Tag: wisdom

30
Jan
2009

Smile : For You

Last week, we visited the Peranakan Museum for the ‘Serenity in Stone : The Qingzhou Discovery’ exhibition. Featured are 800…

18
Jan
2009

Responsibility : One & All

Bing: Why is there paint over forgotten masking tape on this wall? Ding: The renovation guy must had been sloppy……

09
Jan
2009

Adventures : Zeph Tales (22)

What’s the Meaning of Life? Once upon a time, there was a very small boy called Zeph, who wondered much…

08
Jan
2009

Suspension : What Now?

There is a full page in ‘Invincible: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1’ (by Robert Kirkman) which seems to accidentally portray the…

29
Dec
2008

Reel : To Real?

After picking up Buddhism, I found my threshold of being able to withstand seeing others in suffering to have reduced…

09
Dec
2008

Art : Self-Cherishing?

Jon: As an artist, I wonder is artists are necessarily self-cherishing by nature? Is there a difference between being selfish…

09
Dec
2008

Advice : Compassion & Wisdom

If you position yourself such that I cannot share my advice with you, it is not so much the end…

24
Nov
2008

Trick : Confidence Trickster

Swindled by ‘The Black Swindler’? I have always wondered this – Why can’t filmmakers make their films to be as…

30
Oct
2008

Alcohol : (Non-)Wisdom Soup?

Japan Adventures (12) : The Soup of Intoxication & Addiction Koyasan (Mount Koya) is a large seminary of Shingon (Japanese…

20
Oct
2008

Sword : Hidden Blade

Japan Adventures (10) : Legend of the Sword that Did Not Cut From ‘Fodor’s Exploring Japan’ by David Scott –…

16
Oct
2008

Gesture : Compassion & Wisdom

Japan Adventures (9) : Letting Go of Letting Go Japan is the land of much formality and courtesy. Sometimes, it…

13
Oct
2008

Lamp : Burn On

Japan Adventures (1) : The 1,200 Year Old Lamp Enryakuji is a temple built on Mount Hiei at the end…