Laugh and clap on cue for popular commy

“We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named Charlie. We never found him.”
-Forrest Gump

For the moment:
Frisky Cyber – Huge-A
Lost Ones – Lauryn Hill

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I am beginning to notice, that when you’re famous or popular, people laugh at almost everything you say.

I don’t care if its admiration, response mechanism or the ism in the defense mechanism. Or the it in bring it on.

I find it amazingly annoying and remarkably ridiculous.

And I’m not talking about myself (or anyone specific). Far from it. That is just a bag those two wonderful people *ew…double ew*, I know in Singapore bought for me. Sarcastically.

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On a similar note, during the period where communism was at large in Malaya, Lee Kuan Yew, then a regular but influential citizen climbing the ladder of politics, went to one of their rallies to know more about them.

He noticed that there were a selected number of members spread out around the hall, taking cue from another member sitting on stage. The person seated somewhere on the stage will have a signal, and that would be the cue for these scattered members to start clapping. As a result, the whole hall followed on with the applause thus heightening the delivery of the speech and atmostphere of the rally.

When the rally ended, everyone got up and left the hall row by row leaving the chairs neatly in place as how they found it when they first came in.

He wrote in The Singapore Story*, despite not agreeing with their ideology, they were the most disciplined group of people he had ever seen in his life.

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*Correct me if I’m wrong on the reference. Someone borrowed my copy of the book and has yet to return it. Please do, it was a gift from my aunt. One of the best books I’ve read. Somewhat better than Mandela’s fantastic Long Walk to Freedom.