November 2017 - You Write

Jason Bourne - Who is he?

November 23, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Jason Bourne’s real name (according to the story developed by Robert Ludlum) is David Webb, a career Marine Captain in the Foreign Service Department and a specialist in Far Eastern affairs. Jason Bourne is featured in the Bourne Trilogy The Bourne Identity, published in 1980, The Bourne Supremacy, published in 1986, and The Bourne Ultimatum, published in 1990. The author is Robert Ludlum, born 25th May 1927 and died on 12th March 2001. These three novels have been turned into three movies featuring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. Before the events in The Bourne Identity, David Webb (alias Jason Bourne) had […]

Murder on the Orient Express

November 19, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I have just been to the cinema to see this movie (2017 edition). This story had been filmed twice once in 1974 and now in 2017. It had also been in three “made-for-TV” series - one presented by CBS in 2001, one co-produced by ITV Studios and WGBH-TV in 2010 and one produced in Japan (Japanese version) by Fuji Television in 2015. === === === The train ‘Orient Express’ travelling from Istanbul to Calais (Paris) was stopped by a snowdrift near Vinkovci, in Slovania, way back in the 1930’s. During the stoppage of the train, one of the […]

Diligence - The Key to Success of One Mr Minit

November 13, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

This is a true story of an existing person. His name has therefore been changed to protect his privacy. His basic family details have also been altered for the same reason. ========== Once upon a recent time, a 24-years-old school teacher from one of the Pacific Island nations, a new migrant, (let us call him Malik), came to Auckland, New Zealand to marry a young lady of his parents’ choice. They were happy together and soon they had two children, both boys. Financially however the new family was in difficult times. Both Malik and his wife Sonya worked […]

Uber Driver Number One

November 11, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Written by journalist Peter Graczer, Accounts Director at Sputnik. Check him out at www.sputnik.co.nz http://www.sputnik.co.nz PETER GRACZER ACCOUNT DIRECTOR Peter Graczer is an editorial media generation specialist with a nose for a story and wide networks in the New Zealand media. He has a passion for technology and a gift for presenting complex ideas very simply, which makes him a perfect tech PR person. Peter has developed an impressive record of generating mainstream coverage for what seemed like complex ideas and obscure technologies, by finding an angle that is naturally relevant to everyday New Zealanders. ===== […]

In Memory of Sam (Young Hon Way 楊漢威 )

November 3, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

He was born in China’s Zhongsan District in Guangzhou Province on 14th July 1932. He came to New Zealand in 1949 with his sister Una. His father was, by then, an established fruit shop owner in the Coromandel and the following excerpt from the source http://zhongshan.nz/en/18-editorials/history/past-members/42-father-and-son-young-man-chit-and-sam-young.html#m-j-young-1209-great-north-road-point-chevalier-1956-69 is how Sam described his arrival to New Zealand: Sam recalls his arrival: There were three of us. We left our village just as the Communist party took over the government of China. My mother was 38, I was 17 and Una was 15. We travelled by ship on the ‘Tai Ping’ to Sydney […]