Greetings. Here are some personal things and my feelings.
I managed to read the various replies to my 2 emails to you all. I have
a wife
who helps me by reading the Chinese written aloud. There was a time
many many
years ago when I say I could not read Chinese menu in the restaurant, I
would
get a "look". People accept that since you are a Chinese and can
"speak" then
you must be able to read. We know know that this is not the case now.
This
analogy is quite similar to the issues that bloggers like you all do
not want
to be stereotype by media, friends, etc. You all did something about a
trend
and I support this pro-active online activism!! (My son who was very
active in
counterstrike gaming resent the label that gamers = poor school grades.
He
directed me to a reseacrh that says good gamers have higher IQ - I
failed to
convince him and his friends to correct such misconception by going
public.
BTW I have taken the liberty to post my reply (plus the open letter) to
the
people who interviewed me and also to a prominent oversea blogger. I do
hope
bloggers like you all will make an impact on the society. It is guts
with
passion and alot of sharpening of one skills to communicate well with
whatever
purpose you set to achieve.
A confession. Over the many years I still miss the early days before
the
internet where people (young and old) make a difference by
participating and
contributing. I remember a programmer took 20 minutes to write some "C"
code to
make it big 5 friendly in days of DOS and Eten chinese system. The
software
provided alot of joy for people with disabilities to communicate - a 6
user
window split-chat. We now take all this as "nothing special" but it
made a
difference to people lives. Jackie Chan spoke Chinese while the message
was
keyed in by a disabled person for 5 other people to participate - at
home, at
hosipital, etc. The event ended well with a request that Jackie Chan
visit them
in the hospital - which he did weeks later!!
This is a long e-mail and it seems like I am rambling or teaching
<grin>. Just
some stories to share and I hope there will be many HK bloggers who do
more
than just write online diary. People are more connected then before and
it is
my hope a better society ahead for all.
Cheers and happy blogging ..Anything... Look forward to seeing some of
you in
real time in the future. BTW was there any response from media, etc ?
Nothing
on my side.
T.K. Kang
