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Give single mums more pocket money says Samy

September 11th, 2007
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MIC: Give single mums more pocket money
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THE MIC will recommend that the Government give single mothers an allowance of between RM500 and RM600 to help them lessen their financial burden, Tamil Nesan reported.

Its president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the present allowance of as low as RM90 a month was not sufficient, especially if the single mothers were residing in urban areas like Kuala Lumpur.

He said the party, through its social arm, the Social Strategic Foundation, had made several recommendations to the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry to assist single mothers.  

He said there were between 7,000 and 8,000 Indian single mothers in the country.  

He was speaking to reporters after opening a Tamil speech competition organised by the Malaysia Hindu Sangam in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

Samy Vellu also welcomed the increased allocation of RM782mil for the ministry under Budget 2008 which was unveiled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last Friday.

He added that MIC had embarked on several programmes to train single mothers so that they can become independent and earn a good salary.

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UPSR Tamil paper very tough

September 9th, 2007
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By : news@nst.com.my
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JOHOR BARU: Was Tamil Paper 1 in the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examination on Tuesday meant for 12-year-olds?

Some Tamil school teachers and parents feel the questions were more suitable for Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) students. According to them, the standard was so high that even adults took time to understand the questions.

Parent S. Rajendran said the question paper had two lengthy comprehension passages set in classical Tamil that went well beyond the Year 6 pupils’ understanding.

"I was really shocked. Although I’m Tamil educated, I could not fully understand the passages. It took me almost 10 minutes to read and properly understand them.

"I wonder how the pupils could have answered all the 40 questions in the comprehension test within the 50 minutes allocated. They must have raced through their answers.

"The instructions were also too long and and confusing. The multiple choice answers were too close in meaning, with some questions having more than one answer. Question number 28 was printed wrongly as well," he added.

A Tamil teacher said some of her best pupils could not handle the questions.

"They were disappointed. They panicked and some cried that they could not answer them properly."

Another teacher said: "I have been teaching Tamil to UPSR pupils for seven years. This year’s questions were PMR standard."

When contacted, Johor MIC Youth Chief M. Asojan said he had received numerous complaints from parents as well.

"Being a former Tamil teacher, I think the standard for this year’s UPSR Tamil exam was really high. I do not know how they are going to evaluate the pupils with the standard this high."

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Aguna makes it to uni after serious accident

September 7th, 2007
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Accident victim makes it to varsity

By WANI MUTHIAH

TWO years ago M. Aguna Vinothmikha’s life came crashing down when she was seriously injured in a horrific accident, which also claimed the lives of her three friends. 

However, even though her bones were broken, Aguna’s willpower remained strong and helped her achieve her ultimate dream of enrolling into a public university. 

The 22-year-old is currently a first year chemical engineering undergraduate at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Scudai, Johor. 

A survivor: Aguna with her mother Muniam Narayanasamy.

“I fought very hard to get back on my feet as well as to preserve my sanity amid the physical and emotional pain,” said Aguna. 

She added that what annoyed her most was when people inquired if her brain and memory were still all right. 

“There’s so much prejudice levelled against accident survivors,” said Aguna, adding that it was these queries which also prompted her to push herself hard. 

The tragedy occurred in Aug 2005 when Aguna and four friends, all of whom were from SM Tunku Besar, Tampin, were on their way to attend tuition in Sikamat in preparation for the STPM when their car collided with a lorry.  

Her best friend M. Subashini as well as two others S. Kalai Selvi and R. Sangeeta died while another girl, V. Jeevatha escaped with injuries to her face and head. 

Aguna, who is from Bahau, Negri Sembilan, sustained head and eye injuries, a broken pelvis and four broken ribs, which punctured one of her lungs.  

Her jawbones were broken and four of her front teeth were knocked out. She also suffered from minor fractures in her arm and leg. 

“I was literally dead but I think the will to live helped me scrape through,” said Aguna who spent four months in hospital and another seven months recuperating at home. 

She went back to school in August last year but managed to attend class for only 20 days as pain prevented her from sitting down for long hours. 

Not wanting to waste any more time Aguna sat for the STPM and managed to score four Bs. 

In spite of the suffering that she had undergone, she says she was lucky to get a second chance. 

“I could have ended-up being a vegetable or emotionally unstable to continue with my dreams of becoming a professional,” said Aguna who had scored straight As for both her PMR and SPM examinations. 

She added that her only regret was that Subhashini did not make it through the ordeal. 

