(1) Veil Lifted on China’s Next Top Duo:
Often portrayed as solemn, bland and emotionless in public appearances, the Chinese leaders (習近平 and 李克強)for the first time revealed their humanized personalities and characters. Behind the scene, they are just casual people who enjoy watching Hollywood movies and DVDs. It’s also encouraging to know that they are not blind to the corruption, legislation and the east-west income disparity.
“the level of detail in them could still embarrass Messrs. Xi and Li…” how is it so? (besides the ‘man-made’ GDP claim..but i doubt how non-man-made US GDP is) the US press has tried so hard to play up the China ‘uncivilized dictatorship’ in all these years. Thanks to Wikileaks… this rare unveiling has already backfired to the US media..while they still arrogantly claim that it is a shame for China.
I recalled my friend from China once proudly admitted how he could take advantage on China’s 腐敗 and 黑暗 as his career advances. Changes won’t happen overnight, it’s still a long way for China to make intrinsic differences on its people’s values and working style (the “soft” asset of the country). At least we should be glad that our future leaders are reasonable people..going top-down..hopefully one day such culture would ripple across the entire government.
Anyways, imagine how difficult it is to enforce policies across a country as populous as China..to rise from ruins of the emperor system amidst the years of wars and revolutions (credit to 義海豪情）..salute to our leaders, coz things could have gone far worse.
校友都在紛紛討論在Yahoo! 新聞上一篇文章”周日話題﹕名校教了我什麼——女校生的反思“，大家都突然感激母校對她們的改變影響。
曾經也是女名校生的我，雖然會有一定程度的共鳴，但我更強烈感覺到的 卻是筆者在字裡行間流露出的inferiority complex，自卑型的自大。筆者都已經是在社會打滾了十多年的成人了，過了這麼多年還是不能get over 一些幼稚自我的想法。內文一面倒地指出種種不公現象，筆者看不過眼，到了現今還是同樣不屑。
筆者身為記者，具有新聞觸覺，理應看透世事，有能力理性分析事情的twofold，pros and cons。豈能加添自己的不憤，如此籠統地一慨而論，為天下每一個名校生冠上”追逐名利，趨炎附勢”的罪名？”反思“自己的過去，卻還是這般積怨重重，與十多年前的那個“o靚妹”毫無改變昇華，這何來叫反思？勉強可以說是“女校生的童年陰影陳述”，筆者在結尾不忘標榜一下自己的“胸襟之廣“，可悲又可笑。
文章裡有大量沒有必要包括的炫耀細節，讓讀者我摸不著頭腦。目的何在？
“我是班長，自發貼了大堆剪報，發起同學手纏黑布”
“我被編入全級最top的A班”
“中六那年，我被同學選了當Head Girl”
”到今天我最好的朋友，雖然她們不讀報、不關心時事，但都有一顆溫柔的心。“ （這是對自己最好的朋友發好人卡嗎？）
as 一個過來人，如果要我寫我對母校的反思，我只會寫一句話，”Sola Nobilitas Virtus，明德惟馨。”11年在mcs的歲月，那些這些不快誤解，早早就風吹雲散了。況且這種競爭環境又非名校獨有，早已見慣司空，不足為奇。
impromptuz 