world bank

whoa. i m seriously crazy about world bank already. everything i do, everything moment of my life, i m actually thinking baout world bank, about poverty, about trading. a day away from school and into a conference can cause me to be like this. this is too much!!

today i pone school and went to the 1 degree asia conference. it is the first time i m ever at a place where so many other countries youngsters are there too. i m really fascinated. there are three speakers early in the morn. the first one was on fairtrade. he had long grey hair and love telling stories. interesting stories that really captured my attention. the second one was the ambassedor of UN. de last one was the world bank senior economist. and i think he is realy handsome. too bad he is too old. >< lolx.

anyway yuppx upon this first talk, i realise that i reall know too little. almost everything that they sae i dun understand. i think it is time i really focus on my research. haiz. and i also realise that many ppl are against world bank. many think that they are hurting others and not helping. seriously i myself also dunno how to judge this. and i feel that it is correct that everyone makes mistakes but the main thing is that some mistakes may not be forgiven by ppl so easily. i dunno...it is just that...i think i should read more about world bank.

den in my third lecture. it is by this ntu lecturer. he is an environmental econolist. i hope i spell it correctly. anyway the main point of his talk was that. every priceless things should be put a value so that they will be better compared with items with a market. shuts i m talking just like him liao. anyway, i found this quote rather fascinating, because to find out if the debts given by world bank is a worthwhile debt, just calculate the cost of the advantages and the cost of the disadvantages. this way we can compare it very well. izzt that right? but, very contridictingly, i feel that not every things can be valued. things like love, friendship, kinships. can they be valued? haiz...very weird

the last talk was about media and how to deal with interviews and medias and all that. the speaker is so funny and full of singlish which really lifted the spirits. =) lolx

anyway i had a great time in the conference, but i really miss school. jiayou 2b =)