My Private Thoughts
Thinking Allowed

I don’t like people who don’t give credit where credit is due. This applies both at work and on the blogosphere.

At work, I found that someone was stealing my ideas – reworded but my ideas nonetheless. Lucky for me the boss man had spoken to me over the holidays. Guess working during the hols had its advantages! So, he told C that that was already in the works and i was working on that project. Yay boss man!

On the blogosphere, i see people mentioning that “a friend told me” and “I heard from someone that” and it doesn’t hurt anyone to just say “X said” and link to X. Its polite and it shares the love. What’s wrong with sharing the love?!

I don’t get it. People are so go-dam selfish!!

I read on The Star about the landslide survivor who complained to the newspapers that his house was invaded by purported rescuers. The police immediately came out to deny it – very quickly. Then, they dared him to make a statement or lodge a report to the police.

Yesterday, they wanted to issue a warrant of arrest against him for false reporting or something equally drastic.

This against a man who had just lost his wife in the landslide. This man lost his wife and his home! And you want to arrest him.

Full of heart aren’t they, the police?

You will never never know me… so the song goes.

But seriously, when you don’t know someone, please don’t go slagging them off in public. I had it happen to a friend and I’m quite unimpressed by the slagger. You don’t go up on a public stage and tell the world “Hey, I only just met Mr. R but I think he’s a pompous prig because he didn’t talk and laugh with me when the 3 people sitting with me did; nevermind that I did not introduce myself to him, nor was I sitting anywhere near him. In fact, I was sitting right at the other end of the table, but Mr. R should have come over to say hello!”

First of all, I was there and I saw what happened. This person came up to Mr. R and said “Hi! You must be Mr. R” and Mr. R smiled at them and said “Hello” and he was then whisked away to meet other people. The next time that person saw Mr. R was at the meal where there were 20 people present at a long table and Mr. R was sitting on one end while this person was at another.

When Mr. R heard about it, I could see that he was slightly offended at this thoughtless public degradation. But he just put on a smile and said it came with the territory of being well-known. I salute that.

I don’t know if I could ever be as forgiving!