que sarah, sarah. (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ishimmer) wrote,@ 2004-03-30 09:40:00 |
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About copycatting.
First of all, thanks for all the kind words of support regarding my grandmother. A long overdue thank you note, but not any less appreciated. We went to visit her last weekend, and she's looking better- no tubes up her nose and she can finally eat some food. I don't know when she will be discharged but I can see she's desperately wanting to be on her own bed and watch ASTRO until her eyes drop out. All she has on the hospital's television are TV1, TV2 and TV3 so yes fellow Malaysians, imagine the boredom. When we were there, we spent an hour pretending to be facsinated about a documentary on bees.
But besides that, I haven't been updating very often and have't been commenting much either. Very sorry! Will be catching up with everyone's life as soon as I get the chance.
I'm in college now and I'm supposed to be concentrating on the lesson going on but bleh, you put a computer with internet facilities in front of a girl who hasn't been online for a while... you can't expect me to resist, can you?
Today, my topic will be on plagiarism. I opened up a blog yesterday and found one of my previous entries on it! I don't know to be amused that someone would actually bother copying and pasting my sentences and adding additional sentences and passing it off as her own; or to be extremely annoyed as this is not the first thing she has taken from me.
I'm a little embarassed to say it, I'm a bit of both. Like woah, she likes my entries so much that she had to pass it off as her own. But on the flipside: how can you actually PLAGIARISE my entry? Hello! Especially when you know you're linked from my page and you actually had the balls to LINK ME BACK? Are you not terrified by the idea that I might one day open your blog, which I did, and discover what you did? UGH. Why is everything so BLATANT these days? Whatever happened to subtlety?
I should really go up and confront her about it but dammit la, she's got this nice girl persona going on and I'm too much of a freaking doormat. So if she's reading this and I do hope you know who you are- I don't want to be proclaiming your name for the world to know- please STOP taking my ideas, okay? People are telling me that I should have just put your link here and actually take what you wrote and compare it to mine but I don't want to make a big deal out of this. I guess I'm taking this one easy but if it happens again, none of my friends are gonna allow me to sit it through so calmly.
First of all, thanks for all the kind words of support regarding my grandmother. A long overdue thank you note, but not any less appreciated. We went to visit her last weekend, and she's looking better- no tubes up her nose and she can finally eat some food. I don't know when she will be discharged but I can see she's desperately wanting to be on her own bed and watch ASTRO until her eyes drop out. All she has on the hospital's television are TV1, TV2 and TV3 so yes fellow Malaysians, imagine the boredom. When we were there, we spent an hour pretending to be facsinated about a documentary on bees.
But besides that, I haven't been updating very often and have't been commenting much either. Very sorry! Will be catching up with everyone's life as soon as I get the chance.
I'm in college now and I'm supposed to be concentrating on the lesson going on but bleh, you put a computer with internet facilities in front of a girl who hasn't been online for a while... you can't expect me to resist, can you?
Today, my topic will be on plagiarism. I opened up a blog yesterday and found one of my previous entries on it! I don't know to be amused that someone would actually bother copying and pasting my sentences and adding additional sentences and passing it off as her own; or to be extremely annoyed as this is not the first thing she has taken from me.
I'm a little embarassed to say it, I'm a bit of both. Like woah, she likes my entries so much that she had to pass it off as her own. But on the flipside: how can you actually PLAGIARISE my entry? Hello! Especially when you know you're linked from my page and you actually had the balls to LINK ME BACK? Are you not terrified by the idea that I might one day open your blog, which I did, and discover what you did? UGH. Why is everything so BLATANT these days? Whatever happened to subtlety?
I should really go up and confront her about it but dammit la, she's got this nice girl persona going on and I'm too much of a freaking doormat. So if she's reading this and I do hope you know who you are- I don't want to be proclaiming your name for the world to know- please STOP taking my ideas, okay? People are telling me that I should have just put your link here and actually take what you wrote and compare it to mine but I don't want to make a big deal out of this. I guess I'm taking this one easy but if it happens again, none of my friends are gonna allow me to sit it through so calmly.
