a journey within and without

About this talk:

Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?

I personally agree with the speaker that high technology pilot project should not be the privilege of the rich school or urban society only, which usually seen as the ideal environment for introducing such technology, but rural, country area and poor society could also be the right target, if not best,  for such pilot project.

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“How do you study Philosophy?”

This is my questions after weeks of continuing headache.

Then I find this answer during hallucination.

“Just like how you eat an elephant. One bite at a time.”

“First, chew the language (English) slowly, because otherwise it is going to kill you.”

“Second, think like an actor, because following other people’s logic (mind) is exhausting, if not frustrating.”

“Third, smiling. You just won an Oscar”.

“Forth, wake up! You have a lot of homeworks to do!”

In a 2004 talk at the European Gradate School, Derrida again discusses “forgiveness” – for him “pure forgiveness” can only be given by a “singular, irreplaceable person” to another singularity (it cannot emanate from a government) and involves two possibilities: forgiving the person who wronged another or forgiving that person’s wrongful acts … pure forgiveness concerns our ability to forgive the other even when that individual has not repented, asked for forgiveness or acknowledged responsibility – Derrida calls this type of forgiveness “impossible” – but, the only forgiveness “worthy of the name” … customary (or conditional) forgiving, involving exchange – that the other, for example, acknowledges wrongdoing – is not true forgiveness … for Derrida, we must “forgive the unforgivable” – we have to allow the (that) “other” in me, not my usual self governed by reciprocity, to actually bestow proper forgiveness …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuL6HlLSzyc

Am I forgiven for who I am?

Or what I did?

Do you know that one way to know the closeness of someone in relation to others is through tears?

Do you ever wonder why would you cry for someone, but not for others over the same thing?

Have you ever think of why someone can hurt you, but others just can’t, no mater how cruel they might be to you?

You know, you can only get hurt by someone you care so much.

And how special that someone means to you is measured by cry.

Can she/he bring you into tears?

You might hide your tears to some, but for others, you just couldn’t help it.

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Why is it feel so hurt..

Distance. We all need distance.

Space.  We all need space.

Just like two words apart by space, which make them  readable and give meaning.

Like a distance we put between emotional rage and logical view?

After all, isn’t it space that contain our planet within?

I don’t like baby doll. So when my parent gave me that hard-case-baby-pink-doll with mechanical blink eyes and exasperating cry, I immediately put it away from my bed.  It smell bad. I don’t like plastic odor. I felt so upset that they bought me that toy. I thought they knew that I only want a teddy bear doll with soft skin or a little car toy than a rigid, smell, mechanical doll which isn’t hug able like that. I left that doll untouched for days, until one day its mechanical blinks and cry intrigued me. 

Why it can blink and cry like that? I flipped the doll up and down and pulled its pacifier ins and outs, over and over to let it blink and cry continuously. I wonder, where did the crying sound come from? I pulled the battery compartment at its back and found a transparent mini disc inside. Then with great wonder, I examined it and saw a soft-white track inside the disc. Could it be a tape trapped inside the disc? Daddy had a lot of cassettes and music came out of it. But where is the head? I know what tape player’s head looked like but there was none like it in the compartment. Or is it possible that the sound stored in all area of the disc? In this transparent area?? How? Is that possible? Where did it hide the sound? 

But the little me can’t find any satisfying answer to that. So I kept the mini disc with me wherever I go and admired its magic. A transparent mini disc that hides sound inside it.