A Tit for a Tat (103)
Tit: The caller hung up. So impatient!
Tat: What did you say?
Tit: I asked him to speak up – as I couldn’t hear him properly.
Tat: Maybe he couldn’t hear you properly too!
Tit: Huh?
Tat: Which is why he hung up – instead of speak up!
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Love is the only shocking act left on the planet. – Reed Bennett
If you are honest, and would like others to be honest, how would you take it if your otherwise perfectly ‘faithful’ spouse of many years tells you that she once had a very brief affair in your absence a long [...]

Jat: Is it just me who think people who ignore sms or emails are rude? I mean they should know that I’m waiting for a reply… or do I need to indicate ‘RSVP’?
Yah: I get that too and sometimes it’s even work-related.
Jat: Could silence have become the new ‘no’ or ‘don’t bother me’ or ‘whatever’? [...]

All interpersonal and organisational problems arise from people with different extents of delusion interacting with one another. It is usually the initiative of those who have less delusion to help those with more delusion to realise any problematic issues at hand. But another problem arises when these people (with less delusion on the issues) are [...]

Demand email: Please hand-deliver so-and-so as attached immediately!
Reply to email: To… ?
(Two days lapse before demander reads and replies email.
So much for urgent and timely communication via email!)
As quick as some are to demand stuff done by email, the same folks might be slow to reply by email. Electronic communication is based on the same [...]

A Tit for a Tat (9)
Tit: Do you think my sms reply was okay?
Tat: Well, it depends on how she reads it…
Tit: Huh?
Tat: … just like how you replied depended on how you read her sms!
Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/only-for-now
Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/electronic-bad-faith

A Tit for a Tat [8]
Tit: Oh… how convenient it is,
to communicate through email,
to let others take their time to read and reply!
Tat: Oh… how convenient it is,
to not communicate through email,
by saying one was too busy to read or reply!
Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/depends-on-how-you-read-reality
Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/04/its-normal-weather

I seem to be having a strange problem. But really, this problem has been there all along, only aggravated by the expansion in my jobscope, which made me busier. What is this problem? Because I do Dharma work, I’m particular about not spending work hours dwelling on even the littlest of non-work matters. Since I [...]

Q: Some believe couples are married because ‘they owe each other in their previous lives’, while ‘children are born to either collect or pay parental debts’. Is this true?
A: If the first idea above is absolutely true, it is to pessimistically say that there can never ever be any form of happiness in marriage because [...]

In the backdrop story of the movie ‘Cape No. 7′ set in the post WWII era, a Japanese man leaves the Taiwanese girl he loves on her shores. So painful was the departure that he didn’t even have the courage to wave goodbye to her at the harbour… even though he saw her looking out [...]