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Slip of the Tweet

Slip of the Tweet

A few wrongly chosen words can really get you in hot water these days, as well-known TV personality and Motivator found out in a hard way. His comments (perhaps not ill intended though certainly revealing a personal judgment not exactly inspiring) about how women who smoke, drink and stay out all night clubbing, would not a good wife make, might raise a few eye brows and incredulous snorts at a Jakarta dinner party, but when broadcast at Twitterland, subjected to instant reTweets and created a tsunami of responses that made him headline news material on mainstream media, turned him from famous inspirator into infamous hater of funloving women overnight.

So traumatized was he by the controversy his 140 character Tweet generated that he did the social network version of suicide by closing his Twitter account of over twenty thousand followers.

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Reality Show

Reality ShowI don’t normally watch much so-called ‘reality’ shows on TV as most of the time I don’t think there’s anything real about the content or those taking part, but merely exa...

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Think Before You Tweet

Think Before You Tweet

Still on the same lines of Twitter the following article is food for thought for us compulsive Twitterers!  Be careful what you say and how you say it, it might land you ...

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Time for Apologies

Time for Apologies

Iedul Fitri, or the end of the fasting month of Ramadhan for Moslems, is marked by asking each other for forgiveness, normally by saying ‘mohon ma’af lahir bathin’ (forgi...

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A Nation of Shoppers

A Nation of Shoppers

What with the current global crisis and the need for the country to maintain healthy growth, I believe we can all play a positive role in ensuring the wheels of the econo...

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Responsible Citizens

Responsible Citizens

Walking the paved streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, on a beautiful summer’s day that varies between a balmy 25 degrees and a rather nippy 15 degrees Celsius, I wonder what ...

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Men of Honour

Men of Honour

Lately I've been dogged by a persistent question whose answer continues to elude me. Namely 'whatever happened to honorable people?'

Where have they gone to? Do they exi...

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Where's the Fun?

Where's the Fun?

I met up with my niece to go to the mall the other day and, as she came straight from school, she was wearing her school uniform.  I am used to seeing her in tank tops an...

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Sex on the Mind

Sex on the Mind

Now that the porn bill is passed I’ve often been asked to comment and preferably rage over it. However, not one to dabble in porn on a day-to-day basis (I guess my desir...

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