The theme of “Next Station, Future” is inspired by the whole class’

anticipation towards not only the future of Macao, but also their

own future. As the graduating class, uncertainty and expectation drive us as we pursue our stories for this magazine.

 

As we are in a journey toward the Future Station, we organize our

stories in the magazine into five sections named after well-known bus stops in Macao -- “Lisbon Road”, “Serado Square”, “Social Welfare Bureau”, “Cultural Center” and “Science Center” indicating vital aspects of our city: transportation, economy, technology, culture, environment and society. With every story comes the journalistic progress that each student has made throughout the years in the university, showcasing their passion for journalism and promising prospect of our future.

 

And as the Editor-in-chief, having overlooked the efforts that everyone has made, I am proud to present this year’s Umac Bridges and hope that you enjoy our work!

 

——Shiela Lay

The future is what will happen in the time after the present, therefore, it has unlimited possibility and we have unlimited imagination toward the future. Then a question appeared in my mind: how do we predict what is going to happen in the future?

 

News is to report what has already happened, which is “the past”, and what is going on right now, is “the present”. Besides fortune telling, scientifically, the only way we have to predict “the future” is based on “the past” and “the present”. As a result, a main theme of our graduation publication has been decided.

 

In our issue “The Next Station, Future”, we investigated “the past” and “the present” in Macau, in order to illustrate the unlimited possibility and our unlimited imagination to the city in many aspects, including social, economic, cultural and technological.

 

After all the reporting and editing, we suddenly found out that the only one who has the power to create the future is the people in “the present”, which means we are the future to Macau. After reading “The Next Station, Future”, I hope everyone has their own vision of the future as the 22 of us do and try your best effort to make it come true.

——Ella Sio