Author: Shen Shián
A Tit for a Tat (7) Tit: (Closing windows) Woah! What strong winds tonight! (Opening windows a few minutes later)…
Thank goodness that we can only have one thought at a time. Imagine if 84,000 thoughts assault you at the…
Logo: The golden rays represent Amitabha Buddha’s light of compassion shining via his 48 great vows, which radiate in all…
A colleague I sat near apologised for her work desk being messy. I grinned and replied that it doesn’t matter,…
Pic: Which is scarier – a grinning Cheshire Cat or a scowling one? I saw two stationary stray cats gazing…
If there is no car around, would you wait for the light to turn green before crossing? As a pedestrian…
Yup, Depeche Mode does slow and sentimental songs too. The above is the moving studio version of ‘Come Back’ from…
The Million Dollar Question… Q: How do you admit how you cheated if you did not? A: You don’t –…
In ‘Kin: The Good Neighbours’ by Holly Black, Aubrey the faerie father tests the human Thaddeus on his love for…
From ‘The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’ by Rod Serling (adapted by Mark Kneece), a mysterious…
In a sense, the movie ’17 Again’ is yet another version of ‘Groundhog Day’. A 37-year-old man gets to relive…
Shakespearean English, unless spoken at plays, sounds like bad English in our times. Modern English, unless spoken in our times,…
In ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’, the first emperor of China (Qin Shihuang), after his conquest of the…
Here is an analysis of the poll question ‘Should All Taking the Three Refuges Commit to the Five Precepts Too?’…
< Movie poster for Singapore The award-winning movie ‘School Days with a Pig’ tells of a teacher’s special project for…
Pic: Dharma Hall at Kong Meng San After lunch, just before the next round of the Pureland retreat recitation, I…
Catch the new single from Depeche Mode’s new album ‘Sounds of the Universe’ (performed live in Berlin). After the lyrics…
We were there among the some 12,000, and it was truly fantastic. (Yes, I said it before.) Many say it…
Received my cert for the MA in Buddhist Studies in the mail recently. Ironically, it reminded me of how little…
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