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Big minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people. How about the minds that talk to Simsimi?

I've seen the notifications all over Facebook. They swarm like flies on a dead rat's carcass. I bet you're a lot familiar already of that application bearing the fat version of Tweety Bird (as it claims to be).

Like a human endowed with the gift of speech, this organism (I think it really is, like some amoeba that just grows somewhere, ready ...

For the record I have been in school for almost 23 years now. Fourteen of those years were spent with me as a student and the other nine years, as a teacher (not counting those summers I spent as a student for my postgraduate studies). You could say I have learned what I could but really to be honest, I have not learned enough. For certainly, there is no limit to what the mind of man can achieve (even with all our learning, we are just using about 10 percent of our brains while the rest remains ...

I have been a school bus rider for almost eight years now. While the perks of having to ride the aircon bus includes sleeping there the whole trip and saving up on fare (that just recently hiked up), waking up early just to catch it, usually overrides those perks.

Yet while most of my coworkers avoid the ride, what with a lot of blind alleys, and endless curves, I actually lavish in it. I guess it's one of those reasons I really drag myself up early each day for work (even when I only ...

There is something far more ineffable than merely saying that one is in the presence of friends. The endless chatter, the conversations that resemble that of the Arabian Nights, the somewhat effervescent tete-a-tete just to pass away a hiatus that's been nagging one on hectic weekdays are some of the reasons for such confluence.

It all started with one thing: our fascination with siomai. I never knew that we would click right then and there. We never mentioned about it in the forums, ...

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Picture this: Someone posts an image on Facebook with the picture of the latest crazed chocolate with this caption: "Only four left. Glad to have bought the last 4 four pieces."

Among the types of propaganda devices (testimonial, emotional words, card ...

It never fails. Every classmate I had way back in college or high school never misses to make it part of their social interaction to ask me (come reunions and batch homecomings), "Are you married?" For the life of me, over the years, I have mastered and have come up with my rather suave-version-of-a-reply, "I'm not seeking. I'm just looking."

I'm not about to discuss here my often epic fails at finding and keeping lasting relationships and bumping or rubbing elbows ...

Whoever has not been beset with Hamlet's lines, "To be or not to be, that is the question"? We all, at many points in our lives, have found ourselves in the middle of a crossroad. With the many choices we have to make, our options are literally narrowed down (our own skill at deduction, put to the test) to two most difficult choices.

Should I take this course or not? What if I follow my heart more than my mind? Will this hurt if I go through this? These are, more often than ...