Vintage music video - 一首含有虚拟语气的歌 - Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

Lyrics: http://goo.gl/J6nDw .

The introduction copied from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0:

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards. This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the American adult contemporary chart in 1992.

It's an excellent dirge.

As for the '虚拟语气' in the post title, by that, I don't mean falsetto, I mean Subjunctive Mood. :-)

It can take hours or even a day to dismiss unhappiness from one's mind.

So many people have been sifting Obama.

Some people tend to make overhasty decisions over critical matters, such as choosing a career for themselves, while they make tardy progresses over some other critical matters, such as enlightening themselves about how to properly rear a child.

一代英雄曹操寫下“憂思難忘”，又豈是空言。

The jazz piece in the air goes well with the afternoon summer street.

The white blooms look pretty on the branches of the green tree, which I don't know the name of.

Not every small business knows how to compete.

The juju and test tube of money is so interesting.

It appears that myriad of young people in China who have drive are in blossom intellectually, due to the proliferation of broadband internet access, smart phones, foreigners' presence in China, and foreign intellectual and cultural material available on Chinese websites. And it appears that they will stay so and benefit from that enormously in the upcoming future.

The fine balances between chancy intaking of information and systematic intaking...

French IS more euphonious than many languages.

日本民族對於小、潔淨有著卓越的美感，對於人生的短暫、無常有著深刻的奧義。我當年被震撼，多年後亦不能忘懷。

Deep seems to be the recent sexual assault case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the lately resigned MD of IMF. It may be a smear campaign, it may not.

"Strauss-Kahn had been expected to be a leading candidate for the 2012 French Presidency under the Socialist Party. Preliminary polling suggested he was favored to defeat the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy." (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn_sexual_assault_case#Political .)

On another note, the family name "Kahn", which he for one possesses, is an interesting and widespread one.

The affright of great earthquakes has grasped the world in the recent several years. What will computation be able to do in order to support the field of seismology?

Image - Leprosy - McLeod Ganj, India

(Pic from http://goo.gl/VLzeH)

Why couldn't people like the leprous woman in the above pic get timely treatment, given that the once precarious leprosy had already become totally curable due to the advancements in medicine?

Perhaps I'll shift back to China in the future.

過分地急，就是會出錯。錯到痛！有木有！！！我要修點禪，“調服自相續”。

不知道基督教有木有修心的功能。

The excruciation of midlife crisis stems from that the individual had not stayed loyal to and had not chased his own dream or dreams during his young years, in many cases, I suspect.

It can be tough for a person to manage two or more responsibilities which compete for his time and attention, occasionally. There's no room of flexibility. If he fails to carry one of them even just once, he's gonna have to bear the consequences.

The phrase "juggling responsibilities" is a heavy one.

Now Michael Ignatieff is nearly a spent force. That former university prof and Harvard U. scholar must have a lot to chew. And now we know that the battle field of real world politics have different game rules than that of the ivory tower.

On a related note, it amazed me that both Micheal Ignatieff and Jack Layton hold PhD degrees. Gee, overeducated Canadians.

If one subscribes to information sources with too many heavy updates, then his reading experience is made to be fleeting.

Well, well, RIM must be dead and phantasmal in the eyes of app developers. The latter are already excruciatingly busy with doing two rounds of software development for the same app, for iPhone and Android.

It doesn't feel very good to see the beginning of the end of RIM. It's another Canadian tech giant falling down in the face of new competition, after the colossal demise of Nortel.

It takes wisdom and judgement to respect another person's spite but dismiss her as a person who's not worthwhile.

Are there more wanton killings to be seen in Pakistan, given that Bin Laden got assassinated in that country by Americans? India must be on full alert about the development of situations in Pakistan.

矮油，貌似烹調書在豆瓣上很冷門啊。難道，豆瓣上的文藝青年、蘿莉控怪蜀黍、LGBT、小清新、電影控、萌物控、圖片控、書蟲、教徒、軟件攻城師、廣告馬甲等等一眾人等不愛吃嗎？難道，創作只能用電腦鍵盤，不能用油鹽醬醋嗎？

好吧，我在研究油菜的做法。

I wore a blue Chaps T-shirt in the Chapters store, impressed, and overpowered.

Rearing a baby is tough day in and day out. But it's like April showers bring May flowers.

One's knowledge of how to reason well is quite or very closely related to his knowledge about Mathematics or Physics, I guess.

I came to Canada in order to shun the crushing and constricting omnipresent reality of limitations on individuals' development in China. And I did intend it.

