Archive for the 'education' Category

Acid trip drawings

« 9 January 2004 | 10:08 | America, education, humour, scitech | No Comments »

A most amusing progression of acid trip drawings. Now to find a musician :)

Schools in Japan

« 20 November 2003 | 9:19 | Japan, diary, education, tokyo life | No Comments »

Good to see some people have brains when it comes to Japan’s public school system. Ultimately, reform in this country will happen in a few generations, when the current youth start to lead it. But with the current teaching system, that will never happen. So this is actually a good move — [...]

Jesper Koll and NPY

« 30 October 2003 | 8:43 | Japan, biznomics, education, tokyo life | No Comments »

Jesper Koll of Merrill Lynch Japan is making the rounds with his editorial on Japan’s NPY problem. My question is, has this been translated into Japanese and disseminated? I’m still not convinced the “English” taught in Japanese schools will suffice to understand the article. Changing a generation is a long and tedious [...]

Chinese

« 29 October 2003 | 16:54 | diary, education, language, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

Maybe it’s about time I dust off the ol’ Chinese language books. At least my Chinese colleagues have kind words about my pronuciation.

One sour apple

« 19 September 2003 | 15:49 | education, humour, media, politics | 1 Comment »

I have no idea how this student managed to get through HBS admissions, but here’s an amusing exchange (via Gen)
Author and investor Jim Rogers visited Harvard Business School recently to talk about his new book. It seems one of the HBS students disagreed with Rogers’ statements on Russia and took him to task via [...]

Our drinks, our selves

« 17 August 2003 | 19:08 | education, food, the sexes | 1 Comment »

As I always do whenever I’m on vacation in the U.S., I infused myself with periodicals from the intellectually stimulating to the butt-wipe bathroom reading. Here’s an amusing snippet from the September Men’s Health which, I’m almost afraid to say, from my own observations this isn’t too far from the mark… :)
Q: What [...]