for the gold chain, my sis somehow found it on the grass field where the car was parked. With a happy and joyful look I presume, my sis gave the chain to my mom. The climax of the story is when my mom received the chain from my sis. Guess what, my mom thanked God. After the hard work my sis went through persuading my mom, and trust me it’s not a simple task to do so, my mom actually thanked God. I guess she did thank my sis, but she thanked God more.
The essence of the story above is thanking the people who helped you. Remember, the term God in this story would be my sister. Why? Do you need to be an old man with long white beard and an orange or white cloth covering his body to be God or claiming to be God like Swami Nityanandan? No such rule. If someone helped you when you really needed help, that someone is God to you. Be it a man, women, transgender or animal. A phrase in a recent Tamil Movie comes to my mind here. This was from the movie Dasavatharam by Kamal Hassan. Towards the end of the movie, the lead female actress and the lead male actor have this short conversation below:-
Note: The movie was taken in Tamil Language, but the below conversation is a translation in English
Lead Actress : …… But please, just don’t say that there is no God.
Lead Actor : I never did say that there is no God …. [5 seconds silence….].I just said it would be nice if there is one.
At the end of one’s life in this world, he, she or it doesn’t bring back what they possess materialistically back to the grave. They leave everything to the ones still living in this world and the one thing that matters most is the good old memories they fed you with. The memories when they came to you to lend a helping hand or even a shoulder to cry when times were difficult for you. Memories my friends last forever. God on the other hand, we would never know.
Drop me an e-mail at kuhan_83@hotmail.com if you are pissed with my article.
Sunday
Reasonable Doubts on Palm Leaf Reading
I had the pleasure of visiting the mystical land of India recently with my family. When the plan to visit India was first initiated, the first thing that struck my mind was to experience the Palm Leave Reading or better known in Tamil as ‘Naadi Josiyam’. The mystery behind this Palm Leaf reading is that the past, present and future of each and every being in this world has long been written by holy people of the past years. Now when I say holy people, there might be debates and arguments on how holy can one be and what supernatural powers they possess? However, putting all these debates and arguments aside, let’s just accept the fact or myth that these holy people do possess supernatural powers that can predict exactly what future lies for an individual. Now I know I have been against religion and so forth to the people who know me, but this is not religion. This is actually combination of science, astrology, numerology and a little rational uncertainty that messes the whole Palm Leaf reading process.
Apparently, you can actually determine the past life of an individual. Karma plays an important role here. Now if you have been a naughty person in your past life, you are going to pay for the shit you did in this life and vice versa. Just like the manmade myth of Santa Clause. The only difference is that with Santa around, you don’t get any gifts for Christmas in this life itself if you have been really naughty ;)
I went to Vaitheswarakovil (this is a place in Tamil Nadu, India) to check out my palm leaf. As I said earlier, everyone who has been born in this world has got his/her own palm leaf written. Do not get confused with the fact that this means there are about 7 billion palm leafs as there are about 7 billion people today as of 2009. That does not make sense at all as people die and babies are born every day in this world. So how does it work? I was given the explanation below.
A baby is only born based on the location of planets in our milky way which means there are only 9 planets. When a baby is born, the name, date, time and planet plays and essential part to determine the baby’s characteristics and how he/she is going to live life. Also include the horoscope (in Hindu mythology) as that plays a part as well. By determining all these factors, you can probably reduce the number of palm leafs written for each person in this world. The leaf will also reveal the exact date an individual will come to see his/her Palm Leaf. So that makes the Mathematical Probability do its part. This indirectly means one palm leaf can be shared by more than one person. Still confused? Let me give you an example.
*note that this article is not proven. It is just based on my opinion, knowledge and understanding.
A and B can share the same palm leaf if they were born at the same date and month but different year based on the exact location of planets. Obviously planets do move around the sun just like earth. So perhaps A was born when planets were in situation A and B was born also when the planets were in situation A but after all the 9 planets have completed one whole cycle going around the sun. If you are still confused, I guess you just need to experience palm leaf reading for yourself.
Now when I went to get my reading of Palm Leaf, it took about 10mins to find a leaf that suits me almost perfectly. In this process, the man reading the Leaf asked me to stop when my name is mentioned. So he read out about 20-30 leafs containing names that revolves my date of birth. (I gave only my date of birth and my left and right thumb print to them). The moment he mentioned my name, I stopped him after which he asked me to answer yes if the leaf has got correct information of my present life. That took another 5-6 leafs and eventually he found the one which was written for me so they say.
The particular leaf had my name, my parents’ name, my siblings’ name, the general job of my parents and how many sisters and brother I have. All this were absolutely spot-on. Amazed? So was I. Once we agreed that this is my leaf, he then started to tell about my past life and how it has affected my current life. Of course he also told me that the leaf will tell what you will be in the years to come and when you will die but I skipped that part thus; he only gave me a quick glimpse of it. However, the 1st doubt came when I asked him if the leaf has got my next life’s information. Astonishingly he answered ‘no’. I did not pursue that doubt as I didn’t want to engage in a debate with him.
Doubt: If a leaf can reveal my past life, how my past life influenced my present life, how I will live my present live till I die, why can’t it determine my future life? Is that how far the karma goes? 2 lifes. Even cats have got 9 lives so they say.
Apparently I did some nonsense in my previous life which is why I am paying for it now according to the leave. To avoid bad things to happen in this life, I can actually do some rituals for a period of time and this will change my future. This part of the story might have been made up by the person who read the leaf, but if it is true, then Palm Leave reading is original bull shit you see at the streets in India.
Doubt: If you can change the future, doesn’t that mean the leaf is lying? By
changing the future, I cannot get another leaf to be read because this particular leaf is mine. Written for people who were born on my birth date and month with the particular location of the planets remember.
After this part of the story, I started to lose concentrating and believe. He told me a few things about my future which I can’t go against as I have not passed the age yet in which I will post an article if it happens or not. One thing I can say is that according to the leaf, I will live a rather long time in this world. Good news, the world is not going to end on 21st December 2012 after all as predicted by the Mayans. Actually they did not predict this date; it’s just that their self-made calendars did not have any dates after the mentioned date above. Perhaps the associated person in-charge of the responsibility to create the calendar died or his hands got bite by a crocodile. I don’t know.
At the end of the session, he left the palm leaf on the table and went to grab an envelope to put in the cassette he was recording the whole process of him reading out to me the palm leaf information. When he left, I had a glimpse of the Palm Leaf. Now I have not seen a palm leaf in my life so I would not know if the palm leaf I saw is actually an original one. From what I read on the internet it probably was a palm leaf after all. When I touched the leaf, the material was more like a measuring tape used by contractors to measure lengths. When I saw the writings on the leaf, it was in Tamil. My vision may have deceived me, but I am pretty sure I could read a few a words written in that leaf
Doubt: Wasn’t it supposed to be Vatta Ezhuthu? If I could have read it, then it should be Tamil. Unless I suddenly had this light beam shun on me and mysteriously I could read Vatta Ezhuthu. Vatta Ezhuthu is an ancient Tamil language which does not appear as the Tamil alphabets we see today. Vatta Ezhuthu is the language used to write these predictions on a Palm Leaf.
Nevertheless it all ended and I was satisfied that I finally had experienced this mythical and mysterious palm leaf reading. As a whole, I was pleased on what has said about me on my past and my future life. If everything that was said to me as predicted happens, I would be very happy and would for sure propose this palm leaf reading to everyone. If only there was a palm leaf reading for every country. That would be awesome. Guess we just have to wait for the next General Election. Adious amigo!
Apparently, you can actually determine the past life of an individual. Karma plays an important role here. Now if you have been a naughty person in your past life, you are going to pay for the shit you did in this life and vice versa. Just like the manmade myth of Santa Clause. The only difference is that with Santa around, you don’t get any gifts for Christmas in this life itself if you have been really naughty ;)
I went to Vaitheswarakovil (this is a place in Tamil Nadu, India) to check out my palm leaf. As I said earlier, everyone who has been born in this world has got his/her own palm leaf written. Do not get confused with the fact that this means there are about 7 billion palm leafs as there are about 7 billion people today as of 2009. That does not make sense at all as people die and babies are born every day in this world. So how does it work? I was given the explanation below.
A baby is only born based on the location of planets in our milky way which means there are only 9 planets. When a baby is born, the name, date, time and planet plays and essential part to determine the baby’s characteristics and how he/she is going to live life. Also include the horoscope (in Hindu mythology) as that plays a part as well. By determining all these factors, you can probably reduce the number of palm leafs written for each person in this world. The leaf will also reveal the exact date an individual will come to see his/her Palm Leaf. So that makes the Mathematical Probability do its part. This indirectly means one palm leaf can be shared by more than one person. Still confused? Let me give you an example.
*note that this article is not proven. It is just based on my opinion, knowledge and understanding.
A and B can share the same palm leaf if they were born at the same date and month but different year based on the exact location of planets. Obviously planets do move around the sun just like earth. So perhaps A was born when planets were in situation A and B was born also when the planets were in situation A but after all the 9 planets have completed one whole cycle going around the sun. If you are still confused, I guess you just need to experience palm leaf reading for yourself.
Now when I went to get my reading of Palm Leaf, it took about 10mins to find a leaf that suits me almost perfectly. In this process, the man reading the Leaf asked me to stop when my name is mentioned. So he read out about 20-30 leafs containing names that revolves my date of birth. (I gave only my date of birth and my left and right thumb print to them). The moment he mentioned my name, I stopped him after which he asked me to answer yes if the leaf has got correct information of my present life. That took another 5-6 leafs and eventually he found the one which was written for me so they say.
The particular leaf had my name, my parents’ name, my siblings’ name, the general job of my parents and how many sisters and brother I have. All this were absolutely spot-on. Amazed? So was I. Once we agreed that this is my leaf, he then started to tell about my past life and how it has affected my current life. Of course he also told me that the leaf will tell what you will be in the years to come and when you will die but I skipped that part thus; he only gave me a quick glimpse of it. However, the 1st doubt came when I asked him if the leaf has got my next life’s information. Astonishingly he answered ‘no’. I did not pursue that doubt as I didn’t want to engage in a debate with him.
Doubt: If a leaf can reveal my past life, how my past life influenced my present life, how I will live my present live till I die, why can’t it determine my future life? Is that how far the karma goes? 2 lifes. Even cats have got 9 lives so they say.
Apparently I did some nonsense in my previous life which is why I am paying for it now according to the leave. To avoid bad things to happen in this life, I can actually do some rituals for a period of time and this will change my future. This part of the story might have been made up by the person who read the leaf, but if it is true, then Palm Leave reading is original bull shit you see at the streets in India.
Doubt: If you can change the future, doesn’t that mean the leaf is lying? By
changing the future, I cannot get another leaf to be read because this particular leaf is mine. Written for people who were born on my birth date and month with the particular location of the planets remember.
After this part of the story, I started to lose concentrating and believe. He told me a few things about my future which I can’t go against as I have not passed the age yet in which I will post an article if it happens or not. One thing I can say is that according to the leaf, I will live a rather long time in this world. Good news, the world is not going to end on 21st December 2012 after all as predicted by the Mayans. Actually they did not predict this date; it’s just that their self-made calendars did not have any dates after the mentioned date above. Perhaps the associated person in-charge of the responsibility to create the calendar died or his hands got bite by a crocodile. I don’t know.
