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I’ve recently started reading the famous book ‘How to win friends and influence people’ by Dale Carnegie, because I feel Im too retarded at dealing with people. As I read the book, I came cross one section particularly interesting. I think it illustrates a good point, so I quote the section here to share it […]

I’ve just had a check of my order history of the last few years on Amazon.co.uk. The earliest I can trace back was an purchase I made on 17th Sep 2003, I bought a textbook on that day. Im not so sure if that was actually the first purchase I made on Amazon, I’ve always […]

Today, I bought a good book and it was quite unexpected. I went to the Waterstones bookstore located very close to London’s Piccadilly Circus (it’s the biggest commercial bookstore in the UK) during my lunch break. Although I don’t normally visit to bookstores on a Sunday’s lunch break as it’s very short (only 30 minutes), […]

While I was reading the very last parts of ‘The World is Flat’, I found one section particularly illuminating. In it the author talked about why hybrid and flexible-fuel vehicles can be very effective in reducing America’s dependence for foreign oil. The incredible practical feasibility of developing this new type of environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient […]