Recently, I am having no time to read books so I settled myself for some brief reading ebooks from the internet.
No. I am still currently following my “one-book-per-week” policy(the last book I bought is a semi-biography of Sherlock Holmes) but decided to just let those books stuck up first then read them once I have settled all academic nuances done. But as you can see, I can’t help myself away from reading non-economics and non-business books since I have doubled my time bloghopping and reading online articles.
It’s currently a trend now to just download ebooks especially for businessmen who can’t give a time to read. Companies are paid nowadays to summarize books since the demand for ebooks increases as people gets busier and more stressed. Last Friday(BA180.1 class), our speaker from this online company summarizing books earns around $30,000 a month just on the advertisements on their sites. So what more if we add their revenue from their book summaries?
Well the last thing I read was Bill Gates’ 11 thing you did not and will not learn in school delivered to some high school students in the US. These are the 11 rules this multi billionaire taught these highschoolers.
Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one
The last rule was soooooooo “it-make-me-laugh-soooooo-hard” line.From now on, I’ll be nicer to Kuya Brylle and those on the same bracket as him.XD
Right now I am being bothered by epistaxis. Nose bleed in layman’s term. For the past week that I have been going to bed at 3 am then waking up at 6, I have my nose bleeding twice. First, the night before the exam on Public Economics and second when I was taking a bath before the exam in Accounting. I have been asking everyone if there’s this connection between not having enough sleep and nosebleeding but found no concrete answer.
I’ve searched through the net but found no answer. Better call the doctor later.
