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Name: Victor
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Expertise: 染上事事計算, 習慣一買一賣的職業病, 原來忘記了世界上還有嗜好這回事. 如果寫字是一種喜好, 而碰巧有人懂得欣賞, 花上半小時打一篇短文, 過得自己過得人, 未嘗不是一件樂事. - 方卓如
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9/22/2003
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Using Canon 40D. 1 Feb 2008. At home.
Accidentally walked into 2 IFC for a project, and then disappeared for two months. Finally it's done.
Using iPhone. 18 Jan 2008. From office.
Being labeled as "以金錢的奴隸自居". I can choose to 1) admit, 2) refute, 3) explain. I choose remaining silence and focus on living up this motto: 克己復禮 | | |
| After so many friends linked me, I feel the need in creating this parking post to show that I am fully aware of all your supports.
Btw, I am not any kind of a deity. He is. | | |
| Farewell, King's Park Hill.
From Form 5 to Year 3, I have invited countless friends to enjoy its lovely little garden, to play with my cute little cat, and have a nice cup of coffee.
I have walked hundreds of times up and down the little hillside walk that leads to Yau Ma Tei MTR station. Its dense plantations always give me a feeling of tranquility. I even wrote a short fiction surrounding it.
But tomorrow I am moving out. To Manhattan Hill near Mei Foo (*hat tips to Jess).
Manhattan is a flat island. The only little hill is where the old observatory now stands in the middle of Central Park. Even the district Murray Hill, in Mid-town, is nothing about altitude.
And now we got a Manhattan Hill in Hong Kong. Glory to our developers. | | |
| My graduating friends,
Just a short passage, hoping to remind you what you have learn during the last three years. And wish that the spirit and soul of universities, with its heritage from ancient Greece, will bring happiness to your life.
「大學的物質存在很簡單，儀器、設備、大樓等等。然而，大學之所以稱之為大學，關鍵在於它的文化存在和精神存在。大學文化是追求真理的文化，是嚴謹求實的文化，是追求理想和人生抱負的文化，是崇尚學術自由的文化，是提倡理論聯繫實際的文化，是崇尚道德的文化，是大度包容的文化，是具有強烈批判精神的文化。大學文化體現的是一種共性，其核心與靈魂則體現於大學的精神。」 - 楊福家教授，〈大學的使命與文化內涵〉（www.studytimes.com.cn二○○七年九月十二日）
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| I wrote on last December why our leaders should embodies a broad range of knowledge. In corollary, why the amount of knowledge candidates embodies should be a factor in deciding who to vote.
Here is a recent example, by our Chief Executive Mr. Donald Tsang, during a radio interview.
"Host: I was struck by one phrase at the end of the policy address, towards the end of the conclusion, you say, we promote democratic development without compromising social stability or government efficiency, that kind of implies that democratic development does compromise social stability or government efficiency?
Donald Tsang: It can, it can, if we go to the extreme, people go to the extreme, and you have a cultural revolution, for instance, in China. When people take everything into their hands, then you cannot govern the place. And eh, the similar thing is...for instance...
Host: But Cultural Revolution wasn't really an extreme example of democracy.
Donald Tsang: What is it? People taking power into their own hands! Now, this is what it means by democracy, if you take it to the full swing. In other democracies, even if you have an elected person, then you overturn the policy in California, for instance, you have initiative number, number, number what, then you overturn policy taken by the government, that's not necessarily conducive to efficient government." (http://www.mpinews.com/htm/INews/20071012/gb52236a.htm)
MingPao wrote a nice commentary on the lack of knowledge of Tsang in modern Chinese history. My view is that he also lacks basic understanding of democracy, given that he is the head of the executive branch of the Hong Kong government.
In comparison with Regina Ip's previous statement "Hitler was also democratically elected", Tsang demonstrated his equal ignorance in Western democracy. By using these oversimplified and misleading examples of the downside of democracy, they wished to propagate anti-democracy ideas, and backfired.
As a beginning course in Western democracy, I would recommend them, and also my readers, to spend ten minutes reading these two articles on tyranny of the majority and Montesquieu.
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