Steven Sim

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think - Jean-Paul Sartre

Archive for May, 2008

YB, Tolong Sign(3)

A man came up to our office today asking for a cancellation of his local council summon - about RM30.
I told him nicely saying that if we are a good government, we have to honour the law, a crime is a crime and we must pay the penalty. Then he asked for discount, I was [...]

Co-Suffering(4)

If there is a common denominator of human experience, it must be the experience of pain and suffering.
 
I used to think alot about the “why” question when it comes to the issue of suffering. I think this is really a western philosophy-sort of thinking. Eastern traditions such as buddhism, taoism and confuciusism were concern with the more existential [...]