*Idea Log* Guide by month

Below is an introduction to my 'Idea Log' topics divided by month

The order of appearance of all topics is as follows:

find January 2012 summary below:

<Job skills aren't everything when it comes to the right hire- Mark Murphy> <Want better employees? Ask better questions in job interviews> <CNBC-TV18 is a business news channel broadcast in India based in Mumbai> <Galleria Supermarket Thornhill~ Rice cakes, Kimbab and Fish shaped red bean cakes> <Cinematography of Black Narcissus by Jack Cardiff> <Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff> <"I'm really happy for them," replied David Prasher, adding that in the face of his tough circumstances withholding the glowing material from Chalfie would not have been the right thing to do."> <2121 Principles of Operations Management> <

find December 2011 summary below:

<World War II Airmail letter from Lucknow to Philadelphia (1940s)> <Princess and the Pea, 2006, British Vogue><1873 painting of the city of Tangier & Tangier of the 1940s> <Jade Symbolism in China> <Cecil Beaton: The New York Years> <An Innocent Affair 1948> <The Three Cities within Toronto - Income polarization among Toronto's neighbourhoods, 1970 - 2005 Cities Centre University of Toronto> <Struggling Cities from Japanese Urban Projects in the 1960s by Naohiko Hino>

find November 2011 summary below:

<Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel> <The Fuel of Life, A PhotoSensitive multimedia exhibition focusing on the issue of energy in the 21st century> <*goodbye to the girl 'in-the-news'> <Korean Orgel Tile-roofed house> <The Mandalay Palace - the late Burmese monarchy> <On Kalimpong, India> <The Raven Crown- The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan> <Cecil Beaton's 'Fashion is Indestructible'> <Vogue Fashion over 100 years of style by decade and designer, in association with Vogue> <Got ca$h woes? Put on your spiffy duds> <Canada's innovation window of opportunity> <The Langkawi Sky Bridge> <Departures on OLN> <Follow Your Bliss> <Too Big to Fail: Olympia & York: The Story Behind the Headlines & The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York> <Adversity and the route to success> <Hongcho dinking Vinegar> <The History of Whoo or Fo Skin Care> <A tribute to the Montreal Metro, right here in Toronto> <Hot off the Press: ROOM TO READ is in The New York Times! '10,000,000 books distributed~ inspiring young minds one book at a time'> <Globe & Mail> Essay> <Visiting my birthplace in India helped me understand my parents better> <Sunnyside Amusement Park, Toronto> <The Grid's Lunchtime Tourist discover's GUILDWOOD PARK> <The Cell theory states that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, that all cells come from preexisting cells, that vital functions of an organism occur within cells, and that all cells contain the hereditary information necessary for regulating cell functions and for transmitting information to the next generation of cells> <The sequence goes something like this: I get it; I love it; I want it; Where is it? These ephiphanies utterly [change] lives, giving them direction and purpose and sweeping them up in a way that nothing else had; they tend to involve some level of revelation, a way of dividing the world into before and after> <'War of the Arrows' movie showing ~ Korean Cultural Heritage Day at the ROM> <"Carp leaps over the Dragon Gate"> <The Saga of Chorley Park, Toronto> <Pineapple buns on Spadina> <Queen's Quay Terminal>

find October 2011 summary below:

