Season Greetings and Thank You...

The year is almost here to end and with that I like to fulfill one of my 2011 resolution in thanking all my readers.

      "THANK YOU VERY MUCH, HAPPY NEW 2012 YEAR AND GOD BLESS".

All the same I would like to thank my "follow-my-blog" readers, especially from America, Taiwan, England, Australia, India, The Philippines, Belgium, Singapore, Germany and Asia Pacific....and too not forgetting all Malaysians who have trodden my path... Thank You again.

Your readership is what makes me to write and share.

Gunner Henry ...

Henry back at Emirates for 2 months on a loan stint.

Well Wenger!..its too late.

Won't do any good.

Our Dailies...

Do you read our dailies? I bet you do. Me too. Reading is a good habit. It spurs up your mind and cajoles up your 'mind' soul. All the same do you listen to the news on our radio or telly? I bet you do too. Me too.

But, how much of those you hear are true? Are our dailies and electronic media reporting our news truthfully?

You ever realise why the news in this country always talks high and mighty of the ruling government and paints 'werewolf' of the opposition or anyone against the government?

I remember, for a little over 22 years there was a never a single bad remark ever written or aired of the 4th Premier of Malaysia. I mean are they saying this man did nothing wrong for 22 years? Wow! And for 22 years many a Malaysian moron revered his as God.

This is the sheer lunacy of the press in Malaysia and is more akin a doggone panache.

News in any form, hard or digital should be independent. Should be the the truth and reported as it is. Never be any other way. But here in Malaysia, what you read and hear is not at all what it is. The whole news paraphernalia is twisted to its end, strangled by the hands that walk the corridors of power and blatantly dictated. 

Everything is spiralled towards arrogant rule and lunacy. 

Welcome to the news land of Malaysia; and we have reporters, editors and journalist championing their duty hoodwinking and writing what they're told to write and never what they should.  We have the media dancing to the tunes of the Pipe Piper of the Malaysian Government. 

I can understand most dailies are owned by political parties and the people who work to bring the news to the public are gagged in the name of "press freedom." Else their livelihood would be put to the challenge if the "rakyat" stop buying their papers?

Why should political parties own up the press?  

One other thing, be it a report or no, all news should spell the same but no. Independent news portals report, I'm afraid rather differently.  

To access the truth, try reading news portal on the web which are independent. You'll come to know you have been, for a good number of years 
lied, cheated and taken for a ride.

Buffalo sense China ...

You have any idea why these buffalos need graffiti!  Neither do I.

Birthday Greetings to Danumithra & Danushvar

Mithra and  Boy

Merry Christmas Everyone

He stands watch while ...

Dear Santa Klaus...

First and foremost, I would like to believe you still exist; riding your sleigh across chimneys and fooling children with presents. With your baritone ho ho ho voice; singing and spewing twinkling confetti as your Rudolph and mates push your fat bum across the Christmas Sky. 

I still would like to believe you still wear the same red outfit with that huge white buckle belt and spot that snow-white heavy beard year after year and going cling cling cling with your ice-cream bell.

I still believe you spend a whole year in Lapland making all those toys with your magical elves which brings me to another puzzling doubt. Do you still live in Lapland? I keep asking myself for I still have no idea where the hell Lapland is. North pole perhaps? 

Year after year I've hoped for a present from you but it never came. I can understand why. You only come down via the chimney. I don't have a chimney and I don't think I should have one.  If I had a chimney at all, you would have made a mess out of my living room, coming down the chimney and with all that soot and smoke messing up my living room. No Thanks. 

I know children all over the world write to you each year asking you things only you can grant them. So under that pretext, I wana ask if you could grant something to fellow Malaysians, things like wisdom, proper governance, absolute abolishment of corruption, race-war and many more. Maybe you should come down here to Malaysia and witness yourself the kind of unethical governance we have.

As for me, and since I don't have a chimney, I rather fancy you send me something via courier - like DHL or UPS. Do you have such a service in Lapland? 

Anyway Santa, how's Mrs Santa? Do send my warmest regards to her as well and hope both you fatsos are well and swell. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS.

let it snow..let it snow ..let it snow

UK's winter ain't all that 'growl' on this striped one...

The femme Tom Thumb ...

Meet 18 year old Jyoti....

Yuck Fou ...

ATTENTION : If your are a saint, DO NOT read this.

I don't know how this came about crossing my path, and I realised this article has been uploaded into many blogs, except mine.

