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My Tweets for week ending 2012-02-06

poobalan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

Either economy has been good for chinese community or firecracker smuggling has increased under PR govt. Plenty of firecrackers last 2 wks. # RT @staronline: Tengku Adnan apologises for errors on Thaipusam banners http://t.co/XpnlaGkj # Exercising since 11.30am. IOI mall done. Now covering Sunway Pyramid. # U know its Thaipusam season, surelah Batu Caves jam. [...]

Selangor State Govt Chinese New Year Dinner on Thaipusam Eve

poobalan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:14:51 +0000

This is being compared with last year’s Parliament sitting on Deepavali eve by MIC and MIC-friendly folks. The Parliament sitting was cancelled by Cabinet after some noise were made by various groups (and DAP reps sent a memo), as it was considered a disrespectful and insensitive move. Read about it below: http://poobalan.com/blog/borninmalaysia/2011/10/11/parliament-sitting-on-deepavali-eve-issue/ http://poobalan.com/blog/borninmalaysia/2011/10/21/parliament-sitting-on-deepavali-eve-cancelled/ This time, [...]

Bumiputera Education Fund

poobalan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:28:45 +0000

This a rather old news (announced on 26th November 2011), but till date I can’t find any info about this Yayasan. Don’t ask me how to apply etc. So, RM30 million from government for this education fund, and to be supplemented by contribution from GLCs etc to the tune of RM158 million so far. Very [...]

Gerrymandering of election seats

poobalan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:16:14 +0000

I wonder what is the reply from the respective groups on this revelation by a citizen on gerrymandering of election seats. It would be good to see EC come out with some report to rebut or justify the presentation given below. Just maintaining silence means agreeing to what the presenter revealed. Its horrifying to note [...]

Apply for Skim Amanah Rakyat SARA 1Malaysia

poobalan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:48:07 +0000

First, some introduction: Skim Amanah Rakyat 1Malaysia (SARA 1Malaysia) is a special Scheme initiated by the Government of Malaysia aimed at promoting the participation of the low-income group to save and invest; apart from to assist them in managing the impact of the rising current cost of living. The Scheme will be implemented in collaboration [...]

Thina Kural latest Tamil newspaper

poobalan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:27:32 +0000

More choices for the community as this is paper number 4, in addition to Malaysia Nanban, Makkal Osai and Tamil Nesan. Anyway, I look forward for their news and articleswhich is claimed “will be for the upliftment of the lives of the Indian community in Malaysia”. A new Tamil newspaper, Thina Kural (Daily Voice), is to [...]

Sri Ramalingeswarar temple Bangsar gets approval letter after 30 years

poobalan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:24:20 +0000

Good news for the temple. Through their perseverance, they managed to get their land approved, even though it took 30 years. AFTER 30 years of waiting, the Arulmigu Sri Ramalingeswarar temple in Jalan Maarof, Bangsar finally got their approval letter last Sunday. The 100-year-old temple, which has been operating without proper documentation, had approached Federal [...]

More Tamil Studies Depts at Universities

poobalan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:18:05 +0000

While its a good news (even though “policy level” can mean 1001 things), one should also look at the job opportunities for the graduates. Hopefully more employment can be created beyond the usual TV, radio, newspaper and entertainment industries. HUMAN Resources Minister and MIC deputy president Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the Higher Education Ministry has [...]

KGNS membership transfer price by race

poobalan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:47:51 +0000

update: Some more news, this time form FMT: … According to a source who took the photo, the membership price list came from a copy of KGNS’s official newsletter, Berita Subang, printed for the October to December 2011 period. The source told FMT that he found it very “peculiar” that KGNS would practice racial policies [...]

Tamil Movies 2011

poobalan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:28 +0000

2011 was not a productive year in terms of number of movies I managed to catch either on cinema or TV. Hectic schedule forced me to skip many movies, thus this review would be limited. As usual, a plethora of Tamil movies were released in 2011 (ABOUT 135!), culminating in Mambatiyyan (Prashanth), Osthe (Simbu) and [...]