<GRACE Kelly: From Movie Star to Princess An Exhibition> <Tokyo-Toronto Talk Series [this November] complementing the exhibition "Struggling Cities" at The Japan Foundation> <It now costs much less to visit the Royal Ontario Museum. Beginning October 27, we significantly reduced admission prices because we believe everyone belongs at the ROM> <It now costs much less to visit the Royal Ontario Museum. Beginning October 27, we significantly reduced admission prices because we believe everyone belongs at the ROM<Why looking young is bad for your nest egg><The Power of Visualization><ANA All Nippon Airways Boeing 787-881 Dreamliner JA801A> <Accessioning at the Archives> <Mosaic Mural Celebrating Business at Brookfield Place launched by the Business Archives of Canada> <The difference between management and leadership> <This 34-storey limestone clad tower was the tallest building in the British Empire/Commonwealth for roughly three decades, until 1962> <UP FROM ZERO - Paul Goldberger> <Opened in 1968, Rochdale College was an experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada> <In finance, Black Monday refers to Monday October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short time> <"For Canada's Brascan Corp., it's goodbye, rocks and trees, and hello, buildings and dams"> <Founded in 1914, the Peterborough Utilities Commission (PUC) operated in Peterborough for more than 85 years as a not-for-profit organization providing safe and reliable supplies of electricity and water to the city. Today, Peterborough Utilities Inc. (PUI) owns and operates three hydroelectric generation stations> <In the small Ontario city of Peterborough, the town fathers came up with the idea of "the Electric City," claiming that theirs was the first in the Dominion to boast electric street lighting> <Sir Alexander Galt (English-Canadian politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation) and his son Elliott Torrance Galt co-founded the Town of Lethbridge, Alberta in 1883, when he established a mine on the banks of the Oldman River in the southwest portion of the District of Alberta, Northwest Territories> <The Lethbridge Viaduct, commonly known as the High Level Bridge, is the longest and highest steel trestle bridge in North America> <Across rivers and chasms, over mountains, through forests, out into deserts- the slim wires run - bringing lightm, power and life. Into every corner of the country, electricity has sent its probing, creative fingers- developing farms, mines, industry and cities> <HYDRO The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire> <“Information is a strategic asset and must be managed like other assets, such as people or capital.”> <Learn about the Historic Houses along Lost Rivers: BROOKFIELD> <Travel breeds curiosity. On the road, we find ourselves waking early, wandering unfamiliar streets, watching foreign cities creak to life as the sun rises. We poke around corners, eat exotic dishes and pour over maps. We are alive to the possibilities of the world around us.Yet the more I travel, the more I chide myself for not maintaining such curiosity at home> <WESTWOOD Theatre, Toronto> <Building Postwar Toronto: when planning and politics collide> <How ZUCCOTTI Park got its name> <"Stay hungry, stay foolish"- Steve Jobs (1955-2011)> <Finding the right employer fit: Turn the tables and look for a company that matches your work style> <There's nothing quite rude as SHYNESS. It's time to SPEAK UP> <Norphel has created artificial glaciers, frozen pools of glacier run-off perched above the farmers' fields, which thaw just in time for the start of growing season in April — two months before water from the distant natural glaciers is expected to arrive> <“You’re a smart girl. You don’t need to work in fashion.”>

find September 2011 summary below:

