As seen by my ears, heard by my eyes
If you are a first-timer here, please skip. This will only make sense for my blog-readers, who followed since late last year. —————–
2008. I have to declare, 2008 has been THE most memorable year in my life yet so far. I guess everything that can happen in a year took event the past 12 months. Continue reading ‘My 2008 year.’
I was reading Malaysiakini’s report on how the forgotten Samy Vellu telling Anwar Ibrahim to state his stand on hudud laws by PAS. Yes, suddenly someone cares. 
But what caught my attention is his innocent remark ;
The MIC president also claimed that during his visit to the parliamentary seat of Kuala Terengganu recently to oversee the setting up of MIC’s operations room in preparation for the Jan 17 by-election, many had complained to him that Indian, especially Hindu religious songs and cultures, were allegedly barred from being practiced openly
Dude! Terengganu is administered by Barisan Nasional aka UMNO! Not PAS!!!! So does this mean that currently the Indians there, namely the Hindus, are being barred to practice their religion openly by the state government? This is SOLELY based on the words of Samy as reported by Mkini. Did he made a blooper? Or was he, as usual, misquoted? Or is this the real situation in KT?
Now we have a big question mark to be answered.
Penang was beautiful. Thanks for the comments left, sharing best places to go for food 
But Penang also happened to host one of the rudest hawkers and traders I have ever seen. Sorry, but its just an honest opinion. A trader at Bt Feringgi night market basically shoo-ed us away from the stall, apparently only serving the Mat-sallehs and not locals!
But the island state is extremely beautiful. We have to preserve the heritage status given by UN.
Some random pics. Happy weekend and have a great holidays!
Merry Christmas to all.
personally, it has been the dullest christmas for me today. lol
Here’s a small shoutout to the brave JERIT. You guys ( and gals) are an example to all of us.
From Jerit.org
The people power has spoken once again! With the roars from a strong crowd of 500 people, the cyclists who went on the campain “Cycling For Change”, pedaled bravely entering the grounds of the Parliment, which definitely belongs to them, “THE PEOPLE”. After almost 16 days journey through the states of Malaysia, they pedalled into Parliment to bring forward the peoples demands to the ears of their representitives!
I stil fail to understand why on earth would the police feel intimidated with the JERIT’s cyclist. After all the they are just being environmental-friendly!
As Kavilan said, cycling is bad for health. It’s a big crime to ride a cycle in Malaysia, ESPECIALLY if you are underaged!
Year end holiday! I will be at Penang island this Saturday. Hope to enjoy the beautiful places and FOOD there! Eventhough am from north, I never toured Penang fully, except to the few selected places like Little India etc. =p
Anyone wanna meet up for tea break? Or dinner? Drop me an email!
All is not well for Mr Vellu. The hidden forces of his once trusted allies are already calculating moves to ambush him. And when you say Mr Vellu, it simply refers to the party that he is helming till to date.
On Sunday, an UMNO vice-president hopeful revealed that the Prime Minister gave favourable indication that MIC-splinter party, Indian Progressive Front ( IPF ) will be accepted into the Barisan fold. For a party to be expelled or admitted into the almighty BN coalition, it needs the consent of all its’ 14-members. All this while MIC and PPP have blocked the entrance of IPF.
Anyway talking about IPF, I can’t stop shaking my head that this party actually exist till now! Seriously, its the only party in Malaysia, that despite admiting to be poor and representing the poor, managed to run a donation drive to buy superb high-end car for its demised president! Woots! And the party is now surviving mysteriously ruled by the wife of late-Tan Sri Pandithan. Duh.
On Monday, the all powerful Utusan Malaysia, that proudly ( and somewhat falsely) carries the tag line of ‘Penyebar Fikiran Rakyat’ ( did you realise that they changed from Pencetus fikiran tagline? ), carried an article under its ‘RENCANA’ section. RENCANA is the section where in-house Utusan writers sparks and spreads their agenda. The article can’t be misread, can’t be misintepreted.
Apa sebenarnya kemahuan samy vellu? ( Utusan, 15/12/08)
[...] pemimpin itu mahu menebus dosa kerana tidak berbuat apa-apa selama 29 tahun duduk di kerusi empuk Menteri?
[...] Hakikatnya, bekas Menteri Kerja Raya itu mesti ingat dan kena ingat bahawa tempoh berpuluh tahun yang beliau abaikan kerana ’sibuk’ dengan tugas-tugas menteri itulah menjadi punca keadaan masyarakat India didakwa berada pada tahap amat rendah.
If you know Utusan well, well this is how they ignite the fire. Operation Bye-bye Samy initiated. The next day, another piece of writing was published, but this time as a write-in by some reader, mysteriously a rather fast reply. The content of the article is highly arguable, very much naive in nature, full of flaws, and very-much a racially biased view. But it re-affirms the point some people are trying to bring up.
While it is still impossible for IPF to join BN ( and live longer) , but any indication from the UMNO side will only mean that they are losing patience with MIC, the party that is trying hard at the ground level to win back grassroot support. The sudden rising of outspoken MIC does not go down well with certain elements in UMNO. And at the same time, the always-quiet-MIC image doesn’t fit with the voters too.
At a time when MIC-politics are sooo damn boring, this will at least keep the fun live for a while. Let’s see what’s next.
Boologa Piranayam. That is the title. All Tamil speaking cinemagoers, rejoice! The sci-fi English blockbuster “The Day The Earth Stood Still” starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly will screen a Tamil version for the very first time in Malaysia.
Twentieth Fox Century Msia is reportedly getting 3 prints of the Hollywood movie from India. In India, certain movies are dubbed into local dialects to attract more viewers.
“We decided to show “The Day The Earth Stood Still” in Tamil language as an experiment to see the audiences’ response. The decision to show it only in Big Cinemas chains is because they are the exclusive Tamil version locations for Fox. At the moment we do not have enough manpower to have our very own Tamil version for all our movies. However, if things goes well with this one, we may have Tamil version of other titles as well next year in 2009″, Chow Will Pin, Managing Director
Where to watch? Starting from today, 17th December at these places : Big Cinemas Brem Mall, Kepong, Big Cinemas Bukit Jambul, Penang and Big Cinemas PJ State
I have watched it in English on the first day, now must find time to catch the Tamil version! Lol. Reminds me of Spiderman in Tamil.
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