A time to rethink

Stepping into December, someone like me will start thinking what have I done well and what I haven't... semmingly I have already forgotten that this shall be done asap but let's see if I can do it on the CX flight to LHR for my graduation.

If you ask me what is the most significant thing I have done in 2008? Dissertation and flying. I knew more about flying on different aircrafts. I have spent 60+ hours and more than 50,000 miles on Cathay Pacific to different places (but mostly HKG-LHR-HKG). Some 3000 miles with British Airways around Europe and then the others are hard to count for they were with budget airlines. Started to like the aviation business? Well, now it turns to something like a transport for me... like it or hate it... that's not a question anymore. My nerves still get a little bit tense when the ground staff are mean to me but oh well! They are just working... as long as everything goes well in the flight (by that I mean food and seat)... that's why I always claim this: "Fly Cathay Pacific, the heart of Asia"... why? Log onto www.cathaypacific.com and see how everyone is working hard in this company not subsidised by the government and is proud to be a Hong Kong airline...

OK... more with reflection... what else? Probably settling back in Hong Kong after the LSE experience. Definitely it was an enjoyable and expansion to different academia and culture. Regrets persist but again, who cares. Job still on the search... pray for me on this for those of you who have a religion... someday this will come... now I try to devote a little bit more to church for I think this will help my spirituality go back to what it once was and at the same time, make me a person serving the church rather than relying on it through mass and all that jazz...

Travelling experiences were enjoyable as well... but my nerves aren't that good as always and the way to discover myself through these voyages seem hitting me somewhere off in terms of making my perception... the motto "enjoy life" seemingly is like turning into the equation of "enjoy = accept". But this is still under a justification process so let's put that aside....

Hong Kong, my home? I guess so. Again, I am Chinese! London? Nah... but will love to work there one day. Vancouver, Toronto or Canada? Kinda my home but more so a Disneyland Real Version to me.

Let's see what my visions for 2009 will be... let me think... stay tuned!

A memorable day for all of us from YCIS.
A start of a busy year again for all of us in 2009... I hope...

Complaints or compliments?

The ability to criticize between the East and the West differs hugely among societies. While one consider the necessity to criticize, the dedication to maintain an equilibrium in society conflicted each other when culture crashes occur. So the final question comes... where are we based? The notion claiming that the originality of one determining its position to complain in a way dedicated to its originality should be partially rejected. Take myself as an example. Well, I am from Hong Kong but I am not what people call 'a 100% made in Hong Kong' - I don't like yelling at people, at least, but I agree with the necessity to voice out loud and clear. Drawing backwards, the idea of 'a base' comes from the geographical barriers we used to have but assuming the rejection of Mansell's (2001) proposition of the nonexistence of a wired network, are we all connected? How much should Digital Divide divide us? Are we "all for one and one for all" (Lyrics from Billy Elliot)? How "global" are we at the end of the day? The department of Media and Communications from the LSE has always been focusing on how Digital Divide has divided the world (or at least some courses have stressed this). Should we move on from this and discuss the interaction between globalization and Digital Divide?

OK enough with academic writing... now comes an easier version. It seems as if we, Asians and Westerners, if such can draw the line between the world (which is impossible!) interprets the world differently. Where can an equilibrium exist with an emerging society? It is hard but it is time to think. We are in a world full of computer interactions but seemingly this brought down the meaning to communicate. My proposition is to start with the younger generation but the youngsters today are even more "bossy" than ever! Yes communication exist but in an odd way. Or am I too conservative at this point? Is "Criticism" based on the verb "to talk"? Any thoughts??