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The rainy days

December 9th, 2008 | by novinthen | uncategorized

Dec
09

The other day, after work, drenched in metformin side effects hair loss heavy rain, while riding bike,cursing the rain, I saw a blind man struggling to cross a road.I stopped and helped him. It was Jalan Ipoh,and surely he cant cross it all by himself. I asked where he was heading to,he said Batu Caves! Which is miles and miles away ! He says he prefers to walk..

I stopped cursing the rain that moment. I stopped grumbling. I’m certainly much happier for the everything I have and somethings I dont have. Maybe God has other plans for things I dont have.

God Bless Us All! And God,If you are reading my blog,please give some “extra” blessing to all the special ones! ( warga kurang upaya ).

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Rainy Days

November 24th, 2008 | by novinthen | uncategorized

Nov
24

I love all kind of weather. Cold,Hot,Humid,Rain,Shine. Any kind of weather appeals me.

My policy is , there is no such thing as “BAD” weather,just different types of weather.

But heavy rain when you are going to work on a Monday morning does spoil the mood!

Damn you rain. Why dont you come during night time only!!!

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Bloggers Buff – The Star

November 19th, 2008 | by novinthen | media

Nov
19

FORMER Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad will be the guest of honour at the bloggers conference called Bloggers Buff 2008 on Saturday at Putra World Trade Centre.

Mahathir, who is also a blogger, will be delivering the keynote address entitled Unity and Accountability in Blogging.

The event will be a conference-cum-networking event where established speakers will share their experiences.

“It is a stepping stone to get Malaysian bloggers from various genres to come together to open up their minds towards different aspects of blogging and to comment on issues that affect bloggers in the country,’’ Putera MIC national coordinator P. Kamala-nathan said.

Ready for it: (From left) Novinthen, Fernandez, Lim, Kamalanathan, Wong and Amutha unfurling the banner for the event.

GoMobile is sponsoring the conference, which is being organised by MI Fest Management. Traxx FM is the official radio station for the event.

The one-day event is endorsed by Empower Lives, All Blogs and Malaysian Indian Bloggers (MIB) and supported by Putera MIC.

The conference will be held from 9am to 7pm.

The first session will be themed Blogging Realities and deals with current issues like ethics, law, money-making and technology.

The second session, on the other hand, is targeted at young bloggers.

Kamalanathan said bloggers could choose to attend both sessions at RM60 while the morning session was priced at RM50 and the afternoon session was at RM20.

The registration form is available at the official blog for the event –www.bloggersbuff.blogspot.com.

This event is opened to about 100 Malaysian bloggers for each session on a first-come, first-served basis.

Call Tim Fernandez (012-601 1126), Felicia Wong (012-530 2682), K. Novinthen (016-557 4227) or R. Amutha (017-639 3631) for further details.

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He is not a beggar – Bangsar Story

November 17th, 2008 | by novinthen | uncategorized

Nov
17

Scene 1. Bangsar Sweet Appam Shop.

3 young and trendy Indians gals happily whacking sweet appam. ( Thenga paal appam )

A chinese lady monk approaches them with a pot, taking money in exchange of talisman. One of the girls gives RM5 to her. Doesnt take the talisman,just ask the monk to keep the money. Good hearted I would say.

Scene 2.

Same girls, happily talking tassu bussu english.

A 30′ish Indian guy. Seems to be victim of the deraded disease,Polio.His leg were in a very strange shape. Cant walk. Crawls on the dirty floor acrooss cigaratte butts and tissues papers selling ‘local’ Parker pen. He is not a beggar. He is selling pens to make a living.

When he approached the Indian girls, one of the girls simply ‘buat bodoh’. Another girl made that “ewwww’ face looking at the Indian guy. The third girl chased him away by yelling , “eh po po .. yette poo.” * Go go,go far away*.

Moral of the story?

I really dont know. It happened about a week ago in the ever famous bangsar sweet appam stall. The poor guy and the girls keep on ‘appearing’ in my mind. Why the girls didnt give him some money? A malay dude sitting near them bought him a teh tarik. I bought a pen.It works just fine.

