Tuesday, November 23, 2010

An Exercise in 'Narcissism".....

Pakdokter's caddy who was so fascinated with pakdokter's camera during the game at the Peransang Templer Golf Course, was more busy snapping pictures than 'caddying' for us. When pakdokter downloaded the memory disk - pakdokter found out that she had taken so many of pakdokter's 'poses' throughout the game.
And pakdokter has posted some of them down here for posterity.

pakdokter's cap, shirt, driver and golf balls were sponsored by Callaway...

the daily workout on the step-up machine has reduced pakdokter's waist by 1 cm....


footnote:
'Narcissism' is a psychological concept pakdokter learnt in Psychology/Personality Theory classes during psychiatric residency training many years ago. Being 'narcissistic' simply means being rather 'self-centred' and 'so full of one-self' - being so much 'in love' with one-self.
It is based on a Greek mythology - on the story of a very handsome/pretty? young boy named Narcissus - whose beauty made so many boys and girls fell in love with him. One day, a young man named Ameinias fell so much in love with Narcissus and when Narcissus rejected his love, he committed suicide with the sword which Narcissus gave him. And as he killed himself he prayed to the god, Nemesis, to teach Narcissus the lesson and the experience of unrequited love.
One day, Narcissus was led to a clear stream and for the first time saw the reflection of himself on the surface of the water with whom he immediately fell in love with, not realising that it was his own reflection. He was so mesmerised by the beauty of the 'reflected' person and sufferred to death ( also by suicide) by his inability to get the person he saw reflected in the water to 'love' him....

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