Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Yesterday (Saturday) was an auspicious day because it was Chittirai Pournami (full moon in the month of Chittirai) for the Hindus and also Wesak Day for the Buddhist. Then and I went to Sri Bala Subramaniar Temple in Port Klang at about 8.40am. There wasn’t much crowd, about 200-300 people only within the temple compound. I had a good feeling on the way to temple, but once I reached the place, it all changed. There were some much of garbage – stryofoam food packets, plastic bags drinks, etc – the stench was detectable. I wondered to myself – why are we so irresponsible? We fight for temple existence, and yet pollute it without a thought. The stall owners and patrons need to be more responsible. Temple committee need to set up a dustbin every 5 metres because our temple-going, festival-following makkal are too lazy to walk far to find a dustbin. Heck, I think we need more dustbins than devotees for future festivals in temple.
I couldn’t stand it praying in the temple because the thought of the place being dirty kept playing in my mind, so I left within 30 minutes.
Along the road to the temple, local pop songs were being blasted left and right. I think one can easily get hearing problem since the road is narrow (about 12 feet wide) and stalls on both side. One guy nearly popped a CD into my face while another blocked the path to promot incense sticks. There’s so many panthals (stalls) offering free food and drinks – possible reason why there’s lots of garbage around. When something is in abudance, its not appreciated (even money!).
By the way, I didn’t notice any HSS banners over there.
