Tag: greed

From Robert Greene’s ‘The 48 Laws of Power’ is some counter-intuitive advice – ‘The key to picking a pocket is…

The Chinese man remarked that during the revolution, they used to eat pork only once a year. This he said,…

Unless one does not understand what meat is from, it is impossible to just see meat as food, instead of…

Yah: I’m apolitical. Jat: More like apathetic. Yah: Apathetic to politics… yes! Jat: How so? Yah: Because politics has too…

In the whimsical tale of  ‘The Eternal Smile’ by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim, a mercenary frog craves…

No one wants to be unhappy due to being greedy. Some might not know how to be content. Why not…

Guy: Why do you shop? Gal: When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then…

My nephew asked me to buy charity draw tickets, as urged by his school to sell. It always struck me…

Featured in the ‘G.I. Joe’ movie are nanomites, which are super-microscopic robots measuring in nanometres. They are used in missile…

Layers upon layers of shops at the new Ion Orchard mall. Even the American guy behind exclaimed – ‘Look at…

I saw the dual-version single(s) of Depeche Mode’s ‘Home’ (from the album ‘Ultra’) from some years back selling at Gramophone…

DHARMA@CINEMA: School Days with a Pig (Strictly by registration only) A movie screening and sharing by Shen Shi’an Based on…

If a chubby child, who already should have had his fill cries for more and refuses to stop, what do…

In ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’, the first emperor of China (Qin Shihuang), after his conquest of the…

< Movie poster for Singapore The award-winning movie ‘School Days with a Pig’ tells of a teacher’s special project for…

Retelling of a Tibetan folk story: Brother One has 99 horses. Brother Two has 1 horse. None feel they have…

In a ‘post-Lehman Brothers’ world, an investment ad in the subway ironically reads, ‘Be humble, the stock market is probably…

Q: If a child makes a mistake out of ignorance or delusion, that he is not aware of as wrong…

In ‘Marvel Zombies 2′ by Robert Kirkman, it continues the adventures of key Marvel comics’ ‘deceased’ heroes, who have become…

An interesting question was raised during a recent class – ‘Is it okay to feel gratitude for the meat we…