TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS

TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS 

Suppose you are president of a country, and have no idea how to run it. What do you do? You predict 'difficult years' ahead, ask your citizens to 'tighten their belts', and then promise to improve the situation only after this 'delicate stage' of the 'cleansing', 'purification' and 'restructuring'. Naturally you leave the duration and severity of the period open.

(From ROLF DOBELLI: "The Art of Thinking Clearly", Translated by Nicky Griffin, SCEPTRE/Hodder & Stoughton/Hachette UK)

Blunt and true. I would like to affirm that there is ONLY ONE REASON for shocking poverty in every country of the world: CORRUPTION. That is the ONLY reason.

Kishalay Sinha [G]

cecelia ahern: THE YEAR I MET YOU 

I read a CRYPTIC sentence in the STRANGE romantic novel "THE YEAR I MET YOU" by cecilia ahern [ahern LOOKS LIKE ahem!],  something like: "There is the public truth and there is the real truth." As I was glancing through the novel, I decided I would record and Anchor-podcast a very interesting excerpt (about Jasmine stalking the ECCENTRIC but very famous DJ Matt Marshall - rings a bell?) but podcasting is a new hobby for Me and I often feel very lazy and I cannot "publish" My Anchor podcast episodes as quickly as I can publish new posts on My Blogger/bp blog which I can do effortlessly. 

"Keeping up the suspense, are You? Very clever." - Well, I have NOT said a single word that is untrue. I never lie. I hate lying. - "That does not mean You are not tantalizing us!"

BLUFFING AUTHOR & "REVIEWERS"

I have just watched Cecelia Ahern in an interview on YouTube* and it is so obvious to Me she has no idea what the romantic novel THE YEAR I MET YOU is about although the novel is by cecelia ahern (first letters c and a in small letters). The front cover of the novel is shown in the video but My guess is, there is NOTHING between the covers! A female "book reviewer" chatterbox (in her YouTube video)** keeps on chattering vaguely about the novel as if she has read it though it is obvious to Me that she has not even seen the novel but she makes a wild guess and says that Jasmine is a "workaholic" (smart "reviewer"!), like "author" Cecilia Ahern who also says that Jasmine is a "workaholic" (bah!) and quickly moves on to other novels she has written (smart girl!). I suspect that the interviewed "author" probably does not have the name Cecilia Ahern but is only pretending to have that name! If asked by her friends and relatives, she can tell them that the interviewed author on YouTube is someone who looks LIKE her, but not she herself!

* "Book Club - Cecelia Ahern" (10:38) / Magic Radio 6 years ago [REALLY?] (YouTube)

** "Book Review: The Year I Met You - Intermediate - " (8:25)/Teacher Prix (YouTube)

But what could be the REASON for this strange state of affairs? For a long time, I have been puzzling over this and very similar problems, and I now feel certain that I have the right answer. A great detective story. (To be continued.)

Kishalay Sinha [G]