I don't like the contrivance of fine print on documents quite much.

We must take heed of it, yet it is printed in extraordinarily small fonts.

If governments didn't belie, would the world be a better one or a worse one?

Not lots of people really understand that Microsoft's trek has a soft tale and Google's has one too.

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It is harder to thresh out quality stuff from the pop culture than from the time-tested yet quaint culture.

The popularity of reality shows certainly indicates that there are so many armchair adventurers in this world.

Yes, armchair experiences mark so many aspects of our modern life. Of course, you can substitute "armchair " with "tele-". :-)

The porosity of artificial boundaries among subject matters can be facilitated by comprehensive undergraduate education which exposes fundamental and leading-edge Science, Arts, and Engineering knowledge.

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However, can rigor also be stressed at the same time?

Maybe Westerners tend to be more inclined to share than mainland Chinese do, till now.

Hollywood 和 Bollywood，有相当一部分内容，就是以东西方群众所喜闻乐见的形式，讲述一些道理。

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额，客观的讲，东西方群众所喜闻乐见的形式，有比较大一部分就是钱、权、暴力、性爱、和 amusement。

额。有时候，我想脱离好莱坞。:-)

Wine, whiskey, China, and Hong Kong

It seems that China never ceases to surprise me. I've discovered it began to really like wine, whiskey, and rum. Gee.

I suspect that luxurious wines have increasingly become an investment vehicle for the rich of China, where not many viable investment vehicles can be found. On the other side, speculation and bone-deep red hot consumerism certainly help that phenomenon.

And, Hong Kong, even "scrapped all duty on wine and beer, becoming the centre of the world's fine wine sales in the process". On a related note, I'll be curious to know where the key competencies are for Hong Kong in the forthcoming years:
Finance? No? Yes?
Creative industry? No? Yes?
Knowledge industry? Not likely at all.
Business services industries such as accounting? No? Yes?