THOUSAND APOLOGIES for those who tried numerous times entering this blog for the past few days. As you can see, my host had a severe hardware failure involving certain servers in their datacentre in which my blog was affected as well. According to them, they had transferred all the affected serves to a new datacentre in Cyberjaya and told us that we could ‘expect smooth and stable service henceforth’. As a compensation due to the impromptu downtime, they are going to extend my hosting subscription for another 3 months free-of-charge.

If things aren’t going smooth as they promised, I might consider hopping to another host. Gosh, how nice it would be if this blog is hosted in Google-owned-Blogger! No hassle, no downtime, and no fees!

Once again, sorry for the inconvenience makkals.
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Veteran actor M.N Nambiar (89), passed away today (November 19) afternoon at his residence in Chennai. Nambiar was ailing for quite some time, and was hospitalized some days back.

 
Most of the current youngsters would not know much about him but one thing for sure, he is a damn good villain! And not forgetting, one of the best person to be mimicked by fellow mimicry artists! May his soul rest in peace.

Malaysia Nanban highlighted the plight of S. Krishnamurthy, 19, who has been unable to secure a permanent job and is currently living in poverty with his family.

Krishnamurthy, who lives in Port Klang, became well known after helping save 19 passengers from a ferry fire last year. He said that although many people had promised to help him get a job, nothing had materialised so far.

Source: TheStar Online

 
It is sickening to see a person who risked his life to save 19 others during a ferry tragedy a few years back was cheered by many for his bravery act at that time and as time goes by, he became the forgotten hero.

You do a ‘teh tarik experiment’ in space, and you would be remembered forever! You bring back a silver medal after winning in the Olympics, and you would be remembered forever! You save 19 lives without even thinking about your own life, and you would definitely be forgotten, let alone the one who did it was an Indian. Welcome to Malaysia everyone.

Early this year, The Star wrote: “For the 19-year-old, it’s all about surviving as he is helping his family pay off debts for their house in Pandamaran, Klang. Krishnamoorthy dropped out of school when he was 12 and was forced to work, as his father was involved in a road accident and could no longer support the family. His mother meanwhile had to stop work recently because of asthma.” Looking at his situation, our hero definitely needs our help guys!
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I bet some of the kiddie machis and kiddie machans would have felt like losing a part of their life when Friendster was down for the past 2 days, up again for one day and now, it is down again. In fact, Friendster is very well-known for “going down for maintenance” frequently and only god knows what shit they are doing backdoor during that maintenance time. Anyway, this post is not about ranting on “Friendster is downnn…. OMG!!“, but would rather focus on why some of our kiddie machis and kiddie machans should stick with Friendster and not hopping to Facebook, the new revolution of world wide web.
 

1) Only in Friendster is where you could upload tons of pictures of Asin, Trisha, Vijay and Ajith, and self-proclaiming that they are “you”. You do this in Facebook and do expect zero attention as no one would bother to “layan” you.

2) Some kids are used to go around in Friendster and adding people just for the sake of expanding their friends empire. In Facebook, do prepare yourselves to answer some you-hope-that-you-would-never-encounter-in-Friendster questions, such as “Do I know you?” or “Why you are adding me?“.

3) Most of the chicks in Facebook are some-what high class and you can’t expect them to give our their mobile numbers just with a couple of messages. “Hi da, you look hot. Can I have your hp no.?“. The previous example message would never ever work in Facebook, so stop wasting your time my dear kiddie machans. Get a life will ya?

4) In most cases, you can’t view a person’s profile without adding them (Facebook). Not even a full view of their primary picture. At least in Friendster, you would be happy to see their primary picture in a larger view (If and only if they are not some stupid celebrity pictures).

5) Goodbye to all those Princess Nisha, Nisha Cutie, Hot Nisha, Nisha chixxx, E-M-O Nisha and even nIsHa. Either you put your real name or GTFO!

6) You can’t simply change your name in Facebook as you need one of the Facebook staff’s approval in order for the name change to take effect. Once again, either you wait or if you can’t, GTFO!

7) There are too many features in Facebook compared to Friendster. It would take ages for kiddies to get used to them and even understand what they do and etc. In the mean time, Friendster would be a good choice for them to stick with.

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Keling is a legendary word for us, the Malaysian Indians. You may ask the reason on why I said so. Well, the word is filled with so much of sarcasm in such a way that Indians nowadays won’t even know even a tiny little history about that word but instead, they would know it as a ‘derogatory’ word. Or an ‘offensive’ word some might say.

How it came to be offensive? Why we should be offended about it?

Doing an online research about the word made me to dig a lot of articles which dates back to the Kalinga story and all those History craps. I am not that interested in talking about histories nor am I a geek at it, but from what I could perceive, the word “Keling” was used to refer to our ancestors who came all the way long from India to Malaysia those days.

From being a ‘reference’ word those days to becoming a ‘derogatory’ word nowadays. How on earth did that happened? Nearly most of the Malaysians would know about this “Keling” word and how offensive it could be when it is being uttered to the Indians. But, the moment one tourist approaches an Indian kid and asks him why he is getting offended with the word, then we could expect the kid to start blabbering!

My question is, is there a need for us to be offended with this infamous “Keling” word? As you all may know, natans in schools love to utter this word to the Indian students, with “Puk*mak ko keling!” being one of the most famous stupid reason to catalyse a fight between those natans and Indians. And the reason? Definitely the Indians would say that they became ‘angry’ due to the word “Keling” but at that moment, the word “Puk*mak” won’t be visible to them! I would be much glad if the reason given was ”Puk*mak” since it is a generalised term regardless of race. Don’t you guys think that the more we are being sensitive, the more the ‘exclusiveness’ of the “Keling” word would be there and the more the Indians would get offended? Anyway, last but not least:
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