Management of success: What is success?

I was reading some articles from Management of Success: Singapore Revisited, and I was going to laboriously type out (can't copy and paste) some stuff that one may find interesting, when I decided not to this time, because there is a greater worry here of publication rights infringement than as I usually have when I laboriously type out excerpts for you.

So, instead, I shall just give you this link to whet your interest enough to at least want to browse the book. Comments on that page are mildly amusing.

The sound clapping with one hand makes

Neil is about to leave the country.

Burke: You said goodbye to everyone but me, Neil. Why's that so?
Neil: I think you know the answer. You're the only person who can change my mind.

That was in White Collar, a drama I feel is under-appreciated. This probably doesn't say much, because I think Channel 8 dramas are under-appreciated as well.

I once commented that only postmodernists eat Post Cereals. The person to whom this remark was directed to rolled her eyes and tried to prevent us from falling into an awkward moment, which of course led to some awkward moments. It takes some time to realise that nothing witty is meant by such a comment. Therefore, there's nothing to salvage. The idea here is the mutual recognition that that's me trying to be funny. If it works it usually ends up being funny or at least fairly amusing.