Purposive without Foresight

On June 8th Dirk And I went to the local aeroplane fair. We were both not really aeroplane freaks, but the weather was nice and we wanted some walk. Many people went to the fair, but the planes exhibited there were not that many, and most of them are tiny planes, which suited the size [...]

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Source: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,554273,00.html
English Translation Bot: Google Translate
Translation Correction and Editing: Ellen N. Zhao
Original German text in black and English translation in blue.
Politikprofessor Kishore Mahbubani, 59, über die Zukunft der Demokratie in Asien, das überhebliche Auftreten des Westens und die verheerenden Auswirkungen von Guantanamo auf die Menschenrechtsdiskussion.
Politics Professor Kishore Mahbubani, 59, on the future of democracy in [...]

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The Wise: Helmut Schmidt, ex. Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. The talk below was on 2008.05.20. When I get time I’ll try to translate it into English.

The complete interview can be found here.
If only Angela Merkel were as half as wise as Helmut Schmidt is, Germany would have much less problems now. [...]

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Just watched ARD’s report about why German people are so reluctant to donate to victims of the recent natural disasters in China or Myanmar. First of all, let me make clear that I know donation should be voluntary.
People in today’s program talked about donation scandals, they worried that the donation would not get [...]

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Recently the Tibet and Olympic Game has been headlines in all kinds of German medias. Last Friday my boss asked me “Whether the Olympic Game should be boycotted or not”. My answer was, of course not. Reasons:

The career life of sportsmen, no matter what nationality they have, is normally very short. The sportsmen have been [...]

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Last week Dirk attended the 15th ACM Multimedia Conference in Augsburg. I went with him and was in some sessions too. The complete program can be found here.
I’m going to blog what I’ve seen and experienced in the open programs. This blog entry might be updated in the future. Some pictures I took [...]

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Yesterday evening Dirk played Reinhard Mey’s Zeugnistag while we were having dinner. This song made me miss my parents very much, I cried hard. My parents both worked hard when I was a little child and did not spend too much time with me. But when I was really in need of them, they were [...]

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Tonight I went to downtown for Hudson Shad’s concert “Dinner for one”. I’m so happy I did go there despite of the bulky homeworks to do, bulky books/lecture scripts to review and my great anxiety for the coming final exams.First of all, it was a wonderful acoustic experience. All the five singers are professional vocalists. [...]

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