Archive for December, 2006
Good intention => good food?
I always believe in good intention. I believe that when we have good intention, even if things go wrong, they won’t go really wrong. But lately, I realised good intention is – in Howard’s term – necessary condition but not sufficient condition to prevent things to go wrong.
“If you think you can make the planet [...]
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Christmas Dell-light?
After a difficult year, Dell has shown signs of recovery. Investors’ confidence has returned, but Dell’s ability to relive its past glory is still doubtful
In his traditional Sunday blessing last year, Pope Benedict XVI criticised that consumerism had polluted the true spirit of Christmas. But for Dell’s nearly 79,000 employees, consumerism is exactly what they [...]
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Heavenly meal
I had a heavenly meal today. It was a bowl of noodle. Well, more precisely, a bowl of instant noodle. But it was a priceless instant noodle. Well, it had a price - less than 20pence which made it accessible even by the rather-poor. Nevertheless, it was priceless for me because I may never find any here.
Before [...]
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Holiday spirit caught me up faster than it should: I am not in the mood of continuing the assignment.
To avoid the guilty feeling of not having any progress, I sat in front of computer for hours, doing everything but thinking about Dell. Daydreaming, singing along the old songs in iTunes, checking celebrities’ fashion, checking people’s [...]
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What a deJavu
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As the title suggest, this movie is a dejavu of many earlier movies with familiar plot, familiar bomb blasts, and familiar (weak) theory of “folding space” to reach the past. Even some of the scenes in it are repeated; it was for illustrating the repetition, but it was done too plainly. The suspensioning facts created at the beginning, [...]
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In between two giants
Writer’s note: my first analytical feature
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What new US-China relationship means to the rest of the world
“If your grandmother was still alive, she would not believe what I saw there,” my mother exclaimed after her visit to my grandmother’s hometown in
China last year. The poor village she escaped from 60 years ago has become prosperous. The [...]
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The state and the people
There is an article in the Economist An American’s home is still her castle (25.11.2006) that mentioned about this ruling by US supreme court last year. In the Kelo v New London case, the supreme court broaden the definition of public purpose in the case of government seizing private properties. In the past, private properties means things [...]
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He is gone
Saddam is gone and I felt that he deserved it. Despite the facts that injustices in his trial or it is used as political tool, I just think that it is already so obvious that he was wrong. But then again, without fair trial, it is another barbaric act.
Despite my drive to be open-minded and to [...]
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