At the end of the session, he left the palm leaf on the table and went to grab an envelope to put in the cassette he was recording the whole process of him reading out to me the palm leaf information. When he left, I had a glimpse of the Palm Leaf. Now I have not seen a palm leaf in my life so I would not know if the palm leaf I saw is actually an original one. From what I read on the internet it probably was a palm leaf after all. When I touched the leaf, the material was more like a measuring tape used by contractors to measure lengths. When I saw the writings on the leaf, it was in Tamil. My vision may have deceived me, but I am pretty sure I could read a few a words written in that leaf
Doubt: Wasn’t it supposed to be Vatta Ezhuthu? If I could have read it, then it should be Tamil. Unless I suddenly had this light beam shun on me and mysteriously I could read Vatta Ezhuthu. Vatta Ezhuthu is an ancient Tamil language which does not appear as the Tamil alphabets we see today. Vatta Ezhuthu is the language used to write these predictions on a Palm Leaf.
Nevertheless it all ended and I was satisfied that I finally had experienced this mythical and mysterious palm leaf reading. As a whole, I was pleased on what has said about me on my past and my future life. If everything that was said to me as predicted happens, I would be very happy and would for sure propose this palm leaf reading to everyone. If only there was a palm leaf reading for every country. That would be awesome. Guess we just have to wait for the next General Election. Adious amigo!
One Indian (1 Indian)
From time to time I try my best to educate my fellow readers and friends about the true meaning of ‘Indian’ or at least what I believe. I am not going to write a long thesis kind of article today regarding this as I believe I have mentioned the meaning of it previously. However, just to refresh our Malaysian Minds, I will re-hash and add a little bit more masala to this.
Before that, wondering what Malaysian Minds are? Well the terminology Malaysian Minds refers to the Malaysians who are prone to forget the important things that happen in our country. Some sort of amnesia. Don’t believe me? Well go through the list below and you will be amazed what your mind fails to remember.
1) MIED : Samy Vellu, Chitrakala
2) Sujatha Krishnan Murder : Vellpaari, Indrani Samy Vellu, Shaila Nair
3) Maika Holding : The thugs, the fights etc
4) MIC Power Tussle : Samy Vellu and Subramaniam
5) Death of A.Kugan, R.Gunasegaran, A.Gnapragasam,
6) 6 Indians gun-downed by Malaysian Police, suspected arm robbery : Kedah
7) V.K Linggam : Correct, correct, correct
8) Police in Perak Parliament : V.Sivakumar dragged out
9) Murder of Mongolian : Who to be blamed
And the list goes on and on…..
Let’s just put a side Malaysian Minds and high drama crap. Today is about Malaysian Indians. Most Malaysians are stereotype when it comes to defining Malaysian Indians. In fact, they are stereotype in identifying even the Malaysian Chinese. Let me give you a short historical class. Actually a geographical class as well. “Indians” in a general jargon mean people that are from the country India. You know the 2nd most homo-sapiens populated country in the world. Yes, yes!! India. Now people from India can vary from skin color to different physique. It is known that the country India owns about 300 ++ languages. So don’t you generalize us, who were born and bred in Malaysia. Our ancestors might have an Indian passport, but not us. Just because my great grandparents were born in India, that does not make me Indian. I was born in Malaysia, thus I’m a Malaysian. In the event you want a little in depth origin of mine, I am a Malaysian Indian and that’s it. However, this does not make me a person who came from India. I don’t even know how to sing the Indian National Anthem. The only national anthem I know is ‘Negaraku’.
Then why does the government call us ‘India’. You sick moron, India is a country, not a race! If you deny us of becoming a Malaysian, where else do we go? What am I talking? You can’t deny us of becoming a Malaysian. We are already Malaysians. In India, there are different ethnic people as well. There are, Tamilians, Malayalees, Telugus, Gujeratis, Punjabis etc. Each ethnic speak different languages and exercise different cultures. Some are even from different religion faith. They could be a Malayalee Chirstian, a Telugu Buddhist, or a Punjabi Muslim. Nevertheless, regardless of what race, ethnic or religious faith they are from, they are united under the one nation called India and the people are called Indians.
The country Pakistan is another example. Pakistan is a Muslim country just like Malaysia. Islam is both Pakistan’s and Malaysia’s official religion. Now if I go to Pakistan and was asked by a Pakistani what am I (referring to what countryman), I will answer Malaysian which is the correct answer. I cannot answer Indian because I am not from India. In fact if I answer Indian, I might be shot because there is rift between the Pakistanis and Indians. So you see, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know this, it’s as simple as knowing your own name. No disrespect for those who don’t know their name or perhaps were never given one.
However, sometimes when you think about it, we can actually forgive the government for generalizing us because they are not that smart. But what do you tell to the people inside the community who practices isolation of Malaysian Indians. I hate to admit this, but even I sometimes have to go in depth on identifying my origins when asked by some senior Malaysian Indian citizens. I have been asked many times this question by these people, “What are you actually?” Of course the answer goes from Malaysian to what cast I am. Sick people! It amazes me that even highly educated people ask these questions. We want to unite under one theme of Malaysia yet we are thrown questions about origins and the moment we are asked this question, we are divided already. For this, I strongly propose for all application forms by the government to scratch the Religion/Agama and Race/Kaum column. We don’t need these 2 columns; we only need one which is ‘Nationality’. Haizz! They never change.
One last example I would want to publish is Ceylonese. Now Ceylonese are the people from Sri Lanka. They are either called Ceylonese or Sri Lankan. I would quote them as Ceylonese in here. However, Ceylonese can be from different religious faith as well. They could be a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Tao, a Christian or any religion in the world and once again, they are called Ceylonese because they were born in Sri Lanka. You cannot call a Malaysian born person whose parents or grandparents are from Sri Lanka a Ceylonese. These people are to be called Malaysians as well. I know a lot of friends who were born in Malaysia and yet would not give up the self-proclaimed status of being a Ceylonese and yet, there are even more friends I know in this pool who would not even utter the word Ceylonese. Perhaps they don’t want to be divided or perhaps they are just being patriotic. I don’t know, only time and situations will tell.
Below are some examples of countries and their citizens:-
1) Malaysia - Malaysian
2) Indonesia - Indonesian
3) Australia - Australian
4) Holland - Dutch
5) Iceland - Icelandic
6) Ivory Coast - Ivorians
I know it’s difficult and almost impossible to be patriotic in this country now. But there are people who are from the beginning. My dad is one such person. To your amazement and even mine, my dad actually ties our Malaysian flag high up a pole and waves it in my house every Independence Day (31st August) without fail. I speak to him about the corrupt government we have and he replies to me saying that the very corrupt government I speak about has given me the chance to get a degree in a university, has given me the professional job I have today, has put food on my table ever since I was born, has given my dad a job till now (my dad is 63 years old) and so forth. My reply to my dad is, “.. and has made me who I am today, going all out to ousted them by all means possible.” You see, from my analysis and you don’t need to be Einstein to know this, the only pool of people who can change this is the youth.
Anyway, we as Malaysians are to be united by the country. Scrap the Indian, Chinese, Malay terminology. Scrap the race-based politics. When the most Islamic based political party can accept other religious faith people into their party (I’m talking about PAS), we as Malaysian Indians and Malaysian Chinese will have to accept that we are more Malaysians than Indians or Chinese. It’s because we, the individual claim for ourselves that we are Indians and Chinese that the government takes us for granted. Let us start now. From now on, we say that we are Malaysians. Where you from? Malaysia. What are you? Malaysian. I mean really, what are you? You numbskull, I just answered you, Malaysian!!
“Patriotism is like charity, it begins at home.” – Henry James.
Before that, wondering what Malaysian Minds are? Well the terminology Malaysian Minds refers to the Malaysians who are prone to forget the important things that happen in our country. Some sort of amnesia. Don’t believe me? Well go through the list below and you will be amazed what your mind fails to remember.
1) MIED : Samy Vellu, Chitrakala
2) Sujatha Krishnan Murder : Vellpaari, Indrani Samy Vellu, Shaila Nair
3) Maika Holding : The thugs, the fights etc
4) MIC Power Tussle : Samy Vellu and Subramaniam
5) Death of A.Kugan, R.Gunasegaran, A.Gnapragasam,
6) 6 Indians gun-downed by Malaysian Police, suspected arm robbery : Kedah
7) V.K Linggam : Correct, correct, correct
8) Police in Perak Parliament : V.Sivakumar dragged out
9) Murder of Mongolian : Who to be blamed
And the list goes on and on…..
Let’s just put a side Malaysian Minds and high drama crap. Today is about Malaysian Indians. Most Malaysians are stereotype when it comes to defining Malaysian Indians. In fact, they are stereotype in identifying even the Malaysian Chinese. Let me give you a short historical class. Actually a geographical class as well. “Indians” in a general jargon mean people that are from the country India. You know the 2nd most homo-sapiens populated country in the world. Yes, yes!! India. Now people from India can vary from skin color to different physique. It is known that the country India owns about 300 ++ languages. So don’t you generalize us, who were born and bred in Malaysia. Our ancestors might have an Indian passport, but not us. Just because my great grandparents were born in India, that does not make me Indian. I was born in Malaysia, thus I’m a Malaysian. In the event you want a little in depth origin of mine, I am a Malaysian Indian and that’s it. However, this does not make me a person who came from India. I don’t even know how to sing the Indian National Anthem. The only national anthem I know is ‘Negaraku’.
Then why does the government call us ‘India’. You sick moron, India is a country, not a race! If you deny us of becoming a Malaysian, where else do we go? What am I talking? You can’t deny us of becoming a Malaysian. We are already Malaysians. In India, there are different ethnic people as well. There are, Tamilians, Malayalees, Telugus, Gujeratis, Punjabis etc. Each ethnic speak different languages and exercise different cultures. Some are even from different religion faith. They could be a Malayalee Chirstian, a Telugu Buddhist, or a Punjabi Muslim. Nevertheless, regardless of what race, ethnic or religious faith they are from, they are united under the one nation called India and the people are called Indians.
The country Pakistan is another example. Pakistan is a Muslim country just like Malaysia. Islam is both Pakistan’s and Malaysia’s official religion. Now if I go to Pakistan and was asked by a Pakistani what am I (referring to what countryman), I will answer Malaysian which is the correct answer. I cannot answer Indian because I am not from India. In fact if I answer Indian, I might be shot because there is rift between the Pakistanis and Indians. So you see, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know this, it’s as simple as knowing your own name. No disrespect for those who don’t know their name or perhaps were never given one.
However, sometimes when you think about it, we can actually forgive the government for generalizing us because they are not that smart. But what do you tell to the people inside the community who practices isolation of Malaysian Indians. I hate to admit this, but even I sometimes have to go in depth on identifying my origins when asked by some senior Malaysian Indian citizens. I have been asked many times this question by these people, “What are you actually?” Of course the answer goes from Malaysian to what cast I am. Sick people! It amazes me that even highly educated people ask these questions. We want to unite under one theme of Malaysia yet we are thrown questions about origins and the moment we are asked this question, we are divided already. For this, I strongly propose for all application forms by the government to scratch the Religion/Agama and Race/Kaum column. We don’t need these 2 columns; we only need one which is ‘Nationality’. Haizz! They never change.
One last example I would want to publish is Ceylonese. Now Ceylonese are the people from Sri Lanka. They are either called Ceylonese or Sri Lankan. I would quote them as Ceylonese in here. However, Ceylonese can be from different religious faith as well. They could be a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Tao, a Christian or any religion in the world and once again, they are called Ceylonese because they were born in Sri Lanka. You cannot call a Malaysian born person whose parents or grandparents are from Sri Lanka a Ceylonese. These people are to be called Malaysians as well. I know a lot of friends who were born in Malaysia and yet would not give up the self-proclaimed status of being a Ceylonese and yet, there are even more friends I know in this pool who would not even utter the word Ceylonese. Perhaps they don’t want to be divided or perhaps they are just being patriotic. I don’t know, only time and situations will tell.
