While HK's having the most dirtiest days, El Hierro, an remote island somewhere in Spain, is trying their best to keep the sky blue and clear.
2010年3月10日 星期三
What made my job better
Sometimes, when you are overwhelmed with handling patients' physical complaints, discharge documents, the most excitiing thing is to hear a word of 'thank you' from them, waving you goodbye, griming, seeing them walking out of sight.
2010年3月4日 星期四
when days are too well packed, evade
Had a day off and after a day roaming around the city I deliberately hided myself from the world. Muted the phone, put on the earphones, grabbed the camera I haven't much used since travel to the pier.
Sitting in the pier promenade, quietly enjoying the millions of lights sparkling - it already made my day.
2010年2月24日 星期三
Monocle Issue 25 Volume 3 July 2009 - Perfect city
She speaks out all I am craving for .......
Monika Sprüth
Co-owner, with Philomene Magers,
Sprüth Magers Galleries
London/Berlin/Köln
What elements would a perfect business city have?
It should be the place in the world where culture merges. Culture understood in a broad context reduced not only to art, music, design, architecture, theatre - The city where all contradictions of the world are experienceable and tangible.
How important is quality of life when choosing a base?
Quality of life has a practical and intellectual aspect. Creative architecture in beautiful urban or rural settings. A house with a view of a lake, a river or the sea. With young children close to good and creative schools. A mix between anonymous privacy and friends who share the same interests and discourse. And, most importantly, to have the possibility to see matches of my favourite football club - the professionals and the youth teams.
Which cities are getting it right?
Cities that understand that their strength is mainly based on their history and culture. Places that are always on the borderline between collapse and never-ending cultural regeneration - here culture can grow. Melting pots: cities such as Berlin, New York, London.
If you could be based in any city, where would that be?
I cannot make up my mind. Objectively, all cities that have charisma and vibrancy like Berlin or London are great, perfect places for our galleries. Personally, my preferences change quite often and it seems the easiest to stay where my football club 1.FC Köln is located: Köln!
2010年2月22日 星期一
14 days of holidays
By the time I sat down in front of the new HP notebook after a tough game on tennis it’s the last day for my 14 days annual leave. It was tired after the game and I felt like pumping out all my energy, but still it is a good way to end the holidays with sport.
The past 2 weeks were different with the last 2 holidays which was a week travelling and a week muscle building – they are going without much planning and on everyday I just do what my intuition tells. Sleep late, wake up late, afternoon may be spent with either weight training in MegaBox or doing some reading on Monocle’s past magazine and Reuters; Night time got myself engaged in wine drinking, putting myself into photoshop or if weather did not go wrong, another sport session.
This is way too different with the past 3 months when I need to calculate how much time left after job and its mental preparation, everything got well-planned and nerve cells never rest. For sometimes life goes unplanned it just helps freshening up your minds to get ready for the coming months of work.
The past 2 weeks were different with the last 2 holidays which was a week travelling and a week muscle building – they are going without much planning and on everyday I just do what my intuition tells. Sleep late, wake up late, afternoon may be spent with either weight training in MegaBox or doing some reading on Monocle’s past magazine and Reuters; Night time got myself engaged in wine drinking, putting myself into photoshop or if weather did not go wrong, another sport session.
This is way too different with the past 3 months when I need to calculate how much time left after job and its mental preparation, everything got well-planned and nerve cells never rest. For sometimes life goes unplanned it just helps freshening up your minds to get ready for the coming months of work.
2010年2月21日 星期日
Meditation | Deep thinking
Is internet making us smarter ?
By technological or lifestyle means internet has been fundamental to its development. Simply a click and information floods in your screen. According to the latest online research interviewing 900 scientists, consultants, business leaders, writers, technology developers and internet users by Reuters (2010), majority of them agreed that internet has an indispensible place on improving reading, writing and rendering of knowledge. 3 out of 4 experts in the study said internet enhances human intelligence.
Yet there has been argument of the use of internet on improving our IQ. Nicholas Carr, as a technology writer, attributes there is positive relationship between use of internet and people's stupidity. "What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligenc ..... Chipping away users' capacity for deep thinking or concentration," Carr said in a release accompanying the study - 'Is google making us stupid ? '. "The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking." declared Carr.
By technological or lifestyle means internet has been fundamental to its development. Simply a click and information floods in your screen. According to the latest online research interviewing 900 scientists, consultants, business leaders, writers, technology developers and internet users by Reuters (2010), majority of them agreed that internet has an indispensible place on improving reading, writing and rendering of knowledge. 3 out of 4 experts in the study said internet enhances human intelligence.
Yet there has been argument of the use of internet on improving our IQ. Nicholas Carr, as a technology writer, attributes there is positive relationship between use of internet and people's stupidity. "What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligenc ..... Chipping away users' capacity for deep thinking or concentration," Carr said in a release accompanying the study - 'Is google making us stupid ? '. "The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking." declared Carr.
2010年2月18日 星期四
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