So with 'whoever' courtesy....don't wana leave it dangling .....I  uploaded into mine too. So lame me.
 

It's just a four letter word and yet it is the most used, abused, cursed, fouled and misunderstood word in the English Language.

It all began in ancient England, where else could it be and it simply means "Fornication Under Consent of the King", in short F.U.C.K.

You may need to google up that to know exactly what it means. I did google and am kinda lazy to explain. I'd rather get to the other interesting part of this four-letter word.

The word "fuck", if you look up the dictionary, it will most prolly say - 'slang for intercourse, mess up, ruin or even destroy. Many dictionaries may have their own version of this word. Many may even tell you what it should not be.

If you Thesaurus it, you'll get something like 50 meanings to this simple but highly popular and ballistic word. Its truly magic how this one word could conjure up the whole world and bring together, unite people and races. Even people who are alien to English use it like chewing candies. 

"Fuck" can be used as a verb, noun, adjective whatever....such colossal power in grammar has this word so profound in meaning as well. It can used as a passive and active verb. Conjunctive and transitive. Either way no matter how you use it, the word now is ever so popular, none would run to a dictionary to get to know the meaning. Don't you agree?

This word, in fact, can also be used to describe situations where no other word can come anywhere near to the meaning of the sentence. It can just spew gestures even a blind would be able to see and understand the meaning.

The below is something I picked up from other blogs. Just wana share it with you and I am not taking any credit for pitting here for all to read.

Hmmmm......

1) Surprise -- "What the fuck are you doing here?"

2) Fraud -- "I got fucked by the salesman."

3) Resignation -- "Oh, fuck it!"

4) Trouble -- "I guess I'm fucked now."

5) Aggression -- "FUCK YOU!"

6) Disgust -- "Fuck me."

7) Confusion -- "What the fuck...?"

8) Difficulty -- "I don't understand this fucking business!"

9) Despair -- "Fucked again...."

10) Pleasure -- "I fucking couldn't be happier."

11) Displeasure -- "What the fuck is going on here?"

12) Lost -- "Where the fuck are we?"

13) Disbelief -- "Un-Fucking-Believable! "

14) Retaliation -- "Up your fucking ass!"

15) Denial -- "I didn't fucking do it."

16) Perplexity -- "I know fuck-all about it."

17) Apathy -- "Who really gives a fuck, anyhow?"

18) Greetings -- "How the fuck are ya?"

19) Suspicion -- "Who the fuck are you?"

20) Panic -- "Let's get the fuck out of here."

21) Directions -- "Fuck off."

22) Awe -- "How the fuck did you do that?"

23) Stupid - "Dumbfuck"

24) Ugly - "Fuckface."

25) Handsome - "Fucking cute."

26) Describe - "He's a fucking asshole."

27) Time  - It's only four fucking thirty. Another half fucking hours to go"

28) Maternal - "Motherfucker"

29) Political -- "Fuck Clinton!"

Now, lets imagine if this one word was used long before it became highly popular by people who shaped the world. it may simply go something like this .....

"What the fuck was that?" -- Mayor of Hiroshima

"Where did all these fucking Indians come from?" -- General Custer

"That's not a real fucking gun, is it?" -- John Lennon

"Who's gonna fucking find out?" -- Richard Nixon

"Why the fuck did that apple hit me?" -- Issac Newton

"Heads are going to fucking roll." -- Marie Antoinette

"I could have used a fucking map." -- Ulysses

"Where the fuck is all this water coming from?" -- Captain of the Titanic

"Any fucking idiot could understand that." -- Albert Einstein

"It does so fucking look like her!" -- Picasso

"Okay, I know... we'll build this big fucking wall to keep them out."
-- Emperor of the Ch'in Dynasty

"I can't believe I just fucking said that." -- Patrick Henry

"Fucking backstabbers! " -- Julius Caesar

"You want what on the fucking ceiling?" -- Michelangelo

"Fellatio is not fucking!" -- Bill Clinton

"Where is that fucking pizza guy?" -- Elvis

"Why? Because its fucking there!" -- Sir Edmund Hilary

"I don't suppose its gonna fucking rain?" -- Joan of Arc

"Scattered fucking showers my ass." -- Noah

"I need this parade like I need a fucking hole in my head." -- John F.
Kennedy

"What are the fucking chances I'm going to heaven?" -- Adolf Hitler

"Hey, where the fuck are your turbans?" -- Christopher Columbus when
he discovered the 'Indians'.

