Hacking the Good days…

There are different people in this world. Some you don’t have to deal with to know that they are not worth it. Some are like… strong fragrance, they capture your attention but when you get used to the smell they do not exist as much. Even though you try to remember what they were first like, you can’t, because you are just not up for it. Some are like… a nice good book, you rather not finish it because you afraid you will have to let go. Some are.. random comic books, you read once, or even just flipping’em, and you found that you’re bored, or disappointed by its ending.  Wow, it’s really like what it seems?  You aren’t convinced by the lame simplicity, hunting for the root.  But there is no root.  It’s really what it is.  Yes.
Looking out from the window, you feel light breezes blowing gently and wake you up in the middle of the stuffy weather. All of a sudden you realize it has always been there, you just need to open the windows to feel’em.

Thanks.
Today it’s the second day I’m back in Hong Kong.  It’s 1:17am and I am not sleepy at all.  Thought, feelings.  Thinking about the past, and the future.  People who surprise you, people who let you down.  Some amuse you, some shock you.  Whatever it is, it’s great to meet new people, to learn from them.

What is sad are people who refuse to learn from their past experience…  I’m glad I am in this happy phase.  Yes, there are a lot of lessons to learn.  Are you ready?

Wow.

That’s already one week in Boston and 4 more weeks before London? I only have a month in Hong Kong and I already start missing the place. But I know I will have fun in London… Just gotta round up my thesis now. Lok gave me some good advice in the importance of having a coherent framework, and by presenting in Wikimania I get to see how to explain the organizational issues using social capital as the framework. Basically there are bridging and bonding social capitals, which exert dynamic impacts on the level of transparency and rationalization that determines the efficiency in information flow and decision-making. Will elaborate more on the thesis. I know, they sound like crap right now. /smile

Wikimania was great this year for the guest speakers. I was absolutely blown away to nowhere by Lessig’s presentation. He is really talented in convincing people – the slices followed his speech and hammer the words into the audience with content, audio and video here.
One big difference between Wikimania 1.0 and 2.0 here is the concentration of the crowd. Since there is no central social arena, like an open space with cafe, conveniently located somewhere in the heart of the conference location, people were always floating around making it harder to chill with one another. But of course, Harvard is nice place to be. I was so relieved that after the first two days the weather got back to normal again.

Today studied with mom on her exam. The stuff was – dense. I never know exactly what the heck auxilary transitive bare infinitive verb froms are. I’m so proud of her, really, that’s just one amazing sweet woman there. I am lucky to have her in my life.

Okay enough bs. Got to work on the cultural studies thing tonight. Well. Three more minutes tonight. It’s now 11:53 pm already. :)

Finally I need to thank Andrew, Lok, Delphine, Sj, James, Austin, Erica, and PHOEBE for making this event so unforgettable to me :) I love you guys!!!!

with jimbo in the middle… Photo Courtesy to Andrew Lih