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Book Review: Winning (Rating: 3/5)
Winning by Jack Welch, former CEO of GE.
This is a hodge-podge of tips for employees in a large corporation, largely gleaned from Welch's book tour Q&A sessions. This is his second book after his autobiography.
It is divided into five sections: on management philosophy, running your company, dealing with competition, managing your career and ( Read more... ) -
BookMooch kinda sucks
Last month, I stumbled upon what seemed like a good way to get rid of my old books without throwing them away: BookMooch. The site lets people pass books around through a points system. Seemed reasonable to me and I signed up. I happily added nine books to my inventory, painstakingly looking up each ISBN number and filling in details on the ( Read more... ) -
Book Review: The Mystery of Capital (Rating: 3/5)
It's been three years since I did my last book review! Not that I haven't been reading, just that I haven't been posting. I have lots of ideas about what to do with this blog (going forward :P) and I guess I'll write them up slowly as I go along. In the mean time, I present you:
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails ( Read more... ) -
Extract from Jack Kerouac's On the Road
... Dean took out other pictures. I realise these were all snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, stabilized-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, or ( Read more... ) -
Sunset at Bagan
Bagan is especially beautiful at sunset. We took a horsecart ride through the ruins and enjoyed beautiful views through the maize fields and trees.
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Shwezigon, Ananda and the rest of the temple complex, Bagan
Shwezigon is another 24K-covered pagoda. We literally had to squint at it as so much of the noon sun reflected off the rose-tinted pagoda (rose-tinted because it's painted red under the gold leaf).
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Bagan
Our morning call got us up and out of the hotel at 4.45 am just to get our flight up to the temple complex ( Read more... )
