the world is flat, indeed.

i'm still reading "the world is flat" by thomas friedman. I've been really busy nowadays with my JLOC course and coming home quite late everyday. Grr... depriving me of my free time. And then there was this part that was talking about how the fall of berlin wall connected the countries together, then the computer connected companies; worldwideweb connected people. Then, with the standardization of internet and computer protocols, there is a freer workflow. We no longer need to be sitting in the same office to produce something. We can be seated at any part of this world, producing different parts of say a programme, as long as we are armed with computers with broadband internet connection.

I joined the fansubs team of the d-addicts recently, and i met two of the moderators online- Kandi and Annick. I was especially surprised when I knew about where they come from. Annick lives in belgium and can speak three languages, and learning 2 now. Kandi is a mixture of Cambodian and Chinese, living in the America. So this is exactly what the book, what Thomas Friedman was talking about. We can have three people of three different backgrounds living in three different countries, working on the same project. I must admit this is getting exciting, getting know people from other countries, but it is quite difficult, because we live in 3 different timelines. GMT -4.00, GMT +2.00 and GMT +8.00.

And the most amazing fact is that, the three of us, Belgian, Singaporean (Chinese), American (Cambodian and Chinese) with totally no japanese background are subbing a japanese drama.

the world is flat, indeed.