A Tit for a Tat (72) Tit: I was waiting for a bus in the sun today. Tat: Why not in the shade of the bus-stop? Tit: The angle was such that I had to be in the sun to look out for the bus – to flag it. Tat: What happened next? Tit: Two [...]

A Tit for a Tat (71) Tit: Hey, wake me up when the alarm clock goes off next time! Tat: Oh, I saw you stirring. So I turned it off, thinking you heard enough of it. Tit: Well, it was obviously not enough – which is why I overslept! Tat: I better not wake you [...]

A Tit for a Tat (70) Tit: What kind of person is he? Tat: The ‘bad faith’ type. Tit: What do you mean? Tat: He acknowledges you when he needs, to his advantage… Tit: And doesn’t acknowledge you when there is no advantage? Tat: Yes. He would be polite to me when he wants my [...]

Came across this online – ‘Buddhists generally respect the three condition rule where it’s a neutral act if the meat is not seen, heard or suspected to have been killed for you. I’ve also heard a three hand rule where if the meat is slaughtered by one person, sold to another, and cooked by another [...]

A Tit for a Tat (69) Tit: Just realised I had helluva lot of earwax clogged in my ears! Tat: Imagine how many subtle sounds you missed! And that’s just physical. Tit: What do you mean? Tat: Who knows how much non-physical mental blockage we have! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/12/yours-unfaithfully Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/12/tolerating-nonsense

A Tit for a Tat (68) Tit: Do I owe him a debt of negative karma, to have to tolerate such nonsense? Tat: Well, you owe it to yourself to suffer with your lack of tolerance! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/12/mental-block Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/12/hairdresser-discrimination

A Tit for a Tat (67) Tit: A kiddy-looking hairdresser! Next salon please! Tat: Why? Are young hairdressers not good? Tit: It’s not that they are not good, but that I don’t know if they are any good – due to lack of experience. Tat: You make it seem as if all older hairdressers are [...]

In the story ‘Kiss of Death’ by Richard Starkings in ‘Popgun Volume 1′, the conclusion reads -  ‘… one should never forget that the people who write history books often substitute beauty for truth when it suits them [or is it the other way round]? Which is a shame, because if you look hard enough [...]

A Tit for a Tat (66) Tit: I don’t have enough strength or patience! Tat: Why not train your strength and patience? Tit: I don’t have enough strength or patience! Notes: To break free of the circular loops of Samsara, we need to stop rationalising and behaving in pointless loops. We need to use the [...]

The weekend before the last, we dropped by a newly opened organic vegan cafe/restaurant – Vegsenz @ The Verge for dinner. It’s fairly visible with the nearest bus-stop just outside. Nearest MRT station is Little India, at just a mere 5 minutes’ walk away. But make sure you use Exit C. There’s not much information [...]

Part 1: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/11/appeal-to-drop-appeal Part 2: http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=22,8764,0,0,1,0 (as below): In reply to the letter ‘Buddhism not damaged by wayward monastics, but lay support for their misdeeds’ (http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=22,8741,0,0,1,0), the letter ‘An Appeal to Drop the Appeal’ (http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=22,8733,0,0,1,0) was written, as stated, to publicly appeal for the ‘monk’ in question to drop his unrepentant appeal against his jail [...]

A Tit for a Tat (65) Tit: You know what’s karma? Tat: What? Tit: Someone punched me. Tat: And? Tit: I punched him back! That’s his ‘karma’ for punching me! Tat: Ooo… kay… but… it was your karma to be punched too… Tit: And? Tat: And you created new bad karma by keeping the punching [...]

Shen Shi’an has sent you the following message from http://www.hopenhagen.com: On December 7 (4 days away), leaders from 192 countries will gather at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to determine the fate of our planet. Let’s turn Copenhagen into Hopenhagen. Hopenhagen is a movement, a moment and a chance at a new beginning. [...]

Live a good honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time. – H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama Live a good honourable life. Then when you get to your future life, you’ll be able to enjoy it a third time!

In ‘Hellboy: Darkness Calls’ by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fregredo, Igor Weldon Bromhead invokes the demonic Ilsa Haupstein, binding her to his command. Knowing that name gives him power over her. I used to be fascinated by the concept how naming the evil is able bring about control of the named. Here is how it [...]