Remains of the Day

How could people manage to go through 300 slides in a two-and-a-half-hour lecture? That's ridiculous! Why should I sit there and listen to all that monotone rambling? It's a totally waste of time. You can't just stuff things into one's head like that. Bad teaching. Very very bad! I really don't see why they have to do things like this. No structure at all. I can't help but start comparing the teaching staff in Hong Kong to those I met in Canada. I'm so pissed. Seems like I'm wasting both my time and money here at UST. I had planned to go to a grad school in HK a few months before moving back here and spent so much time on researching and picking between schools. And see what I finally got! By the end of the semester, there will be over 1000 slides. Crazy~

Bottled water is so prevalent nowadays. It’s everywhere in the city. Just try to ask someone near you if s/he has ever consumed bottled water. I’m pretty sure 9 of 10 times the answer is yes. In 1970s, the volume of bottled water sold around the globe was just1 billion litres, and by the year 2000, it had already increased to 84 billion litres(1). Bottled water industrial has expanded enormously over the past 3 decades, and so as the amount of plastic waste produced. 275 million litres of bottled water were sold in Hong Kong in 2008, which is enough to fill the volume of Two International Finance Center(2). Can you image how many plastic bottles we waste each year? Do you know where do they go eventually? How much energy does it take to create one bottle of water? Despite its omnipresence, we actually don’t know much about bottled water. A recent research shows that the energy needed to produce one bottle of water is up to 2000 times more than that needed to produce the same amount of ...