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• I was schooled in English writing when I started out in college, when this book was listed as a text (I think the other one was MLA handbook). Later, I reread it for numerous times. This proves to be the best source for refining my writing skills, for years to come.

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• Quite ol' school -- pick this up on a sleepless night. The perfect complement to the reading experience is to start with Garbage's "#1 Crush" of the movie "Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLrN4FQkuc.

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• The illustrations and captions are exceptionally succinct. I am planning to make use of parts of it for my staffs' English skills training.

  Of course, the workout is great for the body. Developing a body into graceful poise.

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• Literal translation of the title = The Song of the Lords

  One of the ancient sacred scrolls of Hindu religion. Henry D. Thoreau, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot each found inspirations from this Song. This Gita is largely a conversation between Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna. ... (continue)

  Literal translation of the title = The Song of the Lords

  One of the ancient sacred scrolls of Hindu religion. Henry D. Thoreau, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot each found inspirations from this Song. This Gita is largely a conversation between Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna. The charioteer Krishna is the reincarnation of a house-hold deity in the Hindu culture -- if you go the Asia-wing collections of museums -- say Freer & Sackler Galleries of D.C. or the Met of NYC (of course, do Hong Kong have such an art collection here?) -- then you can find paintings of Lord Krishna.

  The basics of the Gita is that Arjuna is going into battle with his cousins and teachers and friends for the control of the kingdom -- he has doubts with going into battle against his kinsmen. At the battle field, Krishna is reasoning with Arjuna and motivating him into courageously fighting the war.
  The ultimate battlefield is in his heart.

  Here is one part of their conversations that I found interesting:
  "-->" denotes "gives rise to"
  Lust --> Attachment to sensuous objects --> Desire --> Anger --> C0nfusion --> Memory Lapses --> A Lost of Understanding --> Ruin

  As a side note, I think this translation of Miller, B. is way better than that of Dover Edition. I bought the Dover edition for USD1.00 at Walden, Mass. a few years back, I was lost in that translation and could not complete it despite a few trials. That Walden is the Walden Pond that Thoreau sojourned. If you happen to wander into Boston, I strongly recommend you for a trip to Walden -- a way nice place -- don't miss that literary tour at Concord and take a ghost tour at night -- really scary...

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  Completed a good parts of the nine mutually exclusive stories.
  I particularly dig "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- feels as depressed that as if I can blow myself up on any given day off. "The Laughing Man" is a singular story-in-story plot -- if I could have a girlfriend who can strike w ... (continue)

  Completed a good parts of the nine mutually exclusive stories.
  I particularly dig "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- feels as depressed that as if I can blow myself up on any given day off. "The Laughing Man" is a singular story-in-story plot -- if I could have a girlfriend who can strike well in the diamond and I could drive a school bus in N.Y.C. or could depend on some trusty sidekick traveled all over to bring the elixir for my dying self, I would be a laughing man.

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  Picked this book from the shelve last evening -- wanted to know a thing or two about String Theory. Interested in this concept after reading Jiang's (江) comics from Sunday Ming Pao a couple of months ago. Basically, string theory delves into the smallest part that lie in an atom -- strings are ene ... (continue)

  Picked this book from the shelve last evening -- wanted to know a thing or two about String Theory. Interested in this concept after reading Jiang's (江) comics from Sunday Ming Pao a couple of months ago. Basically, string theory delves into the smallest part that lie in an atom -- strings are energy strands that vibrate in different frequencies. This theory lies the promise in uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity -- becoming a "Theory of Everything" -- describing matters of small and big. Those strings are infinitesimally small -- which can't be seen directly and empirically. I think one of the footnotes on String Theory is quite gripping -- claiming someone should not reject a theory on the basis that the premise/object being discussed cannot be directly observable or refutable. For example, Greene says the proof of atoms exists is shown in Brownian motion, or the proof of black holes exists is through observing gas being sucked into black holes -- but not seeing atoms or black holes themselves.

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• Read this and imagine I was as if on a vacation through Paris down to South of France and across Spain. Drink Pernod in Paris; stroll around the Latin Quarter... Stop at Part 2. Hemingway's first fiction. When Euro is hitting 1.60 for each dollars, stay in Hong Kong and read this fiction instead ... (continue)

  Read this and imagine I was as if on a vacation through Paris down to South of France and across Spain. Drink Pernod in Paris; stroll around the Latin Quarter... Stop at Part 2. Hemingway's first fiction. When Euro is hitting 1.60 for each dollars, stay in Hong Kong and read this fiction instead of heading away to Europe for a vacation.

