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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 It has been a good while since I updated anything over this portal. Meanwhile life is pleasantly blissful but it will be busier when the content syllabus starts piling and the assignments hit their dues. For me, training is like a return to school life, to turn up and react to stimulus, and complain a little about administration lapses and unforgivable mistakes. I shall not dwell on the latter. ~ ~ Recently a friend was embroiled in a civil suit involving copyright laws. He is one of many that the organization has targeted to pay damages, which are grossly unsubstantiated, at least by the rationale thus presented. There are many presentations of facts online and in print media, so there is no need to further any causes or to proclaim the downfall of regimes; there is this idiom which translates literally: justice is in the hearts of the public. Nobody can exonerate himself of wrongdoings, be it in the past, present or future, and everyone has a part to play. Being a student of the English language, it bugs me no end for a legitimate (and copyrighted) product which involves a protagonist's (main character) name morphing into two objects of nature, which makes no sense when placed together. It is worse than non-native English, but at least we cannot fault the non-natives for lack of effort. Bearing in mind the rightful authorities are legitimate, I will be pleased to take up a resident role of translator, re-writing unintelligible English into "Engrish" (try googling the word and have fun, from the linguistic point of view). ~ ~ Another point I want to make, is in the arena of policy recommendations. I will not think too hard about policy implications, but first and foremost, it would be pretty sad to toil 65 years of life at work, and it is a social construct to assimilate work identity with happiness and contentment. Do we want to say we maintained our lives for our families' wellbeing, or that we sold our lives to fill yet another corporation's coffers? In all, it is about economic necessity, and the authorities are not so naive, as not to know that compulsory savings will not work out and this fact has been proven in academic writings, decades ago. Incidentally that article is pretty elusive, but it suffices to let in the point that I agree. That is why we have the disillusioned individual with the vision of riding into the sunset, but since money is locked in and property is landlocked, becomes entrenched and defeated, only able to see an illusory mirage of the utopia, that is increasingly threatened by age. The real issue is emotional rather than monetary, and unless we address the rot, unsustainable progression,(my term), we will never be content. Maybe we should grow a tail if the idea is for us to keep evolving, and that is even if I subscribe to the Darwinist tradition, which I am not a convert. I am partial to the other end of the continuum, but I shall not elaborate. ~ ~ Education is also a major concern, which is incidentally a core area of my professional interest. There will be another institute of higher learning, for which its designation and niches are still in the works, and in the hands of yet another committee.Coincidentally, an established university just pulled out, so I propose that the vacated land be taken over by the mooted fourth university. We will know that that is the decision all along, but we cannot mention this already-taken step in writing, for the very fact that we may dig out skeletons hidden from sight and rub salt into old wounds. Most probably the costs will never be recovered if the concerned party declares itself insolvent, so the best way to restore good order to the fund managers is to labor on what is already existent, and complete the due process. It reaps social, economic, political and practical dividends and mitigates the potential losses that could have occurred from mis-management. No one will oppose to more schools, as compared to badly translated entertainment products. ~ ~ I somehow see the need to end off on a cautionary note by restating the unambiguous stand that we respect copyrights and give the companies due benefits by virtue of doing so, so please do not have anything that is not quite our own, and for our own sanity, do not share things which are not ours as well. In the (un)likelihood that one has a copy, please allow me to take a look and I will try to translate the product properly before consumption. For work, I want to choose when I go for good. For education, I can already foresee issues like underemployment and over-qualified persons cropping up in the not-too-distant future. weijie froze in time on 21.8.07

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