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TONIGHT ONLY: Urgent message from the Principal Piccolo Player of the Philharmonic
I just received an SMS from Sonia, the Philharmonic's Principal Piccolo Player:
Good concert at MPO tonight. Silent movie w us playing live sound track then westerner movie themes second half. Many spare tkts. Could u pls post to rumahpapa and face book for me as i'm stuck on stage rehearsing. There should be a link on the MPO FB page. You're a fan right? Much appreciated! !
1. If you're in KL this evening, I recommend this highly (get some culture ;). )!
1.1. I've got a prior commitment this evening, so I can't join you at the concert.
2. The Facebook Page of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra is at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Malaysian-Philharmonic-Orchestra-MPO/105223642521
2.1. Tickets and more info at http://malaysianphilharmonic.com/index.php
3. "rumahpapa" (http://groups.google.com/group/rumahpapa ) is the email group of my church (http://www.blc.net.my/ ).
4. Right, I'm a fan - of the MPO, the MPO FB Page, and Sonia.
5. Sometimes opportunities come floating by and we need to grab them for something magical to happen - go for the concert!
5.1. If you go, wait for a lull in the music and yell, "SONIA! WE LOVE YOU! ROCK ON!"
5.1.1. No, don't. Really, don't.
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The obsession to not speak bad words is not the same as the passion to speak good words. @chongy
The mistake of this ankle-deep wrangling over Christians and profanity is that it misreads a significant cultural shift—one deeply grounded in intellectual conviction—as a rebellious or apathetic flavor of the moment. No doubt, many a young Christian at university has slipped into colorful language almost involuntarily, without having a well-considered justification for his new vocabulary. Only in a few instances does it require moral courage to utter the word “fuck.” But to imply that most Christians who swear do so out of lapsed scruples, and can be pricked back into conscientiousness with a quick devotional from their favorite journal of “progressive culture,” is to profoundly misunderstand the change that has prompted so many of them to dismiss the petty social preoccupations of their forbearers.
via patrolmag.com
The paragraph above is a mind test. If, after reading the para, you only recall *one particular word* from it, you need to expand your mind a wee widdle bit more ;).
I remember when Dilbert used the cuss phrase "Jeepers Cripes", Scott Adams received angry letters at his profanity.
Adams responded that he became afraid that because of his choice of words, "Gosh" would "darn" him to "heck".
If you ask me, profanity is to take the sacred and treat it commonly. Those who make mountains out of molehills when someone drops the F-bomb, have sex as their god, in my opinion. More accurately, they worship the god of antisex. Which is the other side of the coin of sex obsession.
(Thanks @chongy for the link!)
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They speak Cantonese in Vietnam?
Observer from Vietnam Lutheran Church brings greetings. In Cantonese. What?
Posted from Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
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Migrants, all of us.
I ponder about the migrants who land here in Australia and immediately seek out their racial sectors. Ghettos, at worst. Perhaps these are not marked by poverty in this land of plenty. Or perhaps they are marked. By a poverty of the mind. A poverty that turns inward or at best toward like-minded, like-coloured people.
Sure I'd seek out Malaysians if I landed here. I did, in fact. But my opinion is that our cultural enclaves should be staging areas into the great wide world, otherwise they become a self-congratulatory club of incestuous thought that's going to breed quasimodos of the mind. And then my thoughts drift back home to Malaysia and the migrants who do the same. And we're all migrants, really. Just that some of us migrated earlier than others. At some point, some societies try to demarcate their cultural borders. "This is who we are and we're not else." At such historic points their culture begins its last waltz of death, I care not who you are. Thankfully, their children often resurrect a similar creature from the ashes. A creature changed but close enough that observers often perceive it to be the same creature, but it is not. It is a new Phoenix. Maybe better, maybe worse, likely both. But that is the way things go. Who will we be tomorrow, Malaysia? We decide today. Or we die when today's sun goes down. Becoming the living dead, afraid of the dawn, afraid of the revealing light. Melbourne, 090813Comments [1]
Dvorak doesn't know about DJing
Time Magazine Insults Nation--Yahoo! News:
Girl listening to a vinyl record--again mockery. Would this woman even know how to play a vinyl record?
while I sympathise with Dvorak's contention that Time's choice of Person of the Year is a cop-out, I don't think he really knows full well what he's talking about here. he rants and raves at Time for portraying You as an idiot in their slide show on the article page. one of his complaints is of this girl "listening to a vinyl record," presuming that a young thing like her wouldn't know how to work a turntable.
uh, she's not "listening to a vinyl record." she's DJing.
John C. Dvorak
sometimes saying smart sayings
likes to make loud sounds
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