Hoax Emails

Hi everyone :)

I'm writing here today to tell everyone to please, be at least, aware of such unscrupulous people who like to take advantage of the emotions that people have and write spam emails.

I, for one, do not like to receive e-mails asking me to forward the mail to my contacts.
Fine if it's genuine.
Or funny.
Or has some value to other people.
But it's not okay to me if it's not.

How would you like someone to tell you,

"Hey, DUDE! You've been tricked!
Someone on the other end of the world 
is laughing at you right now...
because you've just been pranked!"

Have you seen an e-mail (real recently and have ended up in my inbox twice now)
That goes like this?

Dear Reader,

I am writing this on behalf of my loving husband.  

Everything was fine, me, my husband and our two children. We had a happy family. My husband was an Engineer in a big company. He comes home early and helps me with the house chores and plays with the children... Our dreams were shattered in front of our eyes last week. It was a drunk lorry driver, who came on the wrong side and hit us and went. It killed my little baby girl and left my husband paralyzed. My husband is still in the hospital. Hisbrain is damaged and he needs an operation. I need 5 lakhs to save his life I have collected about 3 lahks from my friends and family. I need another 2 lakhs.I don't want to lose him. He is such a wonderful husband & father

He still doesn't know we lost our little girl.. I am looking after my son now.. Without my husband I won't be able to take care of him. Please help me
save my husband the one person I dearly love. I have already lost my daughter and I don't want to lose my husband as well. Please help us.
Thank you very much for your love & support.    

May God bless you.

Yours Truly,
Nirosha Silva
(I know you don't like to forward mails. I am really sorry to bother you.  If you have a heart and like to help a family, please forward this mail.
Every time you forward this it will add 5 cents per email ID to AOL and they will deposit it into my bank account. This will help me save my husband.)  

( Even If you treat it as all Fake ... Try to forward Please. It Does not CostFor You. BE OPTIMISTIC) 

      Whether it's true or false doesn't matter, but Pls forward this as Max as you can.

Well, I don't believe it's true.
According to hoax-slayer.com, this e-mail is a hoax.

I mean, think about it.
If AOL (or any giant e-mail company for that matter),
were to really give out 5 cents for each email ID,
and for every sad-case e-mail that gets forward to every inbox,
don't you think you've lost your e-mail account like years ago?

HAH! 
THOSE COMPANIES WOULD'VE BEEN  
BANKRUPT BY NOW!!!

Come on people, BE REALISTIC!!

Why you do want to help spammers all over the world?

You know, I could easily grab your e-mail ID from this forwarded e-mail alone and sell the info to people on the Net. (It's worth USD 5 for each of your email ID... that's easily USD 1000)

Like what these people are doing here: Go ahead and Google; I want to sell a list of e-mail IDs

And because I know that these (your!) e-mail IDs are from real people,
I could make a good sale from you.

And don't think,
"Well, I'm sure the person I forwarded this e-mail to
will delete my email ID before they forward it out."


No. DUH! 
I can safely say more 99% of the people who send me the forwarded e-mails DID NOT DELETE the history of e-mail IDs before they send the forwarded e-mails out.


You know why? 
Because out of the many people who send me forwarded e-mails, only one person deletes the history of e-mail IDs.
(If you're that one person reading this, thanks for doing so :)


So, anyways, if you are scared now that I might take your e-mail ID and sell it off, don't be.
I have a reputation I wanna keep.
And, anyway, it is unethical business to do this.

But remember!!
Not all people have a reputation they want to keep... and not everyone is ethical.
There are those who would do this without a second thought... they'd sell their souls if they could.

And you will never know if your email ID will be one of those sold to an unresponsible person.
Before you know it, your e-mail is hacked, and your personal details are stolen.



Peace yo.


P.S. Before I end my fury-filled post today, I want to remind you.
Be a little more responsible to your friends.
They are NOT words or numbers in your contacts.
Before sending out a suspicious/spam e-mail,
go to http://hoax-slayer.com, and look for that e-mail.
Most likely you are just sending out recycled stuff.
Not there?
Copy paste the first few lines of the e-mail body and do your own search.
You will find out, and it's confirmed to be a fake.

My New Dream?!

So I was talking to chele the other day...
And she mentioned that she went swimming... and invited me along.

Okay, I'd love to go!
Even if I already know how to swim, which, most of you know
if you already know how to swim,
It just kills the fun in "swimming".

BUT!! I want to swim,
cause this form of exercise is very beneficial for the body...
Muscles can form if one swims often,
and of course,
say BYE BYE to fat!!
[Okay, since when did I talk about health? ... since... I don't know,
I got jealous with my sis wearing skinny clothes?]

ANYWAY!!
I currently don't have the means to go swimming [read : DRIVING]
even if I do,
I'd have to rely on friends who live in places that has a swimming pool...
in condos, apartments (would these have?), bungalows (okays, I do not have this kind of friend)
or... places that charge money [CASH!!] to go swimming.

Which translate to: I don't have that kind of luxury T~T

So that's why...
I would want to live in a nice condo...
or penthouse!!

Like this:

 Living Room, Dining Room

 Kitchen

 Bedroom

Swimming Pool!!! :D :D
[Images above; source]

Or maybe, I'll just get a nice bungalow
[I'm actually liking this idea... until spring cleaning comes x.x]
with a swimming pool on the side!! :D :D

[Images below taken from; source]

The exterior of the house

Out-door wadding pool and swimming pool :)
*dies*

Living Room, Dining Room, Staircase

Clockwise from left, top: Living Room?, Dinning Room, Wardrobe, Bathroom

Balcony

Walkway

The spiral staircase
Again, lol.

