100th POST!
Yup yup! This is my 100th post! At blogger that is. I have some posts in my friendster blog, but that doesn't really count..!
Here's to my 1st 100th, and many more 100th-es! Cheerios!
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Grounded
Having a blog, saying sorry, and having nice things to say (and MEANING it, not just saying it).
These I think, are what keeps ppl grounded. Whether they are bigshots, celebrities or just the layman on the street.
Thru a local entertainment mag, I got the URL of two blogs, belonging to Andrea and Felicia. I also have one that belongs to Nurul. I have a blog, and it may just be me, but if someone's a celebrity, having a blog is like reaching out to ppl who like you. Your fans. To connect directly to them. It just somehow makes them more reachable, with both feet planted fimly on the ground. In fact, in a comment in reply to the comments she got, one of these two celebs wrote 'vocalbulary'! Was that a genuine mistake? Or did she really didn't know how to spell that word? How cute is that! :)
When you're in the wrong, you're wrong. Period. No matter who you are. In their song, Blue sang 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word'. I guess they're right.
Back at my old place at BB, I was using mysingtel (mst) for Net connection. mst uses the telephone line, and not a modem. So it was a norm to have an extension wire from the tele jack connected to the comp. Once, my mum tripped on the wire, it came out from the jack, and the Net disconnected. It's very irritating to have dc-ed. But she was very apologetic and kept saying 'Sorry' profusely. That somehow lessens the agony of having to reconnect everything.
There's this guy in camp who doesn't seem to have anything nice to say to ppl. Whenever he speaks, it's always smthg wrong with this, smthg wrong with that, blah blah blah etc etc etc. I could go on, but I don't wanna spread his negativity here. Hah!
It makes ppl boil whenever he opens his mouth. I say 'ppl', and not 'me', cos I know I'm not the only one who feels this way abt him. Lucky for him his rank on his epaulettes. Ppl tolerate his crap, but I can't say for sure they tolerate HIM.
For a start, maybe he could say smthg nice abt things that ARE right. Things that were done right by us mere mortals with ranks far below his. Would that hurt? But I guess THAT would take much work on his part too. We're so used to hearing negativities from him, to hear positivities from him, it'd be hard to believe!
That pretty much sums up what I have to say. These three things, to me, are what keeps ppl grounded.
Speaking of having nice things to say, lemme share a technique of giving someone a compliment, and not having to sound like you're apple polishing or boot licking. This is from a book that I'm currently reading.
Simply give it thru the grapevine. Gossip, in another word. In this case, of the good kind.
Say you like A, and you wanna compliment him/her. B is someone who's close to A. Tell it to B instead. On odds of ten to one, your compliment will reach A in 24hr! (The author of the book says this, not me. I'm merely paraphrasing it, in my own words)
Try it out!
Yup yup! This is my 100th post! At blogger that is. I have some posts in my friendster blog, but that doesn't really count..!
Here's to my 1st 100th, and many more 100th-es! Cheerios!
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Grounded
Having a blog, saying sorry, and having nice things to say (and MEANING it, not just saying it).
These I think, are what keeps ppl grounded. Whether they are bigshots, celebrities or just the layman on the street.
Thru a local entertainment mag, I got the URL of two blogs, belonging to Andrea and Felicia. I also have one that belongs to Nurul. I have a blog, and it may just be me, but if someone's a celebrity, having a blog is like reaching out to ppl who like you. Your fans. To connect directly to them. It just somehow makes them more reachable, with both feet planted fimly on the ground. In fact, in a comment in reply to the comments she got, one of these two celebs wrote 'vocalbulary'! Was that a genuine mistake? Or did she really didn't know how to spell that word? How cute is that! :)
When you're in the wrong, you're wrong. Period. No matter who you are. In their song, Blue sang 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word'. I guess they're right.
Back at my old place at BB, I was using mysingtel (mst) for Net connection. mst uses the telephone line, and not a modem. So it was a norm to have an extension wire from the tele jack connected to the comp. Once, my mum tripped on the wire, it came out from the jack, and the Net disconnected. It's very irritating to have dc-ed. But she was very apologetic and kept saying 'Sorry' profusely. That somehow lessens the agony of having to reconnect everything.
There's this guy in camp who doesn't seem to have anything nice to say to ppl. Whenever he speaks, it's always smthg wrong with this, smthg wrong with that, blah blah blah etc etc etc. I could go on, but I don't wanna spread his negativity here. Hah!
It makes ppl boil whenever he opens his mouth. I say 'ppl', and not 'me', cos I know I'm not the only one who feels this way abt him. Lucky for him his rank on his epaulettes. Ppl tolerate his crap, but I can't say for sure they tolerate HIM.
For a start, maybe he could say smthg nice abt things that ARE right. Things that were done right by us mere mortals with ranks far below his. Would that hurt? But I guess THAT would take much work on his part too. We're so used to hearing negativities from him, to hear positivities from him, it'd be hard to believe!
That pretty much sums up what I have to say. These three things, to me, are what keeps ppl grounded.
Speaking of having nice things to say, lemme share a technique of giving someone a compliment, and not having to sound like you're apple polishing or boot licking. This is from a book that I'm currently reading.
Simply give it thru the grapevine. Gossip, in another word. In this case, of the good kind.
Say you like A, and you wanna compliment him/her. B is someone who's close to A. Tell it to B instead. On odds of ten to one, your compliment will reach A in 24hr! (The author of the book says this, not me. I'm merely paraphrasing it, in my own words)
Try it out!