Personal Interest, General Issues and News
By the way, today is the first time since the lock down started & the 2nd wave from Tablighi Jamaat’s gathering in Malaysia, the active cases have started to reduce. Kudos to the highly dedicated medical team, all the front liners and ordinary Malaysians who despite the many hardships had observed the stay at home order.… [Click to read the rest] “Outbreak 2020: Possible Virus Surge in Pakistan from Tablighi Jamaat Gathering”
The many ways of communicating using our hands – the Western hand shake and the Indians of putting both palms together and saying vanakkam or namaste. The Japanese would just do without any hands by bowing in deep respect. Image source: Wikipedia
Unfortunately since a hand shake needs the touching of the hands, this unfortunately facilitates the human to human virus transmission.… [Click to read the rest] “Outbreak 2020: Also Use Vanakkam Instead of Hand Shake”
Back in the younger days, the 2 biggest heroes for me and my siblings were Kamalahasan and Rajinikanth but for our parents, it was MGR and Sivaji Ganesan. Image Source: http://digitalimagemakerworld.com/
… [Click to read the rest] “Sri Lankan Manikkam: MGR Alive & Kicking!”By now, they say when the election is around the corner, expect some form of lunatic acts and strange things will happen. The sky will turn sweet pink and you will see politicians coming down from their place in the sky down to earth and share the way of life and hardships of the people.… [Click to read the rest] “Lunatic Acts Before the General Elections – Part 1”
More interesting things especially on democracy and Malaysia are taking place on social media and in late nights when I do have the time, I usually spent it on surfing through Facebook instead of writing a post for the blog. Another is that I have gone “back to school” and I managed to get one of the certificate that I targeted to get this year.… [Click to read the rest] “Dr M: Democracy in Malaysia is Dead”
Foremost, rest in peace to former South African President Nelson Mandela who passed away last Thursday. A real statesman like him will be greatly missed.
(Here’s one fine example of “instead of giving priority to the minorities, just concentrate on the majority”, courtesy of the Taliban – never forget one’s history even if it took place thousand years ago when “ketuanan” thing was almost non-existence and traders, preachers and intellectuals from every great civilizations made this country their home and trading port.… [Click to read the rest] “Quotable Quotes 101: Not Paying Taxes”
(I have done up Part 3 of the trip to Oriental Paris but that post on India’s Got Talent has to wait for this classic – it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in Youtube)
… [Click to read the rest] “India’s Got Talent 101: Almost Getting Killed Is Not a Talent!”Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally – Abraham Lincoln
(When one talk about slavery, one would think of the era of Kunta Kinte but reality, unfortunately, is far from this in the modern world. The worst is in Asia.… [Click to read the rest] “Crime Index 2010: Modern Day Slavery”
Oh, MIC still alive, ah?
(It is better for us if we are more united as a country instead as a specific race, controlled by political party. Image source: http://www.archives.gov)
Frankly I have not been following up on MIC lately – after all, it is nothing but a “gone with the wind”, one man show political party.… [Click to read the rest] “United for what?”
(One of the things to do in Chennai is to visit an ancient temple and we indeed managed to get this done. The main entrance to the 300 plus years old temple – Click for higher resolution photo here)
A trip to India will not be complete without a trip to the majestic and historical temples, right?… [Click to read the rest] “Trip to Amazing Chennai 2010: Part 7 – Visit To A Historical Temple”