山木自寇也，
膏火自煎也。
桂可食，故伐之；
漆可用，故割之。
人皆知有用之用，
而莫知無用之用也。
Mountain trees self-destruct,
Lamp tallow self-immolates.
Cinnamon is edible, so it is cleaved;
Varnish is useful, so it is cut.
All men know the advantage of being useful,
but none know the advantage of being useless.
— 莊子 [Zhuang Zi], Zhuang Zi, “Transactions in the World of Men” (“人間世”).
Category - Miscellany
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Not everyone bothers about the important things – like what the name of the dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus is, or how many MRT interchanges there are in Singapore.
But if matters like these are everyday knowledge for you and your friends, then come on down to Earshot Cafe on Thu, 28 Feb 2013 at 7pm for a night of Singapore-themed Tipsy Trivia!
It’s the only pub quiz in town with a Singaporean theme – each category has six Singapore-themed questions and four international-themed questions.
For $5 per player, your team of six players gets to flex your brains over six rounds of trivia.
What’s more – the winning team stands a chance of bringing home six drinks vouchers courtesy of Earshot Cafe, along with 60% of the pot for the evening!
So join us – because, really: how much more fun can you get up to along the Singapore River on a Thursday night?
Singapore-themed Tipsy Trivia!
(Event Listing on Facebook)
#SGTipsyTrivia
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: Earshot Cafe (The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane)
Price: $5 per player (max. 6 players per team. Teams with more than 6 players will have 3.5 points deducted per extra player.)
Top Prize: Six drinks vouchers from Earshot Cafe + 60% of evening’s pot
Second Prize: 40% of evening’s pot
Contact Earshot Cafe at 6338 8220 to reserve a table for your team. Spots fill up fast; ‘chope’ your place today!
So I was browsing through the National Heart Centre’s (NHC) website the other day to find out how to contact them, when I discovered that their newsletter is called… Murmurs!
How awesome is that?
That is, using the word “murmur” as a pun to refer to both a heart murmur (which is what the NHC specialises in diagnosing and treating), as well as to convey the connotation of communication (which is what the newsletter is intended for).
And if you know me by now, you’d know that meaningful and significant names like these pique my interest; it shows a deeper level of thought and sophistication, which I always appreciate.
(I’ve also had the doob-ious honour of naming some things myself, using the same principles of meaningfulness and significance.)
Another thing I like about the NHC is that it’s part of the SingHealth Group, which, in my humble opinion, has the most coherent corporate branding strategy I’ve come across thus far – check out the logos and the lettering of the hospitals and speciality centres in their stable of medical institutions.
BONUS:
Random but also within the sphere of nice words: did you know that a flock of starlings is called a murmuration?