12
Sep
2011

Goodness Itself

‘A good car doesn’t makes one a good driver. A good camera doesn’t make one a good photographer , Good…

12
Sep
2011

Beyond Glass Walls

‘If slaughterhouses have glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.’ (Paul Mc Cartney) Loudspeakers too please! If slaughterhouses have no walls,…

12
Sep
2011

Insanity of Eating Shark Fin Soup

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in…

12
Sep
2011

Stablisation Needed

For someone (or anyone) suffering from bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia: To be frank, it is tedious reading your mails which…

12
Sep
2011

Synopsis of Life?

The above is Art Spiegelman’s ‘Synopsis’ of the human condition. This mortal life is as if a definite walk towards…

12
Sep
2011

Gun Or Pool Control?

L: Steven Levitt said, ‘‎If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost…

08
Sep
2011

Compassion for the Harmful

Though some might be harming you, they are harming themselves too – karmically. Which is why we should not just…

08
Sep
2011

Is Jealousy Natural?

From Chester Brown’s ‘Paying for It’: Jealousy is natural, but that doesn’t mean that not feeling jealous is not natural….

07
Sep
2011

Why Project Rebirth?

S: Project Rebirth: Rediscover, Reflect & Recharge!… More than 60 have signed up for this round. For those who missed this,…

07
Sep
2011

Prepared To Face Heaven Or Hell?

From ‘Divide “between religions, not religious and non-religious”‘ in The Straits Times on 6 September 2011: ‘Mr Lee (Kuan Yew), whose…

07
Sep
2011

Turning The Wheel

Gift of vegetarian mid-autumn mooncakes on teacher’s day from M & Y with post-it that says ‘法轮常转’ (May the wheel of the…

07
Sep
2011

If All Wishes Came True

A genie appeared to three in a boat and granted each of them a wish. A: I want to go…

07
Sep
2011

I Have Learned So Much?

Text visual on the video wall of Depeche Mode’s Tour of the Universe concert in Barcelona during the song ‘Precious’:…

07
Sep
2011

A Little Knowledge

As the saying goes, ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing…’ So… let’s go for a lot of wisdom! Equation…

07
Sep
2011

From Web To World

From http://boingboing.net/2011/08/31/rob-interviewed-in-the-economist.html : Mr Anil Dash called on sites with communities and forums actively to police themselves, rather than allow…

07
Sep
2011

Too Fussy For His Liking?

Too perfect for his liking? Too average for his liking? Too lousy for his liking? Why not aspire to be…

07
Sep
2011

The Sense(s) Of Zen

The sight of Zen is what you are seeing now – seen fully with mindfulness, without preconceptions. The sound of…

07
Sep
2011

Special

The Pretenders’ cover: ‘You’re so f*cking special… I wish I was special.’ So sang Radiohead in ‘Creep’. Don’t mistaken wanting the…

07
Sep
2011

So Easy That It’s So Hard

A Tit for a Tat (333) Tit: Why haven’t you done it yet? Tat: Because it is so easy to…

07
Sep
2011

Why Angry Birds?

Q: Why do the Angry Birds hurl themselves at others? A: Because when you’re angry, you become irrational, hurting yourself…