Showing posts with label shame on you. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shame on you. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2008

Shame on You: cover your head in ashes

I received a shocking Flickr email this morning.



As usual, I power up my laptop the first thing I wake up just about every morning! When this popped up;







I was a bit agitated at first...composed myself, you know making myself a nice Alicafe 3 in 1 coffee, and lit up my cigarette. Took a few puffs and asked myself why does this guy so pist off? So I kept on reading and trying to comprehen the situation.



Wait a minute! This is the guy from Field Guide: Birds of the World. No wonder he's so angry. I incorrectly tagged the rail as Slaty-brested Rail(of course I corrected it already!). I was already informed by a friend quite in an urgent manner a few weeks back;





My mistake was, I simply didn't change it when I should! It was a misleading information, and obviously unacceptable. I was ashame and rightly so I guessed. Despite my embarasment, I put aside my ego and send him a reply;







On top of that, I also asked a favor from him to identify two of the recent birds I captured on camera.(identified by Horuku but aren't finalised by)Within a few hours, I received this;







Well, the so called "bad start of day" isn't bad after all! I said I want to improve myself and have to leave behind some bad habits...specially EGO...which I did in this particular day. A great reply from Cuckooroller boost my morale...for I believe, we should learn the hard way. Never will I let ego, ignorance and negligence stands between me and what I wanna be...