Sam & Sara #397: Guarantee Sam: Look! There is lifetime guarantee for this product! Sara: So? Sam: Huh? Sara: It doesn’t guarantee that you will use if for your lifetime… Sam: … or that the company offering it will last my lifetime! The only guarantee in this changing...

Sam & Sara #396: Easiness Sam: The back of this pot is hard to wash! Sara: Is your back easy to wash? Sam: Er… not really either. Sara: But you do your best anyway, right? Sam: Er… ya… Sara: Just do the same for the pot! What involves us directly we tend to do...

Sam & Sara #395: Already? Sam: Did you do it yet? Sara: (softly) Yes Sam: So, did you do it yet? Sara: Didn’t I say ‘yes’ already? How many times do I have to say it? Sam: Just once. Sara: But I did already! Sam: But I didn’t hear it the first...

Sam & Sara #394: Expectation Sara:I came across this joke – ‘When someone tells you to, “expect the unexpected”, slap them in the face and ask them if they expected it.’ Sam: Hah! You would have to expect the expected… slapped back! Sara: Good...

Sam & Sara #393: Drama Sara: This TV series is so dramatic, unlike real life. Sam: Isn’t that exactly why you watch it? Sara: I guess! Sam: And they’re called dramas because they’re meant to be dramatic! Good stories deepen on truths even when they expand on...

The James Bond movie franchise had its 50th anniversary recently. Despite many themes of death in their titles, say, ‘You Only Live Twice’, ‘Live & Let Die’, ‘A View To A Kill’, ‘The Living Daylights’, License To Kill’, ‘Tomorrow...

PY: Art is too abstract. No wonder I always failed at art. SA: The trick is being able to justify your creations as art! Exactly because art can seem abstract, it is easy to pass if you can come up with a more exact and thoughtful philosophy about your ‘abstactly’ done pieces. The...

Should you warn others of the presence of speedcams at certain places? It might save them from getting into trouble with the law, but it might mean they might speed and get into accidents elsewhere instead, harming others and themselves? Would it be better to let them get caught naturally by...

Ted in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ says to his buddies, ‘Look we’ve all been searching for the five doppelgangers [of ourselves], right? But eventually, over time, we all become our own doppelgangers, you know, these completely different people who just happen to look like...

I asked him why he doesn’t seem very concerned for the spiritual well-being of his parents. He replied that since we have been reborn so many times, we have all been one another’s parents at some point in the past, and that if so, he doesn’t see why he should be too...

If the second hand is fleeting moment to moment, the minute hand is also fleeting moment to moment, with the hour hand also fleeting moment to moment. A past moment fleets to become a present moment. A present moment fleets to become a future moment. A future moment fleets to become a past...

Zeroing a gun is to realise the relative truth of how you can shoot well. Even if it is not a absolute truth (or universal principle), that way you use the sight and aim, your zeroed gun still works for you. If, however, you try to use the gun in an absolute way, it is harder to shoot...

The past affects the present a lot… but… The present affects the future a lot too. So… How about resolving the past in the present and… How about changing the future in the present...

‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ is a witty documentary about and by Banksy, that prompts good questions about what makes art art, whether ‘illegal’ art (graffiti) is equated to illegitimate art. The irony of his once frowned upon (by the arty-farty) street art becoming...

PB: At the moment, I am failing to understand the ‘good’ part of ‘good morning’. SS: Good to have survived the night? PB: What do you mean? SS: Good to be alive? It’s more of a wish methinks – ‘good morning’. Make it...

Super Short Story (200): Damage He proposed, over a toast, ‘Let us damage our minds together. If not, one of us has to take care of the other!’ She replied, rejecting the toast, ‘Why not take care of each other now, by not damaging...

He beseeches an imaginary friend, a deified almighty being to ward off an imaginary enemy, a demonised almighty being… who ironically was supposedly created by the first, who strangely is unwilling or unable to vanquish the second. Is the first really a true friend then? Is the second...

Question: About these words… ‘Seeing Form itself as Emptiness produces great Wisdom so one does not dwell in birth and death; Seeing Emptiness as equivalent to Form produces great Compassion so one does not dwell in Nirvana.’ - Stonepeace If we are not going to dwell in...

Question: A friend sent me a video documentary of the historical battle of China against the Japanese’s invasion during WWII, saying every Chinese ought to watch it. What do you think? Should I watch it? Answer: Different parties have different ways of portraying different facets of...

The below is a set of answers I helped to write for Makan Sutra (MS) upon request via a friend. MS is not to be mistaken as an actual spiritual sutra. In fact, it’s a very worldly guide for indulgence in all kinds of foods, including animals. It’s kind of an abuse of the word...