<Ontario & a Clean Energy Economy> <Busan-Geoje Link Bridge, South Korea> <"listen without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all"> <41E Keele Express to York University> <SUITS Tv Show filmed at 333 Bay St., TOronto> <GOING GLOBAL: Business is a journey, travel well> <BEYOND THE BARREL: The Race to Fuel the Future> <There, without pressure or hard bargaining as far as one may learn, the site of Toronto was bought for 1,700 (British pounds), along with some barrels of cloth, some axes, and odds and ends 'dear to the heart of the simple savage' - 'In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and date above mentioned [23 September 1787] Wabukanyne, Neace, Pakquan (chiefs) Winess present John Collins, Louis Protle, Natnl Lines Interpr,'/ This week, the City of Toronto's Executive Committee approved a report from the City Manager to close "museums with the least attendance, and revenues compared to costs." Another proposal asks the City Manager to report on further extensive cuts to culture programs> <The Agenda with Steve Paikin: WHO IS BEST FOR TORONTO> <With nineteen words he has taken care of motivation, preparation, getting his automobile off the island by ferry, and he has covered two thousand> <Toronto's Canadian Air and Space Museum Evicted By Crown Corporation Parc Downsview Park> <Dwarika's Hotel. Kathmandu. Nepal> <Sikkim Earthquake; September 18, 2011> <The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon with illustrated with the etchings by Piranesi> <THE CRAFT OF LIFE: In fact, I'd argue that the younger boomer cohort resents the older one, sort of like you'd resent an older sibling - the older one gets everything and you're left with hand-me-downs. You could say that the first cohort was out to change the world, whereas the second cohort saw its role as saving the world from the first." - David Cork, The Pig and the Python> <The true measure of something's worth is the hours it takes to acquire it...This is what prosperity is: the increase in the amount of goods or services you can earn with the same amount of work- Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist><Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services> <The Archives of Ontario (Archives publiques de l'Ontario in French) is the provincial archives for the province of Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1903, the archives is located in Toronto> <"You want your cousin to send you a file? Easy. He can email it to you-...oh, it's 25 MB? hmm.. do either of you have an FTP server? No, right. ... If you had WEB HOSTING, you could upload it... hmm. We could try one of those MEGASHAREupload sites, but they're flaky and full of delays and porn popups. How about AIM DIRECT connect? Anyone still use that? ... Oh, wait, DROPBOX! It's this recent startup from a few years back that syncs folders between computers. You just need to make an account, install the- ...oh, he just drove to your house with a USB drive?... uh, cool, that works, too."> <In Memory of September 11, 2001> <THE RATIONAL OPTIMIST by Matt Ridley> <VIA Rail Canada> <Rookie Blue - Season 2 Season Finale> <The Frontenac County Court House, Kingston> <My Black Mini Dress Korean Movie> <Queen's University, Faculty of Law> <Kingston Ontario Museums & Art Galleries> <www.khanacademy.org ~ a free world-class education for anyone anywhere> <There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record -Yousuf Karsh> <RESILIENCE ... you will fail at this. OFTEN.>

find August 2011 summary below:

<The linchpin is able to invent a future, fall in love with it, live in it - and then abandon it on a moment's notice> <Don't Ask for Directions> <Post-war Toronto was creative and dynamic. It was a hotbed of industrial and artistic activity. Toronto had attitude, it was brash and confident. It not only reinvented art and architecture but it re-engineered it> <CN Tower glows orange> <Remembering Jack> <Layton and Chow: A Love Story and Political Alliance come to an end> <In victory you do not experience fatigue> <Jack Layton: Toronto's gift to Canada> <Open Letter for Canadians from Jack Layton> <Jack Layton (1950-2011)> <The Elusive Big Idea/Ideas just aren't what they used to be> <dezeenjobs> <iGeneration: Shuffling towards the future by Jason Logan> <Empress MyeongSeong: The Last Empress of Korea> <Welcome to Brookfield Place> <What it means to Ship> <HAECHI Seoul> <Northeast Blackout of 2003> <Japanese Hair piece KANZASHI> <Architect Allyn Morris' Silver Lake Studio> <VALENTINO the last emperor> <Changing Direction> <CasaLoma DVD> <You are a box of cereal> <Who is it [art] for?> <www.nycgarbage.com> <Infinitely yours, SEOUL> <Last meal in Incheon International Airport> <63 Building> <Korean Demilitarized Zone> <Bongeunsa Buddhist Temple>

find July 2011 summary below:

<31Hyundai Motor Company> <30Ulsan Metropolitan City> <29Daegu Metropolitan City> <28Gyeongbokgung Palace + National palace Museum + Gwanghwamun Square> <27Flood in Gangnam, Seoul> <26Changdeokgung Palace and Biwon Garden> <25Namdaemun Market+Namsangol Hanok Traditional Village+Namsan Tower> <24Seoul Museum of Art+ Doeksugung Palace+ New Seoul City Hall+Cheonggyecheon Stream> <23Girls Generation July 2011 Concert at Olympic Park> <22Ehwa Womans University> <21Shopping: Apgujeong+Insadong+Myeongdong> <20Seoul City Bus Tour+ National Museum of Korea> <19Dongdaemun Market> <18Just landed at Incheon Airport and met Korean Boy Band SS501's Kim Hyung Joon> <17UNITED Continental Airlines> <16Kimchi Hongdae Hostel> <15BlackBerry Travel App> <14"In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unabowed... I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul"> <13Architecture is a game of power and influence as much as it is about bricks and mortar> <12Marshall McLuhan Part I: www.mcluhan100.ca> <11Marshall McLuhan Part II: In Public Activism> <10As Ben Hur picked up the reins, a great cry went up from the onlookers. "Look! Look! Those arms! Where did you get them?" they howled, and Ben Hur answered, "At the gallery's oar!"> <9Law of Success: Marshall Field & Company and The Law of Increasing Returns> <8You are most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that you love, or work that you perform on behalf of some person whom you love- Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success~The Principles of Self-Creation> <7Genealogy; Lhotshampa ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ> <6NY Museum Of MATHEMATICS! Math is evolving. It's an act of human endeavour. There is beauty in it's many patterns> <5How to think like a CEO from www.moneyunder30.com> <4Midlife Crisis at 30: How the stakes have changed for a new Generation- and what to do about it> <3PAN AM will take to the air again in the new US Tv show> <2The Architecture Lover's Manifesto> <1The Benefits of Dams>

