During the making of a little homevideo project, I did some shots of the University of Toronto, both downtown and Scarborough. While the movie isn’t meant for public consumption (email me if you are my friend, and I might send you a link), I chopped out the UofT part and put it on Youtube. My [...]

A fascinating article about Daniel A. Bell who works as a professor of political thought at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of the most prestigious universities in the country. Having also tough in Singapore, he offers some very interesting perspectives. He writes about the problems he encountered in the one-party state of Singapore, where his [...]

It turns out that I will 99% sure be leaving for Indonesia in two weeks, going to work for CARE Canada for a year, in Jakarta. I am very excited, and now that exams are over I threw myself wholeheartedly at learning Bahasa Indonesia. It’s always exciting starting to learn a new language, and I [...]

I had studied Chinese for about two and a half years when I finally discovered Wenlin – not a minute too soon. The program is hard to define to those who have not used it, it allows you to load in a Chinese text (by entry, copy+paste or loading a file) and just by moving [...]