A man apart

Read Fateless in 2002.

HKLNA-Project (Hong Kong's Neighbors)

Registration time

A time of farewells. Even though we've been only here for 3 years, people are already leaving. The sad part is that they became good friends just recently. And just like that, we meet and then we disburse into the world. I hate saying goodbyes, especially when you might never see them again in this life time.

Prof. Gustafsson wants us to remember one thing from the course, even after we have forgotten everything else, the question "what is the center of awareness of our time?"

In Soviet Russia, You hit the Bus.

Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Alan Berg in class. Heard "Rite of Spring", No. 8 "Night" and watched parts of "Wozzeck". I can't help but be fascinated by these three pieces, especially the scene in wozzeck when the protagonist returns to the river bank:

"Murder! Murder!"
"They are on to me! Wait, that was my own voice, ha..haha"
"Murder! Murder!"

Death is a master from Germany indeed.

The Ruby Ford

Elfen Lied and Gustav Klimt

Elfen Lied and Gustav Klimt

Elfen Lied (pronounced 'lead') it is an anime redemption story with your typical senseless dismembered body parts and a love triangle that (conveiently) keeps the protagonist safe. In actuality the whole series is a gigantic fan service with pathetic attempts to build a plot. It suffers the same problems that animes today seems to suffer. They include, but not exclusively: attempts to build humor by showing women in various stages of undressing, use of German to cover ignorance and superficiality of the artists, and flashbacks.

The only redeeming quality is the opening music cutscene with the main characters transposed into Gustav Klimt's pictures.

Eduard Mörike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One China, Many Paths - Chaohua Wang

Good book. Read it from cover to cover.

FT.com / Business life - Lessons in life and leadership

'Earthly Powers,' by Michael Burleigh - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times

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