Find June 2011 summary below:

30<When astronaut Buzz Aldrin flew to the moon and back on the spacecraft Apollo 11 in 1969, he was paid less than $8 a day. That has to stand as one of the most flagrant cases of underpaid labor ever> 29<The Magnetism of Determination> 28<Regal Constellation Hotel Toronto: modernism under demolition> 27<MEAN CITY; from Architecture to Design: how Toronto went BOOM> 26<Rahul Khanna arrives at the 2011 IIFA Awards in Toronto> 25<DOMINION MODERN is Canada’s foremost archive of 20th Century Canadian architecture and design> 24<Architect Peter Dickinson> 22<Kit/Catalogue Houses> 22<WILLINGNESS TO LEARN> 21<A Timeline of Uranus in Aries 1927-1935> 20<"I will dedicate/ And sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth/Of how my story's ending/And I wish I could know if the directions that I take/And all the choices that I make won't end up all for nothing"-HOOBASTANK,2001> 19<Architectural 'Inception'> 18<The Pitfalls of Early Success> 17<X-Men First Class was really 1st class> 16<"I often recommend Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book entitled On Death and Dying as reading for executives going through difficult career transitions. Dr. Kubler-Ross outlines seven stages that we go through when facing death or loss. People ending a job, especially if they've been with the company for a long time, experience a similar series of emotions"- Pam Lassiter> 15<Finding the right employer fit: turn the tables and look for a company that matches your work style> 14<Lessons from KUNG FU Panda-2> 13<Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization by Steven Solomon> 12<Bollywood Cinema Showcards: Indian Film Art from the 1950s to 1980s @ the Royal Ontario Museum starting 10th June> 11<Free 2-day Japanese Lessons at Japan Foundation in June & July> 10<The Big Moo: THEY SAY I'm EXTREME> 9<333 Bay St. East- Bay Adelaide Centre> 8<I have promises to keep, ... and miles to go before I sleep.- Robert Frost> 7<There is a popular belief in Japan that a person's ABO blood type or ketsueki-gata (血液型) is predictive of his or her personality, temperament, and compatibility with others> 6<"Reading transforms us and the way we think"/"Books allow us to emerge into another world"> 5<Class Struggle by Stanley Bing> 4<High Line Park, NYC> 3<To market for mutual benefit means that you obtain your own objectives by helping other people obtain theirs> 2<For each of us, it is our own personal path, and it is one we will never travel down a second time. Our way takes us through wide, open spaces but also into narrow, tight spots. The path ascends, carrying us high at one time, but at other time, it descends, bringing us down. The way is sometimes smooth, and we stride forth unencumbered, but at others we must clear obstacles from our way, struggling with each step> 1<This is what street smarts really is: an applied people sense>

Find May 2011 summary below:

