Trigger free council workers.

These days one can read in the papers of how the council workers like to shoot dogs. One such case was they shot a dog in the street. The dog ran back into its house compound, the workers entered the compound , looped the injured animal and dragged it onto the road.

The workers then shot the dog a second time and killed it. The workers were from Central Johor Baru Municipal Council. The workers acts reflects how inhumane they were towards this mongrel.

Wesak Day -2011.

During the early 20th century, a number of ancient sculptures were unearthed in Kinta, mainly in the course of tin mining. One such archaeological evidence was the discovery of a 18 meters bronze Buddha statue in a tin mine in Tanjung Rambutan in 1900.

The Tanjung Rambutan Buddha statue is now believed to being in the possession of Alma Baker's family of New Zealand.

This reflects that Buddhism was introduced in our country a few centuries ago. Buddhism has found its base here long before some other religion set in into this country. That's why one can find Lembah Bujang, Kedah and Gangga Negara (Bruas) was once a base of Buddhism kingdom.

Thus today, we have quite a large number of Buddist in this country. Wesak is celebrated to commemorate the birth, enlightment and death of Lord Buddha because according to Buddhists, all the three events took place on the same lunar date. Happy Wesak Day!

UNESCO Heritage Status

To obtain UNESCO Heritage Status Ipoh will be assessed on 3 outstanding universal values:-

i). multicultural trading town
ii). testimony of multicultural tangible and intangible heritage
iii). melting pot multicultural architecture and township.

Perak State Government and the Ipoh City Council should firstly set up a Heritage Council
and invite people of knowledge in heritage matters to be part of the council. Then slowly but
surely work toward obtaining the status like Penang and Melaka. Can we do it?