  "You are all a lost generation” -Gertrude Stein. Stein is someone that I wanted to meet, if there is an afterlife. The Roaring 20s.

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• Got this book seven years ago at school -- now chance upon this again and opened this up for the first time. I finished the first part -- when X was known as Little -- a slave's name he insisted. It was a turbulent account of the life of a Black Man might have like -- poverty and crime stricken -- ... (continue)

  Got this book seven years ago at school -- now chance upon this again and opened this up for the first time. I finished the first part -- when X was known as Little -- a slave's name he insisted. It was a turbulent account of the life of a Black Man might have like -- poverty and crime stricken -- with few chance of professional development and under blatant oppression. The reader would know X as he was and how he came to an epiphany and charismatic leader of the civil rights movement. This is something that should become a part of your book shelve that you pull out reading bits and parts from time to time. Love it.

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• Have finished a good part of this. Learned of this book when I was in grad school a few years back. Diamond provides a treatment on how Europeans gain an edge on the indigenous communities of Africa or Latin America by Guns (Weapons -- horse /calvary included), Germs (think Smallpox...), and Steel ... (continue)

  Have finished a good part of this. Learned of this book when I was in grad school a few years back. Diamond provides a treatment on how Europeans gain an edge on the indigenous communities of Africa or Latin America by Guns (Weapons -- horse /calvary included), Germs (think Smallpox...), and Steel (Sorry forget, shipmaking skills and sea faring ...) -- but not the other way around. It also shed lights on longitude and latitude affect the way a place was colonized -- inspiring a cottage industry of economists make use of this as an instrument variable in investigate economic growth and the type of political/economic institutions became in place in the colonized and post-colonized world. The Battle of Pizarro and the Incas was well-written.

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  The chapter on externalities is quite so-so: spending much energy in eventually expounding how knowledge spillover/urbanization/clustering of industry work -- proposing Marshall's: one giant firm corners at a geographic area (e.g. Microsoft), Porter's: many firms in the same industries cluster in a ... (continue)

  The chapter on externalities is quite so-so: spending much energy in eventually expounding how knowledge spillover/urbanization/clustering of industry work -- proposing Marshall's: one giant firm corners at a geographic area (e.g. Microsoft), Porter's: many firms in the same industries cluster in a single area (e.g. pharmaceutical companies in Boston)/ a person's that I forget the name (many firms across different industries stay in one area). The conclusion is that the last hypothesis has more predictive power than the first two in cases that were studied. The penultimate conclusion is that urban dwellers choose to pay higher cost to settle in city (despite their relative wage increases gained from moving away the country side/suburban areas would not be justified those higher cost) -- the reason is the externalities (benefits or costs that are not directly arise from the incidents themselves) of living in cities are high -- for career development (human capital inquisition).

  The last chapter on economic development is nicely written though. I particularly like the analogy/description of world's history from the existence to now being represented through the 24 hours of a day.

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  Under a surreal setting, the stranger make choices in affirming the freedom of humankind.

  The absurdity of the strangers face -- the way of living the present moments may be incompatible with the way of "They"/the societal expectations. This incompatibility leads to oppression of the masses. Under this overbearing intrusive force, ultimately staring at a death penalty, the stranger mak ... (continue)

  The absurdity of the strangers face -- the way of living the present moments may be incompatible with the way of "They"/the societal expectations. This incompatibility leads to oppression of the masses. Under this overbearing intrusive force, ultimately staring at a death penalty, the stranger makes choices to live his life's finite moments, his thoughts and subsequent action reaffirms his freedom. Some thoughts that cross the stranger's mind on the day just before his death are getting a better insight of how his mother must have felt when she is in a nursing home living her last days of her existence -- eager to find love and looking forward to the evenings of night falls. Some actions might be the stranger's outward and active resistance to the faith of Christianity to get redemption and remain an Anti-Christ and hence not redemptive as the society sees. Writing at this point, one thought crosses my mind from Camus's passage -- does communing the death sentence itself atone the heinous sins? Or, the adoption of a faith the ultimate atonement?
  No Soren Kierkegaard's type leap of faith for the Stranger.

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  Praying without ceasing

  Picked up this 1961 version of 12th Printing (October 1962) 46 years after it was went into press.

  I don't think I can do justice in describing this gem well -- you should pick this up.

