Tag: reality

31
Dec
2013

Virtual: Super Short Story #279

Super Short Story #279: Virtual He focused so much on the virtual that reality became more virtual.

08
Nov
2013

Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are child-oriented ways to paint both hopes and fears. Of happy princesses and horrible monsters. Instead of readying…

30
Aug
2013

Reality Is More Fascinating

Here are four lessons I learnt from the movie ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’: 1. A so-called Halfling (Hobbit) can…

30
Jan
2013

Placebo: Super Short Story (173)

Super Short Story (173): Placebo Having heard that a certain food is supposed to be chock-full of nutrients, it has…

11
Jan
2013

Super Short Story (161): Virtual World

Super Short Story (161): Virtual World As he spent too much time gaming, surfing and watching videos, whenever he looks…

29
Dec
2012

Super Short Story (152): Blu-ray

Super Short Story (152): Blu-ray He said Blu-ray resolution looks so real that it looks fake, though it’s the other…

02
Aug
2011

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

George Michael’s ‘Waiting for That Day’ is also known as ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’, as that line…

27
Jul
2011

Surreality

Nothing is more surreal than the shimmering lights of the city, and its colourful cars and people fleeting by. Nothing…

08
Feb
2011

What If The Top Doesn’t Stop?

While sharing on the movie ‘Inception’ at NTU Buddhist Society’s camp at Cheng Beng Buddhist Society’s building, I concluded by…

02
Aug
2010

What Does It Mean?

From Wikipedia is a description of the video of Owl City’s ‘Vanilla Twilight’ – ‘Various people and a dog witness and…

28
Jul
2010

Dharma@Cinema: The ‘Inception’ of Illusion or Reality?

The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s…

02
Mar
2010

We Live in Oz?

‘Summer Wars’ tells of how virtual reality as a ‘Second Life’ spills over to reality, till it becomes indispensable to…

04
Jan
2010

Your Dream is Over… or Has it Just Begun?

This is one of the most soothing songs I’d ever heard, that is gentle while singing of strength. I read…

22
Dec
2009

Away Greetings

Moonpointer moderators will be away on the road soon, on Buddhist pilgrimage in India and Nepal. In the mean time,…

06
Jun
2009

Depends on How You Read Reality

A Tit for a Tat (9) Tit: Do you think my sms reply was okay? Tat: Well, it depends on…

27
Apr
2009

Lucid Living While Lucid Dreaming

In the plot of the movie ‘Ploy’, the characters seem to live their interconnected dreams as alternate but believable realities,…

23
Jan
2009

Ending : Happy or Sad?

While selecting films for a Buddhist film event, we sampled some movies. A friend wondered why many of the shortlisted…

29
Dec
2008

Colours : High Definition

I think films of the respective eras they were made in tend to be rather accurate portrayals of the general…