'Dealing With People You Can't Stand - How to bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst', book by Rick Brinkman, Rick Kirschner

in 'Dealing With People You Can't Stand - How to bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst', book by Rick Brinkman, Rick Kirschner, difficult people can be divided into several classes.

1. the tank
2. the sniper
3. the grenade
4. the know-it-all
5. the they-think-they-know-it-all
6. the yes person
7. the may be
8. the nothing person
9. the no person
10. the whiner

in this book, the authors write about the character of each class of difficult person, the skills and strategy to defuse such attitude. yea read it and practice it. but from my experience the most class of people that I faced was from the 'the they-think-they-know-it-all'. may be from my culture, they need to do that to disguise their incompetency or low-esteem. you figure.

silver lining

next week there will be another interview for yet another company. a promised from my previous employer is now, I considered, as good as dust - it got no where. things getting worse and I keep my self listening to Bohemian Rhapsody every day, lot of times a day. "I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy", Freddie said.

Nothing really matters.

meaning of words

now here's a good one

there's a sign on the wall
but she wants to be sure
'cause you know
sometimes words have
two meanings

-1971

interview, again

another job interview today. I'm sick of attending interview now. last time there were very few interviews session but now I'm sick of it. it cost me money but no result. worse than gambling.

cat

is cat part of environment or another living thing that need space to live?

Japan, nuclear waste and sunflower

so they are planning to plant as much sunflower as they can. it's a symbolic, they said. after renouncing 'live by principle' axiom, I believe what we should do is more effort and thinking to minimise what ever risk we face. why symbolic? this kind of thing reminds me to my previous boss who always said he's talking in symbolic and expecting people to understand. what the meaning of that? could he just got straight to the point instead of 'symbolism' which people may not understand due to 'poor or stupid symbolism'.

'An Engineer in the Courtroom', by William J Lux

today I finally received my book entitled 'An Engineer in the Courtroom'. I've been scouring this book on the net for a long time only to find the cost is prohibitive because of the currency exchange. remember I'm jobless. I had finally found a very cheap copy of the book on the net at www.abebooks.com two months ago. I'll write something on the book later.