Catherine Cheang (Editor-in-Chief)
Umac Bridges, a student magazine, is a graduation project done by Year 4 English Communication students.
We create the magazine from scratch. We get our hands on every single detail of this magazine – writing articles, photography, design, layout, typesetting, etc. Through this magazine, we voice out our thoughts. We look deep into our society, pick up the pieces that inspire us and put them onto these pages.
The magazine is our letter to Macao.
Samuel Beckett said, “Words are all we have.”“Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.”
For us, this issue of Bridges is more than a stack of paper we put together in order to graduate. It is our exit from the stage. We made effort, we performed for you, we bowed, we hope for your applause.
On behalf of the COMM404-001 class, I hereby thank Prof. Wu Mei and teaching assistant Elsa Ip. It was such an honor to work with you on this project. Under your guidance, we learned and grew. We accomplished and achieved beyond what we could have imagined. It was a bumpy road, but we overcame and you were there with us.
Meanwhile, I am to dedicate our deepest gratefulness to everyone that helped making this possible.
This isn’t an end but a fresh start of another chapter in life. I, personally, consider myself the luckiest person to have you all along the way. Thank you.
Karen Chang (Deputy Editor)
The more it gains, the shakier it gets.
In Jenga, all the bricks are independent elements, but they are in multiple relationships by supporting each other to varying degrees.
Imagine the dramatic development of Macao in these years as a structure of Jenga, what does the unprecedented increase of growth reflect?
Both you and I are inescapably involved in mthe development of Macao. What’s more, its future is in our hands.
Hence, it’s time for us to pause for a moment, take a breath and ponder our next step.
Aries Un (Deputy Editor)
The removal of the last piece which sustains the entire block decides a loser in a Jenga game – yet that theory seems inapplicable to our Jenga- like society that trembles today with hundreds of thousands players involved.
A non-deliberate poke can simply bring down the entire shaky structure of the block.
A game-over can result in not only one but a massive number of losers.
So question yourself what you would do with your piece.