Beware of Scam SMSes

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 I received this today:

Name: Unknown Sial_2
Number: +6289694947057
Content:
Tlong Isikan kredit Maxiz 30RM,ke number baru pa'cik 0128113697 pasal pa'cik ada mslah dekat balai POLICE.Lepas kredit masuk bru pa'cik call.
Time: 25/01/2011 14:32:26

Just last month I received quite a similar text:

Name: Unknown Sial_1
Number: +6285217242989
Content:
Ini Ayah tolong isikan topup mexis RM50 ke Nombo bru ayah 0178936809 Ayah lgi ada msalah kat blai plice. Lepas topup masuk bru ayah call.
Time: 20/12/2010 07:44:54

Of course, I am always very cautious and skeptical.  If anything happen to my father (touchwood!!!), most likely my sister or my brother would call or text me first.  I didn't reply to these texts (why want to waste my money???) but I am still keeping it because I have yet to log a complaint to MCMC (just in case they need a proof).

The things people do to make their lives easier and richer by cheating people...  Sometimes I wish they got contracted by incurable diseases so that whatever they had earned from such dishonest ways will not even able to heal them!

Read what the others said about such scam: here and here.

Twisted tougue

I was listening to a radio station in which a deejay made a prank call to a guy.  So while they were squabbling, this guy replied “You are **r**a**c**e** from where?  Your tongue-twisting technique is very good.”

This is not the first time I listened to such remark.  I have heard it in the workplaces, within my neighborhood, random strangers in the coffee shops…

When I just moved into the current place, the landlady told me that the next-door neighbor asked her not to lease the house to **r**a**c**e**.  Alright, I bet she would not tell me about purported request if I was a/an **r**a**c**e**, would she?

An auntie living across the street once complained to me that some **r**a**c**e** boys always teasing Shorty, making him to bark incessantly.  But he is easily agitated by anyone especially those walking with their furkids (read: dog) anyway.

Does it affect me?  I mean the **r**a**c**e** thing.

Honestly, I become very cautious when I have to deal with **r**a**c**e**.  Except the young boys who bring Rascal to see Shorty almost every day.  The friendly brothers are very polite and greet me “Hello auntie!” every time they see me.

Yes, I do

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Ooh!  Silly you!

It is not someone's proposing to me.

It is about the article titled "Do You Wear Mask?"

To which, I sat there reading and silently say "yes" to myself.

I wear, because sometimes it makes someone's happy.

Or, at least, that is normal and expected in the society.

Do you?