Posted in Points to Ponder on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The missing brick
“Abdul Basit” <chaudharybasit@yahoo.co.uk>
Once, when I and my wife were teravelling, I received a fax from my secretary.
‘There’s one glass brick missing for the work on the kitchen renovation, ’she said.Í’m sending you the
original plan as well as the plan the builder has come up with to compensate for it.’
On the one hand [...]
Posted in Education, Points to Ponder, tagged dragon, Education on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The slayer of dragons
“Abdul Basit” <chaudharybasit@yahoo.co.uk>
Zhuangzi, the famous Chinese writer, tells the story of Zhu Pingman, who
went in search of a teacher in order to learn the best way to slay dragons.
The teacher trained Pingman for ten whole years, until he had honed to
perfection the most sophisticated dragon-slaying techniques.
Pingman spent the rest of his life [...]
