About Me

Oh well what can I say..

[This does remind me of my times in primary school English essays, About Me, LOL!!]

I guess I should start from me being vocal. Yes I can be very vocal at times, and very frank at it too. Some people may take that part of attribute of me for being rude. Well I can't really blame them. How can you really differentiate someone from being frank or rude anyway?

I guess that attribute of mine is partly because I am more of an introvert. I find ample of space in my room, and I can feel very lonely and out of a place in a nightclub. I need space, time and food. I make my own times (and thus miss classes, but thats unavoidable anyway) and from this past experience of 5 years I have a feeling that I can cook well.

I like to write more than I actually read. In fact, I have hardly read any of my own writings, which can be quite strange to some people. You will find more weird readings on my Friendster blog. Cheers to those who can actually find it!

Alright I guess I should be really talking about me, and not about my attributes, likes and dislikes. I had a very different childhood compared to most (and thus my introvert mind). I grew up in estates all my life and yet to taste a town life beyond a year. My dad is an estate manager so we get transferred quite a lot, and hence, not permitting me to sustain long-term friendships. Every 2 years or so we transfer cities (and hence my schools) so technically I have transferred 6 primary schools and only 1 secondary school, in Sungai Siput.

Currently my family has based around Sungai Siput (the place most people associate with our Samy) for almost 10 years or so, but we are still getting transferred around Sungai Siput.

I finished my secondary school in Sungai Siput and did my pre-university course in Penang for a year. I went to Perth, Australia, to do my B.Sc. Actuarial Science and Masters in Accounting soon after. I received my Australian permanent residency in 2007 and now pursuing my second masters, Masters in Actuarial Studies, in Canberra, Australia.

And yes I am under 25 years old. :)

Throughout my life, due to my introvert mind, I spent more and more time with finding answers on my own rather than asking. I wrote more than I read. I spent hours and hours of time myself trying to crack simple lame matters to complex ones. For instance when I was 13 and 14 I was mystified with Bermuda Triangle, after watching a documentary on it on TV. I set myself to work on it using my 56k dial up modem, almost memorising the names of all the ships and planes lost in Bermuda Triangle. This was also the time I was mystified with Black Hole, the concept of our sun rotating an even bigger star etc etc.

So you see, I secluded myself more and more, and in that run, I lost on so much things that I can only dream about now. Its always a question of what if isn't it?

Anyway moving on, when I was about 16, my family and I went to this talk on being proud of Indians. I was least interested at first, but today I am very grateful for that talk. This talk showcased all the achievements of Indians throughout the world, regardless of their citizenships. The talk explained how Indians were the early inhabitants of Malaysia (proof is in Bujang Valley) but the government denies it. The talk had a point to prove: If Indians all over the world can be so successful, what happened to Indians in Malaysia?

I came back from that talk feeling refreshed, and I felt I have a more serious purpose in life now. I knew I had to do something about the state of Indians in Malaysia. This was also aggravated by the fact that Form 4 and 5 History lessons distorted the real history and only wanted to teach us what the government wanted us to know. The fact that Islam was greatly portrayed over 2 chapters but all other religions were given a paragraph each, that swept me off my feet.

I was 16 when I created my first website on tripod's lycos portal. It wasn't much, it was just a simple site capturing my thoughts about the current state of Indians in Malaysia.

I was very angry as well when more and more of my peers and friends were rejected of a place in public universities just because they were non-Malays, while the Malays could get into universities with shitty marks.

Cutting the long story short, I guess the embers were still in me, just waiting to explode at the right time. Then enter Hindraf, and my exposure to Malaysia Kini and Malaysia Today. I knew this is the wave to be ridden on. And all the Indians in Malaysia were swept off their feet on Nov 25th. And I was grateful to be back in Malaysia to witness the rally in action.

And as they say, I guess the rest is history..

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UPDATE 29/05/08:
I gave a major transformation for my blog and looks like I will be sticking to this one for a long time. And I will probably be posting more personal writings rather than socio-political ones.

UPDATE 26/04/09:
My principles does not echo that of Hindraf's anymore, for various reasons as outlined here.