When someone steals your photo...

..and made it as her/his Facebook profile picture.

The picture, which I have uploaded in this blog, was used by a woman as her FB profile picture. Being an open account, it generated 'likes' and hundreds of mixed up comments. Some of the comments were positives, others were just hateful, sarcastic even. The comments started with "not bad for Sabahan ladies", with the usual remarks of females' attributes in between. Tales keep on spinning, the owner of the account even invented a story of my cousin being a widow (she is not, thank you very much!). While I, is apparently an unknown tourist, probably from Korea and a complete, selfie-crazy person! Heyyyy, I do selfies but I'm no Kim Kardashian, OK? She's the master of all selfies.

Initially, I didn't know the existence of that woman's FB account but one of my friends (she's frm my hometown) asked us (my cousin and I) if we have other accounts. To which we said, no, we don't. She then sent us a screencapped of the that woman FB profile and well, hell, my pic is her profile pic. Suffice to say, we're not happy with the comments posted next to it.

Long story cut short, we have asked the person to remove the picture and asked her to write an open letter of apology for using my picture without permission. I have to say, her friends were less than happy when they found out that she's been carrying tales all these while.

I don't have issues with people who use images I've uploaded online, but it is only fair to ask for permission no? The only problem is when strangers misuse your photos, it posts a threat to the real owners. Cyber crimes bullying is the worst thing that can happen to you! It's no laughing matter.

Well, since the woman made a public plea and acknowledged her mistakes, we accepted her apology.

Always be cautious, people.

Smartphonegeddon!

Albert Einstein once quoted this:

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots"

Well, Einstein, you weren't wrong. The world now is overrun with generation of idiots, as you had correctly predicted.

Well, we have idiots running around, speed chasing smart technologies. Errr, I'm actually sugarcoating this. What I meant was ruled by smart phones, which if I might, I'm calling them as generation of:

I'diots'
I'bragger'
I'cooler than the regular kids'
I'rich n famous'
I'nstagram bitches'
I'selfie bitches'

..to name a few.  Of course I'm the owner of a smartphone myself but I believe there's still a 'kampung' soul in me. I don't get attached or enamored with my smartphone. I do have Instagram/Twitter/Facebook apps in my trusty Samsung S-II but I don't log into them like 24/7. I still crave the conventional human interaction. When I'm out with pals, I don't clutch my phone like it's my lifeline. I take selfies, I take food-selfies but only for maybe a few minutes at a time. Well, maybe when I'm trapped in a bad date, then I'll envoy this "OMG, I'll totally die without my phone" tactic! At home, I will be the only one whose eyes are glued on the telly. The rest of the house occupants, their eyes are glued onto their smartphones' screen! In any functions that I've been to, you'll see the guests will be doing the same. People around us are doing the same. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace!

Take a look at these (sources from the internet):

Coffee dates with girlfriends..

It ain't Beatles..

Updating your FB status: 'amazing game today'

Ahhh...pizza

A very merry thanksgiving dinner with the fam..

Leisure drive around the city with BFFs

All for one, one for all..

Let's have a date..

Guess the paintings at this gallery failed to bring forth these ladies' artistic souls. Beaten by the technologies..

Grandpa is a bit puzzled..

Coffee date at your local Starbucks

Ahm sexay and I kno' it..

What a warm feelings I have...

A good day for BFFs outing..

Ok, mate. I'll take care of burger, you take care of your cappucino, eh?

Oyy, mom! You're a danger to your kids.

and the winner is..

May the force be with us, in the darkened cinema..

Maybe thousand years from now, archaeologists will probably find ancient fossils of smartphone prototypes at their digging sites all over the world and note in their findings: our forefathers in the 21st century were great pioneers in today's technologies !

It's Smartphonegeddon!

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Goodness ol' me, too ancient for internet chatting games?

????  and why would someone complaints about the contents of this post???!  It's not a sexual post at all. Come on people, if you can't stomach this up, then please, you are more than welcome to make a 'grand exit'. I'm talking about the reality of the danger and downside of the internet chat webs. There are predators lurking around in the web chats, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting, gullible victims. I'm sorry but I'm not going to edit this post and I'm not going to subject myself to the whims and demands of other people. If you find this offensive, then kindly refrain from reading this blog. thank you..

