{"id":938,"date":"2007-12-23T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T03:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/23\/carolling-is-a-must-for-this-devout-hindu\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T03:15:35","slug":"carolling-is-a-must-for-this-devout-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/23\/carolling-is-a-must-for-this-devout-hindu\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolling is a must for this devout Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/12\/23\/nation\/19826754&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p> PORT KLANG: Going carolling has been in 18-year-old J. Satishwaran&#39;s Christmas must-do list for the past five years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;Carolling is something I look forward to.  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it because I love music and it is a happy occasion,&#8221; said the Form Six student of SMK Dato Hamzah in Pandamaran.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n Satishwaran is a Hindu but says that has not stopped him from joining in the celebrations of other religions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;To me, Christmas is a festival. Malaysians should not let different cultural background or race divide us,&#8221; he said, adding that his parents were very supportive of his passion for carolling. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n Satishwaran said he practised with his five younger siblings and friends at home for five days before the carolling sessions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> He explained that life had been tough for him until his mother&#8217;s friend brought him to a tuition centre run by a Catholic charity group when he was in Year Six.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;Most of my friends at the centre were non-Christians from underprivileged homes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;Besides receiving free tuition, I learnt respect, discipline, gratitude and honesty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;All these good values have made me a better Hindu,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source PORT KLANG: Going carolling has been in 18-year-old J. Satishwaran&#39;s Christmas must-do list for the past five years.&nbsp; &#8220;Carolling is something I look forward to. &nbsp; &#8220;I love it because I love music and it is a happy occasion,&#8221; said the Form Six student of SMK Dato Hamzah in Pandamaran.&nbsp; Satishwaran is a Hindu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65,302],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-festival","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}