For a few nights last week, I let the mouse run free around the room. I just couldn’t be bothered to catch it. Once past midnight when the corridors were silent, it would come sneaking from the kitchen and slip under my door and start teasing me. I’d be sitting at my desk and it [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2007’
Christianity and the environment
Thursday’s policy seminar was not the normal environmental policy- or social responsibility- type speak. It was on something a lot deeper… something more fundamental to the human mind and spirit. It was on “Cultivating Wisdom: a Christian response to climate change”:
Traditional Christian philosophical teaching has separated matter and spirit and privileged the spiritual perspective over [...]
Ubuntu (South African): humanity towards others
It had its beginnings in a wager, when Vincent first jumped off the sinking ship that is Microsoft Windows. He landed on a little Ubuntu dinghy, and it was so comfortable there that the rest of us soon followed suit…
My battle-scarred veteran Fujitsu S2020 has been recommissioned in the form of a Linux OS. The [...]
How to change the game
Having been advised to read up a little on Sun Tzu’s Art of War beforehand, we knew full well to prepare for the challenges that Zen would be throwing at us this week in strategic law.
In negotiation skills training today, we took on the roles of traditional wives and husbands and tried to come to [...]
CNY '07 in London
Took some time off LIMUN earlier on in the day to shoot the Chinese New Year celebrations in Leicester Square together with the PhotoSoc guys. A bit of an anti-climax… this year’s parade. It was over in a few minutes – Huh? What? That’s it?! and the crowd lining the parade route dispersed and joined [...]
LIMUN '07
Thank goodness I’m in the secretariat (or rather, half-arsed official photographer and pseudo-usher). I don’t know how the delegates manage. Three full days of debating, resolution-drafting, intellectual and political debates, and round-the-clock socialising. LIMUN’ll make real diplomats out of them yet.
As expected, there was the politicking. There were the power plays, the puppet plays, the [...]
No time to nurse those aching shoulder muscles
Sir Kieran Prendergast, former UN Under-Secretary-General (Political Affairs) addresses the international delegation in the opening ceremony at Westminster Central Hall:
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A question – how does one make a conference look exciting and dynamic? There’s not much room for creativity here… and when one of the challenges is to get as many faces as possible without making [...]
No rest for the shutter
Again. Imperial is hosting. But ????…
LIMUN is here…
As is the Year of the Pig.
This’ll be a packed weekend.
Goodness and badness
“They don’t come any bigger than this,” remarked our course convenor at the beginning of the week, in reference to having the Senior Vice President (Corporate Social Responsibility) of a major international hotel group as one of our many external guests.
Also present were a few sustainability expert advisors from Sd3. We were to work on [...]
Where to go from here?
Having been alerted to the Youth Environmental Envoy (YEE) workshop organised by the NEA and NYAA, I took a look at their website.
One thing caught my eye – the Atkisson pyramid in one of the pictures on the webpage. I read the information/application form1, and saw in the workshop methodology something uncanningly familiar. It was [...]
