Published by James at 15:17 HKT May 29, 2007
in misc.
It’s been a while since I have blogged. A lot has been going on lately and have been keeping me busy. Generally, it’s been fun and enjoyable.
First of all, I have been sitting in a course at the Chinese University. The course is Hong Kong and Macau Archaeology. Which is something that I have been interested in general. There have been a couple of field trips with one of which is not directly associated with the course. I took some photos which I have yet to find the time to post process and post.
I have also bought a couple of gadgets so far this month with another one on order. Namely a Mavizen MyBlu iPod remote with Bluetooth for cellphone, a Softbank X01HT PPC cellphone (which is just a variant of the Dopod 838Pro/HTC TyTN) with a Holux M-1000 Bluetooth GPS module, and an Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth headset that I have reported earlier. So I am busy testing them out. Hopefully I’ll be able to report them here one by one soon.
Incidentally, I am typing this blog out directly with the Softbank PPC via a Wi-Fi connection. It does take some getting used to but the screen is quite good. I think I would skip putting the hyperlinks in until I get back to my real computer though.
Anyway more about them later.
in a speech, don’t read what it has been written (by anyone).
I have been to enough events where hosts and guests would have speeches and most of them would simply read out their speeches directly from chits. 100% of the time, 95% of the audience would not care to listen. A complete waste of time for saying nothing at all to no one.
Last Sunday in a public ceremony for celebrating 5/4, our ex-Secretary for Justice, Elsie Leung gave a speech where she read out word for word directly off a chit. At the beginning, while she was addressing the guests I suppose, the microphones were off. With her head down watching the words, she kept reading even when the microphones were eventually turned on afterward as everyone then finally hear her continued in her usual boring monotone sticky tongue voice as if everything were normal all along! Her entire speech conveyed only one message to me - she’s a moron.
One should prepare a speech with something that one wanted to say from the bottom of one’s heart and then say it like one is talking as a person with flesh and blood who truly believes in his words to the audience also with flesh and blood rather than reading like a bot to a brick wall. If you can’t say what you have to say, sit down and shut up. Quit wasting everyone’s precious time. Any 7 year old kid could read off a chit. Hack! A speech synthesizer could have done that! Imagine if Steve Jobs read off a chit during his keynote presentations instead. Who would care to buy his products after that?!
Destroy all plausible causes.
WhaUSay?!