A thread with a title but no content has attracted 95 comments in the past 31 hours. Quite Amazing.
Undergrad is not the only person to think that I had deliberately left the thread blank to provoke comments.
But I did not. I had been struggling for the past 33 hours to upload my media comments in Sungai Siput during the second stop of my 2-day 14-place whistlestop campaign of Perak state over the weekend to spread the important campaign theme of “Good Cops, Safe Malaysia” for the next general election. But I had been stumped by the Samy Vellu jinx in the blogosphere.
Yesterday (Sunday 13.1.08) morning. After my failed attempts to upload the thread “Will Samy Vellu contest against in Sungei Siput” – my media comments in Sungai Siput on Saturday, 12.108 at 11 am – I decided to upload the title first, to be followed by the body of the thread.
The title was successfully uploaded, but there was no way I could upload the statement proper. I enlisted the help of Chong Zhemin to post the Sungei Siput statement from London after reading his exchange with Undergrad, another tried to post it from the Antipodes, but all to no avail.
I tried all sorts of ways – uploading as blog, inserting it in the comment box and even to “tumpang” on other posts – but all efforts could not overcome the Samy Vellu jinx.
When I again tried to “tumpang”, this time Jeffrey’s post at 6.13.02 am, I had some success. Learning from previous failures, I tried three paras at first, then I have to cut it down to two paras, then one para, then finally half a para (i.e. one sentence) – with the Samy Vellu jinx increasingly upping its ante.
Then with five paras left to go, the Samy Vellu jinx downed tools and refused to budge – and I was completely stumped again.
Coincidentally, without any prior knowledge, Zhemin was trying to outwiit the WP from London but he only succeeded in posting half the statement with seven paras still dangling in cyberspace.
I was surprised that I could upload a new blog, “Call to all political parties to make ‘Good Cops, Safe Malaysia’ common general election theme” at 10.17 am, but when I tried to upload the Sungei Siput statement, the Samy Vellu jinx was there to foil it.
This happened after I had uploaded the latest blog on the murder of politicians at 4.32 p.m. I again tried to upload the Sungei Siput statement – but no, the Samy Vellu jinx in the blogsphere is still alive and potent.
Can anyone exorcise this Samy Vellu jinx in the blogosphere?