Meh, I wouldn't be surprised if this house costs a million (maybe more)

BUT!! I still like it!!

And one day; soon, real soon, I'm going to go and purchase one...

Via cash :)

It's a dream; that I can't wait!! :D :D

Thank You Lord =)

I know...
I was supposed to blog about the Saturday that changed my day...

Surprisingly o.O

Okay, so it was my third driving class.
The uncle was super impatient with me.

And I kept making many many many mistakes.
Hey, I'm human too, okay?
Just cause I successfully done it once,
doesn't mean that the next 3 - 4 times will be UBERLY perfect.
[Summore not enough sleep]

It's not like that for me. [Unless I super pro ady la -.-;;]
That also, like, one lesson [3 hours!!!] of NOT doing the same thing,
where can pro?!

Anyways, I was super DOWN when I came back.
Pressured liao.
I wondered why chele said that uncle taught her
3 things on the third lesson.

I only learnt like, 2 =.=
3 point-turn and the slope -____-;;
Okay, why didn't he teach parking?!

MORE PRESSURE!!! GAHHHH!!!

*sigh*
In addition to that, I had to bathe Spot once I came back.
WTHeck? No mood ady, summore wanna bathe Spotty.

Plus, I only had like, a small amount of breakfast
[it was waaaaaayy past my next meal too    -____-;;]
So I was grumpy. No mood. Totally.

And, of course, I we were late for the retreat.
Guess who had no mood to go?
Plus, sis was also "I don't wanna go lah!!"

But! Because I was mopping around the house,
getting ready in my own sweet time [zombie-like]

I still insisted that I wanted to go.
Because next month, I won't be able to attend.

HA! Mum looked at me in concern and asked
"No need to go la, you look tired. Let's go for a movie."

I tell you, immediately, Sucker Punch came to my mind.
Like, YEAH I WANNA WATCH SUCKER PUNCH!!

... but no. I'm going for that retreat.
Cause, secretly, I was hoping that God would bless me.
[yeah, I know. I didn't going there without any sort of agenda]

HAH! Guess what?
Sis and I arrived, and immediately, after 5 minutes;
we were laughing our heads of.
I felt happy again. Not moodless, not tired, not down.

Happy, with my spirits up and a small sprinkle of thankfulness.

And somehow, during the sharing, I realized;
What God told me about LOVE; and what He meant,
and what I was supposed to do about it.

Because during the sharing session [with your own group]
I was speechless. I didn't know how to answer the question.

I was only like, "anything is fine."
I mean, I didn't really have any sort of comments on it D:
But guess what? I told God; I lift this up to You, since I have nothing to say about it anyway.

And was sweating D:
Yet somehow, before it was my turn, I had an inspiration.
And words just blurted out from my mouth.

Okay, I told them that you want to help people, because you love them.
You don't really tell a homeless person;
I love youuuuuuuu~
then don't do anything to help his life become better.

So... LOVE.
I finally got its meaning when God told me about it last year.

And, after the retreat, I went for Mass.
And said my confession.

And cried. Wow.
My church has a priest that's really old.
He was the one who listened to my confession.
Heck, I couldn't say my confession properly too.

My throat choked up and all.
I mean, it was super impromptu.
I just saw the priest giving confession; so I thought, yeah, I need to go.
Really assembled my thoughts in a jumbled up manner,
and just went for it. LOL.

I ended up NOT saying the sins I wanted to say.
I just knelt, closed my eyes and told Him my sin...
And I started crying. What?!

It's like, I don't know...
When I closed my eyes, I can feel a sort of really...
GLORIFIED presence.
Like, there's nothing in this world that can compare to that feeling.

Somehow, with eyes closed, I can "see"
like there's this person [a Man, I presume]
Standing infront of me, while I was kneeling.
I only got to "see" the bottom of His shining robe.
It wasn't white. It was yellow. Like gold. And shining.
And I dared not look up. Choking, so badly.

And the "sin" that I had confessed, was the first one.
I didn't think it was VERY grave, okay?
Just, I hadn't been going to Bible Class every Saturday, like I should.
*sigh*

The priest was shocked, I think.
He heard me say, "Lord, I'm sorry for not putting you first..."
and he asked me whether I had missed Mass.
No, just... missed Bible Class.

And not using that time on Saturdays for God.
Like, being with Him.

You know, it's strange.
I know, on the outside and all,
it just looks like I'm with my friends,
and we have a lesson,
and a sharing
and then eat
and go off.

One Saturday afternoon spent.

Actually, that's not true.
I had forgotten that while I was going there, it was to spend some time with God.
Yet, you think you miss your friends when you don't go for the class, but truly, that's not even close to the value that you are TRULY missing.

Just that 2-3 hours with God meant SO MUCH TO HIM.
And to the SOUL.

So... this post was actually for me, to tell you, my dear readers, if you do get to this part,
Whatever you are about to do, Offer It Up To God.
Whatever time you've given to Him, Honour It.

I now know the meaning of all this.
The Lord Jesus; really does know what He's doing.

Often when things go bad,
it's an opportunity for you to witness the goodness that He's doing for you.

Praise be You, Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.