Comment posters reality shock

Author stunned as web commentators proved to be real

MR JAM, author of the mrjam.org website, was “amazed and astonished” to discover that several people who post comments on his website really existed.

“I thought I made them all up myself,” he told reporters. “But then they turned up at my book launch and were real flesh and blood.”

For years, Mr Jam believed that the comments under his articles on his website were himself in various guises, written in his many periods of absent-mindedness.

“But they turned out to be real,” he said. “Unless of course I am even more self-delusional than I thought, which is quite possible.”

Many of them turned up at a Bookazine party in Central district, Hong Kong, on October 24, 2009. “Maybe I am Fardel,” he said.

In the queue to get books autographed were many contributors, commentators and emailers, including Karuna, May, Christy, Dancer,  Bernard, Rod and others.   The picture at the top of this column shows Karuna’s son Yogesh giving him a beautiful hand-made gift. May gave him a fancy pen he used to sign autographs all afternoon.

Mr Jam speaks

Christy

Bernard and friend

And the sermon today is . . . . .

Dancer

Rod and Sheila, with little Lindie waiting on the right

Hong Kong author Xu Xi

Bookazine general manager Ellie McGurran Luk was delighted with the turn out.

Mr Jam in front of lots of beautiful picture books which he did not illustrate

 

Mr J with the Bookazine gang

Message from Nury: Apologies for having disappeared off the face of the earth for a few days: sometimes this weird thing called “life” intrudes on my computer-related activities. Not sure what to do about it. It’s jolly inconvenient.

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Comments

[Rika]

Ahh, great that you had a wonderful event. I am so envious... One day I have to just make it to Hong Kong and become flesh and blood.

At least my books are despached. Yippie! Can't wait anymore!
xx

[fardel]

Nice photo gallery
This must have been a good afternoon.

Excuse my ignorance in Chinese Philosophy and culture
I heard about the ying and the yang, one being female and the other one being male.
But which one is the XU which one is the XI, Is it ONE
or is one completing the other?

[fardel]

Commentator stunned;
those pink glasses are real

[louise]

awww. i knew i should've gone to the book launch. if only you told us you'll post our pictures...

[farah]

Fardel...those are Nury's signature lucky shades. wish someone could send me a plane ticket to Hong Kong :(

[Christy]

Oh. I thought those shades were feng-shui infused, sending laughing vibes to everybody so we'd laugh no matter what he said.

[Leo]

T-T...
I missed the chance...because of all those markings...(2 weeks of Uniform Test is still ongoing)

Is there a second chance soon? Maybe in Christmas where there is a short break from all the markings and MARKINGS?

I still want Nury's signature on those FSD.

[Christy]

Leo, I can churn out fake autographs for you if you give me a year to practice. (I wouldn't mind a hefty sum of money)

Sorry Nury :)

[May Savella-Norlenius]

It was very nice & honored to met you pesonally.
Keep up the good writing & wish you all the best.
GOD bless.

May

[Chamin]

I had this doubt after seeing the first photo, before even reading one line of the text; "Is that Karuna junior, or did Nury turn Karuna in to a kid?"

[crissie chavez]

Shucks! I would have been here. 5 days late off my visit!