Below are some examples of countries and their citizens:-
1) Malaysia - Malaysian
2) Indonesia - Indonesian
3) Australia - Australian
4) Holland - Dutch
5) Iceland - Icelandic
6) Ivory Coast - Ivorians
I know it’s difficult and almost impossible to be patriotic in this country now. But there are people who are from the beginning. My dad is one such person. To your amazement and even mine, my dad actually ties our Malaysian flag high up a pole and waves it in my house every Independence Day (31st August) without fail. I speak to him about the corrupt government we have and he replies to me saying that the very corrupt government I speak about has given me the chance to get a degree in a university, has given me the professional job I have today, has put food on my table ever since I was born, has given my dad a job till now (my dad is 63 years old) and so forth. My reply to my dad is, “.. and has made me who I am today, going all out to ousted them by all means possible.” You see, from my analysis and you don’t need to be Einstein to know this, the only pool of people who can change this is the youth.
Anyway, we as Malaysians are to be united by the country. Scrap the Indian, Chinese, Malay terminology. Scrap the race-based politics. When the most Islamic based political party can accept other religious faith people into their party (I’m talking about PAS), we as Malaysian Indians and Malaysian Chinese will have to accept that we are more Malaysians than Indians or Chinese. It’s because we, the individual claim for ourselves that we are Indians and Chinese that the government takes us for granted. Let us start now. From now on, we say that we are Malaysians. Where you from? Malaysia. What are you? Malaysian. I mean really, what are you? You numbskull, I just answered you, Malaysian!!
“Patriotism is like charity, it begins at home.” – Henry James.
Thursday
“Get up, Stand Up, Stand up for your right” – Bob Marley and Wailers
Reviewing the days what Mr. Bob Marley sang in his song of the above title, one cannot fail to notice that he (Bob Marley) was actually defying the judgment behind Christianity’s’ Jesus, Heaven and Armageddon. However, that is not the purpose of my article today. I don’t want to make matters worse after Dan Brown’s bestselling novel “The DaVinci Code” if you know what I mean. Today’s article is about the rise of petrol price in Malaysia… yet again!!!
Read: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/137437
Sick, tired, disappointed, angry and frustrated. Feel free to add on in comments what else you feel about the hike in petrol price. Forget about the days when Anwar Ibrahim hiked up the petrol price when he was Finance Minister. As I recall, it was up 2 cents at that time. My memory is not capable of reviewing the last time the petrol price in Malaysia went down. But wait, has it ever gone down?? Perhaps my memory deceives me. What on earth is our government trying to prove? If you read what our beloved 1Malaysia Prime Minister commented on the rise in petrol price at the above link, you might just kick the very monitor you are looking at now. Its crap!
“Menurut perdana menteri, penyelarasan semula harga barangan tersebut akan membolehkan kerajaan mengurangkan perbelanjaannya melebihi RM750 juta untuk tahun ini”.
As I keep reading the statement above, my mind tells me to start swearing in this article. Yes, the government can reduce expenditure by 750 million ringgit. What ever happen to the PKFZ scandal? Helicopter? Submarine? Oh, and the National Palace? I was told that the Prime Minister official residence in Putrajaya actually has an underground train which links to his office in Putrajaya. What is this? The Whitehouse? I have to freaking drive to work which is 30km one-way. Full tank petrol for RON 97 for my car would now be almost RM100. Ok perhaps that’s exaggerating, but hey it’s still expensive. And we all know that the RON 95 is pure crap. Try using that crap petrol and you will be visiting the automobile service center within a month.
Why are we being burdened by our own government who is responsible to make our lives easier? Who is the government? The government is an organization voted into office by the Rakyat. The Rakyat! Is this what the Rakyat want? Our salary is not going any higher. In fact there are many companies that are reducing their staffs’ salary. Foreigners aren’t investing in our country no more. The politics is sick in our country. Petronas is the sole GLC responsible for the crude oil in Malaysia that puts its finger right up the Rakyats’ ass. You work like a dog, pay income tax, goods tax, road tax that tax and this tax to the government so that they can reduce the cost of living but what they do in return? Stick an un-identified rod back the ass. What does the Rakyat do in return? Keep that smelly ass hole as it is for evidence. DO NOT WASH OR DRY CLEAN! I’m sure its Saiful Bukhari who proposed this hike in petrol price to the government. Owh come on! Who am I kidding; Saiful was a UNITEN drop out!
Prior to GE 2008, while GE 2008 and post GE 2008. In all these 3 phases we went through, the one person’s speech that always keeps you up on your feet cheering is Anwar Ibrahim. He keeps saying this in his speeches. I recall even lately he spoke about it. “Hari ini kita tawan Putrajaya, esok harga minyak turun”. Hope to get this done very soon. I know many think that he is an two-faced politician. Call him whatever you want, but he is the best thing that can ever happen to Malaysia right now. Of course we have got RPK as well, but he fires everyone. He is like EMINEM who don’t give too shits about shits! We need people like them to put pressure. I am already pissed with the way how my home state is now (Perak). With that being said, now another blow. This time they play with my wallet. Money is something you don’t want to mess with. Now the government will ask to take the public transport. You moron, there are no public transports to or from Cyberjaya/Putrajaya.
Petrol is something we use every day. The load for utilizing petrol now is too heavy for one to bare it on his back. We have to start to get up, stand up, and stand up for your right. Bob Marley would have sung this while he was high on weed, but we don’t need weed to initialize this. We just need to spend about 10-15 minutes to go to the post office and register as a voter. Come next general election, which is scheduled end of this year or early next year, show them who is in power. My guess is the federal government has got no faith in retaining the country next GE and thus trying their level best to rob as much as they can. Remember, voting is not a right, it’s a privilege.
Read: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/137437
Sick, tired, disappointed, angry and frustrated. Feel free to add on in comments what else you feel about the hike in petrol price. Forget about the days when Anwar Ibrahim hiked up the petrol price when he was Finance Minister. As I recall, it was up 2 cents at that time. My memory is not capable of reviewing the last time the petrol price in Malaysia went down. But wait, has it ever gone down?? Perhaps my memory deceives me. What on earth is our government trying to prove? If you read what our beloved 1Malaysia Prime Minister commented on the rise in petrol price at the above link, you might just kick the very monitor you are looking at now. Its crap!
“Menurut perdana menteri, penyelarasan semula harga barangan tersebut akan membolehkan kerajaan mengurangkan perbelanjaannya melebihi RM750 juta untuk tahun ini”.
As I keep reading the statement above, my mind tells me to start swearing in this article. Yes, the government can reduce expenditure by 750 million ringgit. What ever happen to the PKFZ scandal? Helicopter? Submarine? Oh, and the National Palace? I was told that the Prime Minister official residence in Putrajaya actually has an underground train which links to his office in Putrajaya. What is this? The Whitehouse? I have to freaking drive to work which is 30km one-way. Full tank petrol for RON 97 for my car would now be almost RM100. Ok perhaps that’s exaggerating, but hey it’s still expensive. And we all know that the RON 95 is pure crap. Try using that crap petrol and you will be visiting the automobile service center within a month.
Why are we being burdened by our own government who is responsible to make our lives easier? Who is the government? The government is an organization voted into office by the Rakyat. The Rakyat! Is this what the Rakyat want? Our salary is not going any higher. In fact there are many companies that are reducing their staffs’ salary. Foreigners aren’t investing in our country no more. The politics is sick in our country. Petronas is the sole GLC responsible for the crude oil in Malaysia that puts its finger right up the Rakyats’ ass. You work like a dog, pay income tax, goods tax, road tax that tax and this tax to the government so that they can reduce the cost of living but what they do in return? Stick an un-identified rod back the ass. What does the Rakyat do in return? Keep that smelly ass hole as it is for evidence. DO NOT WASH OR DRY CLEAN! I’m sure its Saiful Bukhari who proposed this hike in petrol price to the government. Owh come on! Who am I kidding; Saiful was a UNITEN drop out!
Prior to GE 2008, while GE 2008 and post GE 2008. In all these 3 phases we went through, the one person’s speech that always keeps you up on your feet cheering is Anwar Ibrahim. He keeps saying this in his speeches. I recall even lately he spoke about it. “Hari ini kita tawan Putrajaya, esok harga minyak turun”. Hope to get this done very soon. I know many think that he is an two-faced politician. Call him whatever you want, but he is the best thing that can ever happen to Malaysia right now. Of course we have got RPK as well, but he fires everyone. He is like EMINEM who don’t give too shits about shits! We need people like them to put pressure. I am already pissed with the way how my home state is now (Perak). With that being said, now another blow. This time they play with my wallet. Money is something you don’t want to mess with. Now the government will ask to take the public transport. You moron, there are no public transports to or from Cyberjaya/Putrajaya.
Petrol is something we use every day. The load for utilizing petrol now is too heavy for one to bare it on his back. We have to start to get up, stand up, and stand up for your right. Bob Marley would have sung this while he was high on weed, but we don’t need weed to initialize this. We just need to spend about 10-15 minutes to go to the post office and register as a voter. Come next general election, which is scheduled end of this year or early next year, show them who is in power. My guess is the federal government has got no faith in retaining the country next GE and thus trying their level best to rob as much as they can. Remember, voting is not a right, it’s a privilege.
Friday
THR Raaga, Semme Hot-te, Semme Heat-te
The competition is set, the built up for it was massive, and in fact, the competition started off in a craze that people actually started getting an additional sim card and a phone just to push their luck to win the snow ball money that was rolling. This was the competition set by THR Raaga lately. How is it played? Well, just send your name and IC number to this specific number and you might get a call from THR Raaga. What you have to do when you receive the call? The moment you pick up the call, just say “THR Raaga, Semme Hot-te, Semme Heat-te” and you have a chance to run away with a minimal amount of RM200 if not mistaken. If none wins today, tomorrow the stake rises up by another 200 and it keeps going all the way… But wait……
We need to have someone to mess it up right? You know, no matter how good of a teacher you are, how interesting you class might be, how dedicated and talented you are, there will be one or two dumbass students that are going to give you a headache. These students just don’t like the others to enjoy the class and will start disturbing others. Dear teachers/lecturers/educator, I feel you. I was once there myself. It kills to see the joy of the class interrupted by 1 or 2. Well coming back to the main issue, if you notice at late, this particular competition by THR Raaga has been called off due to a complaint filed by an organization. Yes my dear friends, officially this competition is off the hook. Now you may ask which organization is so devilish in nature to do something like that. Lets’ all cheer for this organization and for their act against this competition. The organization that filed this complaint was none other than, Malaysian Hindu Sangam (MHS).
Some extracts from the complaint filed goes as below:-
First and foremost two of the words (Hot & Heat) are not tamil words but English. This itself sounds unrespectable as THR is a Tamil Broadcast.
Please note that the whole complaint letter to THR Raaga was in English and not Tamil. All right all right, you can’t be filing a complaint in Tamil; it has to be in English. That’s the International Language. Lets’ leave that aside. Hey but wait!! We, the Malaysian Indians are now so proud to have someone defend our Tamil Language. MHS is the defender of Tamil Language in Malaysia. You know what? We might just have another political party in the making. After all, you only need 4 Indians to form a political party. We recently had 2 remember, Makkal Sakthi and Human Rights Party. Well you know what, I bet I can speak and write better Tamil then most members in MHS. If I ever catch any members of this organization talking using English words when conversing in Tamil, you are in for a Tamil Language Lecture my friends. Just for the record, Hindu scriptures was written in Sanskrit and not Tamil. Tamil language came very much later. So if an organization has the word ‘Hindu’ in it, you then defend the Sanskrit not Tamil. Eat that!
