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Rather interesting....

Just finished the chapters on Russia and China. Quite facsinating!

its interesting!

#TodayILearnt

‘So, “posh” is an abbreviation for “Portside Onward Starboard Homeward”. When the Brits used to travel to India by ship, this formula told them which side of the ship to book their cabins, so they could avoid the sun. They’d choose portside cabins for their onward journey to India, and starboard on the way back home.

Dhir, Simran. Best Intentions (p. 106). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

‘Clients know they are coming to the busiest attorneys in the country when they retain us,’ Amit bragged to the fresh crop of associates each year, ‘but that doesn’t stop them from wanting access more exclusively than they do of wives and more unreasonably than they do of their mistresses.’

Vayttaden, Shishir. Kill the Lawyers (p. 32). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.

The quips are hilarious -

In India, many regulations are drafted by people whose grasp of business is as feeble as their grasp of English. In the spatchcocked texts that result, neither logic nor meaning is discernible, and the simplest transactions struggle to conform. Like the ropes of sand in Emerson’s dictum on foolish legislation, they perish at the first twisting.

Sebastian Sim is now my favourite Singaporean author!