Entries Tagged as 'Places'

May 6, 2008

Power runs on the lines of design

It is beautiful to see how the design of certain style flourishes in one place and then moves to another one. And people can admire the original feature of the original design truly better in the second place than in the first. It’s fascinating. This is what happened to the buddhist Chinese architecture which originated [...]

April 10, 2008

Rural Hong Kong rocks

HK governament puts effort in protecting and re-touching as less as possible the rural areas around. The structure of the old villages is always maintained although new house and taller buildings are being built in their proximity which feels strange at least for the old inhabitants of the villages themselves. many young couples are [...]

February 21, 2008

It’s not true that a new language should be taught by mothertongues to the kids

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I have two close examples which support the fact that children can learn a new language not necessarily from mother tongue teachers.
The first is a long study to which by myself I participated in 1998-1999 with a master thesis in Rome. Based on the main idea of Bruner about constructivism in psychology and learning processes [...]

February 7, 2008

China & India forever sisters

Also twin sisters: there are so many things, traditions, mentality, ideas, visions, economy, fashion which are shared by these two countries. Watching at these three girls of a musical trio from Sichuan (the department stuck to the east border of Tibet) I cannot avoid to think about Indian movies from Bollywood, the lovely ornaments and long womanly [...]

January 5, 2008

Let’s live in this world like an orchestra does

You already understood the meaning. But understanding is something and realizing is somehing else.
Today after finishing to watch the documentary Rhythm is it! ,that a lovely blog friend  so kindly send me thru air mail, I felt so much energy and inspiration that we can really make this world a very cool place. I had no doubt even [...]

January 1, 2008

The beauty of understanding many languages

And if not speaking a language can be a reason to search beyond gestures and expressions and also have fun, speaking more than one or two languages opens so many beautiful doors. They are more and more the children who can speak at least two languages nowadays and they are growing up with such a [...]

December 13, 2007

Livin’ in a 5 stars hotel

My flat is located here at floor 66th. Its easy nowadays to find these kinds of accommodation in Hong Kong because the Civil Engineer Department of the government is approving project after project envisioning a city almost completely developed in height.   
 In fact just in front of our building they inaugurated a new one named “Vision [...]

December 12, 2007

Becoming collective flowers

Please tell me whats better then meeting with your friends….many friends, and enjoy each other company. I cannot find anything better then this in my universe. 
Probably this is one of the reasons why I am living in Hong Kong where sociality and friendship are so much basic for the good ongoing of the city.Here more [...]

December 4, 2007

This transforming world

The world is changing! Despite all the terrible news they keep showing on the TV, on the internet, in youtube, the world IS silently and slowly undergoing a huge visible change.Where do I see it? Firstly on the face of all the people I meet every day in the street, on the bus, in the [...]

November 29, 2007

The Wind from the Inner Island

Of only one thing I am REALLY proud and it is the fact that I took my birth on an island. My father is not an islander like my mother and myself but he keeps repeating to everybody that like Ischia Island there are no other islands in the world (and he is the one [...]