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uhhhh so kali's girl is getting hitched. So???? What's the point you're trying to make? Or is it some private joke? Pray tell.

USM Science Officer?

Aman from the Aman Motor company in Kelantan?

Lara Hassan??? Wow, now I know where Lara Croft gets her name from, he he he, :)

Hmm, interesting. Under normal circumstances the akad nikah ceremony is held at the bride's hse. However in this case I presume it's already done earlier & this is the groom's turn for the kenduri. Are you going Jeff? Or is this card sent to you by a 3rd party?

JEFF OOI says: The akad nikah, I was told, will be held on the hari baik, bulan baik of July 6 (Thursday). Invitation card from Third Party? You mean 'Pihak Ke-3'?

Part of MacZulkifli feelings about this article
''' ...Kalimullah is scared, and he is worried. Not so much for himself, I reckon. Instead, he fears that his daughters wedding might be disrupted. It is no longer a private affair for family and friends. It's now a very public event.

Yes, I reckon that seals it. Jeff won and Kalimullah lost. That always happen when someone dear to us gets dragged into the fight. Jeff has just sealed his reputation as Malaysia's most influential blogger....."

Care to comment Jeff?

JEFF OOI says: I am just updating my i-Pod playlist. You guys are reading too much into it. But then, everyone who has an opinion is entitled to his widest imagination. Even a tilapia will wink and blink by the sights of worm three miles over the other feeding pond. That being the case, I won't waste time on things that are none of my consequence or constituents.

I didn't get an invitation to Kalimullah's farewell when he "left" NST recently (before he came back as deputy chairman and then left again as a New Sunday Times columnist last week)

So I expected not to get an invitation to his daughter's wedding.

Lara is not the one in Australia, I assume?

Lara is his eldest daughter. I guess, she did study in Australia (after all, Kali tu kan seorang jutawan) & is back for her wedding

If am not mistaken he has three girls and a boy, whose birthday celebration he said he missed cuz he was caught up in the office following the controversy on the cartoon of the Prophet SAW .

what has this got to do with anything?
is it all personal now?
this blog has lost a lot of my respect.

JEFF OOI says: I am just updating my i-Pod playlist. And 'Inai Di Jari' by S. Jibeng happens to be my favourite song whenever wedding bells ring. You guys are reading too much into it. But then, everyone who has an opinion is entitled to his widest imagination. BTW, the wedding was already the talk of town earlier last week, especially among the media circles, for specific reasons. You are surprised, most probably you didn't get an invite?

Jeff, It's time for me to speak up. I have NO PROBLEM with this post.

Many politicians have held open houses (with their families present) that are open to anyone, who didn't have to visit your blog to find out about them. And crazy people can easily ask hotel staff, caterers etc about events.

Mack Zulkifli has insanely exaggerated this thing. And tried to get other people in on his dramatized idiocy.

JEFF OOI says: Someone just emailed me an anecdote: "Someone else is having an orgy, and why must you fake an orgasm when you are the only peeping tom?" I almost laughed to death.

Make no mistake, I am not referring to your views. The anecdote writer was referring to someone's rezeki that he wanted a slice of, three miles off-shore. While I respect what has been said by Screenshots readers in this entry, I have no comment and I do not want to be drawn into unnecessary polemic, more so on things that are none of my consequence and constituency.

Meanwhile, I am still constantly updating my i-Pod playlist. At least wedding bells trigger the congratulatory moods whenever I hear one. To have a son-in-law is a great achievement in one's lifetime, and I look forward to mine. Isn't that what all fathers live life for?

Jeff,

I have to admit that the first time I saw this blog entry, I thought that you had something personal. It really felt too far. After all, it's the guy's daughter.

Anyhow, if as you say it's just you celebrating the fact of a wedding and wanting to update your ipod playlist, you could've just made a mention of the wedding without posting an image of the invite.

Regardless of your motives (good or bad), it still seemed a bit crass, mate.

Jeff, enough!!!!!!!!! When your daughter gets married later, I hope nobody will make capital of that happy event. What goes around comes around. You hve not won anything belittleing Kali. Have you a grain of goodness in you to forgive (no I dont expect you to forget!)You buddhist, I am made to beleive thru this blog.Peace and may you hve good sleep every night.

JEFF OOI says: I must admit, the song 'Inai Di Jari' will remain a favourite collection of mine for quite some time, because the singer is one that I quite like, though his repertoire was seldom noticed. Wish you could listen to it one day.

But if you want nothing of my i-Pod playlist, then go here: http://rockybru.blogspot.com/2006/07/ah-mack-zul.html

jeff:

As I left a comment at Mack's, different people react differently as vantage points are indeed different, impacted by any number of factors. Am I stating the obvious and wasting readers' time?

My first reaction on seeing this post -- what is it about? Didn't realise it had anything to do with Kalimullah Hassan ... plus daughter.

We can difference of opinion -- indeed I have stated my differing views in opposition to Jeff'e here -- as lon as we keep the discourse civil.

I just hope Mack would see -- with your further comments -- that he could have over-reacted. Never mind whatever it is, we are all adult and can make our own decisions. I sometimes stuff cotton wool in my ears listening to others' views, but I ciontinue to open both (my) eyes.

Congratulations on your victory, old man.

Hope you make the best of it.

hey folks, blog writing is not a contest like World Cup lah;
where can there be Victors and Losers?

Only writers, commenters and agitators; some grade 10, some half-past 7 (like me!) and tghe majority, according to a former PM, half-past SIX!

Let's all retreat to our Grade 10 residences at Damansara Hieghts if we are lucky, othervice, to Kg Pandan or Furoong also can, just don't get caught for Defamation and Inflammation of the thorat and ah, mind/e.

Put it this way Jeff, if you had no malice or are truly honest, then the focus of your entry should just be S. Jibeng's song on you iPod. You are playing the same tricks as our local politikus.

So next time I get a flyer of a school recital with your daughter's name on it, let me scan it in high resolution and just put a little footnote that I've put "Mabuk Kepayang" on my player, and if you say anything, I will just say it put me in the mood to update my playlist.

JEFF OOI says: Do it as you wish, and I don't think I will read too much into it. It may humour, though. ;-)

Phew! I expected this post to attract fireworks and I'm not disappointed.

Jeff, I have learnt that when you write you always have a reason. One of them is to provoke us to think, to ask, to search, to investigate. Or, not to be fooled by the obvious, but to probe the connections.

In this case ....Hmmm ......

Aiseh! My family wants me to write more clearly and objectively. Here goes:

Objectively ... People love publicity. Newly-weds pull all kinds of publicity stunts to get themselves featured and their photos published in the newspapers.

Objectively ... People who are in the public eye will get publicity uninvited. The mainstream media will usually publish things about a public figure that it deems to be newsworthy.

Objectively ... Screenshots has published the wedding invitation card. It has given some publicity to the family of a public figure who will be holding a wedding.

So, can we treat this as a test to prove how objective we are?

Aiseh! My family wants me to write more clearly and objectively. Here goes:

Objectively ... People love publicity. Newly-weds pull all kinds of publicity stunts to get themselves featured and their photos published in the newspapers.

Objectively ... People who are in the public eye will get publicity uninvited. The mainstream media will usually publish things about a public figure that it deems to be newsworthy.

Objectively ... Screenshots has published the wedding invitation card. It has given some publicity to the family of a public figure who will be holding a wedding.

So, can we treat this as a test to prove how objective we are?

Dear Jeff,

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Since the card did not have your name on it as an invited guest I presumed that it was sent/delivered to you by someone else. In this case you're the third party. Hope this makes sense. :)BTW you still haven't answered my question: Are you going?

JEFF OOI says: I am not that important. What has transpired elsewhere, may be worth a look.

Why not you go to Rocky's Bru which hosts insights into the inner cicle of media operatives: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28452020&postID=115174448524216435

I'm surprised.

IMHO you wanted to dick around with Kali.

I find posting the card immature ti say the least.

If that was all, fine. One's allowed to be a retard on his own blog.

But dancing around the issue with your iPod excuse makes it doubly retarded.

JEFF OOI says: Thanks for your commentaries. We -- you and I and all -- are what we write.

I was the first to see and comment on the evil in this entry. I hope I won't be the last either.

"JEFF OOI says: I am just updating my i-Pod playlist. ... That being the case, I won't waste time on things that are none of my consequence or constituents."

(1) Updating your playlist? And your loyal readers were born yesterday! How can we believe that when your playlist is hyperlinked to the USM Physics dept staff list? http://www.usm.my/phy/master.asp?menu=staff
And figuring out where the son-in-law works doesn't take time either? Nice try but I see and smell evil!

(2) You won't waste time on things that are none of your consequence or constituents (??). So getting hold of the card, scanning it and uploading it onto your blog doesn't take a second, huh? And we were born yesterday.

"BTW, the wedding was already the talk of town earlier last week, especially among the media circles, for specific reasons."

IMHO The fact (is it?) that the event is the talk of the town does not justify you weighing in the way you did. On the other hand, it seems you know what the specific reasons are. If so, why not have the balls to say it out in your entry? I'd like to know. Like I said in my first comment, WHAT'S THE POINT?

You have indeed sparked thought in your readers' minds. Now if that's not being a batu api, I don't know what is.

This is not the first time I've seen evil in Screenshots. In your entry Haniff makes sense ( http://www.jeffooi.com/2006/06/haniff_makes_sense.php ) I spotted you putting words into Wong Chun Wai's mouth to further your own opinion about "political posturing". And I sensed it was aimed at your good friend at Jln Riong. Well, other readers can see my comment there and judge for themselves. Incidentally, that entry was also where you introduced the concept of batu api, no?

Bottom line is this: please stop discrediting yourself by taking things personally. Ooops sorry - your blog, huh? and you can do & say anything you like (including deleting this comment).

Hahaha You are now part of media, my friend - you have to be objective and responsible too! Be a man, apologise to your loyal readers and move on.

BTW, if anyone out there has any suspicion about my loyalties, by all means google my pseudonym and you'll see from whatever few comments I have made in Screenshots that I'm nobody's servant!

JEFF OOI says: I hadn't -- and didn't-- ask to know whose servant you are. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, anyway. You are entitled to draw your own conclusion. Meanwhile, remember, we -- you and I and all -- remains what we write.

http://www.directhere.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=family_article&ContentID=8273&PageID=15&bdGroupID=4

seeevil666:

The difference even if I ggogle to rtrack your comments, it's all still hiding , like a coward, behind a Spedonym (your word, not mine).

Hey, have some balls since you hold such strong views, put a real penname where we raeders can link the writer to specific website/blog -- otherwise, you are just like a Little Lamb trying to act like a Wolf, don't even posses wolf's clothing!

this is not good, jeff. your excuses make it worse. i have no respect for kali. i know his personal vendetta, with the might of nst, against you, an individual, has made you extremely bitter. but please don't involve innocents. don't incite others to involve innocents. how could you do this and pretend it's nothing? remember how your wife felt when you were being investigated? weren't you worried about her? i agree with mack. it's a shame his voice of reason is silenced now. please stop the hate.

your hatred of kali reminds me of the umno-pas war. the one-upmanship will never stop, but get worse. if only uncle yap's story on april's fool day was for real.

Jeff, you had lost your count. You may say all sky high to support your action. But this not a justify action mr jeef ooi...

JEFF OOI says: What is good for the geese must be good for the gander.