random points and links

• Amazon.com = world's largest online retailer
• Kishore Mahbubani = http://www.mahbubani.net/biography.html
• The New Asian Hemisphere = http://www.mahbubani.net/
• net personal optimism = % of optimism minus % of pessimism
• singaw = canker sore = mouth sore = mouth ulcer
• Mga Tuntunin ng Senado = http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090205-187510