Tag: Anicca

24
May
2010

What Am I?

‘I’ am an experiment experimenting with this ‘I’. ‘I’ am change changing this ‘I’. ‘I’ am (r/d)evolution* evolving this ‘I’….

17
May
2010

Why Get Peeved?

All instances of being peeved in the past came to pass. Phew! All instances of being peeved in the present…

17
May
2010

You Don’t Really Believe…

If you really think you and I can’t change, you don’t really believe in Anicca. If you really think you…

03
May
2010

The Plastic Bag Scene

One of the most memorable films ever is a film in a film – in the movie ‘American Beauty’ called…

03
May
2010

The Whole World is Running Out of Time

Another wonderful short dialogue from ‘Flash Forward’: Mark: We’re running out of time! Dyson: The whole world is! With or…

19
Apr
2010

Better or Worse?

From ‘The Resident Tourist: Otah Tree’ by Troy Chin in ‘Liquid City: Volume One’: Mint: It’s funny. Don’t you think,…

19
Apr
2010

Youth, Life & People

From the movie ‘Greenberg’: Ivan: Youth is wasted on the young. Roger: I’d go further. I’d go: ‘Life is wasted…

15
Apr
2010

Beyond Small Pleasures

Release from being bound by what you wrongly assume to be true happiness brings even greater happiness. – Stonepeace This…

07
Apr
2010

The Dust is Your Life Too

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon From ‘Astonishing X-men: Unstoppable’ by…

16
Mar
2010

Not Real Either

A Tit for a Tat (120) Tit: Look! You have a little tummy! Tat: No worries… It’s not real. Tit:…

10
Mar
2010

Two Monks Too Different

Thus have I heard, the below poignant and hilarious accounts are based on actual concurrent incidents… The old abbot of…

08
Mar
2010

This is a Bad Time

From ‘This is a Bad Time’ by Bruce Eric Kaplan: But why do we choose to be attached to the…

08
Mar
2010

Who is the Real One?

A Tit for a Tat (108) Tit: I don’t understand her. Tat: Why? Tit: Sometimes, she is difficult. Tat: So?…

22
Feb
2010

It’s Better But…

A Tit for a Tat (97) Tit: How’s your sore throat? Tat: It’s better but am not sure if it’s…

03
Feb
2010

Our Scramble Suits

In ‘A Scanner Darkly’, undercover cops wear a ‘scramble suit’ which covers them from head to toe. Now, this suit…

25
Jan
2010

India Adventures (6): The Sands of Time

Seeing a cleaner dusting a stupa that housed the Buddha’s relics. I wondered what would happen, should it be left…

11
Jan
2010

Who am I?

‘Who am I?’ ‘I’ am nothing but constant change, yet while our mind and matter change, there is always to…

06
Jan
2010

Not Totally Different or Same

In the film ‘Don’t Look Back’ (Ne Te Retourne Pas), Jeanne (played by Sophie Marceau) realises that small but definite…

16
Dec
2009

What Other Biscuits?

Bought a big box of biscuits… at a great price. Then it turned out… that the expiry date is really…

30
Nov
2009

More Unpredictably than My Dogs

Daoni and company (my soft toy dogs) look different from different angles. They might look sad from one, but glad…