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Honestly, I feel that the KOPI-TIAM should be allowed to go on. It's a good break from just fish and coral talks & problems. Good for our health and mental well-being too. Also beneficial in many other intangible ways - as long as we remain respectful and cordial with each other.

I tried keeping cockles for fun in my marine fish tank when I first started some years ago. They lasted the most 2 days. The worst thing was they rotted in the sand and fouled the water - very smelly too.

I fully agree with you. Diabolus made a valid observation and spoke his mind. I am that type too, so I hope no one feels offended by my post. No ill intentions, but just stating how I feel. I only don't wish to see anybody getting hurt - SRC is for pple. of same interests to communicate and be friends, not foes.

BOORISH IDOL How do u like your new name??????? Just joking lah!!!!!!!

For once I was wondering why you "really wanted to annoy me". Luckily u clarified....

I feel that things are getting too personal over J.Er's excessive posting. Afetr all, she's not done anything malicious, defamatory or harmful. She's just making full use of KOPI-Tiam to let off steam and find some listening ears to listen to her and share some of her grouses, thoughts and post some questions to learn from others. As AT had said "Anything goes........". I'm sure he knew what he was doing and why he initiated this "KOPI-TIAM" thread. If we feel that J. ER is excessive in her postings in this thread we can always tell her in a "nicer" way. We need not run or mill her down! Reefers are caring, nurturing pple - it show clearly from the way we take care for n nurture our delicate corals, marine fish and invertebrates. When they are not eating well, or dun look too good we worry abt them. Can't we do the same for our fellow human beings? Can't we spare a thought for them too? In fact, humans have more feelings than fishes. Maybe, I am wrong - fishes and all other living things do have feelings too. Have we ever considered how J.ER would feel when so much unpleasant things were levelled at her? How would we feel if we were in her shoes now? Anyway, I noticed that she has refrained from adding more posts after she had been "gunned down" for being too active in KOPI-TIAM.

You want your wife to leave you sleeping alone in the middle of the night - to read & post in KOPI-TIAM??????????? Hahahahahahah...... sory, maybe i reach 70% now - talking nonsense.

3 wishes........ forget it!! u can try "Tua Pek Kong"....... Many curses only!! Dun pray pray!!!!!!!!

Pai seh!!!!!! Just realised that my KOPI-TIAM posts are also quite high - 69% of my total posts. So busy "talking shop" and having "fun" and some "cheap thrill" myself that i didn't count. Better spend some time on my fish and corals oso leh!!!!!!!!!

It's all in our MIND. If we want to be HAPPY - a happy marriage and a happy family and we think that way all the time and do whatever is necessary to make it happen - we will have HAPPY FAMILY.

This is something whcih is good to know, if you belif - "coffin oil" The toaists usually light an "oil lamp" below the coffin (at funeral wakes) and this lamp is kept burning throughout. The undertakers would use a long tong or something to take the oil lamp and throw it away after the funeral. I was told - "DON'T EVER TOUCH THE OIL - it's bad luck FOREVER". It seems, pple doing black magic to curse others and give them bad luck always try their best to get the oil. Belif it or not I leave it 2 u. I am not a toaist myself and I'm not sure whether it's true or not. But, i'll be very careful if i see the "oil lamp". It's certainly not Alladdin's Lamp.

only con pple n syndicates will tell u "how u can make fast $$$$$$$$$ n lots of them. if u belif them u'll be poorer and they be richer faster $$$$$$$$...... frm u. if ever pple tell or teach u how 2make $ fast ......u shd noe wat the pple is trying to do. the "Fastest way 2make $" is to work very hard and very fast. Use KOPI-TIAM time to earn money instead. it's fine if u use KOPI-TIAM time to relax and reduce stress.

