Sam & Sara #393: Drama Sara: This TV series is so dramatic, unlike real life. Sam: Isn’t that exactly why you watch it? Sara: I guess! Sam: And they’re called dramas because they’re meant to be dramatic! Good stories deepen on truths even when they expand on...

Question: A friend sent me a video documentary of the historical battle of China against the Japanese’s invasion during WWII, saying every Chinese ought to watch it. What do you think? Should I watch it? Answer: Different parties have different ways of portraying different facets of...

Super Short Story (194): True Story Now she knows, that movies and books labelled ‘based on a true story’ also means ‘based on some fiction and possibly misinterpretation’. In a sense, such stories are more confusing that purely fictitious ones, because she could be...

Super Short Story (187): Kids He prides himself to be good with kids, which is why he volunteers for children charities. However, his being good with kids is in contrast with his lesser ability to deal with adults, who are so non-innocent, and oh so troublesome. The only problem with kids is...

Super Short Story (162): Biography She thought of writing her biography until she heard a biographer’s comment that an autobiography is probably the most inaccurate version of one’s own life. Makes sense, unless… she chooses to be brutally honest with herself. But that...

Super Short Story (159): Trust She knows who not to trust - actors who are paid to promote products in ads. It’s knowing who to trust that is tricky - as some are not paid but bluff too. Then again, actors are sometimes truthful, when not acting at all. just as non-actors are sometimes...

Super Short Story (140): Story What use is a story, she thought, that only tells the truth as it is, that doesn’t stretches the imagination? Then again, she often already speculates much fiction in non-fiction and much non-fiction in...

Super Short Story (119): Dare Although he was given a ‘truth or dare’ challenge, the dare was to tell the...

Super Short Story (104): Pseudo There is the pseudo, this he knows, though it is not always easy to detect. But there is the pseudo-pseudo too, that which he thinks is pseudo, which is not, that is harder to...

Super Short Story (94): Right As she was so sure she was so right, she didn’t check, and she turned out to be so wrong. Indeed, there is only a fine line between being self-righteous and being...

Super Short Story (73): Movie He wondered, ‘Was that real, or just a dream?’ But it was really neither, because it was just a movie after all, with an engaging yet ambiguous plot, tricking him to sift for truth in its...

As the so-called evidence isn’t exactly conclusive in being able to prove anything, it is at best ‘so-called evidence’, if it even deserves to be called so at...

Thought after watching ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’: How do you really trust anyone, including yourself? If you are completely trustworthy, why are you not enlightened yet, totally aligned with truth? Obviously, there must be self-deceit going on to some extent! How do you really...

Sam & Sara #367 Sam: She keeps me guessing! Sara: Does she? How? Sam: Er… Sara: Just don’t keep guessing! Ask! Speculation will get you everywhere yet nowhere. Investigation will get you the truth. [This'll be expanded & illustrated as a comic in a 'Sam & Sara' book...

Sam & Sara #366 Sara: You were in my dream last night! Sam: What happened? Sara: I asked you, ‘What are you doing in my dream?’ Sam: What did ‘I’ say? Sara: You said, ‘How would I know? It’s your dream!’ Sam: Haha! Sara: So… what were you...

When you argue your case, is it because the truth must prevail for the greater good, or is it because your ego must win, only for your own ‘good’? The moment you know you are fighting for your ego and not so much the truth, you have already lost. And you truly lose if you are not...

There is no winning arguments with those who continually digress from the issues at hand, who cook up new issues instead. When they can’t win, they confuse. Sometimes, they even confuse themselves into thinking they have won when they managed to...

It is a mistake to assume the anonymous to be always irresponsible or untruthful, for anonymity can be chosen out of true responsibility. Think masked heroes protecting their family while protecting others! If we appreciate the impartial truth, why does it matter who speaks it, and whether...

Do the anonymous have too much ego to hide, or too little ego to show? Are their egos with shamefulness or shamelessness (or in between), pridefulness or pridelessness (or in between)? Is there a larger purpose, to share the impersonal truth, without fixations on any particular...

Speech in cyberspace is always virtual yet often unerasable. What traces do you leave online? Do they lead to truth and goodness, or otherwise, or to nowhere in...