Author: Shen Shián

Received another bank’s telemarketer call to offer their loan services. To save his time, I swiftly said, ‘No thanks –…

Tori Amos’ intriguing music video for ‘A Sorta Fairytale’ tells an unconventional love story. Unfortunately, it’s the kind that might…

If you think you are enlightened, you should know you are not – because enlightenment is the knowing of everything,…

Watched ‘The Lady’ movie, which is the respectful ‘codename’ the oppressed Burmese have for the incredibly courageous Aung San Suu…

In the trailer of ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this was uttered – ‘Everything will be alright in the end….

Paul Kemp in ‘The Rum Diary’ says, while high on drugs, ‘”I wonder what it is you might think about…

Gil tells Adriana in ‘Midnight in Paris’, when they travelled back in time to an era of Paris (Belle Epoque)…

Do all roads lead to Rome? If they do, any road will do? Some roads lead in circles. Some roads…

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford says in the movie, ‘Anonymous’ – ‘All art is political, Jonson. Otherwise,…

Those attached to living well, who have aversion to death, might forget that death is always eventual, that death can…

The movie ‘The Fox and the Child’ is an amazing unconventionally scenic story on how a young girl encounters a…

This is the best Facebook joke I came across in a while – in Facebook. If you don’t get it,…

A Buddhist friend (Er… who could be reading this… but here it goes…) posted a photo of a grilled animal…

The above is a 1995 photo by a school senior. This was how the library of Singapore Polytechnic Buddhist Society…

A friend remarked, ‘It is depressing to know that many suffer from depression.’ This is surely nothing to joyous over,…

A good actor can act as a bad actor, to the extent that you believe that (1) he or she is…

The below are common questions that some Dharma students might have, based on hypothetical scenarios: Q: What if a family member…

Note: In case any reader is in the category of (1) and/or (2) below, please note that this article does not…

What do you do if you have a horrible boss who is making life hell for you, while you need…

From ‘The Straits Times’, ‘In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), the heart is believed to control the mind and hence all…