The above taken from "Blackmagic"...... Keep a GUI KIA at ur own risk!!!!!!!!!!!!! :

Since Blueheaven tok abt the sub-conscious mind, I wld like to share a little more abt it also................... only 1 time ok?????? Sory!!!!! :off Sory I can't change the "words" cos doing so will change the idea of the whole idea of what I want to say. : Nothing that man’s brain has invented can compare with the brain itself. If man were to build a computer to do the work of one human brain, the computer would have to be as enormous as the Empire State Building and a lot more complicated. When we consider the size of the human brain, it is amazing to realise that this one organ accounts for the activities of the voluntary and involuntary systems of the body as well as consciousness, thought, perception and creativity. The specialised compartments of the brain each has a particular job to do in servicing the body and the thinking processes of the mind. They not only govern the involuntary internal organs, such as those that make up the digestive, circulatory, reproductive and respiratory systems; they also direct every single physical motion, down to the flicker of an eyelash. In addition, every automatic habit and personal idiosyncrasy originates there. Since man first developed his ability to question, he has searched in awe for the answer to the mysteries which surround him. Man has used his intelligence to project far out into his environment, to the point where he can study even faraway galaxies. Yet the greatest of all mysteries is not in outer space but in the inner space of our skulls. Inside the bony cave of the human head lies the real riddle of the universe, where about a trillion brain cells together weighing only about 3 lbs, control memory, imagination, communication, health and happiness.

Look at my Avatar carefully and u'll see something!!!!! It's not magic but ur eyes playing tricks. Many things that we "see" or "feel" maybe b'cos our minds r playing tricks, or maybe ESP. Our MIND is vely powerful,you know. Many "New Age' ppl belif in white magic can good, then black magic can also work to do bad things. Do good get good, do bad get bad - that evryone knows

If u belif it's true, it's true. If you dun belif in it, it's not true. It depends veri much on culture. The best is to have notin 2 do wif it - be it true or not. DUN PLAY PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was only joking!!!!!! Seriously........ I sit down on a comfortable chair and do "breathing in and breathing out" ssss...lowww....ly and enjoy the wonderful feeling. Then I feel beli good leh! .....n all my stress go away.

Sip coffee infront of ur marine tank n tink of nice ppl like fellow reefers and the nonsense they tok abt in KOPI-TIAM.

Yes, existing windows not older than 5 yrs dun need 2 change to stainless steel rivets now. In ur case you r fixing new windows, so the contractor shd use stainless steel rivets and not aluminium rivets. Otherwise, if they use aluminium rivets now, 5 years later you will still have to change them to stainless steel rivets. Therefore, insist on stainless steel rivets, nothing else.

Jaslyn, It's replacing aluminium rivets with stainless steel rivets. The HDB webpage below will clarify evrything. http://www5.hdb.gov.sg/bn25/bn25011p.nsf/EWRSHome?OpenForm

WOW??????? The girl in the pic is a "real two timer". Beri garang man!!!!!!!

Our own wife and other ppl's wives????? If you are cleber enof........ but dun get caught by your own wife and the husbands of other ppl's wives. Otherwise, u r dead meat!!!!!!

MARRY = TO LOVE, TO OWN, TO SETTLE DOWN GF = LOVE (& OWN) I'm not surprised, if the two cute little boys and girls in your avatar are your kids. You must be a doting father too. I am also a HAPPY FAMILY MAN, like you - i have 2 boys. As for our other friends - what would they think and how would they feel if their wives also feel that they are HAPPILY MARRIED WOMAN, not FAMILY WOMAN. If they think it's fine to them then it's fine!!! Personal preferences and values cannot be imposed by others. As long as everyone concerned is happy so be it - it's their own private life, their own choice.

I trying bely ard lah. Gib me plenti mor time n i be good leh!!!!!

A girl pursued by many man does not mean she's "loose" and of course, like you said ....."unless she just wants to be everyone's fast food.. ." She must have the "X" factor that men find or see in her. I would want to join in the fray too to win her over. Anyway, I have already found one like that........ she's become my life partner, my dear wife. .