The traffic condition in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is so terrible that could collapse traveler’s mind. It takes two hours in average to drive from its Airport to downtown, a distance of a little more than twenty miles. In addition, you will also hit a tollbooth every mile or so. It’s no fun at all to [...]
I don’t know when started, word narcissism suddenly became popular again. A friend of mine called to tell me she had moved to the States from China. When I asked if she got a husband yet, she said to me, “with all I got, who do you think matches me?” I laughed. Apparently, she is [...]
Music is very important. Everyone has her or his own music. Music can represent the value of a generation. Among baby boomers in America, there is Bob Dylan. Among freelance intellectuals in France, there is Gainsburg. In China, Pop singer Cui Jian’s song “I got nothing left” reflects a typical cogitation of the revolutionary generation. [...]
Finally, Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison. Since Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme first came to light, many have been introspecting themselves. Recently , I read a report saying a fund manager who had acquired from his friends a significant amount of funds for Madoff cancelled his 50-year birthday party because he [...]
Public restrooms are special architectures that benefits people’s ordinary life. Don’t take them lightly, there are always technical, social and economic issues involved in the public restrooms. They reflect management level, civilization level and citizenship of a city or region. Like in America, most highway restrooms in Europe are a little different from others. They [...]
I am amazed when seeing a beggar on a decorative costume. At least this suggests a great improvement is taking place in the “begging business”, an industry that is not supposed to even exist. Certainly begging itself is a negative aspect of the society and in some cases reflects a serious flaw in the social [...]
BORN BEFORE 1989? If measuring by today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60′s, 70′s and early 80′s probably shouldn’t have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was [...]
I don’t know if term “smoking gun” came from a story similar to what is told in the image, but I do know a fact that smoking gun is a hidden killer in the human society. It could create huge problems in many domains. As a matter of the fact, recently all of us just [...]