The Myth of the "Clash of Civilizations". Edward Said

又讓我不入世

讀著讀著感覺很奇妙
他們寫的　感覺很理所當然的
--- 但怎麼世界都做不到

感覺是不用讀應該也知道
--- 但這是錯覺吧

世界不公平
國家制度還是讓我很困擾
而且商品化的趨勢令人變質太多

人的本質究竟是甚麼其實也說不清

其實所有東西都很顯淺吧
象牙塔的複雜分析　有助解決一些甚麼嗎

為甚麼會錯

讀：the not-so-successful south-south cooperation

doha round failure so damn sad - what does it say about the nature of people - selfishness
neoliberalism, seriously?
commoditizing necessities, seriously?

what is about the growing pie noam ew. sigh.

is it too sick and beyond repair ?

encountering talent and generosity

yes i have to write things down so later in my life i can flip this open and revisit this dewy time

seriously oh oh mine (hahahahaha) im doing it right i feel like i went to my german class even though i was so hell packed and should be spending time on my readings but any way i went. guess it was the weather or because people are getting busy there are only eight students today

so

the teacher is Samira, a non German but has been in this country for over 10 years and teaches really well. Exceptionally clear in pronunciation (yay!)

students: so many musiciansssss

Nina the Ukrainian girl actually played the flute in class today and it was amazing, Samira mistaken (or joked?) the piece she played as a part from Harry Potter, and later she did play Harry Potter. They were talking that she could indeed play anything just by after hearing it !

Claire the Dutch girl (with some French background) and Ivan the Swedish boy are vocalists (isn't it verrueckt i never thought i would meet another vocalist ever in my life except that one high school friend hahahahah) and the girl even sang while the flute was played it was absolutely mind blowing her voice is so strong and thick. She speaks deep and low but can sing high very steadily omgomgomg !!

Another somewhere guy who plays bass, or is it electronic guitar? A spanish guy, sitting with the...Amenian guy?... Then a Jordan guy, Mohammad i think... then the gummi guy behind me aww he is so nice a daddy of three! ummm i needa catch their names better...

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then the night before i had dinner with this second year taiwanese girl of my program. HOLY CRAP so knowledgeable, and sociable too so much better than me and she can be herself in front of people in a genuine and likable way so good...

then yesterday night jin made dinner for ivan and me ummm just why are people so sociable and generous here are people really nicer outside of hong kong? or have i demonized people from home? or is it the media that shielded me from seeing the good in people lol

what is it i dnt know if i qualify as a good person compared to these hospitable souls.

feined

YESTERDAY WAS FEINE :DDD

The day before i buried myself in inefficiency and readings and missed the party that i shouldn't have...
what stupid excuse it is to say that im not good with a lot of people
witful feedback from friends
'well you only have to talk to one one at a time'
: /

but what's missed is missed

SO
on Thur night tho i hadn't finished my goddamn double session readings i went to pre-drink and documentary screeninggg and there were awesome !
haha this german giant loves drinking too much i think he askes if someone wants a drink at least 3 times a day...and he really can drink LOL
so a couple of us went over to his very nice place - spacious and cozy
and there we met two housemates of his
(and i found out that giant speaks german, english, spanish FLUENTLY plus french...)

cause obviously that spanish ken friend of his speaks very limited german and english, but, he too is so so nice
raph is a hairdresser and offered to groom us hahahahahahahahaha he is so duk yee
it was so funny the clicking happened through eyes not words like we knew that we liked each other instantly found each other friendable hahahahaha it was amazing

but um, we had to leave the house for the documentary but hopefully my straightening friend of mine and i will go to the salon sometime soon!

so documentaries -
Vegas - http://vimeo.com/76527110
DNA Dreams - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXPWUm0PmY

their awesomeness speaks for themselves.
- i like how dna dream projects the impression that chinese people are scary HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Q: what do you think about DNA engineering?

So I'm going for two others tomorrow :D and hopefully i will get all my 'food system' readings and the summary and the preso 'speech' done tomorrow...

scheduling:
target finishing schedule - class - no. of pages...
1102 - food system - 51 page
1103 - global history - 55 pages
1105 noon - international studies - 64 pages
1107 - actors and institutes - 79 pages (this is actually better than today's double session which had a dammit amount of 129 pages - just saying - i think my absence from the party is justified.)
Note: German class 6 to 8:30 on Mon, Tue and Thu - HELLO THERE...

FML - and im doing the reading summaries ROAR

depending how tired i'll be, mayb i should catch up on some 10 pages tonight after dinner...wish me luck!