Life, Laughter and Everything Else

I happen to be taking a business module, in which teams are given a specific business case study to analyse and answer a set of questions, which they have to present the following week. To be honest, the presentations converged on mental dullness, as multiple teams answered the same question about the same case study. The lecturer, to make the proceedings more interesting, then told the teams that even if they were given questions to answer, they could choose to completely ignore them, come up with their own set of questions and answer their own questions. Sounds like a delicious prospect doesn't it? Like you walking into the exam hall and there is a blank A4 size paper in front of you with one instruction, 1. Read the passage. Come up with a question. Answer it. (20 marks) Though ironically, nobody took the bait. Instead, week after week, they stuck to the same given questions with the oh-so-typical answers and the lecturer was left scratching his head (which perhaps exp...

Just a few days ago, I was at the dinner table with my mother, having a chat about, well, pretty much this and that. Expectedly, she started to drift off and complaining about people, about events off the past, about old wounds that still scarred her. It was not the first time I was hearing this and to be honest, I was getting a bit tired of hearing the same old stories of resentment and who wronged who. Me being me, attempted to put an end to all this. So I started my own lecture, about forgiveness, about forgetting events of the past, of not bothering so much with the business of others, to make her change. To which she replied, rather bluntly, "You sitting there, with your meditation and talks of peace and forgiveness. Once you grow up, start your own family, go out to work, you are going to meet quite a few people, who are not going be so nice to you. After you deal with them, you try your peace and forgiveness then. And if you can do it, good for you." Must say ...