<31My White-Blackberry Torch> <30"Create Expressive Capital"> <29Doors Open Toronto 2011> <28vainglory> <27Damage Control: "My co-workers think I'm arrogant, but I'm just superior> <26Jean Patchett: A young American Goddess of Paris Couture> <25The Gashlycrumb Tinies> <24Currently following... 최고의 사랑 & 醉後決定愛上你> <23The Flatiron, New York, 1905 By Edward Steichen, U.S.A.> <22Arthur Rackham- Green Tiger Prints><21How to Wreck Your Credit Score> <20But the greater transitions often come out of smaller moments when we stop and look at who we are> <19Dollar Cost Averaging; The Wealthy Barber> <18ROM Lecture series- Water and You: From the Globe to your Tap> <17Let's get ready to ROM!! just purchased my yearly membership for the ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM> <16"You deserve your fairytale"- Chuck/ "We make our own fairytales"-Blair> <15When fairytales inform us that 'they all lived happily ever after', they never specify how happily - or for how long that 'ever after' lasted.> <14"For people to achieve and grow, it’s not about the title, it’s not about the status, it’s about accomplishing things"- David Cornhill> <13"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements." The purpose of art is to concretize the artist's fundamental view of existence> <12A farmer will not invest the effort of one summer if he's unable to calculate his chances of harvest. But you expect industrial giants-who plan in terms of decades, invest in terms of generations and undertake ninety-nine-year contracts-to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort> <11Become the person you were born to be> <10If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is> <9Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not> <8THE HUGHTRAIN MANIFESTO: “THE MARKET FOR SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN IS INFINITE”> <7EVERYBODY NEEDS AN EVIL PLAN- gapingvoid.com> <6Plum Rewards for Indigo's customers> <5The Wizard of Menlo Park~ Thomas Alva Edison> <4TCM Moguls and Movie Stars: The History of Hollywood - DVD introduction> <3Nepali Mother's Day- 3/May/2011- Mata Tirtha Puja> <2Ddeokbokki is a popular Korean snack food> <1“Pain make man think, thought make man wise, wisdom make life endurable.”- Sakini, The Teahouses of the August Moon>

Find April 2011 summary below:

<Arms of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge> <Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal wedding enters top 10 of most-watched programmes in British TV history> <The Typewriter's day is nearly done> <Are Social Experiments Ethical?> <Reasons for conducting Social Experiments> <What is a social experiment?> <What happened to waking up in the morning not knowing quite what the day was due to bring but not really caring because you could tell, instinctively, that somehow it was going to be good?> <1950s film Born Yesterday quote~ Harry Brock talking to a hotel official: "Look, when I say I want the whole floor, I don't want one wing and I don't want two wings. I want the whole bird."> < VOTE CANADA: Advance Poll for Federal Elections Canada starts today!!> <The sleep of reason produces monsters> <Serendipity- an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident> <Super Junior flashback to 19/April/2007> <To My Native Land- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio> <The Rational Optimist> <Not that the plan encouraged a few bastards, but that it turned decent people into bastards, and there was nothing else that it could do- and it was called a moral ideal!-Atlas Shrugged, Pg. 611-612> <A volcanic island in a lake that's on a volcanic island in a lake that's on an island. Can you picture that?> <Compare the person that you are now with the person you were two years ago. Make a list of the three most important differences> <The Park Street Cemetry-A Calcutta Romance> <Vertical farming is a concept that argues that it is economically and environmentally viable to cultivate plant or animal life within skyscrapers> <The Young Philadelphians (1959)> <Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says Scott Adams> <A Passage from India- Wall Street Journal> <BASIC- is a family of high-level programming computer languages> <"I am investing my time in my own future. When we are free and have to start rebuilding from out of the ruins, I want to see the world reborn as fast as possible. If there is, then, some working capital in the right hands- in the hands of our best, our most productive men-it will save years for the rest of us and, incidentally, centuries for the history of the country"- pg.535 from Atlas Shrugged> <Economics is the social science studying production and consumption through measurable variables. It involves analysing the production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services> <Maslow's hierarchy of needs/A Theory of Human Motivation> <Preference or "taste" & Motivation> <Cricket World Cup final smashes TV viewership record: Virat Kholi and Yusuf Pathan shouldered the burden of carrying a tricolour-wielding Sachin Tendulkar on a spontaneous victory lap around the Wankhede Stadium the night India clinched World Cup 2011> <It is always during difficult times that we reveal the genuine character that lies beneath. I suppose in those times, we have no energy but to be our truest self> <a big, massive, squash-you-until-you're-very-uncomfortable-HUG for you...Happy Birthday!>