That’s the least we could do. It is not like we are going to hell if we dont help him,or we go to heaven if help him.It is not like we are GOOD or BETTER human because we helped him. It is not like the Indian girls are devils.

It is just a human thing to do. To put a smile on another being is worth buying the teh tarik or the pen.

But why these Indian girls cant even give him at least few cents or ringgits to this guy? Why the Indian girls didnt give money or support him in any other way? He is my ‘kind’. He is the same ‘kind’ with the girls. Its not a obligation to help the same kind. But if they cant help him,why they must treat him like a piece of trash?

Were there more interested in ‘serving’ God through the lady Monk. ( Alot of Indians think,just by donating money to temple, they are good people and they will go to heaven.That is one of the reasons Temples are very rich in Malaysia ).

Or were they looking ‘down’ at that Indian guy? We , Indians are quite famous in looking down our own community.

I just don’t know… I will never ever know… I am just a confused soul like you .

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The return of Chedet!

November 10th, 2008 | by novinthen | politics

Nov
10

I have always loved Tun Dr Mahathir. Whether you guys love him or hate him, you cant deny his massive role in upbring Malaysia from “singapore’s neighbour some where in Asia” to a world renowned country.

Our lovely scandal riddled DPM , Dato Sri Najib is going to become our next Prime Minister. With Najib going to the top chair, there is a talk of RETURN of “MAHATHIRISM” to our ruling government.

I must fully agree with Malaysiakini’s article on this matter.

With Najib in the top job, flanked by another Mahathir protege Muhyiddin Yassin, who is slated to be deputy premier, and possibly Mahathir’s son Mukhriz, who is contesting the influential post of Youth wing chief, the ex-premier will again have friends in high places.

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Strictly for Tamilians

November 8th, 2008 | by novinthen | politics

Nov
08

A short interview of Director Seeman, a self acclaimed communist and follower of Che Guevara. For n00bs, Director Seeman is very popular for his highest sense of patriotism towards Tamil cause. Be it Tamil Language, Tamil Culture or Tamil Eelam, he advocates everthing related to Tamil.

I tribute this video clip to all my English speaking Tamil friends.

Let me take this chance to SLAP myself and try my level best to start blogging in Tamil.

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Sri Lankan Embassy Demonstration

November 5th, 2008 | by novinthen | politics

Nov
05


Greetings to all, updates from the Sri Lankan Embassy Demonstration earlier today.

Photos at :- http://pemudamic.org/index.php?ind=gallery&op=section_view&idev=15

More than 200 people from MIC Youth and several non-governmental organizations staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the Sri Lankan High Commission here yesterday.

They were protesting against the Sri Lankan government’s continued air and ground attacks against Sri Lankan Tamils resulting in innocent men, women and children being killed and maimed.

The demonstration which was led by MIC Youth deputy coordinator S. Murugesan and MIC Youth advisory council chairman S. Ramis. MIC Youth coordinator T. Mohan and S. Vell Paari were present to give their moral support.

All the members wore black armbands while some carried placards depicting the pictures of the affected women, children and damaged houses.

However they decided not to submit a memorandum of protest to the High Commission after their officials insisted on only allowing MIC Youth officials to present it.

Murugesan said that it was unacceptable as MIC Youth had already informed the High Commission that they were coming together to hand over the memorandum.

“It seems that the High Commission wants to divide the MIC Youth and the ngos. Their condition is unacceptable,” he told reporters later.

Earlier a High Commission official only wanted to allow two people to go into their premises to submit their memorandum but later relented to allow five of them.

The official requested for the identification cards of the five representatives including three ngo representatives which he took into the premises but later came back and said that only the MIC Youth representatives would be allowed in.

Murugesan said that they would initiate a campaign to urge Malaysians to boycott Sri Lanka products as well as the Sri Lanka airlines.

“We would be having another demonstration with a much bigger crowd in the near future. We will show our strength,” he said.

I was there , but no pics of mine because I was the camera man! ;-)

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