Working on the metro makes a boring commute fly by - blink and you are at your destination already. 30 minutes each way is 1 hour a day. Over the entire year it's 250+ hours or 9 whole 16-hour days.
That's why whenever I move to a new city, I typically look to live somewhere that's at the end of the metro line. It meant in the morning commute I can _always_ get a seat.
That was one of the reasons I liked living in Hammersmith when I worked in Shoreditch/Old Street - it's at the end of the Hammersmith and City Line and I don't have to change lines. There's also the add bonus that the line is above ground until Paddington which meant I have more than enough time to load up any tabs I need to use before the Internet blackout.
In Hong Kong I worked at Central and lived in Tsuen Wan. Literally from one end of the line to the other. This had the added bonus that I was also guaranteed a seat on the way home as well.
Growing up in a culture similar to Japan, where the expectations placed on kids are similar to what's seen in the video, I can say there are pro's and con's.
The pro's are kids learn faster when it comes to STEM subjects, where brute hard-work and repetition pays off (because until you go to university, you're pretty much limited to learning widely-accepted truths, which just needs to be understood and remembered).
The con's are the same work ethics and discipline applied to creative subjects doesn't necessarily work. Yes - you need practice to be good at playing musical instruments, but you also need to have the space to "mess around" and have some fun. In the video, the girl was obviously enjoying her time playing the cymbal, only to be told by her music teacher to be serious and not mess around. It really hurt me to see her creativity and happiness smothered by that killjoy.
Watching the Op-Doc reminds me of the book Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window (窓ぎわのトットちゃん) (there's also a movie) where it showed that some "problematic" children are really just curious children who didn't get their curiosity satisfied.
That's why whenever I move to a new city, I typically look to live somewhere that's at the end of the metro line. It meant in the morning commute I can _always_ get a seat.
That was one of the reasons I liked living in Hammersmith when I worked in Shoreditch/Old Street - it's at the end of the Hammersmith and City Line and I don't have to change lines. There's also the add bonus that the line is above ground until Paddington which meant I have more than enough time to load up any tabs I need to use before the Internet blackout.
In Hong Kong I worked at Central and lived in Tsuen Wan. Literally from one end of the line to the other. This had the added bonus that I was also guaranteed a seat on the way home as well.