TEE: Teki Editorial Everywhere

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 ...