It has been a few days since Deepavali’s over, but still, some of us could not let go of the celebration mood. Our elders might say that for us, Deepavali is celebrated for about 1 week, whilst some might drag it to 1 month. Anyway, that does not matter for now. What matters is that a few days ago, this funny-cum-weird 3GP clip, which was once circulated a few years back if I’m not mistaken, is without any doubt, being circulated again. In addition to that, the video was purportedly shot in 2006, somewhere in Shah Alam.

The video shows how retarded some of our “Indian uncles” could be. When I’m talking about Indian uncles, I’m not talking about those in the range of 30 ~ 40. In fact, this uncle in the video should definitely be more than 45 and yet he dares himself to do the nastiest thing one can do, in public! I won’t talk much about the ‘aunty’ in the video because, well, you know, I’m completely speechless about it.

When kids do the nastiest thing, those aunties and uncles would go berserk about it. But, when those aunties and uncles do the nastiest thing, we, the M1 bloggers, would be very proud to blog about it.

To sum things up, let it be a mystery of ‘what they did’ in that video for those who never watched it before.

He appeared in a weird-cum-funny Castrol ad previously and once again, he is back with another advertisement (flash-based), but this time for an insurance company. Both the advertisement seems to be insulting Rajinikanth in a way that even his fans won’t be aware of but not us, at least me in this case. No matter how hard our hero breaks the law of physics, he could never ever compete with a person named “Vijayakanth” who works in the same industry as he does.

Anyway, what’s the point of putting Rajinikanth in this ad? So that the Indians would go for the product just because “Rajinikanth” has said so? Hmmmm. You may view the flash-based ad by clicking HERE (audio in Tamil, subtitles in English).
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I was browsing through some of the video comments in Youtube for an old Petronas Deepavali commercial when I stumbled upon a person commenting “its called Deepavali its not diwali whatever that is” all of a sudden. A few follow-up replies were posted for his/her comment as what you could see below:

According to one of the commentator, Diwali, which is the northern version of our Deepavali is celebrated for a different reason where as Deepavali, the southern version, is celebrated for another reason. In that case, since we are in Malaysia and the ’southern Indians’ (inclusive of Malayalees) are what we-call-as majority amongst the Indians over here, then are we really accustomed to mix and match both the words ‘Deepavali’ and ‘Diwali’ when greeting others? In other words, do we, the Malaysian Indians, really care on the sensitivity of the usage of the words ‘Diwali’ and ‘Deepavali’?
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Every year, Petronas would never fail to impress us with their overwhelming Deepavali commercial. This is because their commercials would be very different from others, as it would be very down-to-earth, makes us to ponder on the deep meaning of the message as well as instilling a sense of awe; in which it gives a slap on our face each year, to ensure that we are moving on the right track, whilst doing the right thing.

Gone were the days where there would be a classical Indian dancer dancing for the infamous Dunhill Deepavali commercial. Gone were the days when Jack Nadarajah’s Deepavali show would be a must-see for every Indians during Deepavali. Ever since ASTRO engulfed the whole Malaysian Indian community, “Tamil movies” and “Tamil Celebrity Interviews” plays a major role in determining a Deepavali week to be an indeed, “Deepavali week”.

Putting that aside, let’s have a look at the 2008 Petronas Deepavali commercial:
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While I was thinking on what to blog next, I received an email from someone by the name of John. In his email, he sent me a link to a Youtube video clip which happens to be an audio-only video clip. He stated there “malaysian indian gals singing dirty“. The last two words did not attracted me that much compared to the first three words. Dear ladies, I have no ire on you girls, please don’t get me wrong, but at the same time, I just love to pin-point those corrupted ones.

As for this audio, I could barely recall listening to this ’song’ some time ago, the same Indian girl(s) singing dirty but the only thing that I could not recall is the ’song’ that she/they sang. Anyway, this girl definitely has the singing talent as well as the voice but she seriously needs someone to remind her that she’s misusing her talent in the improper way.

While we could see our people fighting for our own rights, these kind of teenagers are still prevalent in our society. Sigh…

To all of you, listen to it but make sure no one is behind you. Or to be on the safer side, you might wanna consider using your “headphone” or “earphone”.

The Hindu Rights Actions Force (Hindraf) has been declared an illegal organisation from today, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.

In a statement issued here, Syed Hamid said the decision to declare Hindraf as an illegal organisation was made following the ministry being satisfied with facts and evidence that showed Hindraf had and was being used for unlawful purposes and posed a threat to public order and morality.

“Based on powers vested under Section 5(1) of the Societies Act, Hindraf from today is declared an illegal organisation,” he said.

Read more HERE

 
I’m confused here. How the hell our beloved government could simply ban an unregistered organisation? The scenario seems to be like this. Let’s say my friends together with myself formed a group called “M1 group” and let’s assume that it has never been registered. Whenever we perform some of our activities, the police would interfere and spray water cannons towards us and threaten to arrest each of us. So, if the government did not liked our group and they wanna “ban” it simply because they do not like our activities, how would that affect us, besides hindering us from registering our group? Even after our group “has been banned” and we are continuing to do our activities as usual, then WHAT’S THE BLOODY DIFFERENCE in it “getting banned” and being “unregistered”?

Here’s another scenario. Let’s say there is a guy named Ramu and he doesn’t have any birth certificate nor an identification card with him. The government did not like him to be named “Ramu” and deemed the name to be illegal. So, if I greeted him like “Dei Ramu”, would I be arrested?

Back to our story. Since HINDRAF has been ‘declared illegal’, so what are the consequences out of this? Will the police arrest anyone who goes by the name of HINDRAF? Would those JPJ/traffic police stop those vehicles with “Valge HINDRAF” stickers and create a ruckus in the middle of the road? Will the police simply go around and arrest those individuals who wore those “Valge HINDRAF” T-shirts? What happens to all the high-profiled HINDRAF bloggers then? Would they be arrested for supporting an ‘illegal organisation’? Could someone enlighten me with all these?
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As Deepavali is just around the corner, I decided to spur the festive mood by bringing up this post. You see, every year when Deepavali is nearing, I would always wonder to myself what Deepavali means for us after all. Enough of all those “Krishna defeated Narakasura” (or whatever his name is) stories. In fact, there are variety of stories on why Deepavali is being celebrated.

Now, let us put that aside. As you all may know, I love to observe and pen down my observation, and this time, I’m going to pen down what I think about Deepavali and how the Malaysian Indians are making use of it. Here we go:

1) For a 16 years old macha and a 16 years old machi, these kids would spend the whole previous week of Deepavali by searching for “tamil depavali frenster comments” (notice the grammar mistakes) and spend rest of their day on a single mouse click on the “Add Comment” link, CTRL+C and CTRL+V.

2) For some teenage Indian chicks, they would love to beautify their Friendster shoutout to make them as unique as possible. But too bad, whenever they come up with a shoutout, the very same shoutout would have been posted by 50 other Indian girls. The most common one would be: “hApPiE dIWAL! t0 aLL!! LuV yA! *HuGZ n’ kiSSeS”. I wonder what Deepavali has to do with loving everyone, hugging them and giving them kisses.

3) For those teenage Indian boys, yeah, this is their chance! They would go through some of the random girls Friendster profiles’ and send them a message. The same message that would be sent to 50 other random Indian girls. “Hey, I came across ur profile and JUST wanted to wish you happy deepavali”. Guys, this technique used to work previously but now, it has became a lame technique. If you really wanted to JUST wish those girls, you might wanna consider JUST wishing those guys as well.
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