miracles of the gods

• Jamie Zawinski

  23 Jan 08, 10:14

  
  
  this guys doesn't feel any pain!
• Icemoon

  23 Jan 08, 10:34

  Originally posted by Jamie Zawinski:

  this guys doesn't feel any pain!

  It is not that bad lah .. if you know the science behind it. Just like walking over fire.
• Phaze

  24 Jan 08, 16:19

  Yes. But I think that's the point he's trying to make.
  
  There are things that seem like miracles. But once you understand the science, it ceases to be a miracle.
• Honeybunz

  25 Jan 08, 20:58

  wrong forum?
• laurence82

  25 Jan 08, 21:02

  Here is something interesting about Thaipusam
  
  According to my friend from India, its only celebrated by the Tamilians, ie, people who hail from Tamil Nadu in India
  
  They make up the largest group in the India ethnic group in Singapore and Malaysia
  
  My friend is from Andra Pradesh, just north of Tamil Nadu, and she doesnt have a clue about Thaipusam
  
  Just a clue, Hyderabad is in Andra Pradesh
  
  Both of next or near to Sri Lanka
  
  
• Icemoon

  26 Jan 08, 00:56

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  Here is something interesting about Thaipusam
  
  According to my friend from India, its only celebrated by the Tamilians, ie, people who hail from Tamil Nadu in India
  
  They make up the largest group in the India ethnic group in Singapore and Malaysia
  
  My friend is from Andra Pradesh, just north of Tamil Nadu, and she doesnt have a clue about Thaipusam
  
  Just a clue, Hyderabad is in Andra Pradesh
  
  Both of next or near to Sri Lanka
  
  

  Actually why did Singapore make Tamil the official Indian language? It came as a shock to me that many Indians did not make Tamil their second language in school.
  
  Hindi is the national language of India, and it should be our Indian language too.
• laurence82

  26 Jan 08, 06:48

  Originally posted by Icemoon:

  Actually why did Singapore make Tamil the official Indian language? It came as a shock to me that many Indians did not make Tamil their second language in school.
  
  Hindi is the national language of India, and it should be our Indian language too.

  Unfortunately, its like our Mandarin, which is a dialect in the region of Beijing. Similarly, Hindi is the language of the North Indian
  
  But most Indians in Singapore and Malaysia are Tamilians, not Bengalis, Sikhs or Masharatis etc etc
  
  I guess thats why they make Tamil the official Indian language here
  
  But education different leh, i know some take their mother tongue, like Punjabis or Hindi
  
  One of my Sikh friend ji tao opt out and learn Malay
  
  
• Icemoon

  26 Jan 08, 10:11

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  Unfortunately, its like our Mandarin, which is a dialect in the region of Beijing. Similarly, Hindi is the language of the North Indian
  
  But most Indians in Singapore and Malaysia are Tamilians, not Bengalis, Sikhs or Masharatis etc etc
  
  I guess thats why they make Tamil the official Indian language here
  
  But education different leh, i know some take their mother tongue, like Punjabis or Hindi
  
  One of my Sikh friend ji tao opt out and learn Malay
  
  

  Weird leh, people say mandarin is dialect in region of Beijing, but then how come Beijing people have their own distinct Beijing qiang1? Got any place in china the dialect sounds exactly like mandarin one?
  
  I guess Indians are not very united in their language. The Tamil camp and Hindi camp in India do not see eye to eye.
• laurence82

  26 Jan 08, 13:26

  Not only Tamil and Hindu
  
  next door Andra Pradesh, they speak Telugu
  
  then further up a bit, Bengali
  
  on the west, you got the Masharatis in Mumbai
  
  The Aryans vs the Dravidians