Read This if You are a Parent

Read this if you are a parent:

"I was driven mad by the Chinese education system"

Cannot totally agree with the author, especially on the proposed solution of "keeping housewives busy, and automatically seeing kids back to being creative and independent" part. But I must say there is at least some truth in it: parents' tends to bring their own social anxiety into the their children's education.

For long, parents have been conveniently blaming the country or the education system for pushing their poor kids too hard, without realizing they are far more influential to their kids than all the other factors combine. Parents are their kid's first role model. Kids look at their parents for feedback for almost everything do and constantly adjust the way they think and behave. So if a girl killed herself because she got 4 marks lesser than the topper of her class, it is her parents convincing her it deserve such significance. Not the country, not the education system, but the parents are to be blamed.

Parents, you are the role model, lead with action!

Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I used to hear someone said, "Live looks clearer through the rear-view mirror." How about "through the wind shield on a revising car"?

Benjamin led such a curious life. He lived the same world as we are, yet his world was heading the opposite direction as he was. So instead of a life-long journey, he lived in brief moments, when his life and his world intersected, and long gaps between those moments. Those gaps are his curse as while as his blessing. They took away good parts of his time, but gave him long stretches to reflect on life's sweetness and bitterness through their after-tastes. Throughout the movie, we lived those "moments", but felt those "gaps", and that allows us to look at the world through his eyes: the world of life and death, the world of love and longing and the world of hope and despair.

Benjamin fell victim of his own tragedy. Forest Gump "chose" to run, and "chose" to stop. Benjamin had no other choice but to cruise along.