….. the usage of English words as a prime introduction for a Tamil broadcast sounds unethical.
Unethical is derived from the word ethic. Ethics are basically known as moral philosophy. Moral philosophies are concepts about good and bad, right and wrong, justice and virtue etc. Who are you to educate the Malaysian Indians about what is ethical and unethical. The subject itself is very objective. Are you trying to conclude that the Malaysian Indians do not have the capabilities to think for them-selves? Are you saying we don’t have the ability to point out what is right and wrong? Get real MAN!!! We freaking contributed largely to the 2008 general elections. It’s a universal truth, proven statistics. One more thing, just to inform my fellow readers, who do you think worked closely to bring in the scandalous Nithyanadan to Malaysia??? Talk about ethics!! I rest my case.
On the other hand, “Seme” – the other words in the phrase which means “extremely….” Is expressed illusively by most of the Raaga DJs which is also culturally refutable!!
Culturally refutable? Hindu is a religion. Indian is a Nationality but has now been revolutionized to be a race by its own but only in our Boleh Land, Malaysia. How did that happen? I have no idea. We say Indian Culture and not Hindu Culture. We say Hindu rituals and not Indian rituals. MHS is Hindu and not Indian. You could be a Hindu and at the same time be a Pakistani. You could be Indian and at the same time be a Christian or a Muslim. Those people in India who are from the Muslim faith are called Indians because their nationality is Indian. Are you getting where I am getting? All right, another example. Our ruling federal government has the perception that all from the Islam faith are Malays. All Malays are Bumiputras (son of soil). WRONG!!! Firstly the Bumiputras are the Orang Asli and I know many friends who are form the Christian faith and yet an actual Bumiputra. What I’m trying to say is that one is totally different from the other. Our Malaysian perception about Indians is wrong. So, defend the Hindu religion and leave the cultural part of it to some other organization. Don’t get confuse with your own objectives. Read your organization’s mission statement and objectives if you actually have one.
Secondly, the particular words are now popular among school students but al l for the negative reasons. Primary students use them to tease each other whereas secondary school students use them cynically to attract attention from other school mates. This is regrettable as it causes much tension among teachers and student.
The words that the extract of the complaint above is referring to are “Semme Hot-te” & “Semme Heat-te”. You did not do your homework did you? These words have been popular way down the road. I was in primary school about 20 years ago and in secondary school 14 years ago. My friends and I have been using these words ever since. I can now proudly say all my friends are holding professional jobs such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, educators, consultants etc etc. These petty 4 words would not ruin students’ life and would not give a negative impact. What will give negative impacts are the building conditions of Tamil Schools. What will ruin a student’s life is the environment of the place they live. For starters, go to Kampung Taili, Kampung Santa Singh, and Spooner Road in Ipoh and get a better picture of Malaysian Indians living environment. Look at schools like Sangeetha Sabaa in Ipoh to see the conditions of a school built for Malaysian Indian young lings. These are more serious matters that need attentions. Did you know that Spooner Road does not even have roads? The whole settlement has got muddy sand roads. Go there and do something instead of filing a complaint on petty issue.
Hindu is more of a way of life. If there is an organization out there that caters for Hindus, then do what the religion teaches to do. Entertainment is largely connected with stories of Gods and Goddesses in Hinduism. Not to the extent of tuning to radio or watching ASTRO of course, but in a different approach. There are stories that relate to Lord Muruga and Avvaiyaar that is actually entertaining. Lord Muruga is one witty sarcastic God. Not that I know him in person or what, just form the holy stories. In one of the stories, he would go down to earth as a normal human boy. Note that Avvaiyar is human. She is a well learned old lady to be exact. Just to irritate Avvayar and get entertained, Lord Muruga will start to ask difficult questions to the old lady till she is unable to answer. Lord Muruga in the form of the boy will then look down toward Avvayar and start mocking her ability as a learned person. He asks, “You have deep understanding and such a learned person but yet you are unable to answer questions from a small boy like me??’ and will eventually laugh. He then changes to become Lord Muruga in his God attire. Avvayar then asks, “Why would you do such a thing to an old lady dear God?” and this is what he answered. “Just to look at your face when you realize you are not as learned as me”. Lord Muruga does this a lot in his life just for the sake of entertainment. I could go on and on but will save it for another episode. When Gods are given this freedom, can’t we also enjoy them?? So don’t come to me and talk about religion and say you are a defender of religion. I will give you such a long lecture that you will forget your religion. Best done when I’m under the influence of alcohol ;)
The one and only popular Tamil Broadcasting Radio in Malaysia which is doing extremely well have to go through this and now having to scrap their theme. I understand that a Radio Station has to cater for all regardless of age, sex, race, religion and whatever else. THR Raaga caters for the youngsters for sure. No doubts about that, but if you don’t like the way they run things, don’t like the DJs in THR Raaga, switch to Minnal FM. Don’t ruin the fans’ interest. You don’t like Pakatan Rakyat, vote for Barisan Nasional. You don’t like the movies broadcasted in HBO, switch to Star Movies. You don’t like me, don’t read my note. Why do you have to make life miserable for others? Help those who need help, don’t destruct what is already built for the good. It’s after all entertainment guys. Are we not entitled for entertainments in Malaysia? Gosh!!!
Well, as a conclusion, I would like to apologize to MHS for this if they are not to be blamed as my sources for this article could be wrong although I doubt it. This is my 2 cents opinion and it does not give any impact to others for sure as we are very well educated and can differentiate what is ethical and unethical. We don’t need external sources to take actions as we can do the empirical theory for ourselves. Kindly be informed. Thank you.
- Frustrated Raaga Listener who gets caught up in jams in the mornings and evenings -
We need to have someone to mess it up right? You know, no matter how good of a teacher you are, how interesting you class might be, how dedicated and talented you are, there will be one or two dumbass students that are going to give you a headache. These students just don’t like the others to enjoy the class and will start disturbing others. Dear teachers/lecturers/educator, I feel you. I was once there myself. It kills to see the joy of the class interrupted by 1 or 2. Well coming back to the main issue, if you notice at late, this particular competition by THR Raaga has been called off due to a complaint filed by an organization. Yes my dear friends, officially this competition is off the hook. Now you may ask which organization is so devilish in nature to do something like that. Lets’ all cheer for this organization and for their act against this competition. The organization that filed this complaint was none other than, Malaysian Hindu Sangam (MHS).
Some extracts from the complaint filed goes as below:-
First and foremost two of the words (Hot & Heat) are not tamil words but English. This itself sounds unrespectable as THR is a Tamil Broadcast.
Please note that the whole complaint letter to THR Raaga was in English and not Tamil. All right all right, you can’t be filing a complaint in Tamil; it has to be in English. That’s the International Language. Lets’ leave that aside. Hey but wait!! We, the Malaysian Indians are now so proud to have someone defend our Tamil Language. MHS is the defender of Tamil Language in Malaysia. You know what? We might just have another political party in the making. After all, you only need 4 Indians to form a political party. We recently had 2 remember, Makkal Sakthi and Human Rights Party. Well you know what, I bet I can speak and write better Tamil then most members in MHS. If I ever catch any members of this organization talking using English words when conversing in Tamil, you are in for a Tamil Language Lecture my friends. Just for the record, Hindu scriptures was written in Sanskrit and not Tamil. Tamil language came very much later. So if an organization has the word ‘Hindu’ in it, you then defend the Sanskrit not Tamil. Eat that!
….. the usage of English words as a prime introduction for a Tamil broadcast sounds unethical.
Unethical is derived from the word ethic. Ethics are basically known as moral philosophy. Moral philosophies are concepts about good and bad, right and wrong, justice and virtue etc. Who are you to educate the Malaysian Indians about what is ethical and unethical. The subject itself is very objective. Are you trying to conclude that the Malaysian Indians do not have the capabilities to think for them-selves? Are you saying we don’t have the ability to point out what is right and wrong? Get real MAN!!! We freaking contributed largely to the 2008 general elections. It’s a universal truth, proven statistics. One more thing, just to inform my fellow readers, who do you think worked closely to bring in the scandalous Nithyanadan to Malaysia??? Talk about ethics!! I rest my case.
On the other hand, “Seme” – the other words in the phrase which means “extremely….” Is expressed illusively by most of the Raaga DJs which is also culturally refutable!!
Culturally refutable? Hindu is a religion. Indian is a Nationality but has now been revolutionized to be a race by its own but only in our Boleh Land, Malaysia. How did that happen? I have no idea. We say Indian Culture and not Hindu Culture. We say Hindu rituals and not Indian rituals. MHS is Hindu and not Indian. You could be a Hindu and at the same time be a Pakistani. You could be Indian and at the same time be a Christian or a Muslim. Those people in India who are from the Muslim faith are called Indians because their nationality is Indian. Are you getting where I am getting? All right, another example. Our ruling federal government has the perception that all from the Islam faith are Malays. All Malays are Bumiputras (son of soil). WRONG!!! Firstly the Bumiputras are the Orang Asli and I know many friends who are form the Christian faith and yet an actual Bumiputra. What I’m trying to say is that one is totally different from the other. Our Malaysian perception about Indians is wrong. So, defend the Hindu religion and leave the cultural part of it to some other organization. Don’t get confuse with your own objectives. Read your organization’s mission statement and objectives if you actually have one.
Secondly, the particular words are now popular among school students but al l for the negative reasons. Primary students use them to tease each other whereas secondary school students use them cynically to attract attention from other school mates. This is regrettable as it causes much tension among teachers and student.
The words that the extract of the complaint above is referring to are “Semme Hot-te” & “Semme Heat-te”. You did not do your homework did you? These words have been popular way down the road. I was in primary school about 20 years ago and in secondary school 14 years ago. My friends and I have been using these words ever since. I can now proudly say all my friends are holding professional jobs such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, educators, consultants etc etc. These petty 4 words would not ruin students’ life and would not give a negative impact. What will give negative impacts are the building conditions of Tamil Schools. What will ruin a student’s life is the environment of the place they live. For starters, go to Kampung Taili, Kampung Santa Singh, and Spooner Road in Ipoh and get a better picture of Malaysian Indians living environment. Look at schools like Sangeetha Sabaa in Ipoh to see the conditions of a school built for Malaysian Indian young lings. These are more serious matters that need attentions. Did you know that Spooner Road does not even have roads? The whole settlement has got muddy sand roads. Go there and do something instead of filing a complaint on petty issue.
