Comments on: All people are equal: Everyone looks silly sitting on the toilet

By: Marita Cheng

Marita Cheng — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:38:53 +0000

Thanks Paula. It means a lot to me. I’ll tell my mum.

By: Hok Shun Poon

Hok Shun Poon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:38:25 +0000

‘Do not be afraid of the wealthy: some are born wealthy, some acquire wealth, others have wealth thrust upon them.’ - Shakespeare (actually i’m just putting words in Shakespeare’s mouth, which is just as well. He’s more famous than I, you see)

By: Hok Shun Poon

Hok Shun Poon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:34:10 +0000

Being tongue-tied is just a bit silly. What is it, is it their presence that is so overwhelmingly mind-blowing? Is it that you’d like to stay by their spiritual aura? Do they have a particular odor about them?
Idolism is such a strange way: what’s the point?

A handshake, a smile, a mutual recognition of each other’s existence in this world is a perfectly adequate way of interacting with these seemingly ‘important’ persons- plainly because, I ask, what ELSE might you do? Tell them your life story? Ask about their life story? Exchange t-shirts? Clean out their ear-wax for them? What?
Well, sure, if you get the opportunity to converse, you still *don’t* have to tell them all about yourself either- if they ask, of course, don’t be afraid to tell’em.
But only if they ask.

Don’t feel inferior, but then again, don’t forget social norms just because they’re ‘:O omfg it’s so-and-so’ famous.

By: Lakshana Huddar

Lakshana Huddar — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:51:25 +0000

Marita! You are the last person in the world who should feel inferior to others!

But I can understand getting tongue-tied in front of great people…still you did get me Imogen Heap’s signature : )

Yaay hopefully loads of people will watch the mech eng song now!

By: Paula

Paula — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:35:46 +0000

As someone who’s known you for forever, I have to tell you that my parents always admired your mother and had a great deal of respect for your family and you. My mother even sent me a cut out clipping of an article in one of the local newspaper with all the OP1 students from St Mary’s with a note about you in first year uni! (I still have it somewhere I think.)

So, while you are right about everyone being human and equal underneath it all, as an extension of that, I think that to anyone who matters we are measured by our achievements.

(I say this as someone who gets horribly star struck too! )

By: Hok Shun Poon

Hok Shun Poon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:35:18 +0000

Sounds good. That’s what I tried to tell you when you came back from TED and told me that you didn’t speak to any famous people.
In fact, it’s your problem for not having spoken to them, though you wanted to.

I wouldn’t speak to them personally, because I have nothing important to tell them!