I have been posting my articles and discussing social and political issues in HK indepedent media for a while. I was attracted to that place at first for its ideology. It aims to report different voices in the society that the mainstream media usually ignored. It is good to know more about the marginalized groups. It was a fair and open platform to discuss government policy in the beginning. However, slowly I found its nature changed, it is no longer indepdent. It become an alternative reality for the exterme leftist social movement supporters. Political discussion often turns into flaming war, using ad hominem attacks instead of valid arguments. I am one of the few supporters for rightist policy and became their target. If the leftist won’t compromise and unwilling to discuss logically. By using verbal violence to shutup different opinions, they are essentially committing the same mistake they are accusing the mainstream media. I am not a pacifist, I believe in force is only way to deal with the barbarians who can’t reason with. I finally understand why their voice are systemically ignored by mainstream media. If they are unreasonable to begin with, it is only a waste of time to disscuss with them. The only problem is how can we prevent the indifferent majority in the center being misled by their false ideology.

Today I went to Whistler first time for the season.? We have early snow this year in Vancouver, Whistler has some good powder runs.? I figured that leaving 1 hour early and come back 1 hour early actually give us an extra hour of skiing time.? We left around 6:30a.m., by 9a.m. we are already having our first run.? 1 hour earlier make a big difference.? There is no line up at the gondola, which save us at 30-45 minutes.? We are having a early lunch around 11p.m., again there was no line up in the cafeteria.? We didn’t try to sqeeuze in the lift for the last run, we just took it easy and ski down at 3p.m.? Leaving Whistler around 4p.m., when there still some sun light.? The traffic is not very bad, we arrived home around 6:15p.m.? What a perfect day!? I gave some ski lesson to one of my friends.? I only gave him 1 excerise to work on, compare to 2-3 excerise in a normal 2 hour lesson.? I can see him improved quite a bit in just one day.? He never learnt how to ski properly, so he built up quite a few bad habits.? Now he likes skiing so much that he decided to convert from snowboard to ski.? I just did a good thing by saving a poor soul from the dark side.

Today we tried a new resturant for lunch.? The food is quite similiar to Mui Garden, which is our default resturant for lunch.? The new resturant opens on the location of the bubble tea places, it inherited all the setting, furnitures even the CDs.? It is kinda weird listening lastest pop songs in a HK style cafe.? I am sure they won’t buy any new CDs.? So after a few years, they will be playing out of day pop songs, which better suits its style.? The menu has a larger selection, the price is about the same.? The best thing I like about this resturant is that I can change the drink come with the lunch special for soup.? I like drinking soups, especially the HK style russian soup, more than coffee or tea.? The quality of the food is about the same as Mui, but the portion is better.? Overall, this new resturant wins in every aspect comparing to Mui.? This has replaced Mui and become our new default resturant for lunch.? I wonder what will have to Mui if it lost all the PMC and SFU customers.? It is time for Mui to update its menu, make their lunch special more worth the price.? Competition always leads to improvment.? To the consumers, more competition the better.

In my philosophy class, the professor is kind enough to review the draft of our final essay, give us some useful feedbacks and allow us fix up the problem before hand it in.? I just got the feedback today.? He crossed out almost 1/3 of my essay that are irrevalent and unnecessary to my argument.? I spent almost a day reading an article form Marx so that I can criticize his original argument, instead of second hand argument from the textbook.? The professor say I am too ambitious.? It is like trying to squeeze another full length essay into the final 1000 words of my essay.? He said I should focus in develop my existing arguments, which is good enough for a 2nd year course.? He also said I have a tendency to trash talk and disrespect Marx in my paper.? In a philosophical paper, both side of the argument should evaluated fairly.? Although I may think Marxist is rubbish, I should still attack it with respect.? First of all, if it is truely rubbish, then it doesn’t worth your time to even attack it.? If it is not complete rubbish, then you should at least be fair, try your best salvage some useful points from his argument and pay due respect to the author shedding some lights on the problems.? Most important, if you just trash talk your opponent, he will simply ignore you.? Philosophy search for the truth, dialog is a way to reach the truth.? If there is no dialog between the two side of the argument, the thesis and anti-thesis will not yeilds a better synthesis.

Both the headlights of my car are burned.? One of them was burned for a few weeks, I didn’t bother take it to repair until the next service appointment.? The other headlight was burned last night, so I have no choice but take it back to the service center.? It is quite dangerous to drive in the dark in snowy days.? The fix is very quick only a few took 15 minutes.? It is actually quite easy to change the lightbulb.? I see the serviceman unscrew the cap behind the headlight took out the burned bulb and put back the new one.? The service is quite good, I even got a free light bulb for the tail light since the serviceman didn’t check the warning signal.? I still suspect I was overcharged by the service center since the original light bulb from Volvo is quite expensive.? Later in the afternoon, I checked the web and found generic light bulb cost 40% less.? If any light bulb is burn next time, I will change it myself.? I saw the serviceman how to do it, I should be able to follow the instruction as well.? The only problem is if both headlight are burned, I cannot wait for the new light bulbs come in mail.