Editors' Blog
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4 December 2009
iCUBED.us is so WORD-centric, so when our friend SandraY sent this to me, I HAD to put it up... it's at least a nod in the direction of math, sums and accounts
Thanks as always to Sandra...
THE BALANCE SHEET OF LIFE
Our Birth is our Opening Balance!
Our Death is our Closing Balance!
Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities
Our Creative Ideas are our Assets
Heart is our Current Asset
Soul is our Fixed Asset
Brain is our Fixed Deposit
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| Happy Thanksgiving 2009 from all of us at iCUBED.us |
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| With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's time to prepare our Christmas Gift Lists... |
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23 November 2009
... especially this year, as the news arrived yesterday from the general direction of the North Pole, that 200 reindeer drowned when their herd of 3,000 ended up in the freezing water when they were marching across a frozen lake, which turned out to be NOT frozen enough, instead cracking beneath the weight of the reindeer herd.
PROOF once again of Global Warming & Climate Change...
  
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| HAPPY DIWALI - The Festival of Light |
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19 October 2009
Living in Asia has become a much more multicultural experience for many, myself included.
I say this because in recent years I get many reminders from friends and even the media, when major festivals such as RAMADAN, the Muslim month of fasting (for similar purposes as Catholics observe Lent), or in today's case, the Hindu festival of lights - DIWALI FESTIVAL rolls around.
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| Did you know? Today - OCTOBER 16th - is "BOSS DAY" |
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16 October 2009
TO ALL THE BOSSES OUT THERE, HAPPY BOSS DAY!
"National Boss Day is Oct. 16, 2009
When is it? National Boss Day is always Oct. 16. In 2009, National Boss Day falls on a Friday.
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12 October 2009
"Yup little fella, I know just how you feel!"
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| Pope, Polanski and Probability |
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8 October 2009
 
I've been thinking about the Pope these days, and about the Catholic church, perhaps brought on by the recent arrest of Roman Polanski.
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| The Autumn Tides are upon us once again! |
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30 September 2009
There's been so many 'natural disasters' these days it takes such a toil on our sense of compassion, there's so much need out there, and this barrage of destruction makes us all the more grateful for the peace that remains in the world, but also it must make us wonder how we might make a difference to lessen the suffering in the world by our own acts and actions.
Is it enough, for example, to donate to relief?
Is it helpful for us to learn more about root causes of these calamities?
Is there a way to reverse things like 'climate change'?
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| Hong Kong Journalists and Foreign Correspondents to unite in Protest for Beating of Journalists |
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12 September 2009, Saturday
This town's abuzz, there's talk about tomorrow's march in protest for the beating of Hong Kong journalists covering the reports of syringe attacks in Urumuqi, Xinjiang last week. A loud voiced elderly man was seen chanting slogans in Cantonese today as he walked down a main street in Central District. "We must protest the beating of our journalists! JOIN THE MARCH!" he said.
And so it remains to be seen how this act of civic responsibility will play out tomorrow, and whether there will be remedial actions to better the situation.
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| WHY RESIST? ... When is resistence truly futile? |
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18 August 2009
Margaret Chen
editor in chief
iCUBED.us
Here in Hong Kong we are moving towards a higher regard for the HUMANITIES in our education system, why is this increased respect for HUMANITIES important?
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| WORDS - & a story - TO LIVE BY ... from one fiesty Grand Dame |
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By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone...
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| Gratitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy... |
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2 June 2009
We've been unusually quiet these days, and with the successful launch of our Anthology this past weekend, we have real cause to CELEBRATE! and, certainly no celebration is complete without a period of rest, and also, of reassessment. So that is just what we are doing... in our unique way... and by giving thanks.
[Check out our photos-essay of the Anthology launch - http://www.icubed.us/node/1817 ]
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| EXERCISING TO BEAT STRESS ... |
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26 May 2009
Margaret Chen
Editor in Chief
iCUBED.us
  
I'll bet many of our readers know what stress is, especially this time of year!
EXAMS are coming up for many of you... and you'll be under house arrest, locked up with stacks of revision books, cut off from the outside world.
So how do you handle stress?
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| On Being Valedictorian, and On "Being the Best" ... |
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7 May 2009
Margaret Chen
Editor in Chief
iCUBED.us
A LIGHT BULB MOMENT and A PERFECT BREAKFAST
 
It's already May, and it's exam time again in many parts of the world...
I'd like to start off by saying, GOOD LUCK to all and may you do as well as you deserve to do
(~ is that a fair and good blessing?)
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| Anti-tobacco campaigner - Dr. Judith Mackay is getting her third major accolade this year! |
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3 May 2009
Margaret Chen
Editor in Chief
iCUBED.us
Dr. Judith Mackay has had a good year. She started this year by having the letters behind her name 'upgraded' from OBE to MBE.
Tomorrow, Dr. Mackay will be giving a speech at the Hong Kong University, about her award from the British Medical Journal, for Lifetime Achievement for her 20-over years of campaigning against tobacco and smoking! Now, finally many more people are being motivated to stop the madness that is cigarette smoking addiction... and not a moment too soon!
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| TRIUMPH AMIDST TRYING TIMES... |
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19 February 2009
by Margaret Chen
Editor in Chief
www.iCUBED.us
 
