First of all,we need the ingredients..
if you dont have the ingredients
go to near hypermarket or super market be
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Outliers
In Outliers , Gladwell (The Tipping Point ) once again proves masterful in a genre he essentially pioneered—the book that illuminates secret patterns behind everyday phenomena. His gift for spotting an intriguing mystery, luring the reader in, then gradually revealing his lessons in lucid prose, is on vivid display. Outliers begins with a provocative look at why certain five-year-old boys enjoy an advantage in ice hockey, and how these advantages accumulate over time. We learn what Bill Gates, the Beatles and Mozart had in common: along with talent and ambition, each enjoyed an unusual opportunity to intensively cultivate a skill that allowed them to rise above their peers. A detailed investigation of the unique culture and skills of Eastern European Jewish immigrants persuasively explains their rise in 20th-century New York, first in the garment trade and then in the legal profession. Through case studies ranging from Canadian junior hockey champions to the robber barons of the Gilded Age, from Asian math whizzes to software entrepreneurs to the rise of his own family in Jamaica, Gladwell tears down the myth of individual merit to explore how culture, circumstance, timing, birth and luck account for success—and how historical legacies can hold others back despite ample individual gifts. Even as we know how many of these stories end, Gladwell restores the suspense and serendipity to these narratives that make them fresh and surprising. One hazard of this genre is glibness. In seeking to understand why Asian children score higher on math tests, Gladwell explores the persistence and painstaking labor required to cultivate rice as it has been done in East Asia for thousands of years; though fascinating in its details, the study does not prove that a rice-growing heritage explains math prowess, as Gladwell asserts. Another pitfall is the urge to state the obvious: “No one,” Gladwell concludes in a chapter comparing a high-IQ failure named Chris Langan with the brilliantly successful J. Robert Oppenheimer, “not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires and not even geniuses—ever makes it alone.” But who in this day and age believes that a high intelligence quotient in itself promises success? In structuring his book against that assumption, Gladwell has set up a decidedly flimsy straw man. In the end it is the seemingly airtight nature of Gladwell's arguments that works against him. His conclusions are built almost exclusively on the findings of others—sociologists, psychologists, economists, historians—yet he rarely delves into the methodology behind those studies. And he is free to cherry-pick those cases that best illustrate his points; one is always left wondering about the data he evaluated and rejected because it did not support his argument, or perhaps contradicted it altogether. Real life is seldom as neat as it appears in a Malcolm Gladwell book. (Nov.) Leslie T. Chang is the author of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Spiegel & Grau).
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
If I have 1 MILLION DOLLARS what whould i do????
If I get a billion dollars, what will I do
The first thing I would do is change my life to better. To achieve this, I will put family first. Because no one is our family. I will make sure all my siblings to go to college without using PTPTN money.
I also want to perform Hajj and Umrah with my family, with the foster family relationship between us .(^_^) v
After that, I will continue to pursue Ph.D. studies in the field I am passionate. In addition, I also want to meet my long desire. Enzo Ferrari and owns a private jet that easy for me to move to anywhere with ease. And I also want to marry a woman who suitable with me. Hehe
After graduation, I will open up a business and a shipping company. I will open a branch up to the world and will take only employee of my country.
Then, I will channel aid to those in need, especially from the poor, orphans, schools, hospitals and victims of natural disasters such as landslides, floods and fires.
At my retirement days later, I want to open a farm about 10 acres. In the farm's cattle farms, organic chickens, goats, sheep and horses. In addition to raising animals, I will make some fruit orchards. (influences of harvest moon game) Hihihi
Up until now I had my writing, because I could not think what else to write .. hahahahaha
The first thing I would do is change my life to better. To achieve this, I will put family first. Because no one is our family. I will make sure all my siblings to go to college without using PTPTN money.
I also want to perform Hajj and Umrah with my family, with the foster family relationship between us .(^_^) v
After that, I will continue to pursue Ph.D. studies in the field I am passionate. In addition, I also want to meet my long desire. Enzo Ferrari and owns a private jet that easy for me to move to anywhere with ease. And I also want to marry a woman who suitable with me. Hehe
After graduation, I will open up a business and a shipping company. I will open a branch up to the world and will take only employee of my country.
Then, I will channel aid to those in need, especially from the poor, orphans, schools, hospitals and victims of natural disasters such as landslides, floods and fires.
At my retirement days later, I want to open a farm about 10 acres. In the farm's cattle farms, organic chickens, goats, sheep and horses. In addition to raising animals, I will make some fruit orchards. (influences of harvest moon game) Hihihi
Up until now I had my writing, because I could not think what else to write .. hahahahaha
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