Month: February 2011

A Tit for a Tat (211) Tit: Hmmm… Whose big idea was it? Tat: Never mind. It’s a collective management…

1. Generosity Countless candles can be lit from a candle, yet it will not lose its brightness. Happiness never decreases…

While sharing on the movie ‘Inception’ at NTU Buddhist Society’s camp at Cheng Beng Buddhist Society’s building, I concluded by…

It was hard explaining to Mum why I wear my clothes till they become holey, when I can afford new…

A Tit for a Tat (210) Tit: I’m so sick of this! Tat: Shouldn’t you be used to it already?…

Something written for an inter-religious exhibition: The offering of water at Buddhist shrines symbolises the aspiration to cultivate the virtues…

Some interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Nine Temples’: Poon: Why do you have to go on a pilgrimage? Aren’t you…

‘Zai jian’ (再见)… This is no farewell but a resolution, a hope to ‘meet again’. Maybe the Chinese got it…

I left the cinema wondering exactly what that was all about. Maybe there was nothing exact about it, to be…

I am a time-traveller, who had come from the beginningless past, who is going to the endless future. I am…

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are like us’. Ask the…

‘The Others’ present a taut horror story of the extremes of demonisation (without demonic ‘demons’). The protagonists, whose roles we…