Hindu is more of a way of life. If there is an organization out there that caters for Hindus, then do what the religion teaches to do. Entertainment is largely connected with stories of Gods and Goddesses in Hinduism. Not to the extent of tuning to radio or watching ASTRO of course, but in a different approach. There are stories that relate to Lord Muruga and Avvaiyaar that is actually entertaining. Lord Muruga is one witty sarcastic God. Not that I know him in person or what, just form the holy stories. In one of the stories, he would go down to earth as a normal human boy. Note that Avvaiyar is human. She is a well learned old lady to be exact. Just to irritate Avvayar and get entertained, Lord Muruga will start to ask difficult questions to the old lady till she is unable to answer. Lord Muruga in the form of the boy will then look down toward Avvayar and start mocking her ability as a learned person. He asks, “You have deep understanding and such a learned person but yet you are unable to answer questions from a small boy like me??’ and will eventually laugh. He then changes to become Lord Muruga in his God attire. Avvayar then asks, “Why would you do such a thing to an old lady dear God?” and this is what he answered. “Just to look at your face when you realize you are not as learned as me”. Lord Muruga does this a lot in his life just for the sake of entertainment. I could go on and on but will save it for another episode. When Gods are given this freedom, can’t we also enjoy them?? So don’t come to me and talk about religion and say you are a defender of religion. I will give you such a long lecture that you will forget your religion. Best done when I’m under the influence of alcohol ;)
The one and only popular Tamil Broadcasting Radio in Malaysia which is doing extremely well have to go through this and now having to scrap their theme. I understand that a Radio Station has to cater for all regardless of age, sex, race, religion and whatever else. THR Raaga caters for the youngsters for sure. No doubts about that, but if you don’t like the way they run things, don’t like the DJs in THR Raaga, switch to Minnal FM. Don’t ruin the fans’ interest. You don’t like Pakatan Rakyat, vote for Barisan Nasional. You don’t like the movies broadcasted in HBO, switch to Star Movies. You don’t like me, don’t read my note. Why do you have to make life miserable for others? Help those who need help, don’t destruct what is already built for the good. It’s after all entertainment guys. Are we not entitled for entertainments in Malaysia? Gosh!!!
Well, as a conclusion, I would like to apologize to MHS for this if they are not to be blamed as my sources for this article could be wrong although I doubt it. This is my 2 cents opinion and it does not give any impact to others for sure as we are very well educated and can differentiate what is ethical and unethical. We don’t need external sources to take actions as we can do the empirical theory for ourselves. Kindly be informed. Thank you.
- Frustrated Raaga Listener who gets caught up in jams in the mornings and evenings -
Wednesday
The One Religion that Recognizes Transgender (Thiru nangai)
Guess which religion? That’s right my strong fanatic Hindus, It’s your religion. Hinduism recognizes the transgender or some call it Homosexuality. Some might have known this fact and just kept it towards themselves as this is a very contradicting truth about Hinduism, others might not, but that’s because most Hindus in our beloved Boleh Land, which now has a strong essence of 1 Malaysia which unites all races and gives fair opportunity to everyone regardless of their race or religion that now, we are fighting about the word ‘ALLAH’…… GOSH!!.. it’s after all a word . Dam, I did it again!! Sorry folks, I jumbled up Hinduism and Homosexuals with Politics. How did that happen?? Anyway, coming back to the topic, I was mentioning about the fact that most Hindus do not know that Hinduism actually recognizes Homosexuals because they pray for the sake of praying. They pray, because their great grandparents pray, their grandparents pray, their parents pray and now they just follow these sightless footsteps blindly and pray for themselves. Most Hindus don’t even know the hierarchy of Deities in Hinduism. I don’t blame them, because we have got hundreds of them. Most of us don’t even know our relatives and cousins, how on earth are you going to remember the deities, and their sons and daughters and uncles and aunties and their re-incarnations and the re-incarnations daughters and sons and … phewww!! Etc. I don’t mean to amuse you with regards to the Deities but, do we need that many? Oh yes we do, the more the merrier because the earth’s population is not getting any smaller. You can’t have one GOD to look over the billions. You need to segregate the tasks and that’s why we have hundreds of them. It’s like an MNC organization. God Bless Me.
Now, enough of that and lets focus on how did transgender be recognized in Hinduism. Just like other religions in the world, Hinduism also has scriptures and holy books that are to be followed by fellow Hindus. These scriptures and holy books are not rules that must be followed; it’s similar to a story book where these stories are narrated in such away that you would want to follow it. It’s more of a way of life rather then a rule of law. Of course it didn’t work on me. That because I’ve already got a messed up mind. Thus; these stories are captured by people who were present at those particular moments just like the Gospels in Christianity. Hindus have got the Mahabaratha, the Bagavath Gita, The 4 Vedas, the Sutras and so forth. The transgender part comes from one of the Vedas (Rig Veda), Kama Sutra, and a tiny part in Mahabaratha.
The Hindus in particular know very well of the Mohini. Some label Mohini as a beautiful ghost and some as a beautiful Goddess. Trash the Goddess or Ghost part of it, now we know that she was extremely beautiful and gorgeous. Even now, Hindus will not turn back if they happen to hear footsteps with the sound of anklets around the feet while walking through a dark valley. This is because stories teach us that the Mohini is so beautiful that just one glance at her, you will be astonish and literally be hypnotized by her beauty and eventually be her slave. So how and why is she actually a character in these Holy Scriptures? Well, the explanation is as below.
Arjuna is a warrior in the epic war called Battle of Kurukshetra in Mahabaratha. He is one of the 5 sons of Pandu. These 5 sons are called the 5 Pandavas where each son has got one tremendous skill in helping a war to win. Arjuna of course was the archery expert. Even before the war, Arjuna got married to Nagakanniga and they have a handsome young son by the name of Aravan. During this Kurukshetra war, Aravan is chosen as a sacrifice for the Goddess Kali. Knowing this fact that he is going to die, just like other normal human beings, he wanted to experience lust/sex. So he wanted to marry, but no women would want to marry a man who is going to be sacrificed. Women reading this should not go against this fact because as much as men would love lust so do you. So just read. Now this upset Lord Krishna comes to the picture. How did Lord Krishna come to this picture? Well he was one of the warriors helping the 5 Pandavas win the war. Why does Lord Krishna have to be so nosy about a war? I have no idea. Perhaps he is just bored having fun with women. Hindus would know that Lord Krishna is some kind of a ‘PLAYER’. Well now comes the messed up part. When Lord Krishna got upset knowing the fact that none will marry Aravan, he assumes the form of Mohini and marries him. After Aravan is sacrificed for Goddess Kali, Mohini (previously known as Lord Krishna), dresses up in a white saree, breaks her bangles and cries. If you happen to watch tamil movies, if a lady’s husband dies for whatever reason, she dresses up in white saree, breaks her bangles and cries her lungs out as well. There you go. Transgender Mohini who is actually a male, marries another male Aravan.
Now, for the story of Lord Iyappan. Iyappan is actually a Deity himself because he is a God’s child. Literally speaking that is. God’s child meaning he was born for 2 different Deities. Long story short, King Maahisha Asura was given power by the Gods to be immortal against all Men. However, this poor King was then killed by Goddess Durga as she is a female; she had no issues killing him. Who sent Goddess Durga to kill the king? Well it was the same God that gave the King immortality against Men. Thus; the King’s sister, (the king now died), Princess Maahishi got so freaking pissed off with the God that she started to pray to the Lord Bramma. (Please don’t ask me who Lord Bramma is because that will take another episode to explain. He is basically the highest in the Deity Hierarchy). When Lord Bramma saw this princess’s devotion, he then granted her immortality towards anything at all except the combined power of Lord Shiva who is the Destructor and Lord Vishnu who is the Keeper and this is where things start to get really messed up yet again. But wait, Lord Vishnu is actually Lord Krishna himself. Lord Krishna is actually the 8th re-incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Anyway, the immortal princess starts to rob and conquer the world which upsets the Gods. Lord Vishnu then turns into Mohini. Pretty confusing eh? From Vishnu to Krishna to Mohini. Well, When Lord Shiva saw Mohini, he was charmed by her beauty and his need for lust took over his thinking brain. He, in-fact knew that Mohini was Lord Vishnu/Lord Krishna, but because she was so gorgeous and irresistible, he could not hold his thoughts and lust and thus, Lord Iyappan was born. Lord Iyappan of course successfully killed the princess. End of story. That’s another part where transgender Mohini who is actually a male, gets involved with a lust seeking Lord Shiva.
The religion Hinduism recognizes this transgender as the third gender. There is male gender, female gender and the third gender. This third gender has got a little bit of there and here and they do not socialize with the male and the female community. It’s like they have their own society. They even have temples built for them in India (Lately in S’pore as well) and no male or female can pray to their Goddess. Their Goddess is called Bahuchara Mata. Goddess Bahuchara Mata is a pure woman of course. Now don’t get confused with the trangender/shemales/tranny that you see on the streets nowadays after 12 midnight that is. These people are transgender but they go through genetic operations and take female hormone enhancements. The transgender those days only cross dress and mimic the characteristics of women. There is actually an eighteen day festival for these Indian ladyboys every year around April-May in India at their temple. One of the essential parts of the festival is to break bangles and cry out loud just as the story explained above.
Well my fellow Hindu followers; have I enlighten you with the only religion that recognizes transgender. Do you now have an upper respect or disgrace for these third genders? We have male washrooms, female washrooms, do we have transgender washrooms? We have Hindu temples that ask us to line up in a 2 rows to pray to God where the right is for females and at the left for males. Do we have one additional row for the transgender? Isn’t that the same God that you all pray? Why do you isolate these transgender when the same God that you pray mooted their confidence to become one or even by birth? That’s because society in the 21st century has changed. We find these transgender disgraceful and disrespectful. We have this perception that they are not fit to be the children of God when in reality; holy Hindu Scriptures have long identified and accepted them. Now tell me, aren’t you ashamed of your religion, or did I just opened your eyes wider to accept these third genders? Either way I win because I have successfully educated the fellow Hindus. However, if you chose to claim that I am talking crap, do read the Vedas, the Sutras, Mahabaratha, the Gita and visit the sites below.
Reference:
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Homosexuality_and_Hinduism_-_Background/id/1480118
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Religious_views_on_transgender_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_homosexuality#Hinduism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahuchara_Mata
http://passionforcinema.com/navarasa-myth-meets-santosh-sivan/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Hinduism
http://www.galva108.org/festivals.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firozeshakir/3279828781/
Now, enough of that and lets focus on how did transgender be recognized in Hinduism. Just like other religions in the world, Hinduism also has scriptures and holy books that are to be followed by fellow Hindus. These scriptures and holy books are not rules that must be followed; it’s similar to a story book where these stories are narrated in such away that you would want to follow it. It’s more of a way of life rather then a rule of law. Of course it didn’t work on me. That because I’ve already got a messed up mind. Thus; these stories are captured by people who were present at those particular moments just like the Gospels in Christianity. Hindus have got the Mahabaratha, the Bagavath Gita, The 4 Vedas, the Sutras and so forth. The transgender part comes from one of the Vedas (Rig Veda), Kama Sutra, and a tiny part in Mahabaratha.
The Hindus in particular know very well of the Mohini. Some label Mohini as a beautiful ghost and some as a beautiful Goddess. Trash the Goddess or Ghost part of it, now we know that she was extremely beautiful and gorgeous. Even now, Hindus will not turn back if they happen to hear footsteps with the sound of anklets around the feet while walking through a dark valley. This is because stories teach us that the Mohini is so beautiful that just one glance at her, you will be astonish and literally be hypnotized by her beauty and eventually be her slave. So how and why is she actually a character in these Holy Scriptures? Well, the explanation is as below.
Arjuna is a warrior in the epic war called Battle of Kurukshetra in Mahabaratha. He is one of the 5 sons of Pandu. These 5 sons are called the 5 Pandavas where each son has got one tremendous skill in helping a war to win. Arjuna of course was the archery expert. Even before the war, Arjuna got married to Nagakanniga and they have a handsome young son by the name of Aravan. During this Kurukshetra war, Aravan is chosen as a sacrifice for the Goddess Kali. Knowing this fact that he is going to die, just like other normal human beings, he wanted to experience lust/sex. So he wanted to marry, but no women would want to marry a man who is going to be sacrificed. Women reading this should not go against this fact because as much as men would love lust so do you. So just read. Now this upset Lord Krishna comes to the picture. How did Lord Krishna come to this picture? Well he was one of the warriors helping the 5 Pandavas win the war. Why does Lord Krishna have to be so nosy about a war? I have no idea. Perhaps he is just bored having fun with women. Hindus would know that Lord Krishna is some kind of a ‘PLAYER’. Well now comes the messed up part. When Lord Krishna got upset knowing the fact that none will marry Aravan, he assumes the form of Mohini and marries him. After Aravan is sacrificed for Goddess Kali, Mohini (previously known as Lord Krishna), dresses up in a white saree, breaks her bangles and cries. If you happen to watch tamil movies, if a lady’s husband dies for whatever reason, she dresses up in white saree, breaks her bangles and cries her lungs out as well. There you go. Transgender Mohini who is actually a male, marries another male Aravan.