Find March 2011 summary below:

<Japanese scientist, Masaru Emoto. He maintains that water has a memory, a sensitivity, even a 'consciousness'> <Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century> <KAMIKAZE Sushi> <Thinking about leaving your job and moving to a new employer? Stay/Go> <http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt : My Favourite Translator> <Explanations don't make life any more enjoyable, they just take away some of the mystery, the poetry and the sense of possibility> <The Micro Library> <Elsewhere in Japan, life carries on> <SHINEE _" Lucifer" performance = Definition of "Neatness"> <Buffett Visits Korea, Scouts for Deals> <"Why would you want it, if it's not the truth?" he asked. "What for?"["Now you see, that's the cruelty of conscentious people].....-Atlas Shrugged, pg.284-285> <March19:SuperMoon> <Michael Wood's The Story of India: BBC Documentary Series> <The Qila Mubarak fort at Bathinda, India was built by King Kanishka> <Surviving Architecture School~Dr Garry's Architectural Sociology> <Hagi / Shizuki Castle, Yamaguchi Prefecture> <Nancy DrewMystery/covers> <Suze Orman's new book introduction: The Money class> <どうして君を好きになってしまったんだろう> <君だけに　伝えたいよ　かならず明日は来るから/I want to deliver a message to you...Tomorrow will come no matter what~ Praying for Japan's recovery~The Land of the Rising Sun> <Happy 72nd Birthday Shizuki Electric Works Co. Ltd> <Who tends to live longer: The happy-go-lucky type or the plodding worrier? The slacker or the workaholic? The never-married female or the divorced male?><LVMH bags Italian jeweller Bulgari> <Upcoming Careers: Luxury Brand Management> <BBC five part series: The Genius of Design> <The Great Western Garment Company in Winnipeg> <Don’t Think Twice about Japanese Politics, It’s All Right> <If you believe you're going to rule the world and then you get out there and find out you are just a nobody, you think, No! This can't be! It drives you to succeed> <Christine Tan, Managing Asia>

Find February 2011 summary below:

<The great Oak Tree, Atlas Shrugged> <Believe you me, you bore me to distraction> <Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean> <Henry Cloud's Necessary Endings> <Watched Gnomeo&Juliet: can't wait to buy the dvd> <Gingko trees are honored trees in Asia where they have been seen as symbols of changelessness, unity, love, and hope and even possessing special miracle powers> <Yiyun Li's novel 'Gold Boy Emerald Girl': I want to read! read on 24/02/2011> <If you want your life to be full of fortuitous coincidence, see yourself as an angler dangling a baited hook in the stream of serendipity. In this river every catch is a prize catch> <The Broken Column House- Desert de Retz- one of my favourite buildings> <Rushton Hall> <This picture is a wonderfully tragic portrayal of unfulfilled hopes and dreams trapped forever, reflected in the clocks she symbolically stopped to all read twenty to nine – stopping her life at the moment of her bitter pain and disappointment> <Prabal Gurung - Autumn/Winter 2011 Collection & Miss Havisham> <Vivienne Westwood's London documentary> <Meaning of Camellia: my favourite flower> <Checklist of objectives to consider><Meaning of the 13th/ Death Tarot Card> <The Joys of Singledom> <People think, "if only this could happen" or "if only that would occur", they would be happy... the fact is you want something and you are making your happiness dependent upon the fulfillment of that condition> <Filling the Pool of Shared Meaning> <Want to banish the February blues?> <If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what is tomorrow?> <Miracles happen far more often than lottery wins - and to far more people than you might think. Every day, in some way or another, we are blessed> <Some days, everything works out well enough but still, we feel flat and feeble. Other days, we can be dealing with a lot of trouble yet still, there's a spring in our step> <Karl Jenkins & Adiemus-Palladio 1st Movement from Diamond Music + Photographer SYLVAIN SONNET> <The couple walked to the window in disbelief. Ms. Chen thought for a few seconds, and then positioned herself and her partner in the centre of the window, right in front of the cockpit. Her entire being was focused on trying to catch the pilot’s eye; when one glanced up, she looked him in the eye, plaintively, pleading. Then she saw the pilot’s lips move. The co-pilot looked and she caught his eye. He nodded> <Attended: Feb 3- Symposium: North Korean Images at Utopias Edge> <Some grey days are wonderful. Some bright days are sad.> <Being comfortable is highly overrated>