  An excerpt:
  (Franny) She responds nonchalantly that the book is titled "The Way of a Pilgrim" ... (continue)

  Picked up this 1961 version of 12th Printing (October 1962) 46 years after it was went into press.

  I don't think I can do justice in describing this gem well -- you should pick this up.

  An excerpt:
  (Franny) She responds nonchalantly that the book is titled "The Way of a Pilgrim" and tells the story of how a Russian wanderer learns the power of "praying without ceasing." The "Jesus Prayer," as it is known, involves internalizing the prayer to a point where, in a manner similar to a Zen koan, it becomes unconscious, almost like a heartbeat, ultimately leading to spiritual enlightenment.

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• My Dear Friend Kwanhang,

  To Carry on
  Your own Journey...

  BK

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• Unsure if those were dirts or facts or both that were dug up.

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• Picked this up after watching "City of Angels". Eventually, this book ended up on Lei's shelf at S.D.

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• A hefty book in getting the intuition of econometrics down -- before getting into the proofs and nitty-gritty of the subject. I suggested this book to the undergrads or grad. students who are pursuing this subject for the first time.

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  From the strange days of grad school...

  The book that I have spent the most time on in my life. This tome became my pillow when I was in grad school. Reading parts of this over and over again and many areas remain mysteries to me. I am glad that I picked up a soft cover version of the book from the start -- making my waist and back fel ... (continue)

  The book that I have spent the most time on in my life. This tome became my pillow when I was in grad school. Reading parts of this over and over again and many areas remain mysteries to me. I am glad that I picked up a soft cover version of the book from the start -- making my waist and back felt much better with the weight. From the strange days of grad school.

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  Required to read this when I was at an American Lit. class at HS; picked this up again when I was having an intellectual block in the second year of grad school. A book of unrequited love. Old Sport, Daisy (Diane Keaton in the movie showed at school?), Green Light at the end of the harbor... I sti ... (continue)

  Required to read this when I was at an American Lit. class at HS; picked this up again when I was having an intellectual block in the second year of grad school. A book of unrequited love. Old Sport, Daisy (Diane Keaton in the movie showed at school?), Green Light at the end of the harbor... I still recalled discussing the idea of Ash Heap with BK when I was in grad school -- it felt amazing passing through it into NY on my road trip after graduated from grad school.

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• Read this and The Torrents of Spring when I was in grad school. Fell in love with the prose. Recommend this. Love this.

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• Note to myself -- the longitude of Hong Kong is 114 10 E -- in case I get lost.

  You can judge a book from its title -- "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time". How? By John Harrison's Clocks between 1730 and 1770. The implication ... (continue)

  Note to myself -- the longitude of Hong Kong is 114 10 E -- in case I get lost.

  You can judge a book from its title -- "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time". How? By John Harrison's Clocks between 1730 and 1770. The implication? Seafaring became less dangerous -- commercialization and colonization picked up stream.

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• Prof. H. is a true scholar and great educator -- generous with his time, insightful, and sincere. One of the best individuals that I have came across. He showed me what a well-written prose was.

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• Read this in my 2 classes of Politics of China at school -- from cover to cover. Learn Mao and DXP from this and much more from it. Should the Mao's portrait retired from TNM? Is this act a form of burying his legacies and a closure with the early arresting history of the Party?

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• The first book that I've read in my political philosophy class taught by Pateman. This book might be quite dated with the reference on democratic revolutions of the Eastern Bloc. satellite countries of the USSR (Poland perhaps?). Attended lectures at Royce Hall. The best thing that happened in th ... (continue)

  The first book that I've read in my political philosophy class taught by Pateman. This book might be quite dated with the reference on democratic revolutions of the Eastern Bloc. satellite countries of the USSR (Poland perhaps?). Attended lectures at Royce Hall. The best thing that happened in this class was meeting Kaz.

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• College Days

  Read this when I enrolled in an English Composition class. Looking back, I could not have believed that I finished this book -- the slang (a Russian-type dialect) is hip -- Burgess created a awe-inspiring and frightening universe -- of violence and, of course, hope. I found out the meaning of cha ... (continue)

  Read this when I enrolled in an English Composition class. Looking back, I could not have believed that I finished this book -- the slang (a Russian-type dialect) is hip -- Burgess created a awe-inspiring and frightening universe -- of violence and, of course, hope. I found out the meaning of chapter 21 from the lecture of Prof. M. -- and I still recall to this day the "wow" feeling.

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• Read this after finishing an antropology class from college. Bought this at Costco at 1999?

