“Calm down guys. To answer your question about the recommended tags: I thought it might be useful for people who just have time to quick read a couple of articles for the week. So I put a sort of “thumbs up” to some of the articles that I personally enjoyed reading. There’s no other criteria, really. It’s a personal opinion I thought I’d share with everyone. Some will agree with my choices, some will disagree. There’s nothing wrong with disagreeing. Maybe the word “Recommended” gave some of you the wrong idea, but I actually tried putting small thumbs-up images initially but they messed up the alignments.”

Why didn’t you come up with this explanation in the very beginning when they asked you for it?

Instead, if memory serves, you gave them some smarty pants reply like, see post No.13 above

“I don’t recall tagging “Recommended” to every article from one source..

“exercise your free will and lead your life wisely”. Excellent advice.”

Next time when someone ask you the time, don’t go and tell them what sort of panties your gf is wearing or what you had for breakfast, just answer the flipping question. When you don’t answer the question that is when all the mind games and speculation starts.

Guess what? Those space looney’s may believe you, but I don’t believe you. Not even for a bit. You know why? I have checked out all the list of recommended reads that you have highlighted and I have discovered they ALL have one thing in common. The vast majority of the blogs mentioned are exactly the same bloggers that the strait times keeps promoting no end. And you recommended is designed to side track us all from the main issue in blogoland. Dont believe go check JBJ last week and notice there is only one recommended read among maybe 30 to 40 post. Hey not only that, it was the mildest of the lot, as Lucky Tan is known to be a light weight. So maybe you can tell us what is the chances of that happening on even a very good friday?

Good luck on the long shot, you’re going need alot of luck on this one. I really don’t think anyone here really believes you.

I don’t think the brotherhood believe you either to be perfectly frank and honest with you. For anyone to take the position they did, they would have had to say, “fuck the relationship, lets burn the bridge first, and latter figure out how to cross it.”

Dont trust you. Dont believe you.

Y2K is spot on. Just stay down for the full count and avoid eye contact. He can’t do anything, if you just drop your ray gun.

It cant be very different from this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2agLCjMY7og

Good thing is this is probably how they will treat our gahmen as well.

I am just wondering. Does this all mean, we all press the reset button and you ppl are going to go online and submit the Part 3 report to Mr Cheong Yip Seng & gang?

I am sorry for asking this questions, but it is very confusing, as I am dylexic and this is really like following a basket game, I lost track of the ball.

Colgate People

Good morning. It may be a good idea to just let leave it at that. Frankly, speaking, I’ve always suspected that was your main motivation all along and there was nothing really subversive and insidious about it.That is what I have been trying to tell them all along, so it is good, you confirmed it (I just want to tell all, I never e-mailed ‘g’ privately. You can all check it up with him as well)

I think October 9th, 2008 at 11:03 pm goes a long way to heal the rift and bring about understanding.

You may not realize this. But you may have also checkmated Harphoon in one move at 11:03.

Let me share with you why, although I have spent only a short period in Primus Aldentes Prime, I have taken the trouble to study their culture, it’s essentially a gaming culture.

You see they cannot win by just crushing their opponents with impunity. For them to score a win point, it’s a highly ritualized and stylized affair like Chinese Opera, two elements are required, one is sportsmanship, this roughly accounts for 75%. The other is the technical strike which only accounts for 25%.

That means if they defeat you in the same way as lets say the unsportsmanship manner in which a political party once fixed up an opposition MP by declaring him a bankrupt and casting him into the wilderness, they don’t win as much as lose big time.

In brotherhood gaming culture, there is no greater sin than to strike down the unarmed. If any man breaks this social convention, he will not only be shunned by his own tribe. He will be denied fire, shelter and water and all his credits and estate will be confiscated and given to the one who he once vanquished. He is in effect habis, finished, kaput. No one is above the law and this is tribal law, it is enforced socially by the elders and it’s effects infinitely worst than black letter law.

Harphoon is a wise man, he knows this only too well. He knows this is where he would have to stop and simply accept your explanation. He knows too many people are watching in the shadows. And he knows that if he pushes the matter further, there is a real danger the rest will strike him down. He knows. The rules of their game are crystal clear, he has to stop here.

I hope everything returns to the way it used to be, this is no good for either you people, us or any of our readers. No one wins and everyone loses.

Y2K

You know why don’t you? Because deep down inside every writer’s heart. They basically, ALL want to know the answer to the SAME question that Hello Kitty raised.

That’s to say, they’re all wondering at the back of their heads whether all this awarding of Brownie points isn’t perhaps some master plan by someone or some group to rail road them to write and think in a certain way that is “acceptable” to ONLY a certain group of people.

And let me share with why, that’s such a lousy idea in the long term.

First of all, its insincere and secondly it darn right insulting to my intelligence.

Because if you really want people to write in the particular way that you believe is “constructive” and “good” to serve whoever.

Then the last thing you should ever do is to keep on highlighting the SAME blogs every single week.

You know why don’t you? Because people aren’t stupid like what you people seem to believe.

At some point they will begin to ask, why is the Singapore daily promoting the SAME blogs every single week as the recommended reads?

I mean what is the probability of that happening again and again and again and again. Probably the same as winning the national lottery twice in a row.

If they are really so good in the first place, then why is there even a need to keep on repeating the obvious? So they can’t be very good can they?

And you know what will happen after that, don’t you?

Yeap, terminal skepticism and cynicism will begin to creep in.

Not only will they begin to do the direct opposite of what you want them to do. They will even start to think the direct opposite of what you want them to think.

And you can’t blame them, because that is normal reaction of well balanced people who have a deep spirited sense of pride and self esteem whenever they realize someone else is trying to control and manipulate their minds.

You’re in effect insulting their intelligence and disrespecting their right to free will.

And that is why we feel the need to speak out.

I know what is the cost to us. I am not stupid. I know it only too well, but have always been a honest man in blogosphere. So I will never allow it to happen in my watch.

Above all have you ever considered why most people in blogosphere will just fold their arms and watch all this quietly by the sideline?

Have you ever considered one theoretical possibility. We could very well just be proxies. Yes acting on the behalf of other bloggers. Always remember just because you don’t see people talking about you doesn’t mean they aren’t talking. It just means they want you to believe, they aren’t talking about you.

Think about that next time when you decide to embark on another great social experiment on behalf of you know who. Or do you want me to tell them?

That will be all.

Harphoon 2008

g

Yeah sure!

Let me tell you what you numbskulls have. One IP. That is all you have. One IP. And what else? Nothing else.

Good night

Harphoon.

I have a right to ask this question and on record, I asked it, even if the cost to us was so very high. As I believe every netizen deserves to know.

On record, you the Singapore Daily, did not answer it. And you will simply have to live with that reality.

And the rest of blogosphere have to ask why?

As much as you want to gloss over the facts and treat it as trivia, that is as good as it will ever get.

Harphoon

What criteria do you use? It isn’t even my question. As I understand it, it was actually asked by one Hello Kitty.

Why can’t you just answer the question?

LOL

Harphoon

You see, you cannot touch me on the technicalities, I know how to play this game only too well.

Harphoon

You are doing a fine job. Don’t worry too much about this so called “brotherhood”. I think its just crazy person study too much and with a lot of time to write nonsense and piss people off. I’m surprise you are so patient with them. I banned them from my blog long ago because of their nonsense.