TEE: Teki Editorial Everywhere

In the sermon of my friend's wedding, the Father stated his view about marriage. He thought that a marriage is a combination of a man and a woman. It is also a process of learning itself and each other of the couple. He insisted couples should have a single eye on his/her counterpart. This implies that divorce should be avoided. His words were humorous, thought provoking, but I regret to say doubtful. I would like to discuss the definition of successful marriage in this article. First, the successful marriage should not be limited to single spouse in a life. It sounds perfect to have a happy family after a man and a woman are married till the forever. Yet this does not mean successful either when the formed family is not happy. For example, a man does not respect the marriage with his wife and has affair with another lover. He lives with his mistress, does not talk to his wife and does not care any of his family. This marriage has become only a deadly cold certificate, even though ...

I kept silent for a minute in front of Tin Ka Ping Hall of HKUST, in which the memorial tribute of Professor Samuel T. Chanson was held, before I attended the dinner of Engineering Mentorship Program last Friday. Fortunately I met another mentor who was the student of Professor Chanson in the dinner. We certainly talked a few about the time with Professor Chanson. Professor Chanson is definitely the king. I was his student in lectures about Operating System and Computer Network. These two topics are known as most difficult topics for either students or lecturers because they involve very low level computations and numerous algorithms. Unless you have a clear map of the topics, you will lose your way. Professor Chanson was exception. He could explain the topics in such an organized way that students could easily follow them. You would find how differently between you interpreted before his lecture and you did after. His well organized thinking led his well organized presentation. In add...

Last week I joined a farewell party of my friend, who finishes his doctorship and has to return his homeland for military service. System of military service is a must in some countries. The Newly Industrialized Countries (NICS) except Hong Kong require the mandatory military service. The system obviously affects the living and even the entire life of each nationals. Discussion of the system is thus triggered. The first question is why the mandatory military service exists in some countries. Some may claim that the military service is the duty of each citizen of every democratic nation. On considering US, UK, Canada, Australia, etc, this claim is untenable. Supporting the mandatory military service is not easy for a nation actually. A nation following the system requires providing extra manpower, military equipment and military wages as well as sacrifices the donated productivity. In addition, military service is considered as a difficult, dangereous and hard job. Only those who are ea...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera is evergreen. You can get a long list of links related to this musical and its movie in Google. Topics include its songs, its characters, its special effects and so on. I watched the DVD of the movie three times last week. The story is simple but touching. What can shock me in the movie is the last scene that Raoul found a piece of rose with Christine's engagement ring on the side of her grave when he sent the Phantom's monkey music box to her grave. This scene is additional to the original plot of its musical, while the musical ends with the Phantom's disappearance and his mask only. The musical's ending is typical comedy ending while the movie's ending highlights the true meaning of love. In the ending of the musical version, Christine kissed the Phantom so that he released them because of accepting their solid love. This is well known as a happy ending of Raoul and Christine over the tragedy of the Phantom. This ...

"Long time no see", my readers. I took a long vacation out of my computer. I spent this summer in DisneyWorld, which occupies the large plain of Orlando. Taking the chance of Hong Kong Disneyland openning yesterday, I would like to share my experience about the world of a Disney theme park. My friends and I took car service from Orlando airport to the DisneyWorld resort. This was a long trip through long highways because the DisneyWorld was surrounded by large forrests. We were likely brought into another world. The DisneyWorld was really an isolated kingdom out of reality. Our dream just began. After check-in, we tried to find our room by ourselves but lost our way. We asked engineer staff who had walked by the resort to indicate our destination. They did not only patiently show our road, but also took us to the destination by their club car from another resort (we were in the wrong resort). Being engineers, they were not responsible for serving us but they did in very frien...

In the morning a businessman brought a basket with bread, a bread knife and a can of fruit jam. He drove his car up to the highway and paused. He made his sandwiches and slowly enjoyed them before he drove to his office. You can also enjoy such "leisure" if you live in England. This is because British people in average spend an hour in traffic jam on the way of going to office. The RAC Foundation said that a transport crisis was looming if the new government buried its head in the sand and failed to develop and fund a national transport strategy. It also warned that the cost of congestion to British business could double from the current ￡15 billion to ￡30 billion in the next decade. The transport crisis has been an old story for the UK. The UK has started the plan of national highway network since 1946. There have been several plans raised during almost 60 years. Most of them not only had little effect, but also the problem has become more and more serious along the time. Wh...

Assassins, bombs and conflicts are the ABC of the Middle East for many foreigners. The Middle East was almost reported as the hell. Entrepreneurs however consider such emerging market as the heaven of money. Microsoft Corp is one of treasure hunters. This largest software manufacturer foresaw strong double digit growth in revenues of the Middle East over the next three to five years and was planning to hire more staff in the future. In this oil-rich area, Bill Gates has found something which is more valuable than petroleum. The treasure of the Middle East is not only occupied the tycoon. More treasure can be found in the Middle East than just the luxury of Dubai and the oil of Saudi. Turkey, Kuwait, Pakistan and even Israel are comparatively peaceful enough for business development. Low labour cost and rich natural resource are two main advantages of the region. Hong Kong, for example, imported more than HKD 4 billion of material from Pakistan in 2004, around 20% increase than that in ...

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