• Install Stumble! and keep clicking on it. It never fail to amaze me what interesting website it will bring me;
• Take a formal, document-like piece of paper and go chat with some buddy colleagues of yours. (Only if their boredom level is as high as yours and work urgency is equally not as high).

• Hide in the toilet and play whatever games there are in your cell phone.
• Make yourself a nice cup of hot coffee and pray that time would go faster.
• Send some flowers to your loved ones.
• Boggle your mind with Sudoku or Tangram.

If all else fails then take time off. For me, I am hanging on. Only about one and a half hours to knock-off!

1. Life is a survival of the fittest. Spartans were taught to fight since very young. They were brought up knowing they should not take survival for granted.
2. Never look down on small numbers. Xerxes' army outnumbered that of Leonidas so much. In terms of casualty, the Persians should be deemed as defeated.
3. True Leaders lead by Example. Leonidas had a beautiful wife and a six-year-old son when he made the painful decision to lead the army to fight to death. It was a heroic exhibit of leading by example.
4. Sheer Brute Force might not win the battle. In the Battle of Thermopylae, there was not much of tactical planning on the part of the spartans. They fought purely with brute force till the very end. Ready to sacrifice.
5. During one's last breath, it is our loved ones that flash in our minds. Just before Leonidas collapsed under the thousands of arrows aimed at him, he shouted not for his country or kingship. But for his beloved wife.

An interesting movie worth watching. I doubt if Xerxes of Persia were really so big compared to Leonidas. I also doubted if such gory creatures existed in Persia (now Iran), then.

Enlightenment! Experience mishandled only hinders and not aids.

KARMA

Be it lack of confidence or inability to handle office politics, work is really pulling me down. It is not the amount of work or the nature of work. But rather the sheer complexity of human relations. It's getting to be like a knife that cuts both ends. The karma of doing anything often results to the same outcome. Questioning followed by reprimanding. Senseless. Getting really senseless and nonsensical at times.

TAKE IT EASY

VicVic shares the same woes. We are in the same boat albeit in different regions. Maybe we have both to learn Tai Ji, non-action against action. Maybe we have to learn to take things easier. Not to be too serious about what is happening around us. Life is too precious to waste our happiness in pursuit of some status.

THE PASTURE IS ALWAYS GREENER

How many times have we thought that we would be happier if we attained a certain stature or gain something, only to be disappointed when we really attained it? Alas! It is indeed true that Contentment is the biggest Treasure and Counting Our Blessings is really an effective lesson in Life!