Gender agreements. Subjunctive tense. Imperatives. Conjugations. Words that look easy but turn out to be weird - Lo, Se, Te, Os…
They are all staring at me. Voiceless, yet resolute.
If that’s the attitude Spanish had towards me, then why not respond proactively? With resolution. When first presented the options of continuing to study Chinese at the native speaker’s level or startin...
So adorable is the nature, and so challenging was the journey. It was full of obstacles, challenges and fun. Within the short twenty-eight hours, an awareness of environmental impacts, friendship, leadership and team-working and surviving skills were greatly improved.
All packed, we left school at about eight. A neat assembly line was formed in order to take the bags inside. Sitt...
Unforgettable!
—A list from the trip to Greece
Thanks to the fond memories of the beautiful country that continue to excite me & the jet lag, I came up with this list of 20 bullet points at around 3:00 a.m.! Enjoy:)
The empty stage. The masks. The Chorus… Imagine an audience of 13,000 here at the Ancient Theatre of Επιδαύριος thousands of years ago!
Just as I was attempting to recall some lines from our high school theatre productions “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Medea”, I heard an opera piece sung by another visitor. Whoa, the acoustics were as fantastic as they were described in th...
‘To what extent is truth eternal?’ is a knowledge issue that could be supported by evidence and simultaneously discarded by counterclaims. Although ‘That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow’ is true to a certain extent, a multitude of examples from different areas of knowledge, including the Natural Sciences, the Human Sciences (as exemplified by Philosoph...
On the Fleeting Moments and Vivacity
Why wait? Creative inspiration flees, as does youth. As does life. Love. Blossoming emotions. Flowery language. Petals. Vivacity from the nature…
Beneath a cherry blossom comes a chanting group of young children, cheerfully chiming the wedding march. Next to them, I have been wondering about the fleeting moments of life, and the very vivacity of ...
How could an international NPO’s China branch attract more individual donors from the Chinese working age segment?
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Organisations are facing more competition to attract potential donors especially in markets like China where consumers are not accustomed to donating to NGO’s as compared to mature markets from developed countries including the United States or the United Kingdom...
For me at the moment, the IB exams are fast approaching. Meanwhile, I realise that the new application season has already started. I have recently been asked to write a recommendation letter, in addition to proofreading and editing personal statements. Having gone through the college / university application cycle and been admitted by my first choice school, I would like to sum up a few tips. The...
Jane Austen as a Game Theorist: Reconsidering Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen’s characters may first conjure up images of joyous young ladies and gentlemen in a countra-dance ballroom. Whilst this was my original impression shaped by fictions including Pride and Prejudice, I soon became further intrigued by the potential for interdisciplinary learning. This Exploration Project marries my p...
Position maps of Marketing, also known as gap maps or perception maps, and the idea of positioning in general, could be regarded as metaphors in several ways.
First of all, whichever approach is used to create maps may cannot be 100% accurate, valid, relevant, or precise. The human perception of the world is dominated by knowledge claims that are mostly assumptions. In reality, peeling the...
Pounding with exhilaration was her heart, as she rushed to the platform to the Eden of her mind. With ample confidence did she step into the ancient campus, which incessantly guided her in her midsummer night’s dreams… Step, step, step. Steady and sophisticated did she greet her host.
Blossoming petals, bushy plethora;
Sweeter than perfume is the scent
Of optimism with no ...
‘Congratulations. The answer is yes!’
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(Screams, Laughters, and Joyful Tears…)
For high school seniors, those five words (especially the first, ‘Congratulations’) from the universities / colleges of their choice may have been appearing in their dreams night after night. As seniors go through the process that is fearfully known as the ‘College Application Cycle’, th...
与骆家辉三次面对面
政治生涯：他沉稳、严谨、勤奋并追求完美。
家庭生活：他是模范丈夫，也是孩子们的良师益友。
今天博文的主人公骆家辉(Gary Locke)无须过多为大家介绍。两年内，我十分高兴能有三次机会见到大使，场合截然不同。每一次短暂的经历都拓宽了我对骆家辉的了解范围，令我亲身体会到他扮演不同角色时的特性。
第一次见到骆家辉，是在“鼎泰丰”，大使先生和太太李蒙(Mona)及三个孩子坐在我们...
‘Hi! I’m also in the acronym festival known as the IB, haha.’ A new Facebook message popped up.
‘So, what is the IB like?’ So did another.
A walking-on-the-tightrope experience? A merciless predator of sleep? I remembered the series of dark and grotesque metaphors that fellow IB-students attributed to the IB Program, and grinned at this thought. In a previous blog post (titl...
The role of children in plot development of Euripides’ ‘Medea’ to characterise Medea as an unconventional Ancient Greek tragic heroine
Tragic heroes in Ancient Greek theatre are usually respected individuals whose flaws (hamartia) lead their downfall and death. In Euripides’ ‘Medea’, however, the title character is hardly conventional as a tragic heroine. Instead of dying, this outsi...
—The Role of Coffee in Our Daily Lives Reconsidered
The sun rises. The sky is blue. The breakfast table is set up. The sunlight is now creeping through your window while you are still lying in the warm winter bed. But your normal exclamation at this point, ‘Perfect’, is absent. Why is that so? You sit down on a cozy chair, but remain utterly unsatisfied…
…Upon the realisat...
Bustee versus favela. This contrast between non-MEDCs’ poorest residents appears insignificant, for over-populated mega-cities have several aspects that are in common. However, Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs) such as Brazil have a completely different story from typical Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs) such as India. No matter how different these nations actually are,...
War memorials and museums cause controversy probably because of four reasons: 1) the facts presented are not universally accepted, 2) emotions manipulated are considered inappropriate for certain audience, 3) current events influence visitors’ opinions, and 4) the purpose of the memorial is not always clear.
One way that war memorials and museums cause controversy is because of t...
Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Having won a major victory in California, Kennedy addressed his supporters in the hotel ballroom shortly past midnight. As he walked passed a kitchen passageway as a shortcut to reach a press conference room, he was shot and sent to hospital. He died nearly...
Reflections of a Female Bibliophile
15 July, 2011
‘To be or not to be, that is the question.’ A single spotlight, and a pitch-dark stage -- a lost wanderer, merely a foolish player. But where is the dawn of my everlasting darkness?
I seek no revenge, readers*. Nay, neither sympathies.
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