Find January 2011 summary beow:

<Luke 6.43: A Tree and Its Fruit> <Matthew 7.13: The Narrow Gate> <Planets in Astrology> <"The twisted Pluto must need to meet a straight- orderly Neptune then. Thanks to their mysterious order in the Solar System it's an extraordinary relationship"> <The Man Who Saved Taj Mahal: Mr. M C Mehta> <We're a minimalist family by Rachel Jonat> <Bath and Body Works lipgloss> <The Agenda with Steve Paikin Debate- Sgt. Russell: Excessive Send off?> <There are five crippling habits that get companies and organizations nowhere fast VS THE FIVE ATTRIBUTES OF HIGHLY PROFITABLE COMPANIES><Time well spent makeover: Before/After> <Mr. Warren's confession: "Buffett tells me how, on a Saturday in January 1951, he banged on the door of an insurance company called GEICO"... "I think of how that changed my life."> <independence or interdependence> <Egoism> <Best money moves in your .. teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s> <Tough Love: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother> <Check your EQ> <Signs and Symptoms of Dehydration> <MyPrincess: Korean drama > <Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back... William H Murray><No thought lives in your mind rent-free> <You can never have it all at any given time... Consider which needs you want to focus on in this chapter of your life> <Bringing your dream into focus: CAREER/Business> <You need goals if you feel...> <"Life can be beautiful when things don't go as planned"> <What can you do in TEN minutes or less?> <About the creative person- Time Management for the creative person> <We live in a world of Duality...> <...part of succeeding lies in breaking through to an understanding of what our own success should look like. No one can tell us how to measure it or describe it. No one can judge whether we've reached our goals or fallen short- Peter Buffett, Life is what we make it><Young Money: Tips on building long term wealth> <"It's not just people who are here for a reason. Situations are too" Aries Horoscope 2/Jan/2011> <2011年が2010年後に来るので: questions and answers to get you going>

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< 'How can one test for humanity?' mama asked (Pg. 221) from PEONY IN LOVE by Lisa See> <BOOMER ECONOMICS: What's the matter with kids today? well no job...> <PEONY IN LOVE by Lisa See><Questions to get you going... as the year draws to a close><Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator> <DOUGLAS CARDINAL ARCHITECT Inc> <www.pacificmalltoronto.com> <www.roomtoread.org> <Disney's Tangled movie stills + 'when will my life begin?' lyrics> <大日本帝國 Dai Nippon Teikoku [Japan: My first Love... I was a weird 3 year old]/Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Just In Time (JIT) system and Total Quality Control (TQC)> <Lunar Eclipse 2010> <My sentiments exactly...> <All I want for christmas... WISDOM and a Frank Lloyd Wright NY Guggenheim Museum Model> <Happy Anniversay Mum and Pa: "Children do not realize"> <Chapter7:Don't just find your bliss- do your bliss> <'Something to believe in' lyrics by Aqualung> <Mr Belvedere goes to College> <Picture It Imperfect vs Picture it, I'm Perfect> <동방신기/W/Wlyrics-JYJ> <Johnny Weir on FaceTime with Jeanne Beker> <The Honourable GEORGE W. VARI, P.C., C.M., O.L.H, Ph.D., H.LLD Passed away peacefully at home in Toronto, on December 9, 2010> <arc101> <'Evolution works on the principle of survival of the fittest, not survival of the 'tried hard but didn't quite make it'> <CHANGING TIMES: What made women happy in the 1950s - and what do we expect today?> <On a Smarter Planet, answers are hidden in the data- ibm.com/smarterplanet/ca> <Outlines were easy, as long as you wrote the report first> <An invasion of memories: 80s cartoon- Jem and the Holograms> <An invasion of memories-I: Change your FACEBOOK profile picture to a cartoon character from your childhood> <Transit City: Rob Ford> <It is advised to you come to work dressed according to your salary> <The mental disorder known as INFACTUATION>

