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I Don't Care

Why should you care which god I supplicate

Are you hoping it is better

I put the wine, fruits and chicken

In front of your house than on the altar?

Why should I?

To tell the truth I don’t worship any

Though I respect many.

Are you jealous?

I have no guilty conscience

Nor have I anything to…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 14, 2014 at 1:01am — No Comments

I Don't Care

Why should you care which god I supplicate

Are you hoping it is better

I put the wine, fruits and chicken

In front of your house than on the altar?

Why should I?

To tell the truth I don’t worship any

Though I respect many.

Are you jealous?

I have no guilty conscience

Nor have I anything to…

Continue

Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 14, 2014 at 1:01am — No Comments

I Don't Care

Why should you care which god I supplicate

Are you hoping it is better

I put the wine, fruits and chicken

In front of your house than on the altar?

Why should I?

To tell the truth I don’t worship any

Though I respect many.

Are you jealous?

I have no guilty conscience

Nor have I anything to…

Continue

Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 14, 2014 at 1:01am — No Comments

I Don't Care

Why should you care which god I supplicate

Are you hoping it is better

I put the wine, fruits and chicken

In front of your house than on the altar?

Why should I?

To tell the truth I don’t worship any

Though I respect many.

Are you jealous?

I have no guilty conscience

Nor have I anything to…

Continue

Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 14, 2014 at 1:01am — No Comments

A Paper Tiger

 

We've the timber all over our country

The foreign devils have

the best materials to make the best sails

on this planet.

Why don't we put aside our dear pride

and corporate with these devils

to make the biggest ship on this

lovely earth so that you and I

can sail round the world free of charge?

And pick up many passengers on the way

making plenty of  the green bucks ?

After all, we call them…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 12, 2014 at 11:05pm — No Comments

The Electorate

The electorate will always base their choice on emotion. The race, religions and social standing carry more weight than anything else. I am talking about the average guy on the street, which is where the majority of them are found. As we can see, during the past 62 years, politicians from many parts of the world were able to win one election after another even though the governments they came out with were corrupt, evil and inefficient. It is an open secret that many of these politicians…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 12, 2014 at 4:20am — No Comments

Ancient Religion?

 

 

 

Buddhism is not antiquated

as claimed by some so-called scholars.

It talked about pension fund  2500 years ago

Only the terminology used was different

The Buddha used the phrase “rainy days”

He recommended 25% of a person’s earning

must be saved for rainy days.

Can you find another teacher

who proclaimed that his followers

would be equal to him

in status ?

Can you find…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 11, 2014 at 11:09pm — No Comments

Life Partner

She was the rose of the class

from secondary until university.

She had beauty, brain, determination and leadership.

With an Economics degree and a MBA

behind her

She was the leader of many a company

she picked and chose her employers just like

she did on her one-night stands.

She could swing left or right

because no man could ever claim

that she belong to him.

After swinging for many years

and could…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 11, 2014 at 10:43pm — No Comments

Pulau Ubin Shore



The seashore remains unchanged,

but the casuarinas,

which we tied the swing had fallen.

I walked alone along the serene shore

thinking of my love long gone.

The sea birds still circle in the sky

even though thirteen years had passed

Are they the same birds we used to watch?

It was great to lie…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 11, 2014 at 9:08pm — No Comments

True Love

Those who talk too much are blamed

Those who talk too little are blamed

Those who neither talk too much nor too little

are also blamed

No one is unblamed

Dear Appana, please go on talking

If your words can help to brighten up

the spirits of some poor souls

won’t your talking bring forward

great…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 11, 2014 at 8:35pm — 1 Comment

The Wolf

Look, Sheila

this is the key to my extra condo

and this is the key to my BMW

they are there waiting for you

at your pleasure.

This angmo here works under me

I'm his boss

How many people in this city

can have angmos as their subordinates?

Though I'm limping

I can give you the best in this…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 11, 2014 at 8:11pm — 1 Comment

Perfect Government

Please show me a building on this planet

which is without cracks

I’ll then show you two countries

with two perfect governments

When a being reaches perfection

He doesn’t stay for more than

seven days on this earth unless he wants to

take up preaching

He dies within seven days

and his own fire from the body

is used to consume

the flesh and the bones

There’ll be nothing left

because the Arahant doesn’t…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 11, 2014 at 5:18am — No Comments

Their Working Attitude

Before they start off for the day

There’s the common song- and- dance

Which they value dearly

To them, life must move on very slowly

They always asked

Do the jobs for the day

involve life and death

Otherwise, they say

Sit down, have a cigarette and a cup of coffee

and talk on what you saw last night at the pub

Was there any new girl coming from Thailand

or Indonesia ?

Why must they spread noxious poison every…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 8, 2014 at 2:00am — No Comments

The Traitor's Stories

The white men’s bootlickers

spied for them and brought China to its knees

Yet these bastards got

nothing more than chief clerks’ and

chief office boys’ positions

in the colonial offices

Their sisters and daughters

turned to prostitution

to satisfy the need of the white sailors

One school principal told me

he wanted to teach in Hong Kong

The school authority told him

he must be a believer

for they…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 7, 2014 at 11:21pm — No Comments

The Skilled Orangutans

The Skilled Orangutans

They aped the Europeans by

taking sunbath from 1300 hr to 1500 hr.

At 0900 hr they took cups of coffee

without milk or sugar

and sat under the morning sun

sipping, and reading the Straits Times

not knowing that reading under the sun

without a pair of dark glasses will damage the retina.

It…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 7, 2014 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Gratitude

The Chinese used to say:

When you drink water,

please know the source

Today, this sort of gratitude is seldom seen

Instead we have a bunch of rude people

Who’re only good at complaining on others

not knowing that one cannot

see his own face without a mirror

There was once a very rich guy

He had a fast car and many girl friends

One night his car ran into a pool of water

about ten  inches wide and a quarter inch…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 7, 2014 at 8:04pm — No Comments

A Smart Employer

The greedy employer had the pile of

application letters on his table.

There were more than one hundred of them.

He had a glance at each of them.

One after another the letters went into

the waste paper basket.

His comment was :

this one was greedy,

he did not mention how much he expected.

Can I pay him $100000.00 per month?

No way.

This one thought he was smart.

He worked in a refinery

and he wanted…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 7, 2014 at 6:06am — No Comments

The Road to Nirvana

 

Some progress fast

Others progress slowly

Let the fast ones not look down

On those who walk slowly

Does it matter

If you take a trillion kalpas

To attain Nirvana?

 

If you’re sure of the journey

The time is not a problem

Did the Buddha ever say

You must arrive within a certain time?

Or the gate will be closed?

Ksitigarbha said he would wait

Until the hell is totally…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 7, 2014 at 3:55am — 1 Comment

The Conqueror



The bandits blew up the statues of liberty,

Cheng Ho and Raffles

One after another they crumbled

As if this earth must be totally flat.

Defending armies came and were always wiped off

The invincible warrior triumphed

He believed he was the chosen one

The whole world was crumbling

From day one to day…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 6, 2014 at 7:33pm — No Comments

The Greedy Bosses

In the industrial concern

where I’m working

it is most difficult to be an engineer.

You must be exceptionally good

in your field

or you’re an excellent bootlicker.

Don’t expect them to love you

because you’re smart.

Why should they?

When they can bring in employees

of their choice

and make thousands of dollars every month.

How does your presence benefit your boss?

My foreign subordinates…

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Added by Poh Tiong Ho on November 6, 2014 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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