Peter White - Deja Vu

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Talkin' Bout Love by Peter White

Give it a listen...

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Friends and Strangers

I collect watches and have my favourite haunts for me to look for watches to buy. I don't just buy new watches but also old, second hand watches. Why I buy them, well I am collector of sorts, and the same time what I had bought I had not sold any... I don't think I would want to sell any of them yet.

I had been doing this for a while and have a hefty collection, let's just say that I can put on a watch a day for the next few months.

That aside... I have this neighbour who has a peculiar habit whenever we meet or gather. His eyes would be on my wrist and on several occassions would insist on having a closer look of the watch I have on. And on several occassion he'd remarked that he would want to buy exactly what I have. To this very day he behaves the same way.

Now fast forward a bit... on many occassions he would insists on knowing where I bought my watches, well one place is e-bay, the other is at mudah.my, then of course there are several shops that I frequent too.

These shops that I frequent, the owners have become friends, as not only I bought from them, I sent some watches for servicing to them, and also on days that I am free I would just drop by and 'talk shop' with them, along the way we are friends rather than just customer-vendors.

It brings me a bit of benefit where I can get discounts on watches that other walk-in customers won't get... and this is where it gets interesting.

This neighbour of mine, upon knowing the shops that I go to, would go to them and along the way throw my name around and insisting or expecting to get the same discount that I enjoy.

Recently I happen to visit the shop and the taukey friend told me about it and I asked did my neighbour get the same discount? His response was, of course not, coz the neighbour was not a friend....

Speed of trust?



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Ramadhan

Tomorrow will be a week of fasting in the month of Ramadhan, you don't actually feel it unless you are counting the days.
For some people this is also the month to feast, and hence pig themselves out at breaking of fast buffets in hotels and restaurants and paying through their noses, costing more of what they would spend eating in a day with that one particular feast. Well who am I to say what they do are not correct, at the same time I have my own right to my own opinion don't I?

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Phil Collins Farewell Tour - Drums and "Take Me Home"

Wow! Phil Collins the Man!

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Eric Clapton&Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight-Live

All time favourite

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World Champion FIFA World Cup 2010

This weekend the World Cup will come to a close. We had our teams, 2 still in the rest are back in their home country.
Paul the octopus had cast his prediction.. putting too much faith on an octopuss?
May the best team win.... and an exciting games must be at hand.
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FIFA World Cup - 2nd Round

The World Cup in South Africa is now in the second rounds. Just look at the casualties in the group phase; Italy and France; one the defending champions the other was runners-up in the last World Cup.
Not that I shed any tears for either of them. Italy is full of senior citizens, even Canavarro is not playing in the Serie A anymore, he is with one of the clubs in the Middle East... bidding his time to retirement.

France is a disgrace and underachievers, rebelling and revolting againsts the coaches, a sign of a team breakup.

England just barely made it.. and now kicked-out of the second round by Germany. Anyone of you watching the game will notice that Gerrard and Lampard have bags under their eyes... signs of tiredness? They were outclassed by Germany. Many who supported England do so coz of the EPL I believe... again not bloody tear I shed... good riddance.

I do wish a Brazil - Argentina final...













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FIFA World Cup 2010

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The event every football fan in the world has been waiting for and anticipating every 4 years had started on June 11. I believe it will affect the way people run their daily routine, particularly if you intend to catch the early morning (2.30 a.m. Malaysian time GMT +8).
In fact one factory I know of had anticipated a lower productivity and higher number of absentism due to the the World Cup....

All the best to Brazil and Argentina, the 2 teams I am supporting...
England is simply over rated, Signor Capello... is the escape clause still valid in your recently signed extension contract?
Germany had been underachieving since they had beaten Australia.
Netherlands is a rank outsider.

Many late mornings!!!!!


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Double Standards and Hypocricy

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Recently I received a joke through the email from an acquaintance and it was also send to several others. The butt of the joke are several people, even though the names are not full names but you can imply who they are and the other thing that you would observe is that these people have a certain political affiliation and the joke is about Marketing Techniques
I paste some examples below:

Samy Vellu sees a gorgeous girl at a party.
He goes up to her and says: "I am very rich. Marry me!"
That's Direct Marketing.

Mukhriz sees a gorgeous girl at a party.
One of his loyal UMNO friends goes up to her and pointing
at Mukhriz and says: "He's very rich.. Marry him!"
That's Advertising.

Khir Toyol sees a gorgeous girl at a party.
He goes up to her and gets her telephone number.
The next day, he calls and says: "Hi, I'm very rich. Marry me!"
That's Telemarketing.

Of course there's a little bit more to that. Nobody in the mailing list made any noise about the joke or about who became the butt of the joke. Not that I care. However a thought struck me, 'what if the butt of the joke is on an name impliedly associated with a different political affiliation.' So I penned the joke below:

Anwar is at a party and sees a gorgeous guy.
He gets up and straightens his tie, walks up to him and pours him a drink, and invited the guy for a ride with Nalla driving to Tivoli and to enter the compound the codeword is “Mokhtar.”
In the room in Tivoli he said "By the way, I'm rich. CIFUT?"
and don’t let Wan Azizah and everyone else know about this.
That's Guerilla Marketing.

And send it out to the same people in the list. One thing, several of what are contained in the joke above were published in the news about a pending court case.
 
True to my assumption that double standards and hypocrisy existed, I received responses from 2 people fromt the mailing list, quoting from the Quran, the Prophet and the Sahabat somewhat telling me the perils of hearsay and fitnah. While I can understand and appreciate the reminders, my question is why only after I send the joke out about Anwar that these reminders spew forth. Why not when the butt of the joke were first about Samy Vellu, Mukhriz etc.?
 
Why? Is it ok to make fun of people you are not affiliated with, and it is not ok when it is about the others?
 
Hypocrisy is the act of persistently professing beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that are inconsistent with one's actions. Hypocrisy is thus a kind of lie.

The hypocrite thinks that what he usually professes do not somehow apply to him. It is not simply an inconsistency between what is praised or admired and what is done. Samuel Johnson made this point when he wrote about the misuse of the charge of "hypocrisy" in Rambler No. 14:

Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself. Wikipedia.


  I stand by my opinion, and I stand corrected.

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