Tag: perception

02
May
2012

How Not To Teach (2)

When the teacher gives up on a student, the student usually gives up on the teacher, and possibly the teaching…

02
May
2012

What’s The Next Winning Number?

I find it amusing when I encounter folks jotting notes of winning lottery numbers. How will they ‘analyse’ such records?…

02
May
2012

Literal Or Figurative?

When the Buddha speaks literally, he doesn’t say it is figurative. There is no two ways about it. When the…

25
Apr
2012

Editing The Edited

A Tit for a Tat (355) Tit: Your editing is lousy! Tat: Not lousier than your writing that needed editing! Tit:…

25
Apr
2012

Blowing Dry

A Tit for a Tat (354) Tit: Why are you in front of the fan? Tat: Blowing dry hair! Tit:…

25
Apr
2012

Saving Energy

A Tit for a Tat (353) Tat: Let’s take the lift instead of the stairs. Tit: Why? It’s just one…

25
Apr
2012

Who Is Free?

A Tit for a Tat (352) Tit: (Posting trivial stuff for fun in Facebook…) Tet: Some folks are very free……

20
Apr
2012

Why Not Wear A Wig?

A Tit for a Tat (350) Tat: Her hair looks so separate from her head that she might as well wear…

20
Apr
2012

Pseudonymity

Below is an extended note to a sub-editor who sent a piece of my writing to a second editor, who…

20
Apr
2012

How Real Is Your Money?

If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, is there a sound? Is…

11
Apr
2012

Super Short Story (3): Siren Lullaby

Because the siren became a paced lullaby, the silence became disturbingly deafening .

28
Mar
2012

Mightier Than The Sword

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

22
Mar
2012

Broad Generalisations

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

21
Mar
2012

An Actor Paradox

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

09
Mar
2012

For What Purpose?

A: Someone wants to meet me. B: For what purpose? A: The purpose is not clear. B: There is no…

07
Mar
2012

Advantages Of Dharma Discussions In Class

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

07
Mar
2012

Words & Actions

If one had created a misunderstanding with inappropriate words, one should just clarify with appropriate words. (Sometimes, no other action…

22
Feb
2012

The Cloudian Scowl or Smile

Like a cloud that shapeshifts, the object, issue or person we perceive changes too, along with our angle of perception,…

22
Feb
2012

The Other End Of Freudian Slips

I don’t know if there is already a term for the receiving end of Freudian slips, but I have been…

22
Feb
2012

Are You Like Your Moniker?

S: It’s funny when some claim that you don’t resemble your pseudonym, because the very point of using pseudonyms is…