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Regina Ip speaks on the Importance of Good Bilingual Communication in the Civil Service

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Regina Ip speaks on the Importance of Good Bilingual Communication in the Civil Service
Special Workshop - Regina Ip speaks on the Importance of Good Bilingual Communication in the Civil Service
Date 20 December 2012 (Thursday)
Time 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue LT 9, YIA (Yasumoto International Academic Park),
Station Road
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Speaker's Bio Regina Ip (葉劉淑儀) was admitted as an administrative officer by the Government in 1975 after working as an English teacher for a short period. In her almost 30 years of civil service, Regina has worked in various departments including the Trade and Industry Bureau where she promoted innovation and technological development in Hong Kong to overseas trading partners, and advocated a better environment for the free flow of trade and commerce; and the Security Bureau where she promoted the HKSAR passport to other countries. She left the government in 2003 and then furthered her studies at Stanford University in the U.S. Regina is currently both a Legislative Councilor (Hong Kong Island) and a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong SAR Government.

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Inspirations

  • 「外物之味,久則可厭;讀書之味,愈久愈深。」

    ——(宋)程頤

  • 「書就是風。讀了很多書,大風就來了。你像風箏,順勢而起,便往天空遠處飛去,讀越多,風越大;飛得越高,看得越遠。」

    ——台灣資深編輯傅月庵

  • 「書山有路勤為徑,學海無涯苦作舟。」

  • 「立身以立學為先,立學以讀書為本。」

    ——(宋)朱熹

  • 「善讀者日攻、日掃。攻則直透重圍,掃則了無一物。 」

    ——(清)鄭燮

  • 「(任何一個人,都必須養成自學的習慣,即使是今天在學校的學生,也要養成自學的習慣,因為遲早總要離開學校的!)自學,就是一種獨立學習,獨立思考的能力。行路,還是要靠行路人自己。」

    ——數學家華羅庚

  • 「敏而好學,不恥下問 。」

    ——《論語

  • 「喜愛讀書,就等於把生活中寂寞無聊的時光換成巨大享受的時刻。」

    ——孟德斯鳩

  • 「讀書應自己思索,自己做主。」

    ——魯迅

  • 「善學者盡其理,善行者究其難。 」

    ——荀子

  • 「人若志趣不遠,心不在焉,雖學無成。 」

    ——(宋)張載

  • 「不要把學問看做是用來裝飾的王冠,也不要把學問看做是用來擠奶的奶牛。」

    ——托爾斯泰

  • 「遠行要假良朋,數數清於耳目;住止必須擇伴,時時聞於未聞。故雲:「生我者父母,成我者朋友。」親附善者,如霧露中行,雖不濕衣,時時有潤。」

    ——《溈山大圓禪師警策》

  • 「寫作可以使一天中,工作的二、三小時,化為更有意味的二、三小時。」

    ——王文興

  • 「寫作,最終是一連串允許你以某些特定方式來表達自己的過程。去創造。去跳躍。去飛翔。去掉落。去發現你自己獨樹一格的敘述方式和堅持;也就是讓你找到內在的自由。」

    ——Susan Sontag

  • 「有時候我想,天堂一定是一場永不疲倦的閱讀。」

    ——Virginia Woolf