Vox Hunt: Jump Around
QotD: My Dream Address
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? Why?
Submitted by abcdefg81.
Right now eiron and I are living in the city that I want to live in, namely New York City. Having born and grew up in a cosmopolitan city like Hong Kong, I've always preferred living in a big city. ('Preferred is an understatement, I think)
And in the course of answering this question, I just realize I have lived in 3 out of the 4 major financial centres of the world: London, New York, and Hong Kong. Tokyo being the only city I haven't visited, let alone lived, I would definitely jump at any chance of spending a few years there. This is, of course, assuming that somehow I can afford to live there!
One more day to go
Before the head of development leaves my company and moves to Wisconsin with his wife to 'make baby' (their words, not mine). The senior manager would take over his role and share some of the responsibility with me, as I am currently the manager of software development. What would this mean, I don't know. One thing for sure is that without the head of development's shielding us from all the inter-office politics, I will be dealing with the senior management and the crap that comes with it more often than I want to. But no matter, his decision of leaving for the mid-west has already been the trigger of our own plan to move to another city. Now it's just a matter of when and where.
Goldfish memory
So the stereotype image of average American is right, they do have goldfish memory. From CNNMoney:
American consumers have reinforced all the stereotypes they are labeled
with: short attention spans, lack of social consciousness and thinking
with their wallets.
You know, I am ashame of being a British passport holder for all the sins they committed back in the 19th and early 20th century. I am also ashame of being born Chinese for what Mao had done to our own people during the 20th century. And now I am going to be ashame (in advance) of living in America for all of your excesses and inconsideration for the Earth and its inhabitants.
The supply of oil is not limitless but apparently the current
generation of Americans is all too willing to exhaust it by buying more
vehicle than they need and letting their children and grandchildren
fend for themselves.
Lost in Colonisation 