Time To Slam? Or Time To Forgive The Copycat Ma'am?

Generally, when people link back to my posts, I feel... like, bangga a bit lah kan? Cos it kinda means that people like what I say enough to want it on their page, too. (Or they hate it enough to slam it lah. Haha. But thank goodness, that's never really happened to me before. Choi choi choi so pantang, touch wood!)

Well, this time,
I've got mixed feelings.

A 25-year-old girl from KL named Yumisayuri extracted my emo-post-Valentine's-Day post, entitled "To Love Is To Give" and published it on her blog. With a linkback to me. And a mention that the post was a verbatim.

Ok lah kan?

So far so good, still considered quite respectable in my books. (CHE WAH BOLEH MAIN RHYMING RHYMING SECARA TIDAK SENGAJA LAGI! POWER-NYE AKUUU!!!) Halo floating atop her head and glowing quite brightly. Shing shing shingggg...

BUT...

It'd have been nice if she snitched some other post rather than this one lah. Cos this one's a teensy bit too personal lah kan? I talked about my life, my past, my fears, my insecurities. Heck, I poured my heart out and now, it's all splattered across some other blogger's site. It's also pretty ironic how her blog's entitled "THIS IS ME" and upon reading you realise... hey, that's not you! That's ME! Like, the Pam Song kinda me! Hmmm. Not very cool.


Oh well, considering the linkback and the "verbatim" note, she hasn't really done anything wrong. Yet. I mean, she even has my blog linked to her sidebar, okayyy. Not bad wan this blogger. Got angel wings growing from her back and can flap flap summore. Or so I thought. Till I noticed that she screwed up big time. (Halo stops shing-shing-ing and wings get deleted.)

You see, this Yumisayuri chick changed the date so it seems as if she published it first. I wrote that post before I went to bed on Valentine's Day. Technically, that makes it the 15th of February 2009. SHE, on the other hand, dated her post the 8th of February 2009. A whole week before my date of publishing – the REAL date this post actually found its way into Cyberspace. I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt but this time, I seriously doubt it was a Blogger error lor. She would have had to manually set the date back by that one week for it to appear that way.

Cis bedebah.

So now I'm confused. Why do that if you're already linking back to the original post? I don't get it. You're already saying upfront that it's a verbatim wat. Nothing to hide ma. So now, you're just contradicting yourself – by that I mean shooting yourself in the foot – and acting all schizo-like. (And that's bad, if you didn't know.) And oh, you're making me waste precious blogging time writing about this rather than catching up on posts I actually want to write.

*grunt*

So... time to slam?
Or time to forgive the copycat ma'am?

You tell me.

p/s: I screenshot-ed her entire post so even if it's taken down, you'll still get to read it. (Learn from ShadowFox wan. =p) Just click here to view it in its actual size. Worry not, for what you see is as is on 21 February 2009 at 1:39AM. And if the post wasn't removed, and if anything's different – like the date, maybe? *grin* – she probably found out about this post and decided to do something about it. (I am linked in her blog, remember?)