Tag: mindfulness

04
Aug
2014

Sincerity: Wandering Thought #45

Wandering Thought #45: Sincerity Worse than not listening to another sincerely due to lack of mindfulness is to ‘mindfully’ pretend…

30
Jun
2014

Cracks: Wandering Thought #30

Wandering Thought #30: Cracks The collapse of giant structures painstakingly built up over time and with much effort usually begins…

30
Jun
2014

Words: Wandering Thought #22

Wandering Thought #22: Words Use enough but never more than enough words to convey your message in speech and writing….

15
Jun
2014

How To Take Better Pictures

From ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’… Walter Mitty: When are you gonna take it? [the picture] Sean O’Conner: Sometimes…

03
May
2014

Mindfulness For Happiness

An unfortunate case… Amituofo… Yes indeed… Mindfulness is needed for real happiness. (And mindfulness of Amituofo leads to Ultimate Bliss.)

18
Apr
2014

Scare: Super Short Story #333

  Super Short Story #333: Scare He thanked instead of scolding her, for the truly unexpected ‘scare’ — her sudden…

06
Apr
2014

Accident: Sam & Sara #415

Sam & Sara #415: Accident Sam: Save your file… in case I accidentally turn off the switch! Sara: Why don’t you just…

22
Mar
2014

Is Power Control?

From the movie ‘Man of Tai Chi’:  Master: You must meditate. Tiger: Why? Master: To clear your mind, guide your…

08
Mar
2014

Keyboard: Super Short Story #325

Super Short Story #325: Keyboard He is able to type without looking at the keyboard, until he realises he can…

31
Dec
2013

Pavement: Super Short Story #298

Super Short Story #298: Pavement The yellow street lamps made her more mindful of the plain pavement, that she strangely…

31
Dec
2013

Speed: Super Short Story #293

Super Short Story #293: Speed Proud of his fast car, he forgot his speed of response, especially when drunk, is…

05
Dec
2013

The Half-Assed Bridge

There is this half-bridge-half-ramp structure at the Toa Payoh train station underpass. It is a monument ‘celebrating’ witlessness. For some…

05
Dec
2013

The Thief

I read the book by Fuminori Nakamura out of curiosity of how pickpockets work. It’s intriguing because there must be…

29
Nov
2013

Now You See Me?

‘The closer you look, the less you see.’ This is the counter-intuitive tagline from the movie on the art of…

29
Nov
2013

Stain Analogy

Even clean water left long enough on clean tiles will collect dirt from the surrounding air. As it dries up,…

21
Nov
2013

Pocket: Super Short Story (274)

Super Short Story (274): Pocket Only after his Mum sewed  his severely torn left pants’ pocket shut to prevent accidental putting…

08
Nov
2013

Slip : Super Short Story (259)

Super Short Story (259): Slip He wasn’t sure if the road was slippery, or his shoes, or his mindfulness, or…

17
Oct
2013

It’s ‘About Time’!

Don’t you love-hate time-travel movies? In such movies, you will see how the protagonist gets away with almost everything that…

24
Jul
2013

Password: Super Short Story (223)

Super Short Story (223): Password His password was classically good – truly a random mix – of letter, digits and…

14
Jun
2013

Nails: Super Short Story (204)

Super Short Story (204): Nails While scratching himself, he realised that his nails have as if suddenly become too long…