aNt's aNgle:
My fellow columnist, blogger and good friend Marina Mahathir wrote an excellent piece (as always!) about the growing decay of moral values in today's world.
I couldn't help but ring up to her immediately to congratulate her on her wonderful eye-opening piece.
Make no mistake about it folks, it's a threat to all of us - if we don't stand up against it and guide our children in the proper path.
These are often the same values that we in Petpositive fight for, when we speak up for the disabled, the elderly and the animals.
Datuk Paduka Marina, incidentally, is a strong believer in Petpositive and what we are trying to do in Our National, non-profit Society.
The popular Star Columnist also launched Bivai Special Dogs, a service dog-training programme for the handicapped in 2001.
Marina's blog-post is used with permission.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Life's Lessons from Lho
I'm sure The Star sold out every single copy of their paper today because of their front page story featuring International Mystery Man Jho Lo. Now we know we don't need scantily clad girls to sell newspapers, some rich chubby fellow will do!
But reading Jho's interview is instructive nevertheless. There's a lot to learn from him. So here are a few lessons from the 28 years of Jho Lo's existence:
1. Always go to the best schools eg Harrow, Wharton. So all you people who have to go to all those decrepit sekolah kebangsaans where you only speak BM or Mandarin or Tamil, too bad.
2. When at school, pick your friends carefully. Make sure they are scions of the rich and famous. Forget about the scholarship kids.
3. Stay close to your friends and always make them feel good about themselves. This way, they are sure to trust you. Trust is very important.
4. Make sure you know how to do anything for your friends. Book tables at fancy restaurants and clubs, throw wild parties, order champagne, procure friends who are also rich and famous.
5. Bunk in with friends who can pay USD100,000 for a New York apartment. Never mind if you have to sleep on the couch, the address matters!! (12 people in a 5000-square feet apartment...they all slept in bunks or what?)
6. Be so busy arranging things for your friends that you only have time to eat supersized American meals. But who cares if you're chubby if your wallet seems to be too!
7. Tell everyone how you made your first million at 20 and are now making billions for other people. How exactly, you don't have to say. But it's enough to make more people want to throw more money at you. (Never mind that the finance industry is the most derided right now because of the numbers of people it has impoverished. Not the New York party boys of course!)
8. Get a tame local newspaper to do a free four-page ad for you and make sure they ask you only the questions you want them to ask. Don't let them ask you the questions just about everybody wants to know, like how DO you organise these parties?
9. Insist you're a Malaysian through and through but make no mention of any Malaysian friends. Guess partying in KL or Penang ain't quite the same...
There you go, boys and girls, how to succeed in life the Jho Lo way!!
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| Jho 'Chubs' Lo |
But reading Jho's interview is instructive nevertheless. There's a lot to learn from him. So here are a few lessons from the 28 years of Jho Lo's existence:
1. Always go to the best schools eg Harrow, Wharton. So all you people who have to go to all those decrepit sekolah kebangsaans where you only speak BM or Mandarin or Tamil, too bad.
2. When at school, pick your friends carefully. Make sure they are scions of the rich and famous. Forget about the scholarship kids.
3. Stay close to your friends and always make them feel good about themselves. This way, they are sure to trust you. Trust is very important.
4. Make sure you know how to do anything for your friends. Book tables at fancy restaurants and clubs, throw wild parties, order champagne, procure friends who are also rich and famous.
5. Bunk in with friends who can pay USD100,000 for a New York apartment. Never mind if you have to sleep on the couch, the address matters!! (12 people in a 5000-square feet apartment...they all slept in bunks or what?)
6. Be so busy arranging things for your friends that you only have time to eat supersized American meals. But who cares if you're chubby if your wallet seems to be too!
7. Tell everyone how you made your first million at 20 and are now making billions for other people. How exactly, you don't have to say. But it's enough to make more people want to throw more money at you. (Never mind that the finance industry is the most derided right now because of the numbers of people it has impoverished. Not the New York party boys of course!)
8. Get a tame local newspaper to do a free four-page ad for you and make sure they ask you only the questions you want them to ask. Don't let them ask you the questions just about everybody wants to know, like how DO you organise these parties?
9. Insist you're a Malaysian through and through but make no mention of any Malaysian friends. Guess partying in KL or Penang ain't quite the same...
There you go, boys and girls, how to succeed in life the Jho Lo way!!
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