Don’t know about you, but this did draw a chuckle or two from me. Have a nice week after the new year break!
“There are really only two conditions of the human mind: Very, very happy. Or, about to become very, very happy. Which are you today?”
Mike Dooley
American Author and Inspirational Speaker
Currently about 1/3 of the way through Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers - The story of success”. For those who may be unfamiliar with this name, he is also the author of the highly successful “Tipping Point” and “Blink”, both dealing with insights into the causes for success.
Up to this point, the central thesis of the book [...]
Spotted this list of 32 highly recommended sci-fi novels over at How to split an atom in my Google reader yesterday.
Surprisingly, I have read quite a few of those on the list:
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. (and the rest of the Foundation series)
Time machine, by H. G. Wells.
Animal farm, by George Orwell.
War of the worlds, by [...]
It seems that with each passing day, there are more and more things to do/learn but we still have just the same (or seemingly less) number of hours available. I have recently “discovered” - not that this is a very new book by the way - David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” (GTD), so hopefully I [...]
While in Canberra recently, perhaps it was more a sense of “home-coming” (well, it was my home for about 4 years after all??), I did not end up buying any ’speciality’ souvenirs there before returning to Singapore. Actually, I have never really been fond of buying souvenirs even on my previous trips - mostly postcards [...]