Today is a day as good as any to resume my blogging activities. A little while back, I read a comment on Facebook (FB) that I could not comprehend. That person compared FB with blogging, saying that FB has made it so much easier to blog. I then wondered aloud how anyone could compare FB with blogging…

Well, it’s been almost four months since my last post on my blog, but I have been actively tweeting and updating my status on FB all this while. Indeed, some would say that’s an understatement. Whatever it is, I now definitely get the point that that person was trying to make with that comment…

Now, let’s come to the point of this blog posting. Today is the day we celebrate Diwali in Malaysia. For some reason, we call it Deepavali. I’m sure there’s a linguistic or cultural reason for the slight change in name. More importantly, though, is the significance of Diwali.
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