These few days I have been getting very aggressive on MSN. A few reasons:
1) Lack of cultivation and mind control
2) Touching on topics that i feel very strongly for
3) Chatting with ppl who like to paint too nice a picture on almost everything under the sky.

It seems that I always get myself most agitated when talking to ppl who like to belittle your problems, and counter them with optimistic views and hence, obscuring the underlying negative aspects. Eg1. If your pet dog dies, Ms Ideal will say : Its only a dog what! Life is impermanent. Dun get so attached! , instead of addressing to your emotions and concerns. I wudnt call these ppl 'optimistic' for i believe they do recognise and feel for their problems, jus tt they choose to present only their positive sides to you.

Recently I received a few smses appealing for blood platelets donations. Among them, one case is genuine while the other is way out-dated. And becos we normally share a common grp of frens, i get to receive this same 'out-dated' sms appeal many times within the same day. Hence, i get rather upset with this friend who never bother to check the validity of the appeal (by calling up the given number and check lah) before mass smsing around.

Ms Ideal told me: He is doing this with kind intention wat. He is jus being kind and helpful, you shldnt blame him. But well, she has failed to put herself in the shoes of the receipient, who may no longer need the donations. Cos once the chain msg starts, its not going to stop or die down easily. 1 send to 20, 20 send to 400 and so on. . thats why sometimes you may still see appeals back dated as early as 2-3 yrs ago. Can u imagine how miserable will the family/friend of the apellant feel, esp if she/he has already passed away some time ago, and these non-stop incoming helps are gonna cause more misery and anguish.

A few yrs ago, i received an email appeal for blood donation too for this NTU gal who was pretty sick. Unfortunately, no contact number was given except the sender's email. After verifying the validity of this case by emailing the originator, i began to help mass mailing the appeal to my friends. But somehow along the way, someone removed the email of the originator accidently or what, and the rest of the receipients began to interpret that the originator of the email was me. Hence, i received several number of emails from ppl who wished to offer their help. One of them is a reporter from press, who told me she is willing to publish the appeal on newspaper.

I was thus very thrilled and quickly searched for the contact of the originator. I finally got hold of her but to my disappointment, she told me she has received tooooooo many phone calls and smses that they have 'enough donors'. I could sense that she is getting very frustrated with many incoming calls everyday, from the way she ans my phone call.

So pls be kind! Validate the appeal first before you blindly mass mail/sms them around to your friends. The extra step you take may save much trouble for the family/friends.