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Can't help but want to write this.

I'm just reading about how information technology is everywhere and a "force multiplier". The author gave an example of calls to reach the airline which auto-directs you to a machine before reaching a real person who 's probably in another state or country, all thanks to the advent of fibreoptics, digital communications..

Ok, that para conjured this image of a tele-operator from India speaking indecipherable In-glish... force multiplier huh.. ~May the force be with you - pick your battles, choose your allies.

The wise men of history know best - the person who hired these tele-operators probably picked up a couple of pointers:

"There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them." - winston churchill

Silent voice

Ahh, it's nice to be winding down on a Sunday night to 90.5fm. It has been a hell of a week - a week of IT "crashing (on my sanity)", bi-a-tch encounters... (Well, as with the boomerang effect spun with a bit of chaos theory, I wish you well)

If anything, lesson of the week - Don't sweat the small stuff. It's time I strategise what I shall do with my two weeks before I go off to Thailand. Things on hand to complete - essay, revise some notes (yes, it's my duty), log into the forum to leave a thread of analysis worth anyone's read... ok, i'll leave it off as such, for the rest's too depressing for me to list.

I'm tempted to try out muay-thai, to feel my adrenaline pumping once again. Hah!

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Come now, Jennifer Niesslein, dear author of "Practically Perfect in Every Way", I hope you do my $25.15 some justice. I've thrown yet another book into the corner of my cupboard - P.S. I Love you. Again that's one book added to my list of "books I don't know what to do with". I did seriously think about having a mini library in my own home (still building castles in the air), and this is one category of books that I would feel the pinch if I were to just throw/recycle it, yet it's something I wouldn't personally recommend to anyone to read. Hello, headache.

Anyway, I just want an interesting book to take me through a touching, heart-wrenching story, without my mind wandering off less than a chapter into the book - is that too much to ask for? It seems increasingly so... =(

Pss, has anyone noticed that there is an alarming number of books on microtrends/ the undercover economist kind of books springing up at the bookstores? It is absolutely crazy. Yes, there is an increasing number of women who are excelling in math, plenty of this and that. Well, the same goes for books that discuss about something in history. I was just browsing through a book i picked up from MI library on the history of modern wars of attrition - the first chapter was interesting, but the interest died with the details in the following chapters. It is life, perhaps, that we can say so much about things in retrospect, but what can we really say about the future? ..Or something ground-breaking at least?

I got to be more selective with the books I pick now on.