Now, for the story of Lord Iyappan. Iyappan is actually a Deity himself because he is a God’s child. Literally speaking that is. God’s child meaning he was born for 2 different Deities. Long story short, King Maahisha Asura was given power by the Gods to be immortal against all Men. However, this poor King was then killed by Goddess Durga as she is a female; she had no issues killing him. Who sent Goddess Durga to kill the king? Well it was the same God that gave the King immortality against Men. Thus; the King’s sister, (the king now died), Princess Maahishi got so freaking pissed off with the God that she started to pray to the Lord Bramma. (Please don’t ask me who Lord Bramma is because that will take another episode to explain. He is basically the highest in the Deity Hierarchy). When Lord Bramma saw this princess’s devotion, he then granted her immortality towards anything at all except the combined power of Lord Shiva who is the Destructor and Lord Vishnu who is the Keeper and this is where things start to get really messed up yet again. But wait, Lord Vishnu is actually Lord Krishna himself. Lord Krishna is actually the 8th re-incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Anyway, the immortal princess starts to rob and conquer the world which upsets the Gods. Lord Vishnu then turns into Mohini. Pretty confusing eh? From Vishnu to Krishna to Mohini. Well, When Lord Shiva saw Mohini, he was charmed by her beauty and his need for lust took over his thinking brain. He, in-fact knew that Mohini was Lord Vishnu/Lord Krishna, but because she was so gorgeous and irresistible, he could not hold his thoughts and lust and thus, Lord Iyappan was born. Lord Iyappan of course successfully killed the princess. End of story. That’s another part where transgender Mohini who is actually a male, gets involved with a lust seeking Lord Shiva.
The religion Hinduism recognizes this transgender as the third gender. There is male gender, female gender and the third gender. This third gender has got a little bit of there and here and they do not socialize with the male and the female community. It’s like they have their own society. They even have temples built for them in India (Lately in S’pore as well) and no male or female can pray to their Goddess. Their Goddess is called Bahuchara Mata. Goddess Bahuchara Mata is a pure woman of course. Now don’t get confused with the trangender/shemales/tranny that you see on the streets nowadays after 12 midnight that is. These people are transgender but they go through genetic operations and take female hormone enhancements. The transgender those days only cross dress and mimic the characteristics of women. There is actually an eighteen day festival for these Indian ladyboys every year around April-May in India at their temple. One of the essential parts of the festival is to break bangles and cry out loud just as the story explained above.
Well my fellow Hindu followers; have I enlighten you with the only religion that recognizes transgender. Do you now have an upper respect or disgrace for these third genders? We have male washrooms, female washrooms, do we have transgender washrooms? We have Hindu temples that ask us to line up in a 2 rows to pray to God where the right is for females and at the left for males. Do we have one additional row for the transgender? Isn’t that the same God that you all pray? Why do you isolate these transgender when the same God that you pray mooted their confidence to become one or even by birth? That’s because society in the 21st century has changed. We find these transgender disgraceful and disrespectful. We have this perception that they are not fit to be the children of God when in reality; holy Hindu Scriptures have long identified and accepted them. Now tell me, aren’t you ashamed of your religion, or did I just opened your eyes wider to accept these third genders? Either way I win because I have successfully educated the fellow Hindus. However, if you chose to claim that I am talking crap, do read the Vedas, the Sutras, Mahabaratha, the Gita and visit the sites below.
Reference:
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Homosexuality_and_Hinduism_-_Background/id/1480118
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Religious_views_on_transgender_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_homosexuality#Hinduism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahuchara_Mata
http://passionforcinema.com/navarasa-myth-meets-santosh-sivan/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Hinduism
http://www.galva108.org/festivals.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firozeshakir/3279828781/
Religion… Irrelevant Today
Religion… what is a religion actually? Some say its Rule that we all have to follow or else you will have to answer to God at the end of days. This Rule is also documented as well so that we don’t fall short of it. Some say it’s just a way of life with moral and ethical value, plus some irrational subject which is irrelevant in this 21st Century. I know what you guys are thinking, who the &%$@ is this guy to preach about religion. Well I am no prophet to preach and neither am I a skilled religious individual with permanent head damage (PHD) to lecture about religion. I am after all a common man with questions in his head about the fact of religion not being relevant in this 21st Century. I am going to beat around the bush and jumble up a few topics in here, so just be patient. Allow me to elaborate.
I am a non-religion believer. I find that religion and politics are the world’s 1st enemy. You think not? Check out the war in Palestine. How long has it been going on? I lost track. How about the internal religious affair in India? Hindus and the Muslims I mean. We don’t hear about it much nowadays, but it does happen. Somali Civil War motivated politically, Kosovo War motivated politically, Northern Ireland War motivated religiously rooted by Catholics and Protestants, Bosnian War motivated also by religious differences between Muslims and Catholics, East Timor War between Christians and Muslims, Kashmir War between Hindus and Muslims etc. Oh yeah... the Iraq war as well motivated politically. How could I forget that?
Let’s do a Root Cause Analysis here and I’m going to make it as simple as I can. Politically motivated war is caused by power hungry dictators who are willing to go millions of miles to get the power they have or had. Reason being, with great power comes great responsibility. Yeah right. Correction, with great power come great greed. Power = Fame = Sex = Money = Playing God = Greed and then comes Egoism = Boldness = Angry = Stupid = Downfall and you die.
I would like to touch a little bit of our local Malaysian Politics here. This is the part where I jumble up topicsJ. With the equation above, minus the downfall and die, we could clearly see the head of our largest Malaysian Indian Political Party, MIC. Ever since I got my interest in politics, I always regarded the party irrelevant to the Indians. Simple logic, why do you need a middle person to convey a message of your dissatisfaction to the person who makes the supreme decision? Don’t you know that the message you want to convey will surely be distorted along the way? Gather 5 people. The person at the utmost left start to whisper a sentence to the one beside him and do the same till it reaches the one at the utmost right. When he delivers the message, see what comes out. It’s not the original message anymore. Same applies here in politics. We don’t need a race based party to talk to the Prime Minister, we convey it directly.
Now let’s touch the religion Hinduism. You want something to happen; you go to temple, pray to God but how? You ask the Priest to do a ‘pooja’, which is conveyed in Sanskrit. Does God only understand Sanskrit? And if you want God to hear you, why do you need a Priest? Why do you need a middle person? Call Him out loud and speak to him directly. Once again, don’t you know that the message you want to convey to God would be distorted? And in this case it’s even worse because most of us don’t even know the Sanskrit Language. Who knows what the Priest is saying. You wouldn’t even know if he says, “Dear God, please don’t let me meet these morons (you) every day. They are making me sick… swaaaheee “You see where I’m getting? And Priests!!! For heaven sake, wear a T-shirt or a cloth to cover you body. You are not turning the ladies ON!!
One religion can have so many diverse teaching. In Malaysia, Hindus don’t eat beef or pork. I contradict the pork part of course as it was never stated that pork is a religious animal. Anyway, the Hindus in Indonesia eat pork, beef and even dog. It’s like chicken in Malaysia. Yes my friends, Hindus in Indonesia do eat dog and Hinduism was noted in Indonesia long before it was in Malaysia. So which teaching is right? Christians do eat meat, but they are also those who are vegetarian, why? If you are a vegetarian for health sake, then I understand, but why use religion as a tool to be vegetarian. Christians who are Catholics, Christians who are Protestants, Hindus who are Sai Baba devotee, Hindus who are Hare Rama Hare Krishna devotee, Muslims who are Shia, Muslims who are Sunni and each has got their very similar teachings but different in certain ways. This brings conflicts, wars and eventually millions die and the nation gets buried. So, religion is irrelevant in the 21st Century. It only brings deaths.
I’m not against any particular religion in this issue, what I’m trying to point out is that religion was man made. Indirectly, not perfect. Most Holy Books of most religion is man made. Man wrote these holy books with the inspiration and guidance of the prophet at that time or even God directly and so they say. Some holy books were even written and compiled long after the death of a prophet. This also means that Religion is part of history because it was written and documented in holy books a very long time ago and we are still reading it which means religion believers are actually reading and exercising the content in a holy book that was written by man a very long time ago that actually exists till now. I repeat, a very long time ago. It was written at their time probably a few thousand years back and it was perfectly fine at that time to follow because the situation and issues that arose then was handled with resolution that was coherent with that time. You can’t be using the same resolution that was used a few thousand years back for the problems or issues we face today can we? Its called ‘OUTDATED’
We all know that the History we read now was written by successful men at that time. It was written by those who were still living at that time. Those who won the war. Those who lost the war however did not survive to write any history because they are already dead before they could do so. Even if they had, it wouldn’t be published or rated as religious holy book because they lost!!! They fought for something and they lost. So we actually don’t know what the real story is to behind a religion as there is always 2 parts of a story. We have only heard the winners’ version of the story. The winners’ version could very well be the incorrect or the untrue version. So are you believers following the untrue version of religion? Ask yourself. For example, why are there are so much hype in a murder case that is brought to the courts these days? Why, because we, the people want to know what is the verdict of the court. It’s because we don’t know the whole story of the murder that took place. Only the court will decide and pronounce the verdict. However, this will only happen after the court hears both part of the story and then we accept the courts verdict, although some don’t, but that’s a different episode. When mankind now has the intelligence to hear both part of a story and then decide what is to be done, why mankind now can’t do the same when it comes to religion. Why do mankinds only believe in 1 religion? Why can’t they believe in 2 religions and accept both? Why can’t they just not freaking believe in any religion because it has no strong evidence to prove it? It is irrelevant now; it is irrelevant in this 21st century.
We believe in end of days, we believe in Armageddon, we believe that God himself is to come down to earth and cleanse it. We believe that there is going to be a ‘Great Battle’ when this happens. We believe and believe so blindly that we don’t ask questions. End of days will come, but it will come with WAR. War between men, with different religious understanding. War between men with different political views. End of days will come when the ozone layer is so thin, that the sun’s radiation will hit men directly and we all die. End of days will come, when uncontrolled diseases with high alert epidemic break out and wipe the human population. End of days will come because we don’t care about others’ perspective. We are so selfish that whatever we do, regardless if it hurts others or not, it is the right and the correct thing to do. End of days will come because we grow so egoistic that we never take an instance to put ourselves in others’ shoe and just think a moment, on how he/she feels. We made the world how is it today, and we are to break the world that we see today as well. It’s all human. We make mistakes, but you can try to amend it by just starting to pat the person next to you, smile and spread some warmth. Then again, human are also hypocrites. We say something today, and do the total opposite tomorrow. I am human as well.
I am a non-religion believer. I find that religion and politics are the world’s 1st enemy. You think not? Check out the war in Palestine. How long has it been going on? I lost track. How about the internal religious affair in India? Hindus and the Muslims I mean. We don’t hear about it much nowadays, but it does happen. Somali Civil War motivated politically, Kosovo War motivated politically, Northern Ireland War motivated religiously rooted by Catholics and Protestants, Bosnian War motivated also by religious differences between Muslims and Catholics, East Timor War between Christians and Muslims, Kashmir War between Hindus and Muslims etc. Oh yeah... the Iraq war as well motivated politically. How could I forget that?
Let’s do a Root Cause Analysis here and I’m going to make it as simple as I can. Politically motivated war is caused by power hungry dictators who are willing to go millions of miles to get the power they have or had. Reason being, with great power comes great responsibility. Yeah right. Correction, with great power come great greed. Power = Fame = Sex = Money = Playing God = Greed and then comes Egoism = Boldness = Angry = Stupid = Downfall and you die.
I would like to touch a little bit of our local Malaysian Politics here. This is the part where I jumble up topicsJ. With the equation above, minus the downfall and die, we could clearly see the head of our largest Malaysian Indian Political Party, MIC. Ever since I got my interest in politics, I always regarded the party irrelevant to the Indians. Simple logic, why do you need a middle person to convey a message of your dissatisfaction to the person who makes the supreme decision? Don’t you know that the message you want to convey will surely be distorted along the way? Gather 5 people. The person at the utmost left start to whisper a sentence to the one beside him and do the same till it reaches the one at the utmost right. When he delivers the message, see what comes out. It’s not the original message anymore. Same applies here in politics. We don’t need a race based party to talk to the Prime Minister, we convey it directly.
Now let’s touch the religion Hinduism. You want something to happen; you go to temple, pray to God but how? You ask the Priest to do a ‘pooja’, which is conveyed in Sanskrit. Does God only understand Sanskrit? And if you want God to hear you, why do you need a Priest? Why do you need a middle person? Call Him out loud and speak to him directly. Once again, don’t you know that the message you want to convey to God would be distorted? And in this case it’s even worse because most of us don’t even know the Sanskrit Language. Who knows what the Priest is saying. You wouldn’t even know if he says, “Dear God, please don’t let me meet these morons (you) every day. They are making me sick… swaaaheee “You see where I’m getting? And Priests!!! For heaven sake, wear a T-shirt or a cloth to cover you body. You are not turning the ladies ON!!
One religion can have so many diverse teaching. In Malaysia, Hindus don’t eat beef or pork. I contradict the pork part of course as it was never stated that pork is a religious animal. Anyway, the Hindus in Indonesia eat pork, beef and even dog. It’s like chicken in Malaysia. Yes my friends, Hindus in Indonesia do eat dog and Hinduism was noted in Indonesia long before it was in Malaysia. So which teaching is right? Christians do eat meat, but they are also those who are vegetarian, why? If you are a vegetarian for health sake, then I understand, but why use religion as a tool to be vegetarian. Christians who are Catholics, Christians who are Protestants, Hindus who are Sai Baba devotee, Hindus who are Hare Rama Hare Krishna devotee, Muslims who are Shia, Muslims who are Sunni and each has got their very similar teachings but different in certain ways. This brings conflicts, wars and eventually millions die and the nation gets buried. So, religion is irrelevant in the 21st Century. It only brings deaths.
I’m not against any particular religion in this issue, what I’m trying to point out is that religion was man made. Indirectly, not perfect. Most Holy Books of most religion is man made. Man wrote these holy books with the inspiration and guidance of the prophet at that time or even God directly and so they say. Some holy books were even written and compiled long after the death of a prophet. This also means that Religion is part of history because it was written and documented in holy books a very long time ago and we are still reading it which means religion believers are actually reading and exercising the content in a holy book that was written by man a very long time ago that actually exists till now. I repeat, a very long time ago. It was written at their time probably a few thousand years back and it was perfectly fine at that time to follow because the situation and issues that arose then was handled with resolution that was coherent with that time. You can’t be using the same resolution that was used a few thousand years back for the problems or issues we face today can we? Its called ‘OUTDATED’
We all know that the History we read now was written by successful men at that time. It was written by those who were still living at that time. Those who won the war. Those who lost the war however did not survive to write any history because they are already dead before they could do so. Even if they had, it wouldn’t be published or rated as religious holy book because they lost!!! They fought for something and they lost. So we actually don’t know what the real story is to behind a religion as there is always 2 parts of a story. We have only heard the winners’ version of the story. The winners’ version could very well be the incorrect or the untrue version. So are you believers following the untrue version of religion? Ask yourself. For example, why are there are so much hype in a murder case that is brought to the courts these days? Why, because we, the people want to know what is the verdict of the court. It’s because we don’t know the whole story of the murder that took place. Only the court will decide and pronounce the verdict. However, this will only happen after the court hears both part of the story and then we accept the courts verdict, although some don’t, but that’s a different episode. When mankind now has the intelligence to hear both part of a story and then decide what is to be done, why mankind now can’t do the same when it comes to religion. Why do mankinds only believe in 1 religion? Why can’t they believe in 2 religions and accept both? Why can’t they just not freaking believe in any religion because it has no strong evidence to prove it? It is irrelevant now; it is irrelevant in this 21st century.
We believe in end of days, we believe in Armageddon, we believe that God himself is to come down to earth and cleanse it. We believe that there is going to be a ‘Great Battle’ when this happens. We believe and believe so blindly that we don’t ask questions. End of days will come, but it will come with WAR. War between men, with different religious understanding. War between men with different political views. End of days will come when the ozone layer is so thin, that the sun’s radiation will hit men directly and we all die. End of days will come, when uncontrolled diseases with high alert epidemic break out and wipe the human population. End of days will come because we don’t care about others’ perspective. We are so selfish that whatever we do, regardless if it hurts others or not, it is the right and the correct thing to do. End of days will come because we grow so egoistic that we never take an instance to put ourselves in others’ shoe and just think a moment, on how he/she feels. We made the world how is it today, and we are to break the world that we see today as well. It’s all human. We make mistakes, but you can try to amend it by just starting to pat the person next to you, smile and spread some warmth. Then again, human are also hypocrites. We say something today, and do the total opposite tomorrow. I am human as well.
Sunday
Are you Confused in Religion?
Hello and vanakam __/\__ to all. Its been quite sometime now since i actually opened up my blog and checked it out. Thanx a lot for all the comments written. I’ll take every single thing that you guys and girls have commented previously as .. RUBBISH!!.. haha! just joking.. it amazes me that none have actually gone to the extreme to conflict or contradict my contents in the blog. I guess you guys go through what i go through then. Well, join the club then. Feel free to post controversial comments. Always welcome 
Religion… a very vast field of study. According to statistics, there are several main religion in this world. The most followers are the Christians [2.1 billion], followed by Islam [1.5 billion], Atheist and Freethinkers [1.1 billion] and then comes the Hindus [900 million]. Through this we all know that the current largest religion followers are the Christians, but have we noticed that the 3rd most followed religion are the freethinkers and the atheist.
Before I go further lets define the terms Atheists and Freethinkers. Atheism in simple words is not to believe in deities at all meaning there is no such thing as God and Freethinkers tend to ask questions about these religions meaning they need specific logical points to believe. No blind believing or whatsoever in their point of view.
I too on the other hand would categorize myself as freethinker but with the believe that there is a DIVINE power with no logical equation defining It. Of course I’m a Hindu by birth, but as time passes by, you tend to question these rules and regulation in religions. The 3rd largest population are the freethinkers and atheist because we want to question the guideline of the religion because there are flaws in it and because there are certain things that cannot be reached in this particular materialistic world.
So much controversy in religions, so many sub-set in main religions that people get confused which is right and which to follow. We as the sophisticated, the well-informed people in the society, will make inquiries in order to understand and to follow certain religion. Remember guys, religion is a way of life, it is there to teach us how to live life, it is a rule, not a constitution… and RULES are meant to be broken.. I’m not preaching neither am I lecturing, I’m just pointing out my views and pointing them in a blog will surely preserve them.
I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’ve not mentioned any religion in particular. This is due to the fact that we live in a multi religious country and I don’t want to get into trouble as we all know now that bloggers are under severe hit in our country recently. However, allow me to give one religion as an example. Please do not get me wrong, but certain factors need to be explained in order to understand.
Hinduism.. and i choose this particular religion due to the fact that i’m one. My name is Kuhaneson which is another name for LORD MURUGA is given to me by my parents through religious ceremony. I wrote the 1st letter of my name in Tamil on a wide silver plate with rice (nellu). So, i can courageously say that my name was chosen precisely. When i was young, i went to religious classes every Sunday in an Amman Temple back in my hometown Ipoh. I also went for religious song classes ( Theivaram Classes), Sangeetham classes and for your surprise also Natyam classes. Well my dad was kindda into these cultural and religious aspects. However, nothing lasted for me though. I quit everything as i turned older. As for what I’ve learn t in these classes, there are certain factors that are contradicting to what I’ve read recently. I was thought that Lord Bramma was the ultimate utmost powerful God. The Gita however renounces it by saying Lord Krishna is the Godhead. There are also some scholars that say Lord Krishna is Lord Bramma!! Confusing?? This is due to the fact that Lord Krishna has taken 9 re-incarnation to earth to save the people. We are of course awaiting the 10th re-incarnation, but there also scholars that say the 10th re-incarnation has already taken place. You would wonder who is it right? hehe.. lemme tell you what these scholars presume to be the 10th re-incarnation of Lord Krishna. Some say it was MAHATMA GANDHI who actually practiced his own verse of religion which is Human Institution and he claimed that all religion are connected to one another. He actually tried to get rid of rituals in Hinduism. Other scholars said that the 10th Lord Krishna was Sai Baba. No comments on Sai Baba, But ah… never mind. Trouble free approach! So how about Lord Sivan? What is the hierarchy of the Hindu deities than? Who comes 1st and so on? Who to worship to get the best out of them?
When i first joined UNITEN, sorry to say i was creating havoc with my buddies. I still remember one of my seniors who was in final year that time, called me up with a philosophical book in his hand. He told me that day that one day you will suddenly realize that you have started to read books, articles and journals without knowing why you are doing it. He took himself as an example by showing me the book in his hand. I guess I’m undergoing that particular process in life. If you have undergone that metamorphosis.. than I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, if you haven’t, just wait… it will come up.
Chiowzz!!
-September 11th 2007- Kuhan
To Vote or Not to Vote…..
Doesn’t seem long before i posted in my blog.
Yep, it was about 2 to 3 months back about religion and now with another
controversial theme in our country today, POLITICS.
To be honest.. as I have always been, I’m
very new to this focus on politics. In fact, I really hated that topic due to
the fact that I had no knowledge at all on it. However, after certain studying
and reading of newspapers, magazines and not to forget other blogs and also the
local and international news on TV, I was enthralled by politics. My parents
would always discuss this theme with my elder brother back at home in Ipoh and I would always be the listener. So I do know certain things that does happen in our country although it is not essential that what was spoken between the walls in my home are 100% accurate. I would say those are just thoughts of individuals.
A quick history, both my mother and father are government servants and have
retired now for quite sometime. My brother is in the private sector and is
doing rather well I would say. I on the other hand, am experiencing evolution
of my brain. I am a student. My younger sister is just too young to know all
this. My parents and my brother have been voting for quite sometime now and
please don’t ask me who they voted for because they don’t even reveal that to
direct family members. I actually asked them about it and they said it was
confidential. Fair enough. But hey, somehow we could conclude who is voting for
who rite. I mean my parents are retired civil servants and my brother is in
private sector… ring any bell? As for me, I’m 24 and eligible to vote in the
coming election if I register myself as a voter as soon as possible. The
question now arises here…. To vote or not to vote? Am I wise enough to vote?
Let me rephrase that, are we being exposed to news and information accurately?
Because only by recognizing the truth that is going on in our country can we
vote appropriately. Sure this question arises very often to those in my pool of
age.
I’m not here to moralize or to persuade you to vote for the ruling party or
opposition party. I’m just here point out certain things. I’m not a future
leader to tell you what to do, but since this is my blog, I have all the rights
in the world to point out my views. So for those who have contradicting vision,
do drop by comments.
Peace and harmony.. that was what our country was. Or shall I say, that was
what we intend to believe. That was what that has been taught by our teachers.
“Negara kita sungguh aman dan damai walaupun dengan berbagai jenis kaum kita
dapat hidup bersama.” BULL SHIT!! We all do discriminate other races. Whether
we do it between ourselves or our circle of close friends, or we do it
publicly, we do this. Don’t be a hypocrite by saying other wise. Haha… we are
all full of it, aren’t we. When a bunch of non-Malays see a Malay driving a
Mercedes, we quote by saying, “The government help this *&%*er to get
everything just by sitting and swaying his legs.” When a Chinese drives a
Mercedes, it is sure some underground business. When an Indian drives a
Mercedes, he is not the owner of it but just a driver for some big shot. All
this happens only that we don’t say it aloud to hinder racial situations. Well
back to the harmonious BOLEH land, as far as I know, the country was kindda
peaceful till certain things took part in recent days. Have a fair election by
BERSIH, judicial reform by the lawyers, Indian rights by Indians and so forth.
Its not wrong, but its not right either. It is not wrong lawfully, but it not
right morally. Thats what I would say. I would hate to see blood dripping in
the streets here. My advise is, if you feel that you are not treated fairly,
show your power in the coming election, but then again, who do you vote for?
How sure are you that the person you vote for next, would not do the same as
the previous one as we claim? Would you take the risk? If you did and it turned
out real bad, you need to wait for another 5 years? Anything could happen in 5
years, but if it turned out for the good of the people, BRAVO!
A recent survey published in one of our local newspaper showed that out of the
certain percentage that did not vote for the previous election, 6% actually
answered "I dunno who to vote for". I laughed my heads out when I
read that, but after a while, I realized that I was also one of the 6%.
Now comes the real fucked up part. I’m an Indian and i’m proud to be one. About
the rally recently… I did not go. And I’ve no comments about it. I’m still a
student and I don’t want to screw my life. Well my circumstances are different.
As I told you, I’m 24 and still a student. Do your conclusion or calculation or
whatsoever. So, the thing now is, if there is a candidate who is an Indian
standing for the current ruling party and another Indian from the opposition and
you yourself are an Indian. What happens?
As for now, I have not registered as a voter and even if I do, I would not know
whether I will vote in the coming election. What happens to the future of our
country lies in our hands especially the youths. The question of Indian
being marginalized.. yes and no. Some are doing really well, some are
under poverty. It is extremely difficult to satisfy all, but an effort should
be shown. A recent survey showed in our local newspaper (controlled media) says
that the poverty level of Indians is actually lower compared to the Malays. How
does this happen? Simple, some Indian are earning really well, and some are
doing real bad. Plus the both and divide by 2, u get lower percentage because
Indian population itself is low. When you do that to the Malays, who have
higher percentage in population.. the figure speaks for itself. Yet, the really
low earning Indians are a pity to see. Their living area, food they eat and all
will craft tears. The fucked up thing about Indians are that we don’t help our
own. Ah come one!! Don’t give me that look. You know it, I know it.“ Oru
tamilanne innoore tamilan thaandaa seyivaan” That’s a term we Indian have all
heard about. A translation would sound something like this. “Only an Indian will
cheer for a fall of another Indian.
Anyway, a multi racial country should stay a multi
racial country. The best place you could see and feel this scenario of multi
racial people getting together to eat in one place is Merdeka Garden hawker stalls back in my hometown Ipoh. Those who have been there, you know what I mean. The food
is great, the people are great and the scenario there speaks for itself. I will not want to loose that. There are Wan Ton Mee by the Cinese, Nasi Lemak and Burger catered by the Malay and Thosai, Idli, Puri etc by the Indians. And all races come to this place and all food prepared by all races. An amazing scenario. The First Garden Hawker stalls is another example.
What do we want exactly? Try for a better country? or stick with the current one? Maybe my opinions are not logical for some as you may argue that I’m still a student and have not been into the real world. However right you are, I’m sure you do have the thoughts that something might go wrong in the coming election. Are we ready to take this revolution? If you are ready, be a 100% true to your standings. If not.. I don’t know .. take my stand of not to vote?
I guess the phrase "Don’t ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" by President JFK really matters now. Do something for the country, don’t just sit and expect the government to pour us with benefits and advantages. I mean of course it is the government’s duty to hear the peoples’ voice and do respond to it, but come to think of it, if we were given high quota in local universities, do you really think we would have earned the name where Indians are the best lawyers
and Doctors, Indians are the better programmers and all?? I don’t think so. We
strived for place in the university. The competition among us were tensed and
that is why some of us made it. Well I dunno… Not pointing fingers to anyone
though, just positioning facts in the right order at ourselves.
Again.. to vote or not to vote… question
yourselves.
-5th Dember 2007- Kuhan
Yep, it was about 2 to 3 months back about religion and now with another
controversial theme in our country today, POLITICS.
To be honest.. as I have always been, I’m
very new to this focus on politics. In fact, I really hated that topic due to
the fact that I had no knowledge at all on it. However, after certain studying
and reading of newspapers, magazines and not to forget other blogs and also the
local and international news on TV, I was enthralled by politics. My parents
would always discuss this theme with my elder brother back at home in Ipoh and I would always be the listener. So I do know certain things that does happen in our country although it is not essential that what was spoken between the walls in my home are 100% accurate. I would say those are just thoughts of individuals.
A quick history, both my mother and father are government servants and have
retired now for quite sometime. My brother is in the private sector and is
doing rather well I would say. I on the other hand, am experiencing evolution
of my brain. I am a student. My younger sister is just too young to know all
this. My parents and my brother have been voting for quite sometime now and
please don’t ask me who they voted for because they don’t even reveal that to
direct family members. I actually asked them about it and they said it was
confidential. Fair enough. But hey, somehow we could conclude who is voting for
who rite. I mean my parents are retired civil servants and my brother is in
private sector… ring any bell? As for me, I’m 24 and eligible to vote in the
coming election if I register myself as a voter as soon as possible. The
question now arises here…. To vote or not to vote? Am I wise enough to vote?
Let me rephrase that, are we being exposed to news and information accurately?
Because only by recognizing the truth that is going on in our country can we
vote appropriately. Sure this question arises very often to those in my pool of
age.
I’m not here to moralize or to persuade you to vote for the ruling party or
opposition party. I’m just here point out certain things. I’m not a future
leader to tell you what to do, but since this is my blog, I have all the rights
in the world to point out my views. So for those who have contradicting vision,
do drop by comments.
Peace and harmony.. that was what our country was. Or shall I say, that was
what we intend to believe. That was what that has been taught by our teachers.
“Negara kita sungguh aman dan damai walaupun dengan berbagai jenis kaum kita
dapat hidup bersama.” BULL SHIT!! We all do discriminate other races. Whether
we do it between ourselves or our circle of close friends, or we do it
publicly, we do this. Don’t be a hypocrite by saying other wise. Haha… we are
all full of it, aren’t we. When a bunch of non-Malays see a Malay driving a
Mercedes, we quote by saying, “The government help this *&%*er to get
everything just by sitting and swaying his legs.” When a Chinese drives a
Mercedes, it is sure some underground business. When an Indian drives a
Mercedes, he is not the owner of it but just a driver for some big shot. All
this happens only that we don’t say it aloud to hinder racial situations. Well
back to the harmonious BOLEH land, as far as I know, the country was kindda
peaceful till certain things took part in recent days. Have a fair election by
BERSIH, judicial reform by the lawyers, Indian rights by Indians and so forth.
Its not wrong, but its not right either. It is not wrong lawfully, but it not
right morally. Thats what I would say. I would hate to see blood dripping in
the streets here. My advise is, if you feel that you are not treated fairly,
show your power in the coming election, but then again, who do you vote for?
How sure are you that the person you vote for next, would not do the same as
the previous one as we claim? Would you take the risk? If you did and it turned
out real bad, you need to wait for another 5 years? Anything could happen in 5
years, but if it turned out for the good of the people, BRAVO!
A recent survey published in one of our local newspaper showed that out of the
certain percentage that did not vote for the previous election, 6% actually
answered "I dunno who to vote for". I laughed my heads out when I
read that, but after a while, I realized that I was also one of the 6%.
Now comes the real fucked up part. I’m an Indian and i’m proud to be one. About
the rally recently… I did not go. And I’ve no comments about it. I’m still a
student and I don’t want to screw my life. Well my circumstances are different.
As I told you, I’m 24 and still a student. Do your conclusion or calculation or
whatsoever. So, the thing now is, if there is a candidate who is an Indian
standing for the current ruling party and another Indian from the opposition and
you yourself are an Indian. What happens?
As for now, I have not registered as a voter and even if I do, I would not know
whether I will vote in the coming election. What happens to the future of our
country lies in our hands especially the youths. The question of Indian
being marginalized.. yes and no. Some are doing really well, some are
under poverty. It is extremely difficult to satisfy all, but an effort should
be shown. A recent survey showed in our local newspaper (controlled media) says
that the poverty level of Indians is actually lower compared to the Malays. How
does this happen? Simple, some Indian are earning really well, and some are
doing real bad. Plus the both and divide by 2, u get lower percentage because
Indian population itself is low. When you do that to the Malays, who have
higher percentage in population.. the figure speaks for itself. Yet, the really
low earning Indians are a pity to see. Their living area, food they eat and all
will craft tears. The fucked up thing about Indians are that we don’t help our
own. Ah come one!! Don’t give me that look. You know it, I know it.“ Oru
tamilanne innoore tamilan thaandaa seyivaan” That’s a term we Indian have all
heard about. A translation would sound something like this. “Only an Indian will
cheer for a fall of another Indian.
Anyway, a multi racial country should stay a multi
racial country. The best place you could see and feel this scenario of multi
racial people getting together to eat in one place is Merdeka Garden hawker stalls back in my hometown Ipoh. Those who have been there, you know what I mean. The food
is great, the people are great and the scenario there speaks for itself. I will not want to loose that. There are Wan Ton Mee by the Cinese, Nasi Lemak and Burger catered by the Malay and Thosai, Idli, Puri etc by the Indians. And all races come to this place and all food prepared by all races. An amazing scenario. The First Garden Hawker stalls is another example.
What do we want exactly? Try for a better country? or stick with the current one? Maybe my opinions are not logical for some as you may argue that I’m still a student and have not been into the real world. However right you are, I’m sure you do have the thoughts that something might go wrong in the coming election. Are we ready to take this revolution? If you are ready, be a 100% true to your standings. If not.. I don’t know .. take my stand of not to vote?
I guess the phrase "Don’t ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" by President JFK really matters now. Do something for the country, don’t just sit and expect the government to pour us with benefits and advantages. I mean of course it is the government’s duty to hear the peoples’ voice and do respond to it, but come to think of it, if we were given high quota in local universities, do you really think we would have earned the name where Indians are the best lawyers
and Doctors, Indians are the better programmers and all?? I don’t think so. We
strived for place in the university. The competition among us were tensed and
that is why some of us made it. Well I dunno… Not pointing fingers to anyone
though, just positioning facts in the right order at ourselves.
Again.. to vote or not to vote… question
yourselves.
-5th Dember 2007- Kuhan
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