I feel that comics pages break the monotony of the serious - and often depressiing - news of the day, and has the potential to help a reader start the day with a little spring ... a little smile ... a little happier. I've also never understood why it is only the weekend papers that have many more pages of comics. Don't we need cheering up on weekdays too? (perhaps our former classmate Datuk Anthony, CEO of NSTP, would care to comment if he happens to be reading this :-)
I always recall this cartoon and classic phrase from my favourite Peanuts strip from years ago: Happiness is a Warm Puppy.
You can substitute any other animal (kittens, bunnies, guinea pigs, ferrets, parrots?) for "puppy" if you're not that keen on dogs, but you get the idea. I guess the point here is that in life happiness does not have to come from money or material things, but often from the very simple things in life which can be free or almost free.
So my chatting point and request today is for you to adapt and complete Charlie Brown's phrase in your own words, with your own experience and perspective. In other words, for you
Happiness is ... ?
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i liked the old comic strips too. Do u rembr "Blondie" & "Bringing Up Father"?
ReplyDeletemodesty blaise is what is used to look for in the earlier days. i like how she and willie garvin are so committed and loyal. nothing, nothing stands in their way and their relationship platonic it may be.
ReplyDeleteI didn't really notice the relationship between Modesty and Willy. I thought us boys were just interested in looking at Modesty and her .... er, ahem.
ReplyDeleteBlondie and Bringing Up Father are still in the Borneo Post every day. Wonderful how comic characters never age - wish same could be said for us ... haha.
ReplyDeleteI always smiled at "Dennis the Menace" as it reminded me of someone I knew.
ReplyDeleteThe best things in life are free ...
ReplyDelete/JL
Happiness is
ReplyDelete* a warm mug of Horlicks
* sleeping in on a rainy day
* good chicken curry rice at padungan
* payday
HAPPINESS IS A PC THAT DOESN'T CRASH.
ReplyDeleteTODAY IS NOT A HAPPY DAY.
Modesty Blaise and Willie, eh? With a name like Willie, it's hard to believe in a platonic relationship :-)
ReplyDeleteFor all you comic strip fans, check out
ReplyDeletehttp://www.comicstriparchive.com
for all the good, old ones ...
happiness is a cold beer on a friday evening
ReplyDeletewell said. it's friday so i will have a cold one right now. cheers.
ReplyDeleteHappiness is reading updates from old classmates.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder who is doing what, has family or not, where does he reside, and most importantly, Is he keeping in touch with at least one of us?
This ia a wonderful, wonderful site. Thank you Jimmy..............
Thanks to the last poster. Glad you like the site. Emmm ... may I ask who is this & where on the globe are you accessing from?
ReplyDeletemahatma gandhi say " Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
ReplyDeleteDo you guys find that your kids don't have the same interest in comics as some of us did in our time (or even now) ?
ReplyDeleteWilson - it that you quoting Gandhi??
ReplyDeleteHappiness is never to worry about money.
ReplyDeleteI see lots of happiness-money comments. Here are two quotes that may be of interest:
ReplyDelete"Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery" - Spike Milligan, comedy writer & actor
"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money" - Aldous Huxley, writer & philosopher
I LIKE MAD MAGAZINE. REMMBER THEM? I THINK STILL CAN GET, YES?
ReplyDeleteRobert Louis Stevenson:
ReplyDeleteThere is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.