Well, I was at Kino with Key. My intention was to get my membership and pick up two books. While I was walking around though, I saw a funny thing.. Two books next to each other that showed someone at Kino had a lame sense of humour.. =p
Book 1. Malcolm Gladwell's Blink (which I have), subtitled: The power of thinking without thinking.
Book 2. Michael leGault's Think!, subtitled: Why crucial decisions can't be made in the blink of an eye.
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Well anyway, if you didn't think that was funny, you're probably not lame. Anyway, my two new books are:
1. Sandman vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes, by Neil Gaiman
This is pretty cool. After reading Gaiman's American Gods and Anansi Boys, I find that I quite like his writing style. Interesting thing is, you'll see more and more of his work popping up on the shelves at Times the Bookshop ( I was at PS store the other day), and the shop is quite popularist about which books it puts on its sci-fi and fantasy shelves. So I guess he's becoming mainstream popular.
Anyway, will review as I read, and as I add more of the volumes to my collection.
2. The Undercover Economist, by Jim Harford
This book was recommended by Wei Shyong. He'd read the first two chapters and shared with me the example: Who makes the most money in getting you the Starbucks coffee? The answer? Think, who along the entire chain has the rarest commodity?
So I'll slowly read this and free-associate myself through its principles. First off..
If scarcity increases the share of profit to the holder of scarce resource, and abundance of buyers transfers profit to sellers.. then Singapore's drive to produce "entrepreneurs", not the Silicon Valley types but more properly people who start small businesses... that will drive rentals and the price of commercial property up, while making it harder for those businesses to make good profits..
Kind of half-baked, but hopefully it'll get better as we go along..
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