Many people, I suppose, know that modern China was first unified at the end of the warring states period (475 BC to 221 BC) where the state of Qin annihilated the other six major states. Ying Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huang and founded the Qin dynasty and thus laid the long road to what China is today.
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where–” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland).
Most people, if at all, only talk about personal mission. How writing down stuff will help us achieve it. I for one is a recent culprit – click here for my previous post.
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Almost anyone is thrilled to read articles like ‘top 5 successful traits of business executives’, books like Jim Collins’ Good to Great, successful traits of certain individuals and how we can emulate them and not to mention the bizarre following and hero worshipping of certain individuals and the likes.
But the truth of the matter is you and I should treat them like fantasy novels.
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I wasn’t a big fan of creating new year resolutions until I read back what I wrote in 2010. It was an extremely difficult exercise to complete let alone to craft the first sentence. But I guess it’s worth the effort after all.
I reproduce the structure below and please grab a pen and a paper (preferably a book) for the following – there’s nothing to lose except for a couple of hours.
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Academic definition:
A capital market is a market for securities (debt or equity), where business enterprises (companies) and governments can raise long-term funds. In primary markets, new stock or bond issues are sold to investors via a mechanism known as underwriting. In the secondary markets, existing securities are sold and bought among investors or traders, usually on a securities exchange, over-the-counter, or elsewhere. [source Wikipedia].
The truth:
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This is a continuation of the previous posting. Please click here to go to the first posting.
The answer is 41%. Why?
To recap,
(a) 80% (b) 50% (c) 41% (d) 29%
As best as science can describe it, there is a short cut system in us, scientifically called System 1 or commonly known as Intuition or Six Sense. The bestseller author Malcolm Gladwell romanticized the term Blink, which basically meant the same thing.
All of us would definitely experience this, but almost vaguely if we don’t stop to ponder upon it. Are women more gifted with intuition since they are more feely type?
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Many things have had happened since I last updated this blog.
For one, my uncle passed away. Healthy, therefore all the more devastatingly unexpected. The feeling is strange if you had dinner with a person only to find out he or she is dead the following day. Life is just too fragile to be mindful of everything. I guess through some twisted logic, Joker came to the conclusion, “Why so serious”…why so serious indeed?
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I’ll let you take three guesses before I give you the ultimatum. Well, any of your three guesses will not be correct because I don’t know what’s the connection too but does my fascination with both count? Haha, lame joke I know. But couldn’t help it really.
The term apophenia (pronounced as ef.ə.′si.niə) is defined as the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. This combined with hindsight bias will be really freaky to the extent that either Shutter or Final Destination 5 has to step aside.
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Haven’t been blogging for some time now. Not sure if it matters. It’s not my fault because I failed miserably in my attempt to crack the codes of I Ching or better known as Book of Changes. It’s too difficult a text to understand.
Confucius said, “If I could add fifty more years to my life, I would spend them studying the I Ching. Then, I would not have any major faults.” Unless I am very much mistaken, that quote came from him when Confucius was about 70 years old. I am told that I Ching must be taught and couldn’t be learnt. You need a teacher. Hopefully I could find myself a teacher soon.