Academia Research and General Opinion

Only god knows why Sungard Ditcot office did this to its employees.
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I went to the first Taiwanese Study seminar this year, the topic was the "Taiwanese nationalism and identity developement in post martial law regime and pre matured democracy area under the millitary threat of Mainland China before 2008 Beijing Olympic plus potential bird flu virus spread and ... " Just kidding. The topic wasn't this long.

The visiting professor did a great job to let my attention drift. He is really not a good lecturer, too many "um...", "I think", "you know"... As one of the audience, I can feel the utmost uncertainties in his voice. Just like he is afraid of making any solid statements or he is afriad of those statements would backfire at him later. I almost want to scream "Stop reporting the politcal dynamics between China and Taiwan! Tell me something I don't know! Tell me what you think".

I came to realise why people tend to be opinionate and emotional when discussing politics, it is much more fun than rigid, conservative, logical and mundane academia research. Although it is the right way to go.