The company changed the clocking machine recently. It is now so easy to clock in and out that she even gets a kick out of ‘passing’ the scanning almost instantaneously – in just one go. It might have given her the illusion that it’s now more enjoyable to come to work. It made her wonder [...]

A Tit for a Tat (20) Tit: Hey, why spray the insects? Tot: Because they are pests. (Tot is four years old.) Tit: Because Tot wants to kill them, Tot is a big pest to them! Tot: But they sometimes dirty the place. Tit: Because Tot sometimes dirty the place too, should we spray Tot [...]

A Tit for a Tat (19) Tit: Hey Tot! What did you eat? (Tot is four years old, who likes fairy tale, nursery rhyme and cartoon characters.) Tot: Meat. Tit: Orh! Are you a big bad wolf who ate three little pigs, Mary’s little lamb, Baa baa black sheep, Mother Goose and Chicken Little? Tot: [...]

In the movie ‘Land of the Lost’, an explorer-scientist discovers a dimension which is not way back in the past or way forward in the future; it supposedly exists sideways to our linear time-stream. It’s the ‘Land of the Lost’, where past, present and future coexist at the same time. Now, is such a zone [...]

Question: A Buddhist article emphasised the importance of applying oneself to do the right things, instead of depending on others or blaming the environment. While I agreed totally, I was suddenly beset by what I thought a quirky ‘misalignment’: Why the emphasis on the effort of the ‘self’, when there’s supposed to be no self’? [...]

A Tit for a Tat (18) Tit: Names are arbitrary! Tat: Change your name then! Tit: Since names are arbitrary, changing names is also arbitrary! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolf Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/another-day-in-paradise

Question: As long as f I take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha within, it doesn’t matter to me whether I participate in a refuge ceremony as it is only a ceremony to me.  It’s my own practice that counts after taking refuge, right? Answer: Taking refuge formally is not supposed to be just [...]

DHARMA@CINEMA: School Days with a Pig (Strictly by registration only) A movie screening and sharing by Shen Shi’an Based on a controversial true story that swept across Japan, a rookie primary school teacher suggests his students to raise a pig before eating him, so as to learn ‘the real connection between life and food.’ The [...]

A Tit for a Tat (17) Tit: Well, another working day in ‘paradise’… not! Tat: Well, at least it’s hell.. not! Tit: Relatively paradisaical; not absolute hell! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/overrating-the-overrated Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/a-good-addiction

A Tit for a Tat (16) Tit: You must try this tea! Tat: Why? Tit: It’ll change your life! Tat: How did it change yours? Tit: It kept me coming back for more! Tat: Sounds like an addiction. Tit: But it’s really good! Tat: But not as good as not being addicted! Related Article: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedailyenlightenment-quote/message/390 [...]

A Tit for a Tat (15) Tit: I don’t think anything is definitely wrong or right. Tat: You really believe that is right? If you do, something is definitely right. Tit: I don’t believe anything is definitely wrong or right. Tat: You really believe that is right? If you do, you definitely believe something. Next [...]

History: He was in inter-organisational committee a few years ago, that was an umbrella body for several organisations. He was from a certain federation. Due to some differences with it, he formed another association. As the representative for the community that both that federation and his association were part of, he had the power to [...]

A Tit for a Tat (14) Tit: These leather shoes are great – they would make for pain-free walking. Tat: This is what’s not so great – they were not made with pain-free killing. Tit: But they are really comfortable. Tat: But the cows were really uncomfortable. Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/right-or-wrong-belief Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/would-you-eat-donald-duck

In ‘Drag Me to Hell’, a girl who was just living another day in relative paradise before she encounters an old gypsy woman. Having offended her by not helping her enough, she gets hell in return. A vicious curse makes her life a living hell for three days, before dragging her to an actual hell. [...]

We were at the launch of the Singapore Vegetarian Food Guide at the Botantic Gardens recently. Although a relatively slim guide compared with other general food guides, much efforts were put in to collate the entries. The food-tography looks tantalising too. Those who have the book ought to make full use of it, by sharing [...]