Today I finally learned how to swim ~ it wasn't by any stretch of the imagination something that came easy to me, this being my third attempt to learn to master the technique of coordinating all the movements with my breathing, and managing to propel myself through the water at a decent pace... BUT like riding a bike, learning to swim is just one of those things that, once learned, is never forgotten.
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6 February 2009
by Jasmine Little
Deputy Student Editor, iCUBED.us
Hi, I’m Jasmine, a new deputy student editor. I currently live in New York City where I attend Columbia University, but I’m from Atlanta, Ga. I’m excited to be writing for iCUBED: music, movies, fashion, current events, the list goes on. But, these things are under the broader category of culture.
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| First Blog from Michael Lok |
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5 February 2009
by Michael Lok
Deputy Student Editor, iCUBED.us
Hi There! How you doing?
And, NO! I'm not here just to impress the girls...
This is the first blog entry from one of your new Deputy Student Editors and so I think a little introduction is in order. My name is Michael Lok, 18 years old and am currently a first-year Law student at the London School of Economics (in London obviously!). Before that, I have lived in Hong Kong all my life and studied at Island School where I was Head Boy.
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| HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE OX and HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY - January 26th 2009... |
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| Welcome to our three Deputy Student Editors... |
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20 January 2009 from Sydney, Australia
I'm delighted to announce the appointment of three Deputy Student Editors here today...
They are (in alphabetical order):
- Basilia Yuen, based in Hong Kong, SAR, China
- Jasmine Little, based in New York City, U.S.A.
- Michael M. Lok, based in London, England
(Read their Bio's here: http://www.icubed.us/node/bloggers )
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| Thanks where thanks are due... |
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7 January 2009
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I have to take this opportunity to thank some of the invisible people that insure the smooth operation of this web portal, especially our webmaster T.Y., who took time off this holiday season, but still made sure that our content was updated daily.
T.Y. deserves a lot of credit not only for her dedication to iCUBED.us' mission - to empower youth to be engaged global citizens, but also for her mostly sunny disposition.
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2 January 2009
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| All the elves at iCUBED.us HQ and around the world ... |
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 ... wish Santa would hurry home because his dinner is getting refrozen up here at the North Pole!
And we're all waiting up for him so we can wish him a merry merry christmas.
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| Copycats, Imitators and On Being an Original |
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21 December 2008
by Margaret Chen
editor in chief, iCUBED.us
 GANESH - the Lord of Beginnings and the Remover of Obstacles
In our world of easy imitation, is there any value in being An Original?
Some say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. But I'd almost say, "I prefer my flattery more directly delivered" : ) (something like - "That's a great idea, I think I'll try it too")
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| EARTH HOUR 2009 and Finding Time to Relax... |
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| Sleigh bells ring ............. FLAT OUT and s l u g g i s h |
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6 December 2008
Margaret Chen, Editor-in-Chief
INTENSE
We're in the final stages of assembling a small team of Student Deputy Editors in different cities, and we hope next week this will be complete...
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| Channel [V] is No. 1 in our hearts and minds ! |
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4 December 2008
by Margaret Chen, Editor-in-Chief, iCUBED.us
Tremendous thanks go out to Channel [V] our wonderful partner in this first annual iCUBED.us one-minute "silent" film contest for putting our 'sample one-minute video' on television sets across Asia and the Middle East!
How do we know this?
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| November is Thanksgiving ... |
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25 November 2008
by Margaret Chen
Editor-in-Chief, iCUBED.us
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| COMING SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU: "007 - QUANTUM OF SOLACE" |
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28 October 2008
Margaret Chen, editor-in-chief
www.iCUBED.us
Finally back in Hong Kong, feet firmly on the ground.
We will be featuring many an episodic story of this trip which took me to the -still- United Kingdom, where "we" visited the fantastically tongue-in-cheek NEW ART FROM CHINA exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, and amongst other highlights of discovery, came face-to-face with British actor Jude Law and his two children in a restaurant called Giraffe, and the highlight of all highlights, toured CHARTWELL the favorite country home of my personal hero, Sir Winston Churchill.
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| LIGHT AT THE END OF THE (first) TUNNEL . . . |
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29th September 2008
Margaret Chen
editor-in-chief
There are very few things in life more beautiful than a lit candle.
It's somehow calming to watch the irregular dance of the flame, as if all troubles melt, evaporating away as the wax tapers off into nothingness. There's logic and there's a conclusion that feels satisfying. It's about knowing where you're going, knowing your destination. Once you know your destination, it's easy to enjoy the journey...
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