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I’m in love with this shop called PRINTS… A stationery shop based on the minimalism design. Check out their equally simple and classy website

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Ivy League is a group of 8 colleges in North-Western United States that has come to represent academic excellence as well as prestige…

Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

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Book Title: Getting Things Done – The art of Stress Free productivity
Author: David Allen
Year written/published: 2001
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: personal Productivity system
My Comments: Excellent book!
Contents page:
1. Art of Getting Things Done
2. Practicing Stress-Free Productivity
3. The Power of the Key Principles
Some extracts:
2 simple objectives…
The methods I present here are all based on 2 key objectives [...]

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This type of company management is very different from a traditional hierarchial bureacracy, where each employee reports to only one supervisor. The definition of Matrix Organsation as given in WIki:
Matrix management is a type of organizational management in which people with similar skills are pooled for work assignments. For example, all engineers may be in [...]

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I’m very much in love with this concept of 43 folder - 31 days of the months + 12 months of the year. Each of these 43 tabs are labeled with a tickler file and it can be used to keep track of daily stuff to do according to these folders. Some links…

43 folders
GTD
Tickler file
how [...]

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Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow created by David Allen has become highly popular as one of the personal productivity systems. Here’s the workflow diagram:

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Someone told me that France is the top country for tourist destination each year… i couldn’t quite believe… until i saw this list.. i wanted to know were does the world’s tourists flock to ?

France - 75+ million
Spain
United States
China
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany
Mexico
Austria
Russia

have u visited these?

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Our ATM Card… if you have these symbols behind it, means you can use them at ATM machines anywhere in the world… can you believe it? Means i can use my Singapore’s POSB ATM card in Europe or America!

Cirrus & Maestro worldwide ATM locator

Just look for the symbol behind our ATM card…

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top row, from left, are: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane;
second row, Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, March McDonald and Gordon Letwin;
and front row, Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood and Paul Allen.
Taken in 1978… the 11 founding members of Microsoft

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the most common ones are (eg. Chevron plotted for one year time frame)
Line Graphs

Candle Stick

HLC (high-low-close)

OHLC (Open High Low Close)

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Book Title: Effective Project Management
Author: James P. Clements & Jack Gido
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Project Management theories and tools
My Comments: This book is a textbook… typically for business students. But i needed a structured book like this to get an overview of what is Project management
Contents page:

Project Management Concepts
Needs Identification
Proposed Solutions
The Project
Planning
Scheduling
Schedule [...]

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some short forms…

AM - Ante Meridiem, before noon in Latin
PM - Post Meridiem, after noon in Latin
UTC - Cordinated Universal Time
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
DST - Daylight Saving Time/Summer Time [map]

Time zone  and a map of the world. Lastly, the times for many cities around the world.

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ok some of my friends have been asking… so here’s how we can all find out a bit more simpy from online research easy research.
NOTE: the examples are not recommendations, but mere illustrations. these are not the only and most efficient ways… i’m just sharing freely as a beginner on what i know hope [...]

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Book Title: The Intelligent Investor - The Classic text on Value Investing
Author: Benjamin Graham
Year written/published: 1949
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Value Investing
My Comments: fantastic book by Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett’s mentor. There were classic concepts and tactics written here. Even after reading a few books on investing, i found it a little hard to digest… a [...]

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Book Title: The Sage Guide to Mutual Funds - Superior Investment Wisdom form the Number One Online Mutual Fund Gurus
Authors:Alan and Stephen Cohn - founders of Sage online
Year written/published: 1999
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
subjective test on morningstar.com

gather your group of potential funds
enter the fund ticket symbol
has the fund performed in the top 50 percent [...]

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Book Title: All about Exchange-Traded Funds
Author: Archie M. Richards
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: about Exchange Traded Funds, ETFs… Diamonds, Cubes and Spiders
Some extracts:
the Dow Jones Industrial Average

back in 1896, Charles H. Dow, editor of the fledging newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, had a problem. The readers were Wall Street investors, brokers, and [...]

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One important element in any project management is planning the project timeline and schedule… Gantt Chart is often used in this case.

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Another reliability and safty analysis is the Fault Tree Analysis. What is interesting is the way they use Logic Gates to analysis any occurence of faults in a system.
Some more sites…

safety engineering
fault tree analysis
Another site
how to conduct a FTD

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PDCA Cycle - Plan, Do, Check, Act is a 4 step process in Quality Control measures created by Deming. It is typically represented as a continuous cycle…

picture credit

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