Parts of this song is fantastic, almost Buddhistic… 寂寞寂寞就好 (田馥甄 Hebe) I’ll Be Better After I’m Lonely For A While (Rough Translation) 不算什麼  爱错就爱错 早点认错  早一点解脱 Translation: This is nothing much, to love wrongly is just to love wrongly. The sooner this is recognised, the sooner will there be liberation. Comments: This is courage, to [...]

Question: We went to exhume of one of our long-time ancestors’ graves for cremation and discovered some ornaments with the remains. Some relatives suggested keeping them for remembrance and good luck. Is there any harm in doing so? Answer: It’s not likely that the items will bring good luck, especially since there is no such [...]

Question: Let me ask u a very chim (deep) qn. Do u know why do 2 emotionally stable, secure & complete people still want to get into a relationship? Answer: Actually it’s a very simple question – These 2 people, like so many of us, still seek more emotional fulfillment, security and completion. In short, [...]

A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and sold In your arms In your arms Gather up the pitiful In your arms In your arms What seems impossible In your arms In your arms I think I have had my fill In your [...]

A Tit for a Tat (291) Tit: Why did you cross before the lights changed? Tat: Because there was no traffic! Tit: Still. shouldn’t you follow the lights? Tat: Well, traffic lights are for directing traffic and I was the only traffic! So, I directed myself! Tit: Do you use the lights at all? Tat: [...]

A Tit for a Tat (290) Tit: Because the vase was so beautiful, it was bought. Tat: And? Tit: Because the vase was so beautiful, it was shrink-wrapped. Tat: And? Tit: Because the vase was so beautiful, it is no longer so beautiful. Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/03/the-only-traffic Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/03/walk-in-wardrobe About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (234) (At a near empty restaurant) Tut: Do you have a reservation? Tit: No. Tut: (Silence…) It is better to make reservations first. (Silence…) Tat: Okay… We would like to make a reservation for two for… now. Tut: (Silence…) Okay… please come in. Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/03/clean-dirt Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/03/she-has-time About aT4aT: [...]

A Tit for a Tat (228) Tit: Isn’t it strange? Tat: What is? Tit: We like to see good-looking people as it’s pleasing to the eye…. Tat: So…? Tit: But if they are very good-looking, we might feel jealous. Tat: And if they are not so good-looking? Tit: We feel disappointed! Tat: Either way, such [...]

Almost everyday I hear the same busker singing the same few lovelorn love songs in the same few ways. I wonder which is his main theme whose thoughts and emotions he relives the most. I wonder which will replay the loudest in his mind as his last song as his parting haunting melody. I wonder [...]

Some interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Nine Temples’: Poon: Why do you have to go on a pilgrimage? Aren’t you scared? I heard that pilgrims have to sleep over in a cemetery. Monk: We do that to purge fear from our mind. Nat: And why do you have to go to Bo Kleu? Can’t you [...]

The vegan restaurant is closing soon. (Vegsenz at Tekka Mall, at end of month) It’s my last chance to eat there (till they reopen at another place). Should I savour the dishes not yet tried? Should I savour the ones I’m familiar with already? Will I be glad? Will I regret? What if it’s my [...]

From TheZena56: ‘I had a nightmare once. I was walking down a snowy road and the full moon was blood red. And I swear I heard something like this (Digital Daggers’ cover version of Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels) playing in the background. And I had the biggest urge to run because I felt [...]

A live band played Auld Lang Syne at his ‘Buddhist’ funeral. Way too sentimental a parting gift. Is it supposed to make him (if he’s still around) and the survivors attached and weepy? They should had chanted Amituofo sincerely instead, And asked him to do the same, to  reach the wonderful Pure Land. What better gift [...]

The above is a page from Mitch Albom’s ‘Have a Little Faith’ (which I have not read fully). Te below are comments on it: Being attached is an extreme. Being detached (as in being apathetic) is the opposite extreme. Being attached to being detached is extreme too, a marriage of the above. The Middle Path [...]

A Tit for a Tat (196) Tit: I wonder if I should teach some teachers. Tat: When they teach some stuff wrongly? Tit: Yes. Tat: Why not try? Tit: Because some are so attached to being teachers that they are no longer students! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/teach-more-students Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/middle-path-of-train-entry About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series