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I want us to be rich

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I found two interesting books when I walked by a bookstore in today's lunch hour. One is titled "Why We Want You to be Rich: Two Men - One Message", by Donald Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki. The former author is the host of The Apprentice and the latter is the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. Despite I don't expect any breakthrough in the book but summary of their previous points, two different writing styles meeting each other will be quite funny. Supposing you had read the book and understood the importance of being entrepreneurs and investors, what would you do next? Start your business. Staring a business is no longer difficult nowadays because of advanced Information Technology in Information Age. You can start an online shop with thousands visitors in Yahoo! site. Yet it will be a different story from traditional businesses and we haven't any course YAH001 in University. Therefore this dummy book "Starting a Yahoo! Business for Dummies" can be a good sta

Magician in Temple Street

My friends and I walked through Temple Street (Chinese: 廟街) tonight. We found a counter of a magician. We stopped and watched his performance. His performance was amazing and his saying was funny. His presentation was persuasive overall. Therefore, my friends bought a set of his magic tools. I was thinking about a question after the performance. Why could such skillful young man with great sales skill only sell such economic products in such dark lanes at night? In contrast, why does some relatively less qualified people still sit at office thousands meters over Victoria Harbour?

Tales from Earthsea

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Recommendation: please read the original novel series Earthsea before you watch the movie (Japanese: ゲド戦記, meaning the Story of Ged's Battles), otherwise you'd sleep very well in the cinema. I left some comment about this movie in other blogs , here is its English translation: I don't think that the problem of the movie is the fault of the plot, because the director Goro Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎吾朗) is not the author of the novel and the novel is an award-winning piece. The problem is that he selected a wrong media to express his own vision. First of all, the novel is not popular in Chinese society. Few people would spend hours to finish the books before watching the movie. The director selected to start the movie by the third book of the series, however. It would make audiences lose their way. This is because much background information has been described in previous book, say Tenar's experience in The Tombs of Atuan. Unlike his father Hayao Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎駿) as t