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3 Grumpiest Harrison Ford Quotes> <There can be Miracles...WHEN YOU BELIEVE- Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston> <Leadership: Best Solutions are temporary> <Raf Simons: creative director for Jil Sanders> <Calvin and Hobbes> <Sally Hogshead Personality Test aka F Score><Royal Mile: City of Edinburgh> <Kit Kat Chocolates> <Maiti Nepal: Anuradha Koirala/CNN Hero of the year 2010> <The Overjustification Effect> <H&M LANVIN launch Nov.20.2010> <Fascinate: Your 7 triggers to Persuasion and captivation> <Matt Groening's 9 types of professors> <COD: A Biography of The Fish that changed the World> <@alumni.utoronto.ca> <Renaissance and the Architect> <The Principle of Sufficient Reason> <Adam Smith:The Theory of Moral Sentiments; An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations> <There are many, many times in our lives when we have to stare into the future and throw the dice: To buy or not to buy a house> <Asian Students Suffering for Success> <3 idiots:Bollywood Movie> <Lord Ganesh> <Goddess Lakshmi> <Goddess Saraswati> <Diwali Greetings> <Tihar/Diwali festival> <The Saviour Complex> <Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings> <The Quarter Life Crisis> <Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?>

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<Symbolic Dimes and Meaning of number 10> <sesquipedalianist; Love Happens> <Yesha: baby name> <POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS FOR RISK AND RENT SHARING IN HIMALAYAN HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENTS; 336 MW Chukha Hydel Project in Bhutan> <How to Invest Your Money and Profit from Inflation; Morton Shulman> <Chapter Index from 20th Century Decorating Architecture & Gardens> <Chuck+Blair> <Thinking Loyalty> <My Tokidoki monster> <CPPIB Buys 8 Malls for $336 Million > <Lee Hyo Ri hairstyle> <Yummy Bar-B-Q Restaurant; 522 Yonge St> <Super Junior: No Other -mv; Your heart that used to be strong becomes sensitive when I'm hurt> <Keep Calm and Carry On> <www.9types.com; Number3 Profile> <Read Ayn Rand: World's Biggest Writing; Who is Ayn Rand?> <"Not all who wander are lost" from the book Life is What you Make it by Peter Buffett> <The Fountainhead; Howard Roark> <Trip to CHAPTERS and my $91 bill> <Twirl Fragrance from Kate Spade> <Royal Irish Tours: Castle Adventure> <Acer Wireless Problems> <*we should strive to be "renaissance men"-"specialization is for insects"; A Polymath> <Keep in mind, however, that 'moving up' doesn't necessarily mean the corner office and a raise (although those things are likely in store)> <How I met your mother; The great moments of your life won't necessarily be the things you do. They'll also be the things that happen to you> <Granta 89: The Factory;"The business of making things is becoming a memory for much of the western world- the very business that once gave it mastery over the east and the south. Factories don't just make objects. They create (and elsewhere go on creating) a way of life.> <Pianist Yiruma: The River Flows in You> <Canadian Stand up Comedian: Debra DiGiovanni> <Remember, this is not forever: So you squandered an estate note on a bachelor's degree, then trudged through more entry-level hardships and thankless internships than should be legally permissible, only to backslide into some self-esteem shattering, resume-derailing grind, several tax brackets below your dignity... Sometimes, even the coldest-blooded careerist needs to divorce their ego from their employment. "Men and women have to understand that their worth is not determined by their work">