No offense to anyone, but I didn’t realize the match making   profession has evolved so much until I read Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. It seems to be very scientific now … Look at the online dating sites – they offer online forms to find you the perfect half … And do you know the speed dating services? It’s very efficient – supposedly, you can find your life-long partner in just a few minutes …

Now, our oddly charming and socially challenged hero, the genetics professor, Don Tillman embarks on his Wife Project to find him a perfect wife based on this scientific approach– all he needs to do is to develop a questionnaire and post it on the university site. Great start, but …

Continue reading →

This article makes me laugh. It also gives me a closer look at this unparalelled social media site Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I discovered that Zuckerberg had created an application called “Facemash” while he was at Harvard, which had been banned by the school administrators within days of the site launch, but it only took him another three months or so to launch Facebook, which has gained enormous success and earned him billions of dollars.

I also had a chance to review this forever controversial topic between “openness” and “privacy” in this technology first new age.

Anyhow, whether you are an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy like me or one from the ambitious confident new generation who values absolute “openness”, I would like to recommend Canadian Business to you. It’s a quality magazine with fun. It always has fantastic interviews or biography articles.

At first, I started the book but didn’t want to continue – who would bring a whole bunch of strangers to his/her own house and quit his/her job for looking after a stranger’s kids? And then, I changed my mind and stayed up late to see how the crash changes Clara Purdy’s unfulfilled life, how she treats a dying mother’s kids like her own children and gets blame for doing all these out of selfishness, how the dying mother recovers and takes the kids back without letting them say good-bye to Clara, how Clara desperately wants the children back and admits that yes, she is selfish …

But so what, isn’t that she deserves to see the children once in a while at least? Why is the mother afraid of losing her children? But, I might understand – as a mother, my children is my life, and love can be selfish …

The author successfully makes me think – trying to find out the complex motives behind the choices that people make in real life … Marina Endicott deserves the award …