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• I believed I finished this in the summer of my Freshman year. This reminds me with the Chilean Football team stranded in the snow-capped mountain...

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• I read this when I was in Saddleback, the summer of my Freshman year. I can recall the flying machine and the drugs that make those otherwise-depressed people of the future feel great. Prozac, anyone?

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• Read this in HS -- "All animals are created equal"...

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  Paper Knife

  The cover of this book "Existentialism Is a Humanism" is way cool -- reminding me of Satre's example of human's "existence precedes essence". Human is blessed by that characteristic, as opposed to a paper knife or a chair in a park -- which are made by craftsmen with a purpose/function before the p ... (continue)

  The cover of this book "Existentialism Is a Humanism" is way cool -- reminding me of Satre's example of human's "existence precedes essence". Human is blessed by that characteristic, as opposed to a paper knife or a chair in a park -- which are made by craftsmen with a purpose/function before the production -- "essence precedes existence" in this case. Yet, with this special gift of free will, "men are doomed to be free", and have to make choices for themselves. Simultaneously, each of these individual choice casts its impact onto the human-kind, so a man is also interconnected with the humanity in the choices that each makes. With this freedom, people would feel angst -- which is the uncertainty and insecurity with the results of these choices bring forth and each man has to be responsive to each and single choice he makes without blaming on an unfortunate or less than desirable outcome on his downtrodden luck.

  In short, the main purpose of this book is Satre's defense on the three main bad raps on existentialism, such as atheistic and debasing the value of the mass/humanity of advancing by collective action. Satre also expound what is his idea of existential humanism means -- the concept of God and its set of a priori moral codes does not need to be the center of an existentialists moral code to achieve a humanist/non-anarchic-selfish outcome excluding of the other.

  P.S. -- The example of God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son is brilliant -- how can Abraham be certain that the voice of angel is that of God and not feigned by the devil -- particularly when the test is so abhorrent?

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• Angst. Begin to see "Fuck" scrawling all over the floors wherever I walk. Wondering what is the meaning of aiming to catch the golden ring of the merry-go-around. If I were in N.Y., I would spend so much time at Museum of Natural History -- seeing the case after case of "frozen peoples" and "in ... (continue)

  Angst. Begin to see "Fuck" scrawling all over the floors wherever I walk. Wondering what is the meaning of aiming to catch the golden ring of the merry-go-around. If I were in N.Y., I would spend so much time at Museum of Natural History -- seeing the case after case of "frozen peoples" and "inanimate animals". All brings soothing feelings to the chaotic world.

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• Looking toward one day reading this Pinter's along with "Waiting for Godot" with B.K. Something to do before 30.

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• From my buddy Adi a few years back. Did not have a chance finishing it. A book that tries to distinguish the great companies from their fair competitors, both were equally promising to begin with -- from the top of my head, the authors were trying to set up a database of panel data (cross sectiona ... (continue)

  From my buddy Adi a few years back. Did not have a chance finishing it. A book that tries to distinguish the great companies from their fair competitors, both were equally promising to begin with -- from the top of my head, the authors were trying to set up a database of panel data (cross sectional units that move across time) that are as exhaustive as possible to avoid as much omitted variable biases as possible to tease out what independent variables do the best in determining the success of a company -- my two cents. Thinking to restart this again with Adi in these few months...

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• For sale, anyone interested?

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• 220D required text. Kalman Filter is the only thing that I recall... Jimmy D. is a quite intense guy. Some parts of the book on sequences and series were used in the intro Marco course of grad school. My memory is really blurry at this point.

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• Required text of 220c. Panel Data. A nice treatment on the subject -- say of the basics of OLS, I like this better than the MoM approach of Hayashi's.

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• Got this from Adi -- Read bits of it when I was at MV. The lyrics and rhythm of that work was quite striking.

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• A well-designed cover -- making the subject of econometrics looks cool. A book that I kept pounding on when I was in grad school -- "State and Prove Gauss-Markov Theorem" -- working on it on and on and keeping forgetting it all over again -- feels like a torture. Of the assignment of doing hypoth ... (continue)

  A well-designed cover -- making the subject of econometrics looks cool. A book that I kept pounding on when I was in grad school -- "State and Prove Gauss-Markov Theorem" -- working on it on and on and keeping forgetting it all over again -- feels like a torture. Of the assignment of doing hypothesis test on "Efficient Market" -- I don't believe how much work I and Giuseppe sunk on it to finish it -- good ol' time.

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