A Thaipusam 2007 visitor sharing his bad experience..read on..
Source: Click here!Posted by: "jigy03" jigy03@yahoo.co.uk jigy03 Fri Feb 2, 2007 1:12 am (PST)
Dear Friends,
I'm sharing my experience here on Thaipusam yest; one of my
colleague who is a French was very excited about what he read &
heard about Thaipusam & was very eager to go with his female French
partner. As a Hindu myself, I was very proud to talk about it;
explaining the meaning of it to them. To my French friends, this was
a lifetime opportunity to see for themselves of what they have been
hearing about.
After parking my car about 200 meters away, we were walking towards
the temple. There was a group of indian guys (late teen & early 20s
in age i guess) standing by the side of the road. While we walked
passing them, one of the guys started to scream 'Welcome to
Malaysia' like a hysterian patient while walking towards my friend's
female partner with his both hands high in the sky as if he was
about to hug her!!!
To be honest, I'm sure it was GOD that gave me that much patiency
where I had to tell my friends to just ignore them. They said that
it was abit over-friendly way of being nice to a stranger/foreiner &
I got the meaning of what he was trying to say.
When we were leaving home, there was another group walking beside
us. There was this thin tall guy in this group who was walking
beside me while hitting his shoulder onto my shoulder, consistantly.
Lucky him that he did not realise that he is already jumping on my
nerves but again I reacted wiser by slowing down my walk by letting
him go 1st. Surprisingly, he did the same. My mind told me that he
is actually asking for it & this time I had to look straight into
his eyes, then in split seconds, the whole group disappeared. ...gosh.
We carried on walking to my car & again passing by they 1st group.
First, I thought they were parking attendees, but realised they were
standing there just to do their disgusting stuff to whoever passes
by. Right at that moment, my friend told me to cross the road walk
to the other side of the road, which I got his message again...
To be honest, given a choice from my family members &
friends/colleagues from overseas, I'd rather go to BC on a normal
non-festive day but again as a Hindu, I do feel its an obligation
too for atleast once a year attending this auspicious day....but am
I prepared for another incident like this one??? The tough question
that I ask myself every year when its Thaipusam...
Its was just the start of understanding our Hindu cultural &
religious matters for my French friends but turned out to be a
complete embarassment for myself & our community.
'One or two bad apples does screws up most or all around it'
Kind Regards,
A. Kalai
