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(Can the 3 be united for Malaysia sake? Poster source: Mob’s Crib)
Well, well, it looks like it is going to be a long night for fellow Malaysians.
Read More »Politics 101: Pakatan Rakyat: DAP-PKR-PAS “mudah lupa”!
On the day we scheduled to vote for the next government, it started with re-watching PKR‘s Raja Petra talk in Brickfields on my laptop whilst my dad & mom were having their breakfast. We planned to leave the house at about 9 in the morning, vote, and come back to relax. My parents’ voting day went well – it did not go so well for me.
The closing posts for 2007 would not be complete without a post on one of the main event of this year – Hindraf rally protests in the streets of the Malaysian capital city. Image source: Malaysiakini
Hindraf, an Indian NGO is proposing to do a protest rally to hand over a petition to the British High Commission end of this week. You would have also heard (likely in disbelief) of the legal suit against the British Government for a cool USD4 trillion – that would have made all Indians in Malaysia millionaires. Image source: Malaysiakini
Probably one of the greatest Tamil movie lyricists, the poet Kaviarasu Kannadasan (Kaviarasu meaning King of Poets and Kannadasan meaning Servant of Lord Krishna) is no stranger to the masses when you listen to the old songs from MGR & Sivaji acted movies. It is said that he wrote lyrics for more than 5,000 songs and also wrote poems and books. Image source: Chennai Online Read More »History 101: In Memory, Great Poet Kaviarasu Kannadasan – 1927 – 1981
(circa 1850: Five people from the Malay Archipelago; from left to right, two Dayaks or Dyaks from Borneo (a Saghai Dayak and a Loondoo Dayak), and three natives of Java (a priest, a lady and a gentleman). Original Artwork: Engraving by R Anderson after a drawing by A Huttula. Image source: Pinterest)
This World War 2 plaque in the centre of the Morib beach states the 46th Indian Beach Group landed in Morib on 9 Sept 1945 and handled 42,651 personnel, 3,968 vehicles and 11,224 tons of stores. It was reported that it took four days them to reach Kuala Lumpur as there was fierce resistance from the Japanese Army.
I was watching an old Amitabh Bachchan movie over TV and thought of the differences Hindi movies – then and now has been over the years. Image source: First Post