"The joy of capitalism" by Steven E Plaut is a good book. everyone should read it.

dicto simplicitor. if you are spotted reading it in a communist country you are as good as dead.

well okay. it is a fun book. it teaches you about capitalism and why communism is not good. like it said, communism will not work, and it didn't, and also how government intervention is mostly bad for the economy.

hasty generalisation. just because it seems right about these two point doesn't mean that this whole book is accurate.

ok, so i am in a weird mood. i am thinking about everything in terms of material gains. which is not bad. must be because of "The Joy of Capitalism".

post hoc. your view on the society hasn't got much to do with the book. in fact the book isn't even about that.

wtf i am countering all my own points on why i like "The Joy of Capitalism". i am really bored. but i got a shit lot to do. crap lot of hmwk, a quiz coming up 2 weeks later, a big event nex saturday....argh...so busy and still thinking about it coz its such a nice book. no, but seriously it is a good book.

et miseri cordiam. you are trying to ask ppl to read this book by gaining sympathy. ur busy-ness has got nothing to do with the credibility of this book.

FUCK LAH. just read it. it is good. esp for jimr who has been brainwashed by communists. i am brainwashed by capitalists. lets share ideas.

okay so i shall tok abt today.

i believe i can make a general statement that it is generally not easy to seoi nage ppl who are shorter than you. the shorter the harder. uchikomi and nagekomi was dramatically easier on miki. who is also shorter than me(sorry lah jimr...stating a fact)

today the training program was like yesterday. except that during the reaction practice because there was too much stoning. so we got 10 reverse push-ups, 10 diamond reverse, 10 wide arm reverse, one round front crawl, three rounds frog jumps, one round front crawl, three round frog jumps, then ten reverse push ups again. GREAT WARM-UP for the arms. i was slacking by spreading my legs. slacker me. seemed to give me an edge during randori today though.

today randori was nice. got beaten by miki and yongsheng and guxin. then decided to test makikomi on garry and hey it worked! and i proceeded to test on bryan. beat him 3-2 or 2-1. can't remember. heck, i beat him^^. almost beat timo. drew wif zhang xing. then last bout played wif emmy. threw him twice in exchange of getting thrown about 7 times. okay lar, he let me one... can tell from his continous use of uchimata when his flying seoi nage would work fine. mebbe he wasn't in the thrashing mood today.

strangely i was able to pull ppl towards me today. quite surprised when i managed to pull yongsheng in. i think it could be because the front crawls gave me a nice warm-up for my arms. or maybe everyone's else's arms are shagged while mine wasn't because of slacking.

hehee... on the upward cycle!! starting to enjoy randori!!! good sign!!!

after randori i left early for some science-interact club thing. called the RI-MINDS carnival. which was very screwed up. supposedly we are to launch rockets at 15 minute intervals from 11 am to 1pm.

then i reached to podium at 11am. one science club guy was there. he said he dunno wad i am supposed to do and asked me to look for alex. who happens to be a photographer. which means he could be anywhere in RI. so i spent 20 mins looking for him. found him. he told me to look for wenwei. who is also missing. so i walked around asking ppl where wenwei is. "there! he's there!" and i go there cannot find him, only to find a guy to claims he is in the opposite direction. they rock.

by the time i found wenwei it was about 12 noon. he told me the prob was that mrs yau ,who has the launcher, is not here. so we called a chem teacher and asked her to help us take out the launcher. she took quite some time. and there was no pump. how nice. so we waited for mrs yau. she came at 12.20 and said she didn't have the pump. so we borrowed one from the maintenance dept and set off to test. finshed testing at 12.35. then waited at the podium, while we got ready to launch. then the boss(chairman of science club) said "make there aren't any stupid idiots standing in front of the launcher(fyi, the launcher can launch a 1.5 kg rocket to a distance of 150 metres away)". and i made a not-very-kind comment:"but like you said they are stupid idiots"

so we waited. and they announced at 12.45pm that we will launch at 1pm. how nice. despite constant yelling and warning and signalling not to stand in front of the launcher many ppl were still standing in front of the launcher. which was pumped up to a nice 80 psi(max 110 psi, which is quite dangerous...). one person even kicked it. seems that they are not in MINDS for no reason.

so we finally launched it. they were awe-strucken by the champion launcher. one minds boy(who kicked the launcher just now, fyi) insisted on pulling the trigger, when the rocket was not pumped up at all. okay...so we let him pull it, and "surprisingly" it didn't fly. cool. then he yanked it even harder. still no result. he seemed to realise then something was different about the launcher. he still insisted on holding on to the trigger. as you may know, one cannot pump and launch a rocket at the same time. so we tried to ask him to let go. he wouldn't. so with the great help of a minds staff we managed to launch the second rocket. yay. keep stuff go home.

dats about it.