I, Me, Myself

I'm sure you all have heard of this film but have you seen it? what do you think of this movie, a tragedy, a comedy, or a great commercial movie? I guarantee you would change your mind after reading Shocked by Slumdog's poverty porn.
the poverty and the violence showed in the movie make the superiority complex of western world stand out. whether india or china, the eastern world is always a mystery. orientalism, written by Said, describes a tradition, both academic and artistic, of hostile and deprecatory views of the East by the West.
that film sells superiority of audience and poverty of india at the same time. when we see Slumdog Millionaire, do we adopt the view of the west to judge the east?

Do you believe technology is everything? well, before i read Doc in a Box, i don't think AI can replace manpower. yes, a computer can play chess with you, stimulate a playground for you, guarantee your safety at home, but...to have a surgery??
Now haptics, the science of simulating touch and feel, makes it possible. The advantage of having a robot to operate for you is it can precisely locate the operating field. before this robot comes up, we already have many operations with the computer-assisted tracking system. technology did work very well and now it can do more.
the only disadvantage of this robot is the way-to-high cost. but this robot is only an unnamed prototype, it's too early to jump to the conclusion. in the light of the development of medical tech, students of medical school might get ready to find another jobs cause robotic surgeons would come true soon.

A Forgotten Contribution. This is not a good news, but it's happy to know the discrimination is disappearing. do you know Rosa Parks? She is famous for refusing to obey a bus driver's order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger in 1955. Soon Park's act became the symbol of resistance to racial segregation. Of course her action is not the only one of its kind. Here is another fighter: Claudette Colvin.
nine months before Parks event,  Colvin, a 15 year-old girl, was similarly treated. we may be hard to imagine why the color matters so much, but the color was everything then. Though the 14th Amendment has legislated for many years, it obviously takes more time for people to believe in "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
doesn't any ciscrimination or segregation exist nowadays? I disagree. what matters now may not be colors, but it can be salary, age, appearance...Power is always a privilege to some people only.

Agents and Editors: A Q&A With Four Young Literary Agents
four agents and editors, JULIE BARER, JEFF KLEINMAN, DANIEL LAZAR, and RENEE ZUCKERBROT, are talking about why they love their job and what the job can make the world change. I read the initial paragraphs of the first page and cann't help laughing out loud in front of my screen.
what makes you think of a novel as a good one? first, Barer said "the one makes me miss
my subway stop." if one book can make you forget what you're doing, surely it's a great one. then, i start to recall if there is any book that did the same thing to me. yes, 吉本芭娜娜's books. i love them all and i did pay the money to buy them instead of reading them on the internet.
btw, one book has to be very interesting in the first pages or i may immediately lose my desire to finish it, even i've paid a lot of money to buy it.

books aren't dead. they're just going digital.

it's the title of the November 26 issue of Newsweek.
have you ever heard of Kindle? it's the first 'always-on' book. not
just an electronic book, it brings a new perspect of reading. the time
of book 2.0 is coming. when you read a book which reminds you of
another book, what would you do? go upstairs to find the reference,
which could easily take you an hour or more? save it! with Kindle, you
can perpetually connect internet and check any book, magazines,
journals you want. moreover, you can even subscribe to them.

before books, music and video have been digital for a long time, and
short-form reading has been digitized. but long-form reading hasn't.
the kindle represents a time of transition. the reason why people read
less books in the past decade doesn't exist anymore-books are heavy and
unportable. and there is something that has happened to everyone-hate to need glasses to
read those 10pt (or less) books. well, you won't need to do that, too.
for those love reading paperback ones, kindle may be out of imagination and unacceptable. but for those used to get anything done anytime anywhere, kindle surely is the best choice ever.

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Recently, I was trying to change my career. I'm not saying that being a
teacher is not good enough. It's good, definitely pretty great. However, I want to live a
different life. Most student think it's a waste of time not to be a
teacher after four year training of teaching. They believe they don't
have any other choices. But I don't think so.
The four year training is the basis of being a teacher but teaching is
not the only destination. I've heard that a lot of teachers complain
about their long-time working. Every time they get together, they
always talk about how boring, exhausted and tired they are and the
education in Taiwan is worse and worse.  They never realize those talks are as boring as themselves.
My life shouldn't be like that and I deserve to live what I wanna be. I hope I could have such courage to make a switch. I believe there are many ways ahead. :)

Everything seems quite funny since the love is gone. Seriously, when two people don't love each other anymore, those sweet words, promises, hugs and kisses just don't mean anything. Isn't that sad? Should we throw all this away just beacuse of the fading love?
Recently I've been thinking about this--how things gonna work after lovers broke up. I, am more like the "remember everything' guy in love. I don't believe you can get rid of those memories so easily. I don't mean that I would remember all stuff about the relationship, but I do believe that once you loved someone, that guy would left prints on your heart.
Why would I bring this up?  Again, it's coz I just watched some episode of FRIENDS.  :)
Anyone who wanna share his opinions about this get-over-with thing is welcome to post a comment here.

Actually, she has assigned this to me for a long time but I didn't have any passion to answer it in English then. OK, here is it.

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遊戲規則如下： 
A. 被點到名字的要在自己的博客裡寫下自己的答案，然後去掉一個你最不喜歡的問題再加上一個你的問題，仍然組成20個問題，傳給其他8個人，列出其他8個需要回答問題的人的名字，還要到這8個人的博客裡留言通知對方「你被點名了」，完成遊戲的人將會得到不可預知的好運。

I just read Julia's article--What Are We Creating? Monsters?
Indeed, kids nowadays apparently become more violent. More and more teachers worry about this phenomenon, although some may blame it on the explosure of mass media, which are mostly considered more bloody than before. However, just twenty or ten years ago, kids were still "normal." So I couldn't help but thinking: what happened during these days? 
As an old saying goes, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." When we put more concern about human rights, do we also remember that crimes need punishment? People believe in the "education of love" but the truth is: If we don't love kids, we won't punish them for making mistakes. To corrupt a kid is simple. You just let him do whatever he wants and he will be an airplane, flying high but out of control.
Anyway, I kind of feel desperation about education. It can't make me depressed anymore.