They brought down the fucking wall goodness! – The West Germans

Yes! I’m double 0 fucking 7 – James  Bond.

Welcome to fucking Malaysia.

Now your are fucking blessed.

No laffing matter for non-vegans

UMNO...gosh..you!

Don't you think this nation had enough of one party's inflicting prevarication. Time and again it has been the same grandiosity of one race supremacy. How doggone ape is this! Time with 54 years past, it's still the same race lunacy and might arrogance. How more stupor a governance or low can it go. Many have begun to wonder! 

5 guards in the likes of Prime Ministers have changed but what has become of them to us Malaysians? It is still the same rhetoric haughtiness. Anything else is a constitutional hush-hush see-no-ask or plainly 'shut-up'. 

The recently concluded 2011 UMNO General Assembly showcased inadvertently how a government can vex when put through a sundial. The many speeches given were blatantly scathing, fatuously abusive, race denigration and even to the point the gathered laughed to the many gaffes spewed out by UMNO so-called untouchables. That was utter classless.

I ask, where was the vision speech, where was the nation-building speech, where was the intellectual delivery of ideas, where was the speech on unity of Malaysians to sow the nation ahead? Not that Malaysians need the Malays to guide them, but UMNO says only they know the way to Vega. How more diffused and mirthful one classless mainstream one race political party are you?

UMNO, either you are blinded by your hopeless lordliness or just plain mudblood dupes. Remember your roots. Go seek and you'll come to know you ain't all that mightier then your counterparts.

All you ever spoke and compared was about the opposition's cloudiness. I say again - you have haplessly come down low and hard to drive all your points on the Opposition who are gaining grounds with their no-nonsense speeches. For a party that has helmed the nation's governance a littler over half a century haven't actually learned governance and administration, now have you?

Your verbal, sorry to say 'elequoent imbecillity' had no bearing what-so-ever and at some point you drove points only to shoot yourself daft. Blaming the Opposition who are, I do admit 'raw" in governance and pushing them through the eye of a needle is not what you should be doing in a General Assembly? 

Gauge yourself and come clean to the polls. Now that's a challenge you should yardstick on yourself and not play-up your antics even if it is Catch-22. 

You remind me laughter indeed is the best medicine. The Opposittion laughed only louder.

I can regress but it would only make me an another you.

Spot the critter ..!

and for the ultimate disgusie ....

 spot the snow leopard

and the moth...

Holy Cow ! ...

I don’t normally make myself into writing anything religion, be it mine or not, but once in a while, irrespective of how one views it from one’s perspective the urge to say, to tell, to profound the meaning of the truth is ever compelling.

Lately the cow, reputed to be a dumb animal took over the limelight in our political arena for reasons laughable. And cows to a Hindu is like elephants to the Thais. Need not say more.

Since the dawn of Hinduism, cows and Indians go hand in hand. This ain't a myth nor it is a new thing either. 

I ain't a learned scholar in Hinduism nor do I profess to be one, but there is a need in me to write what I feel within, what I see and what I think should be at my best neutral conscience way. Being born a Hindhu, I can  say, with the indoctrination spells from my late parents, I do know a thing or two about Hindus, Hinduism and the very significance of the cow and how both cows and Hindhu live entwined.

It’s a known fact Hindus don’t consume beef.  Thus, anyone in Malaysia, from any walk of life know that for a fact and that too Hinduism being a sacred religion involving cows. This is no ‘Peter-Pan' fairly tale legend of any sorts. There is a reason why the cow or as the English say - holy cow comes into existence in Hinduism.

Getting straight to the point – the only reason why beef is not consumed by *Hindus is all because of traditional beliefs and not because of the sanctity of the religion. By the way, Hinduism ain't a religion. It's simply a way of life.

* Hindus do consume beef if a need arises but this is a scattered fact.

Hindus from all over the globe belief cows are the sacred gift from the puritan Gods and thus they should be gratefully. A gift from the Gods is akin to Zeus’s gift in Perseus.

Why sacred one may ask? When a calf is in hunger, the mother cow rushes in to feed its offspring. The same animalistic instinct transcends even amongst Hindu Goddess when there is a need to offer help.  It’s a synonym factor.

In Hinduism, the cow is believed to be at par with the land the Hindus walk on meaning the earth or in Sanskrit ‘Bumi’. Thus the cow is also termed as mother; the same as Mother Earth. From Mother to Child, both have a role to play in sustaining or depleting life for the sake of its earthly 'children.'