My cousin is crazy about the internet chatting games! 2 weeks ago, I stayed with her for a good 3 whole days and suffice to say, she'd be 'tenet-ing' away, chatting+webcaming, giggling and swearing at the same time.  Being a curious creature that I am, I couldn't resist of jadi penyibuk. I glanced to her monitor, and WOW! She had quite a handful of opened chat windows. Amazing how she could manage to juggle them. Them being all men = the gatal ones, the lonely ones, the mild-mannered ones, the puberscent-stricken ones, everything under the skies! I think the last time I was struck with this internet-chatting phenomenon was when I was about 20 years old, during my uni days to be exact!

So, spurred by my cousin, I did try entering a 'certain' chat rooms and boy, did I not feel like ancient! 5 minutes into the chat room, this blacksabbath18 chatter buzzed me. Seconds later, kampungboy20 followed suit. 10 minutes later, there was this abangsayang25 wanting to finger me up while batangtegak89 wanted to squeeze my boobs! (oh dear!) *roll eyes*  Half an hour passed, most of the chatters were either 18 or 26 years old. I certainly felt like dear ol' Merlin! In the end, I exited the chat room.

From my side, I heard my cousin exclaiming a disgusted sounds. Someone was webcaming his nude-self, showing his engorged private parts gleefully and he didn't even attempt to conceal his face. My cousin typed something like 'sial ko', hit the enter button, then closed the chatter's window. Tsk..tsk..gatal men sure love them internet chat rooms.

As for me, nahhh...I'll pass.

Hello From Ireland...

Aye, aye...what happened???

Lately, my FB inbox has been flooded with friend requests from Irish people. Some have even asked me out for coffee (does Irish people drink coffee? - they must be) and beer. They thought i'm in Ireland..am flabbergested, i mean didn't they read my profile? i have to reply:

"lovely, but am living on the other side of the continents and we can only do coffee and beers in our dreams"

and they go like: "err, you're not from Ireland? i thought you are"

eh???? did FB somehow ommitted my 'networks and current city info?' ...... i don't think so..

never mind, i did aprrove a few of those friend requests...where's the harm in that? i only hope that they are not axe murderers moonlighting in FB, lol!

To Approve Or Not To Approve

well, i'm not sure about you people but will you 'approve or reject' your boss or ex-es if they send you a friend request say, via Facebook?

as for me, the 'block user' application will be sweetly reserved for old flames. as for the boss, hmmm..this is quite a dilemma. maybe i'd click the 'ignore' button. it'll be weird having your boss in your friends list. imagine, he or she will have full access on which circle of friends are you into, your out-of-the-office activities, etc..etc.. god forbids, that wouldn't do! no thanks...

recently, an old flame sent me his Facebook friend request. i was like, duh! of course i clicked the 'block user' application. other people may find it easy to get chummy with their old flames but for me, it's a big NO! when a relationship ended, everything that 'has been' remains 'has been'. No emails, no text messages, no phone number, no pictures, NO whatsoever! You move on with your life and it stays that way...

The World of Facebook..

So.. after Hi5, Friendster and Myspace, then it's the Facebook's turn to gatecrashing our cyberworld. One of my friend, Daniel 'Crazy' Gomez initiated me to join this highly popular (if not, highly confusing) social networking site. Ok, all seems to be ok and interesting and off I went, saying "YES" to the invitation.

browsing through, i found it interesting, fresh and guaranteed you zillions of "friends" so to speak. However, there is also a set back (at least for me-lah) all those itty bitty features really make my brain doing rollercoaster spins and i have no idea on how to respond 'Properly' to those "Requests" and I found myself clicking "YES' to every request/invitation, but honestly I don't even have any idea on what I've been agreeing to hahahah...(ok, am laughing to myself) and most of the time, i just gave up "YES-ing"
Truthfully, i am hopeless when it comes to techie matters, hah!

having Hi5 and Myspace accounts? Guilty as charged! However, I ditched them after getting so many 'friend requests' from kinky and sex-crazed men. My inbox (especially Myspace) was swollen with dirty pictures, mostly of male privates! I also hate to read messages typed in "overly creative" letters like this "HoW aRE YoU" bloody hell, can people just type it properly? it annoyed the hell out of me and giving you crossed-eye! If and when I want to get creative, might as well do it in bed!

so, now i am experimenting with this facebook thingy. yes, i am a confused member but i'd give it a try, for now....