ABOUT 40 people took part in a ritual in Pulau Jerejak, Penang, so that Apple founder Steve Jobs could be reincarnated.
Sin Chew Daily reported that Sunday's ceremony, which was organised by a medium from Rawang, Selangor, was criticised by the Federation of Taoist Associations Malaysia and several Buddhist associations, calling it “ridiculous and superstitious”.
The daily reported that most of the medium's followers did not know who Jobs was and many took part in the ceremony to enjoy a day trip to Penang and to pray for good fortune.
Iconic figure: Jobs may have died but his memory lives on for many people around the world. ? EPA Followers were asked to take a bite from an apple and observe three minutes of silence before throwing the fruit into the sea but some had finished half of the fruit before doing so as it was very sweet.
According to an earlier report, followers had to pay between RM50 and RM75 to take part in the ceremony.
> A woman, who was said to be disturbed by a female spirit, threw her baby on the bed before attempting to kill herself and the child in Ipoh last week, China Press reported.
The woman's mother, suspecting something amiss, quickly took the baby away when the woman went to the kitchen to take a knife, it reported.
The woman, 19, ran amok and attacked her mother when she found out the baby was no longer in the room.
She then broke all the plates in the kitchen before locking herself in the bedroom.
The family called a medium to “negotiate” with the spirit but the spirit did not show up to “talk” to the medium.
According to the woman's father, the house was haunted by two ghosts, but they could not afford to move out as they had nowhere else to go.
“Who wants to stay in a haunted house? I will move out with my family as soon as I can afford to,” he said.
> Nanyang Siang Pau reported rumours suggesting that Hong Kong singer Faye Wong was three months' pregnant.
The 42-year-old Cantopop queen has two daughters, and her second husband, Li Yapeng, was said to be hoping for a son.
Wong's manager refused to comment on the issue.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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