When away in another land, we want to seize the day, as we will be there only for a while, even though we can visit again. When here in the now, we want to seize the moment, as we can only be here now, even though we can be reborn again. Next Taiwan Adventure:...

Each year a new year, each month a new month, each week a new week, each day a new day, each moment a new moment. May we treasure each moment to learn, practise, realise and share the Dharma well, making this a truly happy [lunar] new year. Amituofo! (Greetings from ...

I finally decided to relinquish the stack of unread newspapers to the rag and bone man (karang guni) for recycling. The stack came to be the last time I went overseas. It felt a somewhat uneasy letting go of the stack. There was a subtle fear of possibly missing out some crucial information...

Time of Your Life (Green Day) Another turning point; a fork stuck in the road. Time grabs you by the wrist; directs you where to go. Comments: ‘Now’ is always a turning point for the rest of our lives, that eternal fork between the past and the future. Time is the river we must...

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...

A Tit for a Tat (10) Tit: Are you too full for this great snack? Tat: For now. Tit: Too bad! Tat: Only ‘for now’! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/not-my-fault Previous aT4aT:...

The only dialogues I found interesting in ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’ are as below. I wished there was an infinite number of them. Norah: … reminds me of this part of Judaism that I really like. It’s called Tikkun olam. It says that the world’s...

From ‘Civil War: Front Line: Embedded’ by Paul Jenkins… Speedball: Believe me, I would do anything to go back and have it be different. But I can’t change the past. She-Hulk: (Pointing at him firmly) Then change the present. The more you regret not being able to change...