If we look at the life of Hindu farmers or peasants using the services of the cow, one will begin to see the bonding sacrament between cows and Hindus – it all comes down to essential survival eudamonia.

Even in ancient times or even in biblical times cows have played their part well in the lives of the ancients, especially the Hindus. Scores of archaeological artifacts have been earthen out and have proofed cows been there right along humans in every bit and parcel of time in agriculture and livelihood. This goes back for reaching circa 2500 – 1500 BC.

In simplicity, one does not need a tertiary education to know and understand that cows were the very commodity the Hindus used and needed in their daily lives. Even today, in India though with the advancement of machinery in agriculture, cows are still used in agriculture farming.

In Purana, (fabled tales of Hinduism) or somewhat classic Hindu text, stories of the Gods are depicted in not only humans depended on cows but God and Goddess as well.

Lord Shiva (the supreme Lord)  uses a cow or “Nandi” as his royal ‘transport’. This is well rendered by way of stone statues in all Shiva temples anywhere.  The cow is also the ‘transport’ vehicle for Lord Krishna and that too mind you Krishna was a cowherd. 

In one epic tale told by the ancients, Lord Krishna so loved his peasant farmers including the cows toiling the field, He hoisted up Mount Govardhan and held it as shelter for the scores of farmers and cows devastated by rain and floods.

From ancient times Indian farmers have celebrated “Ponggal” – a festival to honour Mother Nature in three different forms; one of which is the Cow Ponggal. One would wonder there must be a strong and vehement reason why the cow is taken into as part of a poignant celebration here.

Cow Ponggal or to Indians “Mattu Ponggal” is a thanks giving celebration to honour the services of the domesticated cow. Believe it or not, on Mattu Ponggal day, cows are cleansed and bathed and their horns painted in motley colours. Bells are hung round their necks as well. This is the only day in a calendar year food, sweet rice, is cooked and fed to the cows. Farmers pay homage to their holy beast in prayers in inland villages and farms all over India.

One may wonder why this is as such. It’s simple. Man though born good nor evil will always in some part honour his cows. Why? A bull (male cow) gives the biggest satisfaction to a household when it is the bull that takes the load off the farmer. The bull ploughs the land and transports goods whilst the cow gives milk which may go into making yogurt or oil. Milk and oil are two most significant household commodities in any Hindu home. So, thus the cow the sacred beast.

And as for the dung, it is used as an organic food for farming and plantation. In India, dried cow dung  is used as fuel for cooking and cremation. Hard to swallow but scientifically it has been proven cow dung actually is a good disinfectant for plants as not only it feeds the plantations, it too kills pest of crops.

In India, cow's secretion be it dung or urine is used to cleansed households. Again here cow's urine is scientifically proven to contain cleansing agents to cure skin diseases thus a way of antiseptic. It is also used to cleanse one's home to rid of any bacterial residue and this was done way back 2000 BC.

The smouldering of dried dung is also used to clean and purify the air in homes - makeshift huts made out of clay or mud or even twigs.

Cow's milk is a growth ingredient of humans - rich in protein and calcium. If cow is deemed impure or its excretion grime, humans would not have used it to feed themselves with its milk. For centuries humans have lived on the embodiment of the domesticated cow. It is a decree amongst the Indians, their domesticate cows to give them their daily nourishment and none else.

To Hindus, a cow symbolises prosperity, wealth and happiness. When a house is bought or built, a cow is used to purify the house and its surroundings. This happens till today in India. The purifying process symbolises the arrival of the Goddess Lakshmi (goddess of wealth) into their homes. It is an auspicious ritual and if during the purifying process if the cow were to excrete, it is viewed as 'extremelly lucky.' Yes, it is laughable when a newly built house is smeared with dung and urine but such is the 'modus-vivendi' of Indians.

Such is the cow to a Hindu. This is the sole reason why Indians won't eat beef, torture or kill cows. Not even shoo them away from the streets it sleeps or excretes till today. It is also known cows are never chased away for hogging traffic in India.  

Though mute, Mahatma Gandhi said cows are the representation of humans in mute form. Whats more, farmer or king Hindus all over the world pay homage to cows and except it as part of an Hindu embodiment.

But then again, there are Hindus who don't follow the teachings of Hinduism, who have moved away from outdated ideologies and some have gone to consume beef as part of their daily diet.

But the sacred cow - beaten and worked without pity still has a place in every Hindu life be it in purity or muddy.