Pickles n' Tickles by JJ

ON Facebook last week, a friend had expressed her disappointment and devastation over a theft in her office. Someone had actually stolen her laptop . I mean, who steals a colleague's laptop , right ? It's not like grabbing a pen or a stapler from someone's desk on the way back from the loo (although if anyone steals my Mont Blanc, I'll be sure to unleash one of my favourite spells.  In this case, I'd hope for the thief, assuming it's a man, to have a permanent erection). She had a valid reason to be upset alright. For some reason, I was upset too, especially over a reaction by one of her friends to her status update. This guy came on, laughed out loud and said nothing nice at all to a friend who's lost her work and frantically trying to meet her deadlines. Seriously. What do you do with your lappy when you step out of your cubicle for a little break ? It's not like she is working in a makeshift office at the back of a dodgy rubber processing factory ...

WE hear of children being kidnapped for whatever reasons. Not cool at all. It happens here once in a while. Some are lucky to have been found again but others are never to be heard of after that, which is just too painful for any parent or family to bear. In some cases, the parents may be hit with a painful closure of having to find their little one cramped dead in a duffel bag or something.  The early Friday morning kidnapping of 12-year-old Nayati Shamelin Moodliar came as a real shock to the nation. The student from Mont Kiara International School in Kuala Lumpur was near home when he was abducted, believed to have been seized by two men in a black car at 7.35am. I can't begin to imagine what Nayati's parents are going through right now although the video in that link above speaks volume of their ordeal. We can just hope and pray for the boy's safe return. The Royal Malaysian Police Force has posted an alert on its Facebook page yesterday and urged people ...

"DO not add my mother on your Facebook okay. If she adds you, just pretend like you didn't get any request from her, unless of course if you want her to post embarassing replies to your statuses. I think I need to  create a whole new profile just for her and my aunts," said Mich. "Oh babe, I just taught your mom how to poke you," I replied, laughing. I get Mich's point - I also wouldn't want my mother on my FB, checking on stuff I'd only want my friends and acquaitances to have access to. What's more with an older friend confessing to me last week of 'stalking' her daughter on FB. Freaky, isn't it. You must have seen the look on her face when she had said it.  Aunty Lian on FB Thirty minutes earlier, while Mich was sleeping upstairs, I was in the kitchen, playing with Daisy (the much-loved golden retriever) and talking to Aunty Lian, Mich's mom. The 70++ retired English teacher was animatedly telling me about her ne...