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.\u00a0 I wondered to myself – why are we so irresponsible? We fight for temple existence, and yet pollute it without a thought.\u00a0 The stall owners and patrons need to be more responsible. Temple committee need to set up a dustbin every 5 metres because our\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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!).<\/p>\n
By the way, I didn’t notice any HSS banners over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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