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Friday, February 16, 2007
YOU JUST CAN'T STOP TALKING...
"With Longevity Calls, you just can't stop talking", proclaims DiGi in its latest print and TV promos. Not even at the dinner table, during what looks like a reunion dinner, the most revered occasion during the Chinese New Year celebrations.
I don't know about you, but I want to take issue with DiGi on this one. I'm sure you have come across its CNY print and TV ads that show a family at a dinner table where all nine of the family members are on the phone, talking.
I find the ad extremely offensive. I mean, what kind of values DiGi is promoting? That it is OK to talk on the phone while having dinner with your family at this very auspicious occasion lest you miss out on its great promo?
All people with basic manners would agree with me that it is extremely rude to talk on the phone at a dinner table, especially when you have company. Let alone during a reunion dinner where you're supposed to reunite with your loved ones and cherish the moment, kan?
It's already bad enough when people with no manners talk on the phone everywhere -- in public transport, in crowded elevators, in movie theatres, and (believe me) in the toilet. Remind me to recount this one later.
And thanks to DiGi, it seems talking at the dinner table should now be encouraged. A lot this would do to our budi bahasa campaign, kan?
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Wetbenang
haa.. it's good to see you back here again.. after a long disapppearance.. :) Anyway.. yup. agree with you, it's rude to talk over the phone at the dinner table especially when you have a company with you. Unless it's really an important one, you may just tell the caller that you'd call him back.. right?
Xis said...
7:36 PM
Hi Xis,
Yup. And I believe it's all in the upbringing also. Which is something that not many people bother to do nowadays.
wetbenang said...
1:21 PM