Perception, like anything else plays an important part in how we make sense of the world. I learnt this during my college years, and this philosophy of mine became more concrete as I matured into adulthood. My mum used to always tell me that people’s opinions are like the wind, today they blow east, tomorrow they blow west. Having said that then, we all know that in order to improve...
Yesterday at mass I heard a very powerful homily on hudgement and mercy. The priest’s homily was focused on how we tend to “judge” in our daily lives and sometimes by doing this, we get labelled as being “judgemental” or “holier-than-thou” especially in this modern day and age. Society shuns upon people who make such “righteous judgement” on others. Even I myself at many a times have been...
“Dude, it only takes me less than an hour and a half to download a movie” my colleague proudly beemed to me over lunch one fine day. We were discussing about TM’s unifi broadband service and my colleague was one of the 1st people I knew to have it installed at his place. I couldn’t believe it when he told me that. 1.5 GB in under 2 hours? My current streamyx could only...
I have to admit that the last couple of days have been rather edifying for me. What started as a desire to return to my writing last week turned out to be more complicated as I found out that my username and password for my blog had somewhat “changed”. To be honest, I was quite surprised. I mean who the heck would want to even “hack” my account?? Anyhow, I managed to...
I am halfway reading through Jefferey Archer’s “Kane and Abel” and I just finished reading the part where George Novak proudly tells Wladek that when he goes to America, he is planning to change his name to make it sound more “english sounding” versus his current polish name (Jerzy Novak). It just got me thinking how easily people can just change their names. I...