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law attachment begins!
sadly, i was grouped under the finance and corporate division, so there isn't any criminal cases. not exciting!
But nevermind, i still get to learn something about law..
haha
shall post more when the whole attachment ends.

Tomorrow's OP trial yet again, this time i have speech cards with me! Hopefully i'll look more prepared. It's already November, time really flies (faster than a fly).. School's closing and holiday is coming soon, where i can finally take a break.
I wasn't selected for the Friendship camp (thankfully) but i still have this law attachment starting on the 23rd, and i'm getting less interested in that haha.

I've realised that i should stop eating McDonalds' and be fooled by the Monopoly thing..... it;s just spending money to get excess calories plus the excitement of getting the sentosa cove- almost impossible. I'm gonna save money and eat less fast-food! and probably spend this amount saved topping up my ezlink or taking taxi. Don't see the link? ditto.


My poem:
Time goes by so quickly,
Poem fills so silly.
shall go to school tomorrow,
and watch my OP flow.

• The 3 RICHEST PEOPLE in the world own assets that exceed the combined gross national product of ALL LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES and their 600 million people.

-Technology has been the other principal driver of globalization. Advances in information technology, in particular, have dramatically transformed economic life. Information technologies have given all sorts of individual economic actors—consumers, investors, businesses—valuable new tools for identifying and pursuing economic opportunities, including faster and more informed analyses of economic trends around the world, easy transfers of assets, and collaboration with far-flung partners.

On the other hand, web-based search, news, and social networking companies know where the action (and eyeballs) are at. Google, MySpace and Facebook are all moving as fast as they can to globalize their U.S.-based products.

Facebook, for example is asking to its user base to help expand its network to include 22 more languages (including Mandarin), from the current four (English, Spanish, French, and German).MySpace has 24 country-specific versions.And Google does not launch any new products unless they are available in 40 separate languages.
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-Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become part of the daily routine for millions of internet users. The popularity of these networks, however, has resulted in an unfortunate by-product - the mushrooming number of requests that come from dozens of these sites. 
 
Unlike the global internet, which enables virtually the entire world to connect, social networks have created very large, localised communities with far more limited international interaction.

=> Defining mass media is no longer clear cut or simple. The continuing explosion of digital communication technology is producing more than a little confusion on the subject.


 

We've seen Twitter used by political activists in the Philippines. The European Parliament has a Twitter feed to help drive interest in its elections. Twitter users have played an important role in the recent controversy over Guatemala's president.

In an attempt to ride this social networking wave, just about every news organization on the planet is experimenting with tweets and Facebook.

 

Crazy growth like this — across Twitter, Facebook and local versions popping up in India, China and elsewhere — obviously indicates strong demand. And when people really want something, clever entrepreneurs almost always figure out a way to give it to them.

The other big, and perhaps more relevant, question is this: Can social media pioneers make any serious money?

So far, Facebook and Twitter have had challenges in that department. This week's Russian investment values Facebook at $10 billion — a tidy sum, to be sure — but that's $5 billion less than it was when Microsoft invested in the company in 2007.

Twitter, meanwhile, has only 45 employees to manage its skyrocketing growth. Oh, and it doesn't yet have a working revenue model, though it's trying mightily to develop one.

So this story, clearly, has a long way to run.

But when social media sites finally figure out all the financial aspects — and my bet is that they will — don't be surprised if you first learn about it in 140 characters or less.