Tag: repentance

Beware of one, who is slow to apologise, for one might believe in pride, that under the power of Mara,…

‘Human’ is probably  ‘Human League’s’ most haunting song ever. It used to always gave a sense of solace… till I…

Last evening was the second time I watched ‘A Full Bright Moon’ (Yilun Mingyue) – as the opening film of…

Adapted from the bestseller, ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ tells of a man’s peculiar condition, of being involuntarily subject to fading…

This song (‘No Regrets’ by Robbie Williams) came to mind today, and I wondered what was memorable about it… before…

In the movie ‘Murderer’, the protagonist model detective suffers from lapses in memory (due to an injury and another reason…

I used to wonder why most movies featuring Buddhist monks show them going astray – at some point… Then it…

Right after Depeche Mode’s first single ‘Wrong’ (from the ‘Sounds of the Universe’ album), which sings of intense indignation to…

In ‘Drag Me to Hell’, a girl who was just living another day in relative paradise before she encounters an…

A Tit for a Tat (12) Tit: You’re not very gracious – never apologising for your mistakes! Tat: You’re not…

Walter, an ex-convict charged for pedophilia, experiences apprehensive uncertainty as he re-enters the society 12 years later. He is seemingly…

This amazing movie is just 83 minutes long, but is nothing short of incredible. It is one of the few…

While chatting with Sophie over dinner at Yes Natural (a healthy vegetarian food restaurant) this evening, she asked if it…

The TV series ‘Samantha Who’ is about Samantha Newly, who sort of gets ‘newly reborn’ when she recovers from coma…

Something funny happened when I was browsing the Buddhist magazines at Borders today. A man came to the same section…

In ‘Chickens with Plums’ by Marjane Satrapi is this recounted story where Azrael, the angel of death was commanded by…

During last evening’s movie screening (of the film ‘Angulimala’) cum Dharma discussion for NUS Buddhist Society’s Dharma camp (at Shuang…

  I just returned from hosting an encore screening session of the multiple-award winning documentary ‘Buddha’s Lost Children’. (The review…

The Quest for a ‘Quantum of Solace’ In ‘Quantum of Solace’, James Bond, the otherwise stereotyped one, runs amok somewhat….

In the film “Tokyo!”, the middle story is called “Merde”. (“Merde” is French for “shit”, which is strangely synonymous with…