bulleted ramblings

• prelim exam tomorrow, wish me luck.


• can't post much now, too busy with digesting the 10 cases... have managed to digest 5 already, still haven't read the other 5 though. hope I will be able to finish them all on friday night


• need to review on Interel, ParlPrac and POLS9... unfortunately, can't find my Orendain book... tsk.


• gotta go now... bye

[ lesson learned for today ]

Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982; first name pronounced (IPA) /aIn/ (rhymes with 'mine')), born Alissa "Alice" Zinovievna Rosenbaum, was a popular and controversial American philosopher and novelist, best known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of individualism, egoism, "rational self-interest", and capitalism. Her novels were based upon the archetype of the Randian hero, a man whose ability and independence leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:

1. That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
2. That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
3. That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.