Reason for the downtime

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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Legendary Tamil actor M.N. Nambiar passed away

Nambiar

 

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.

S.Krishnamoorthy needs our help

Krishnamoorthy

 

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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Why some kids should stick with Friendster instead of Facebook?

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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Why Malaysian Indians hate the word “Keling”?

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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VIDEOS: Tamil film stars fasting for Lankan Tamils

Tamil

Nearly most of the Tamil film stars gathered together for a day-long fast to express solidarity towards the Lankan Tamils on 1st November 2008. Some of the notable actors include Rajinikanth, Kamal Hassan, Vijay, Ajith, Prasanth, Dhanush, Simbhu, Sivakumar, Mansoor Ali Khan and a lot more. The full video of this event is available at Youtube, broken into multiple parts and I have embedded the first two parts of the video below. God save the queen Lankan Tamils!


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Tamil bad words - How ‘bad’ are they?

Badword

Dick, boobs and HAIR - Translate that into Tamil and you would have what we would call as some of our “Tamil bad words”. In fact, I believe, only in Tamil language is where you would come across our hair, or better known as ‘maire’, as a bad word! How on earth did that happened?

Anyway, nowadays schoolkids tend to remember more and more bad words compared to what they have learnt in school. Even our chinese and malay counterparts could easily utter some of “our” bad words, and we could do the same too by uttering their “bad words”. Bad words are still bad regardless in what language they are uttered.

Coming to our Indian society, the fact remains that even Indian girls nowadays would definitely know at least one of the major bad words that are available. Take an example of a ‘Kuthu vilakku’. She is a kuthu vilakku at a first glimpse but the moment you went to her and tell to her that she’s an attention whore (In Tamil of course), do expect her to retaliate using her own words. Once again, not all kuthu vilakkus would do that as a tiny little percentage would get offended on what I would have said previously.

Hopping to Friendster, when it comes to the “Who I want to meet” section, these wordings are very very common:

1) fU*K thOSe BacKSTAbberS
2) fU*K thOs3 b!tcHeS

Come on lar, who loves backstabbers anyway? The above two wordings are what I would usually encounter in some of the Indian girls’ profiles (Yes, guys are the same too). What they are trying to say in layman’s term is that they do not like backstabbers and bitches to add them as their friend. Saying that in plain English sounds a lot better compared to what some Indians girls would usually write, such as above. Now, I dare them to write the same thing in TAMIL. Could they?

1) Ol* yedukurran those backstabbers
2) Ol* yedukurran those thev*diyas

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Bodohpedia

Bodohpedia is a far relative of Uncyclopedia as well as the parody version of Wikipedia. If you are still blur about the previous statement, well, it is a platform where you could vandalise each and every possible shit in this world, or in layman’s terms, create your own stupid, funny and weird “as-if-Wikipedia” entries and let it go public in Bodohpedia, without expecting it to be “corrected” by others.

As you can see, the layout and the navigations are the exact copycat of Wikipedia. In fact, the motive of it is the same as Wikipedia’s, which is to provide information to all the cyber-humanbeings. But, the only thing that differentiates between this Bodohpedia and Wikipedia is obviously, the name itself as well as the so-called rules and regulations. In Wikipedia, you have certain guidelines to follow whilst in Bodohpedia, you are free to do whatever shit you want.

A quick check by me about “Hindu” in Bodohpedia gives me this:

Bodohpedia

Bodohpedia

Offensive? Yes! Stupid? Yes! But, we could do nothing about it! If you go and edit it again, rest assured that in a few days or even in a few months time, another person would edit it to his likings and the rest would tag along behind. For your information, this Bodohpedia is the Malay version of the universal Uncyclopedia.
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The ‘vandalised’ Vinayagar

Vinayagar

First and foremost, thanks to Navin for emailing me about this. Dear all, if you look carefully, the picture above seems to be somewhat similar to one of our gods or to be precise, our respectful Lord Vinayagar. Some of you might even know him by his alternative names, such as Vigneshwara and Ganesha to name a few.

The picture above depicts our god sitting peacefully while looking at us. But, at a second glimpse, you would definitely notice that something is terribly wrong with him. Well, maybe he’s not, but the picture is! Our god here is depicted as wearing a headphone, holding some CDs, a laser disc, an Ipod and a pot of I-don’t-know-what-the-hell-is-that, in each of his hands. Now, here we have our very own high-tech Vinayagar, posing for a DJ tracks compilation album which originated from an unknown country a year ago.
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