“Subashini and I planned to get all As for the STPM in order to do medicine in one of the public universities here.  

“I am sad that our dream died with her in that accident. I really miss her a lot,” said Aguna who had undergone four major surgeries. 

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fireworks competition at putrajaya by team japan

September 7th, 2007
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After missing the launch of Malaysian International Fireworks Competition (MIFC) at putrajaya, where Team Malaysia put on a show (i thought it was at 10.30pm when it was at 10pm) and also missing Team Australia’s show due to UMIC’s treasure hunt, I was determined not to miss the performance by Team Japan right at the stroke of midnight 31st August 2007.

We arrived early (about 9pm) due to news that traffic was bad whenever the fireworks where held. Managed to park the car next to PICC’s entrance.

It was raining in the morning and evening so the place was quite wet and the earth soggy. We walked around the fun fair area to see what the hype was all about. Nothing much actually.

We finally lodged ourselves along the road in front of PICC, near the fun fair area, which provided a good view of the Gemilang Bridge (where the fireworks were shot from). It was about 300 metres from the launch site. Then was quite tired, but since i’ve been bugging her to come, she obliged.

The crowd grew steadily to about 1000 people just around our area. According to organisers and the papers, there were easily 100,000 over people on each of the nights. This being the eve of Merdeka, I suspected the crowd would be worse.

At 12am midnight, after Negaraku was played, Team Japan started their show. It was good. Among the highlights were heart-shaped fireworks and the final display which showed a bright yellow mass that grew and grew till it filled up the whole sky. However the show was marred by the amount of smoke that was generated. Some of the fireworks could not be seen properly.

The show lasted about 20 minutes and I’m sure the crowd enjoyed the show. However, the nighmare had begun. It took us 10 minutes to remove our car since everyone triple-parked. Then, another 1.5 hours from PICC to LDP, and I was damn tired of hitting on the pedals. The jam was bad as it was all the way from PICC to the Puchong LDP toll and beyond. The same occured on the LDP – Dengkil route. I managed to enter the road to Cyberjaya and from there made a U-turn and entered the winding road passing by Kg Meranti and the kampung areas. Still, reached home at 2.15am…and the next day is the parade! Don’t know can wake up or not!!!

On the way back, we were listening to PM’s speech at the Dataran Merdeka, which made me more sleepy. Probably he was tired of giving too many speech and moving around too much. Heard the the celebrations was quite grand at the dataran.

The photos were shot on lower aperture (3.8 – 4.2) and slower shutter (generally 1 – 2 sec). Sometimes i used timer to trigger the shot in order to avoid shaky images. Definitely need to get remote trigger, wireless hopefully! As i mentioned, the smoke made it difficult to get clear images and sometimes the view was blocked by the people standing around us. Enjoy the slides below and view the images at Picasa as well. Focus on the last 10 images which show the growing yellow fireworks.

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independent bumiputras and jpa scholarships

September 5th, 2007
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“Najib said he was confident that the day was not far away when bumiputras would come forward to tell the Government that they no longer required help. “

– wishful thinking?

“For example, the Government has been giving out JPA scholarships to more deserving non-bumiputras as we feel that non-deserving bumiputras that get help were wasting our money and time,”

– you mean all this while undeserving useless people got scholarships and its was known to the leaders? no wonder the rest of us have such faith in the system!

Independent bumiputras
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KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has expressed hope that a day will come when bumiputras will no longer need privileges from the Government.

Najib said he was confident that the day was not far away when bumiputras would come forward to tell the Government that they no longer required help.

He said he wanted to see bumiputras become more independent in carrying out their tasks and not just rely on the Government for help.

Najib, however, said that the New Economic Policy (NEP) was designed for deserving bumiputras and non-bumiputras and hoped that only deserving ones received help.

He said the NEP was to boost small-time businesses, those from the lower-income group and was not for those people who had already established their businesses.

“We want the policies in the NEP to be accepted by all ethnic groups and if there are ways to further enhance it, then please let us know,” he said in his closing remarks at the Khazanah National Development seminar yesterday.

Najib said Malaysia had come a long way in the last 50 years, and to obtain the status of Bangsa Malaysia, there was a need to “de-racialise” things by looking at the quality of a person’s personality rather than the skin colour.

“For example, the Government has been giving out JPA scholarships to more deserving non-bumiputras as we feel that non-deserving bumiputras that get help were wasting our money and time,” he said, adding that he believed if people followed that basis, then the concept of Bangsa Malaysia could be achieved.

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