No-Face Book – The Facebook for Enemies

What is the point of having 1000 friends in your Facebook when in real life, they are your enemies? If you don’t even “give face” to your friends, then it’s about time you added them to No-Face Book – The Facebook for Enemies.


Initially created by gangsters who wanted an easy way to facilitate table-talks and trade fire arms, No-Face Book is gaining popularity among amateur criminals and even teenage enemies from high schools and colleges.

Developed in line with Facebook’s concepts, this new popular social network maintains some key aspects from Facebook that are aligned with its objectives such as Mafia Wars and Vampire apps.

In a public demo, No-Face Book CEO John Gotti explained the 10 key functions of the social network:

1. Add as enemy: add your enemies into your network for easy negotiations and gang mergers. Create gangs and request enemies to be a fan of your gang.

2. Suggest an enemy. – if you know someone who is avoiding the social network, why leave them alone? Suggest them to your other enemies to be sucked in too.

3. Dislike your enemy’s photos, status, or just dislike them! Its so easy.

4. Send private insults to your enemies and keep track of insults you receive.

5. Find and interact with new enemies by analyzing the ‘mutual enemies’ column.

6. Enemy requests can be ignored as how it works in Facebook but the enemy will be notified that you ignored to add the spice to the network.

7. Enemies have birthdays too – hurl rotten tomatoes, eggs or sign up as premium member to choose weapons to use on your enemies including bomb-in-a-candle.

8. We have not forgotten the fun you have on Facebook games. We have introduced Harmville. Blast your enemy’s barn and kill their cattle. Merge your gangs and destroy the crops!

9. Write on Firewall of your enemies if you miss them and see Firewall-to-firewall to track conversation and negotiations.

10. Tag your enemies as anything you wish to create new fights. With the stealth settings, your enemies cannot untag themselves unless they surrender to you using the Humiliate Me! application.

Get ready for your funeral in style

Dying soon? Why don’t you get yourself prepared for the ultimate luxury in dying experience? Head over to Hong Kong for the Asia Funeral Expo!


If you have not pampered yourself enough for the past 70 years, don’t fret. Your time is now… You can buy everything you need and pre-book your funeral coordinator at the one-stop death expo.

Tired of looking down from heaven at a lousy photo of you on the casket? Head over to our photography section to take a photo of yourself and keep it in our online database. We will frame it for you when the need arises – now complete with free make-up and embossed frame!

When you are here, do not miss the Tombstone Pavilion - the largest specialized monument pavilion in funeral expo in Asia. We have reputable stone suppliers specialized in tombstones, monuments, headstones, plaques, sculptures, urns, vase & stone funeral products. Get your favourite superhero or idol engraved on your headstone for free and if you book your stone during the expo, you will get 50% off on your next purchase (non-transferrable).

Living all your life in a crammed 600 sq ft can sometimes get on your nerves. Live a full life and beyond. Yes, it’s achievable right here at the AFE Cemetery section. A congregation of cemetery professionals & buyers across nations will facilitate information exchange on real estate properties for the afterlife! Fine finishes, cosy compartments in your own basement abode now at affordable prices. You don’t have to ‘dig’ deep into your pockets anymore!

Some other highlights of products offered include urns and caskets made of titanium and gold. Also new to this year’s expo is a website service section dedicated to an after-death experience on cyberspace.

Besides having a permanent space on the world wide web, the built-in program helps to maintain your social networking sites like Facebook after you have physically left earth. It even changes your status accordingly!

Okay I made the last paragraph up but the rest of it is absolutely true! Happening now in Hong Kong… at www.asiafuneralexpo.com

Iron Man 2 and the Journey Within

We watched Iron Man 2 yesterday. In the final scene, Iron Man aka Tony Stark streaks across the sky in his ultra fast suit, chased by his old friend James ‘Rhodey’ on another armour suit designed by Tony Stark himself.

The irony here is – although ‘Rhodey’ is Tony’s friend and doesn’t intend to hurt him, he is not in control of the suit. The suit keeps chasing and attacking Iron Man. ‘Rhodey’ says to Iron Man (he was at least in control of the communication system) in this scene that his suit is being controlled by someone else, in this case, Ivan Vanko – the evil scientist.

Enough of science fiction, now for the science. This morning I was reading Swami Chimayananda’s article on Bondage posted by Kugan on Harnessing the Heart. I immediately connected that article to the scene depicted above.

Swami says:

Think of the tragedy. You must attend to this body constantly, all the twenty-four hours of all the three hundred and sixty-five days of a year, nay, and one day more in a leap year. There is no escape. You must be with it all the time, without any holiday. An all-time-servant you become of your own body. You can have a release from your office, home, friends, society, —from everything, but not from this body-catering-mission in life.

Although this spiritual message may not have been intended by the Iron Man 2 scriptwriter, ‘Rhodey’ in that scene was being controlled by Ivan Vanko. He became a slave to every move that Ivan programmed the armour suit to perform. Similarly, we have become slaves to our body and mind. We are merely wearing the suit of our physical body. Our weapons of senses are being controlled by external influences on the mind. If only we could turn our vision inward, we would discover the true ‘Rhodey’ inside of us – the divine soul.

Swami continues:

Because of this identification you must preserve this body, feed it, clothe it, treat it, when ill, and when necessary it must also get a blood transfusion or a heart transplant. It is not sufficient that we look after and preserve the body, but we must also run after all the objects desired by it—house, car, radio, air-conditioner, television and what not! 'Why am I living so contentedly in this slavery?' 'Because this body is me. My body's happiness is my happiness.'

‘Rhodey’ kept chasing Iron Man – being controlled by foreign power. He was aware, but he couldn’t do anything – the external force was too strong. Finally, Rhodey’s suit was reset – over-riding the control and he became his true self once again.

Let us all get in touch with the true Rhodey within us by controlling the armour we have. The only way to do this is by resetting our thoughts and mind in tune with God.

Go Slow...

This is an old article that I received last year, but worth reading again…

It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It's a rule.

Globalized processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results.. Therefore, we have come to posses a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

1. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants. .
2. Stockholm has 500,000 people.
3. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, are some of its renowned companies. Volvo even supplies NASA.

The first time I was in Sweden , one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work).

The first day, I didn't say anything, neither the second or third days. One morning I asked him, "Do you have a fixed parking space?

I've noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot."

To which he replied, "Since we're here early we'll have time to walk, don't you think that whoever gets in late will need a place closer to the door?" Imagine my face.

Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe named Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart, Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of "hurry" and "craziness" generated by globalization, fuelled by the desire of "having in quantity" (life status) versus "having with quality", "life quality" or the "quality of being".

French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than Americans or British. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity driven up by 20%..

This slow attitude has come to the notice of USA , the pupils of the fast and "do it now" brigade.

This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower productivity.
It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress.
It means re-establishing family values, friends, free and leisure time.. Taking the "now", present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined and anonymous.
It means taking humans' essential values, the simplicity of living.
It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive work place where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do.

It's time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence.

In the movie, 'Scent of a Woman', there's a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, "I can't, my boyfriend will be here any minute now". To which Al Pacino responds, "A life is lived in an instant". Then they dance the tango!

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious to live for the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists.

We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".

Congratulations for reading this article till the end of this message.
There are many who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this "Globalized" world

Now my question is – what will happen to Volvo now that it is a part of a Chinese auto company? Are they going to speed up?