The collective mind is greater and smarter than one single individual
The mayor who make a huge change in New York city and even starred as himself in “Anger Management”
The jack of all trade and entrepreneurs.
The hyperactive kid with a dog
The Jew who see through the States to credit crisis
The testimony
All these I have started long time ago but yet none of them able to reach the completion. I have procrastinate long enough. Could do some catch up tomorrow with anyone of them.
A friend told me that I’m insensitive person. I told him that I am sensitive. He argued that I’m not a sensitive guy, rather I am a person who often emo. He called me “Emo hai”
After today the lady bought me the snowflakes, I went around shopping. Dropped by a friend shop. With a receipt above RM200 of purchase, I could get away with 2 hours free parking. Hence, I walked to the information counter to get the free parking validated. Unlike the Timberland sales assistant who called me by my name. I guess he saw my name on the credit card which prompted him to say “Thank You Mr. Tan” So courteous. The customer service representative at the Pavilion called me Mr. Wrong. The chicks were kind of happy to see Mr. Wrong? Or were they had enough to wait and search for Mr. Right?
I mean I seriously need to finish all the books that I have commenced since last year. Some has been pending as I couldn’t bring myself to read it. Perhaps it was due to the strained mind trying to rip all the contents of the book. I find myself read mostly the books with some data, facts or information.
Unlike those books which I find it as an easy read mostly are the chick-lit. Nonetheless, there are some classic novels I begin to pick up. This is largely influenced by the ‘Controversial’ or the ‘Banned’ book list. All of these books recommended has been importantly influence the society. Check ‘Catcher in the rye’ for example. It tells the stream of thought of a young teenager. Rebellious.
Maybe I should just for once. For once ignore all the self-help/autobiographies and work on the fiction. Less complicated. Though facts do interesting. Especially the unless fact where you can brag to your colleagues or peers about.
What not. I don’t think I can find any of my peers whom really reads. Not those that within my circles.
Never I thought I would be reading such classic novel. Until that I had a list of the most controversial books. The Catcher in the Rye is just one of them. I picked up in the bookstore not long ago. Some time last year if I am not mistaken. I didn’t have much time to read it considering it was a classic book. Perhaps I was thinking I can hold on to it for a while.
Until recently I begin to turn its pages. Slowly unfold. At the beginning, the story was being told from the main protagonist point of view. His own perspective. Which is really tough for me at the beginning. The author had this Holden’s thought. The stream of thought flushing out through like a flood. I admitted that yes, I put it up away for some time before continue it back again. I left the story when he just flunked out. Having dealing with the total fencing fiasco.
As I read on to the story, I got hooked on. Furthermore, I felt the angst and anger that contained within the antihero Holden himself. How he wanted to unleash his hatred when he felt that the girl that he like being ‘horsed’ in the story. The same stream of thought were projected in my mind. Nonetheless, the obsession over the antihero just caused me a depression. Emotionally not stable. In a way. To say the least.
No doubt the use of profanity and strong words were the part that draws the attention. It make sense when in the end that the sense of identity to become unraveled. No one could be an island. He was saved by the touch of his old Phoebe.
Of course it was a phase. He was going through his phase.
Overall, it was a good book. It has become since one of the top list book must read all time, for me. Although his piece of work seems to be jumbling up of the thought process. Just streaming all over it. I find it too symbolic with the hunting hat and stuff. Great piece of work I would say to Salinger. May he rest in peace. Though he might be the one still rejecting the offer for the film adaptation. But making it into a play will be much better, IMHO.
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you’ll start missing everybody”.
My reading has been slow lately. Interruptive events all around me. From exam to work, from World Cup 2010 to tantrum throwing. Found out that there are logics in all these. Furthermore it is explainable via the economic. Very true human are calculative. They weighted between the pros and cons before making any decision.
Like Wisdom of Crowd, these small decision acted up collectively to form a norm or collective decision that affected the entire society directly and indirectly. Very the true, I personally believe that the wealth of a nation is through division of labor and this is a form of separation through profession. Heh.
“People smoke and gamble,” he writes. “Fools fall in love. Offices are run by morons. City neighborhoods boom or collapse for no apparent reason.” To the keen eye of an economist it all makes sense, in the counterintuitive way exploited so successfully by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner in “Freakonomics.”
Through this book, I clearly understand there is nothing called right or fair. It’s only worth fuming over it’s logical after all.
I mean after I read halfway, I find no sense in the book. The Passion Test were just list down the items that will make you happy. Then compare it, where you will find the important things you need to do first.
Somehow, I couldn’t finished it after a while. But I come to terms with it as I need to end the book eventually. Not recommended as it is just plain simple except for those plain Joes/Janes who doesn’t know what they need to do to keep them moving forward.
The Passion Test
A Passion Test is just a form of Bucket List where you rank the importance to complete. Ehm…. Just as said, there is not much of substance within the book. Nonetheless, the whole book can be summarize in 2 pages in my humble opinion.
Itchy. Feels like stocking up my reading queue which now accumulating up to 20 titles. Haven’t even got the time to read. Just the urge to get new books. Am I addicted to shopping books while the ladies shopping for shoes?
After reading the book, ‘The Art of Cheating’ I realized that everyone cheating. One way or another.
At the beginning, the book was funny. It was enjoyable to read. As I go down few chapters, it seems to repetitious. Boring. Too much of parody of howto. Somehow I couldn’t bring myself to finish this book.
After I finished the book, “Outliers” I decided to finish up the “The Tipping Point – How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”.
The Tipping Point
Likewise with his writings, the author Malcolm Gladwell dwells in the singularity of the issue. He examines the culture of the Hush Puppies from a small to international brand that making millions dollar annually. He wrote that the culture was epidemic. Starting from small numbers of urbanites until it catches on fire into the runway. It seems as the culture took off at the certain tipping point.
So, clearly his book was mentioning the small little things that sometimes we did not pay attention to. From that small things it turn out to be the tipping point once it reached its critical mass. Sounds like physics.
After reading this ‘Tipping Point’ I felt that the idea and the basic drive for this book it splendidly good. No doubt that Malcolm is a good writer. He prose and eloquently good with his writing skills which I came to envy about. Nonetheless, the book was considered information overloaded where by I don’t get how he trying to jive the entire several ideas and laws together. Maybe it’s not him, it’s just me.
But above all, I like the part where he shared about the tipping point to make it an epidemic hooha. It just gives me the right idea. That’s all.
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