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    Inspire by the thread "Watch Collecting Experience".

    No doubt this forum is a great place to learn and share experience about watches.

    A forum like this also provides a lot of learning about human behaviour - how people communicate, how people interact, how people project themselves and treat others, when they are anonymous.

    For me, I have benefited in understanding human a little bit better and in improving myself through self-reflection as a result of the experience I have had on the forums. Some of the experience I would never had in real life because most people don't behave exactly the same way they behave in cyberspace.

    So, here are some of my learning. Some of which I already knew but I have been timely reminded.

    1. Human are more interested in themselves than in their friends. Let alone strangers.
    2. People praise others in return of the same, but criticise others and expect different treatment.
    3. It takes a long distance to know a horse. Don't judge a person too early.
    4. One gains respect from what he does and not what he says, yet one could lose respect simply from the words one uses.
    5. People rush to answer every question or comment on everything not to share knowledge, but to show that they have knowledge. Just like that annoying kid in the classroom.
    6. One who always provokes is one who desires attention badly.
    7. All watch lovers are bias, yet like to ask others' opinion.
    8. Not all people on a watch forums love watches. Some just love money.
    9. Watches would not be this appreciated if they cannot be sold.
    10. I used to think guys first become friends, then brothers. On the forums, it is strangely the other way round.

    I hope this is not too heavy a topic on a beautiful Sunday...
    Watches are like potato chips - You never stop at one

    Never political, seldom diplomatic, always honest

  • #2
    Let me add on if you may.

    11. Guard your words. Although it might be forgotten at a certain point of time. But it can be easily retrieve with a simple search. The cyberspace do not forget.
    12. There is always a higher mountain.

    Comment on pointer 10.
    I still can't get over addressing someone as "Bro" in the forum unless I know him well. I feel that this "Bro" slang has been used too loosely. (it is just me)

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    • #3
      be glad you are not called "sis"

      Originally posted by TanWL View Post
      Let me add on if you may.

      11. Guard your words. Although it might be forgotten at a certain point of time. But it can be easily retrieve with a simple search. The cyberspace do not forget.
      12. There is always a higher mountain.

      Comment on pointer 10.
      I still can't get over addressing someone as "Bro" in the forum unless I know him well. I feel that this "Bro" slang has been used too loosely. (it is just me)

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      • #4
        7. All watch lovers are bias, yet like to ask others' opinion.

        I llike the one above.. haha how true... sometimes I fall into that trap...

        I guess sometimes people are looking for other to affirm what they believe in..
        "He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex." �Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1953)

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        • #5
          I'm bumping up this thread... it deserves a good read.
          Will share my experience a little later.
          cheers!
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          • #6
            hahah, nice observation. I do agree with most of them, like 1 3 4 6 7 10.

            Same like TanWL, i dun bro bro people when i reply. really need to know the person well, click with him well, to call him a bro or sista.
            在幻变的生命里, 岁月, 原来是最大的小偷...

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            • #7
              Originally posted by nimm12
              for point 8 and 9, are you referring to gray dealers and preown shops?
              No.

              Refer to those who know little about watches and are most concerned about resale value. Refer to those non-dealers who hunt for great bargains to buy watches not to use them but only to sell on for some quick bucks. Refer to "investors" who buy watches not for wearing/appreciating but for keeping in the safe so that they can sell them later when they want money.

              Maybe those are watch lovers. Just different type.
              Watches are like potato chips - You never stop at one

              Never political, seldom diplomatic, always honest

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              • #8
                Originally posted by TanWL View Post
                Let me add on if you may.

                11. Guard your words. Although it might be forgotten at a certain point of time. But it can be easily retrieve with a simple search. The cyberspace do not forget.
                12. There is always a higher mountain.

                Comment on pointer 10.
                I still can't get over addressing someone as "Bro" in the forum unless I know him well. I feel that this "Bro" slang has been used too loosely. (it is just me)
                I totally agree with u!!! The last person i called "BRO" ended up scrapping & polishing metal bars in Queestown town many years ago...
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by TanWL View Post
                  Let me add on if you may.

                  11. Guard your words. Although it might be forgotten at a certain point of time. But it can be easily retrieve with a simple search. The cyberspace do not forget.
                  12. There is always a higher mountain.

                  Comment on pointer 10.
                  I still can't get over addressing someone as "Bro" in the forum unless I know him well. I feel that this "Bro" slang has been used too loosely. (it is just me)
                  Bro..... sure or not ?
                  ROLEX.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by pegasi View Post
                    No.

                    Refer to those who know little about watches and are most concerned about resale value. Refer to those non-dealers who hunt for great bargains to buy watches not to use them but only to sell on for some quick bucks. Refer to "investors" who buy watches not for wearing/appreciating but for keeping in the safe so that they can sell them later when they want money.

                    Maybe those are watch lovers. Just different type.
                    Too many of them here. All out to make money from the next sucker!!! Just check out the number of watch for sale post...What no low baller and etc. Guess most of the watches still seating in their boxes or winder. Be realistic...
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Hiroki
                      Buang Yang Keruh Ambil Yang Jernih, Baru Teguh Peribadi !
                      Who is this message in Malay meant for? I don't understand what it says.
                      Watches are like potato chips - You never stop at one

                      Never political, seldom diplomatic, always honest

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                      • #12
                        Your 10 points of learning are really insightful! How very true!
                        I'm in bad company........

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                        • #13
                          Today I attended a good lesson and re- learnt point 4 & 5.

                          I would like to add point No. 13 : Word are cheap. Put your money where your mouth is.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by t28 View Post
                            Your 10 points of learning are really insightful! How very true!
                            One thing good about being in bad company is - you can learn things that you don't learn from the good guys
                            Watches are like potato chips - You never stop at one

                            Never political, seldom diplomatic, always honest

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by TanWL View Post
                              Today I attended a good lesson and re- learnt point 4 & 5.

                              I would like to add point No. 13 : Word are cheap. Put your money where your mouth is.
                              I like the word re-learn. Many things we learn now are not new. We learned them before when we were young but we either didn't fully understand it or lost them somewhere along the journey of life. Hence we have to re-learn it over and over again...
                              Watches are like potato chips - You never stop at one

                              Never political, seldom diplomatic, always honest

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