Of false, unfriendly SMS ...

In this business of truth and credibility, nothing is left unspared by unscrupulous character/s in their destructive attempts to hoodwinked the public.
While Bernama strives to relay fast and accurate information, we have had to grapple with challenges, probably, arising from our credible reputation.
Tonight, we had to lodge a police report over the spreading of false news through the short-message service (SMS) purportedly transmitted by Bernama.
The report was lodged by Bernama's technical department senior manager Abdul Halim Hafiz at Jalan Travers police station at 8.45pm tonight. The department supervises news flow on Bernama's SMS news service.
In his report, Abdul Halim said irresponsible elements had used Bernama's name to spread the false news that seven Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties would be holding press conferences to announce they were pulling out of the ruling coalition.
"I have checked Bernama's SMS news log for today and found no record of such an SMS sent," he said.


Bernama's SMS news service is only available to registered subscribers with the Maxis and Celcom cellular telephone networks through the SMS code 26822 and follows a pre-set format.
Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek described the act of spreading the rumour via SMS as irresponsible.
He said it showed that those responsible were prepared to lie in order to influence the people.
"This (the SMS message) is a big lie. They also gave the date for the component parties from Sabah and Sarawak to quit BN as today, which has turned out to be untrue," said Shabery.

Journey of life ...

Wonder what had made a friend hurt so bad that he decided to stop blogging for at least a month in protest.
All he said in his blog mynasir.blogspot.com was that he could never imagine the incident could ever happened to him.
"… (it) hurt me so bad I don't even want to talk about it."
I SMS him yesterday hoping that whatever reason that had made him so upset would soon be over. Now that we are in the month of Ramadan, I do hope he would be forgiving.
Before calling it a day, I went through the emails and found one that I should share out. Here goes:

"As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will.
You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time.
You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken.
You'll fight with your best friend.
You'll blame a new love for things an old one did.
You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love.
So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin."