Hong Kong's eduaction system

I think all of us experienced the old education system in Hong Kong. A public examation in F.5 called HKCEE and a public examation in F.7 called A-level. In order to go to the good universitied in Hong Kong. You must need to work very hard on both of the examations which are very stressful for most of the students.

However, If you didn't get a good result in these examations, there're different choices for you to continuous your studies. One of the choice is (like us), go to study associate degree or high diploma. But the opportunities for going to universities directly after graduate, it's really small. Morover, we need to pay for the expensive school fee and have a very RUSH schedule. (We have to learn 12 different subjects in without 6 months) Sometimes, I think it's quite ridiculous but there are students who really can get an A in all subjects. So, our college will never think this is a problem.

Furthermore, I know there are some parents of the students who are now experiencing the new education system are worry about their children. They think that the Hong Kong governemnt are using their children as a tool to experiment the new education system. This is which I saw on the TV news. They rather send their children for oversea studies instead of let their children to stay in Hong Kong. They are lacking confidence with the new Hong Kong education system.

Nevertheless, we can't have any judgement of the new education system yet. Is it fail or not? Let see the performance of the first group of students who experience the new eduaction system  in 2013!

survey project reflection

There are some comment that I would like to give to Marco's group and Yuki's group.

First of all, I was quite surprise of their result. Japanese love the 'siu lung bao' the most in Hong Kong when they go to yum cha. However, 'siu lung bao' is not the most traditional food in Hong Kong. And also, Even the people  who did the survey and they live in Hong Kong, but they don't know there is a Disneyland in Hong Kong which is really surprise. It seems like Hong Kong government should do more promotion on it.

For the Yuki's group, their power point was very colorful and had lots of pictures on it. It can tell that they put a lot of effort on it. From their presentation, I realize Japanese people must have comics on their daily life and different age of people read different types of comic. It is a good way for us to know more about the comic culture in Japan.

Thank you to all of your presentation and I really learn a lot from it.

I hope there are more exchange programme in the future, just like the last time which held by hku-space. It can improve our communication with Japanese and learn more about their culture.

presentation of my survey

There were two presentation last week.
1. Yuri san and Joeie san about music
2. Phillip san, Kumo san and Buru san about OTAKU

Firstly, I really appreciate that Joeie's group put their data inside the circle. It's reaaly clear for us to see the result.
Secondly, I am quite surprise that Japanese people still purchase CD nowadays, which unlike Hong Kong people. We usually download the songs from internet or share with friends.
Thirdly, it's really shocked that Utada Hikaru is more popluar than Ayumi because Ayumi is very famous in Hong Kong(but not anymore). I thikk it's because more new stars pop out now.

おたくOTAKU

gēmu otaku (fan of playing video games)

which is an interesting topic for us and it's being concern by the society recently. Phillip san, Kumo san and Buru san 's presentation is a really good way for us to know more about otaku.
Most of the people have misunderstand about otaku. We think that they are lack of communication skill, scare to talk in front of people and spend most of the time on comic or animation.
However, after the presentation, I know that they are expert in some particular area of animation or theme. They can also be a nice, helpful or general person.
I want to say some more about Otaku is I know that there are some otaku restaurants in Hong Kong. I know one in Causeway Bay which is very popular. It had been showed in TV(TVB). The waitress in there are dress up like MAID and they serve the customers kindly which Otaku really enjoy it. haha