Dead people pics in email

My family came to know a young priest who was here at our parish for a few years and although he was eventually assigned to a parish in another country, we kept in touch via email. He recently broke the news that his sister, who happens to be a religious herself, passed away in their native country. I sent him my family's sympathies just earlier tonight but he immediately responded by sending a series of emails with photos of his sister's funeral and body lying in the coffin! Now, I'm not too comfortable seeing dead bodies. It is of course all right in the case of relatives or friends but if they are total strangers that's a completely different matter. So this was extremely unpleasant for me to say the least. (I viewed the first few emails but simply filed away the rest without opening them.) Besides, is it proper to send pictures of dead people?

Changing body measurements

Thanks to the stress of working on our department's curricular proposals, I must have lost some pounds or at least a few inches off my waist and hips: I can slip on my pants more easily nowadays! I have to yet to confirm that fact though using a tape measure and by standing on a weighing scale. And seeing that I've written about my Flickr photos getting Explored and one of my blogs getting Blogged, I believe I better measure my head circumference as well to see whether that has increased by an inch or so!

Federer blog Blogged

Okay, another discovery: my Federer Express blog got listed on Blogged.com. And there's more. It received a 7.5 rating (equivalent to "Very good") from the editors of that blog directory. Gee. Not bad at all. To think that I just set up that blog for the fun of writing because I sort of miss writing and e-mailing bulletins to my friends at the TAA (Tennis Addicts Anonymous), our fictional club, when I was back in Singapore.