It seems that many home food blender companies aren't aware or don't recognize that for parents of infants, blenders are mission-critical.

Look, the skyrocketing inflation of living expenses and wages in China has started to drive out foreign companies, which are now looking elsewhere for labor, probably back in their home countries. Combined with the backdrop of the steeply rising transportation costs wreaked by upward moving gas prices, now we can suppose China's economy and employment situation will have to face increasing troubles.

Just consider how consequential the subject matter and policies of macroeconomics are for a country and its average Joes and average Janes.

Obama's stance on Israel is quite interesting.

Westerners run the world by ideas and facts, I observe.

In the fields in which one competes, his not keeping up to date will mostly be followed by his eventual trepidation.

I'm glad to have learned that Canada is relatively edgy in the realm of space exploration.

The bosom of power or money tends to destroy a person sans proper character education, which is distinct from academic education.

Doing or saying something out of spite isn't good behavior.

矮油，原來，標題黨是如此地遭受中國網民的鄙視和唾棄。

Continuously reading too many books quickly means reading sans sufficient thinking, I suspect.

Silence may be a euphemistic way of expressing 'no' or disrespect, or may be a sign that the person doesn't know how to communicate very well.

Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick Cathedral of NYC, and Saint Patrick's Day

1. Saint Patrick, "is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland". He was said to be associated with visions of Purgatory.

2. The Saint Patrick's Cathedral is "located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, directly across the street from Rockefeller Center."

3. On Saint Patrick's Day, parades are typically held internationally. But it is not made a public holiday in Canada.

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Here goes a gnome by Beethoven -- "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life." So insightful.

The medley of American citizens has backgrounds from all over the world. And that makes the overseas operations of American governmental and military agencies not encumbered by lack of local knowledge.

I can see our baby daughter's physical blossoming, at the same time, I can sense her mental flowering.

Babies bud very fast.

"Rain heralds the arrival of spring." is such a very well written sentence.

Apple can elicit rabid fandom among people all over the world nowadays. Few people care about that it was in quite difficult and painful situations once or several times before.

Well, when Microsoft bought up Skype, was it merely buying out a competitor? After all, Microsoft had an excellent free video chat product up and running for years already, which was the Windows Live Messenger.

In China, so profound are the effects of the proliferation of internet access, which greatly facilitates the diffusion of information.

For instance, the young people cannot be easily fooled any more. No more.

I don't really get why Google makes Android versions so ephemeral. Such an ephemeral fashion. Gee.

Have TOO many web companies mastered the $0 price point? :-)

The antic Disney cartoon figures such as Mickey Mouse have lived well for generations of children.

Is UNIX the ultimate Rambo OS?

The keystrokes on my new white HP laptop feel crisper than those on the older black one.

Pleasant industrial design, isn't it?

The excruciating tardiness of improving one's English level is something that he must endure.

China's economy has been in full bloom for around two decades. How long will it be before the deep-running social problems surface in its society? And how much derailment will that do to its economy?

To my untrained eyes, moles, beavers, and groundhogs look quite similar.

(A mole / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Close-up_of_mole.jpg)

Image references:

http://www.google.com/search?q=mole&hl=en&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=vbvYTZ2NOILL0AGXx838Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CB4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

http://www.google.com/search?q=beaver&hl=en&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=y7vYTbvoHYXd0QHwmpT8Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

http://www.google.com/search?q=groundhog&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS250&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=5r3YTbibIee70QHd25j8Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBUQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

I enjoy the chancy NONLINEARITY of meaningful discussions with people. In addition, and a little worse, I enjoy the chancy linearity in discussions with some people.

My relatively unsophisticated English has remained my pain point, more or less, personally.

Shifting one's ground is a bad habit.

我猜想，也許應該定義兩個新的 quotients：Raw intelligence quotient (RIQ) 和 Raw creativity quotient (RCQ)。

RIQ 和 RCQ 高的人，可以在自己掌握相關知識不多的知識領域裡，產生好的 ideas，並且執行出好的結果。

另外，近幾年出現了一個新的 quotient -- Spiritual quotient (a.k.a. SQ, 靈商)，貌似比較火熱。

The heat of the sips of coffee has been coursing through the pores of my skin.

In web development, the HTTP request/response cycle, on the web server side, is the input/output cycle redux, on the UNIX server side (vis-a-vis terminals).

Hold truth, beauty, and reason as bosom friends.

The entertainment elements in our information consumption are increasingly overmastering the patterns of the consumption, aren't they?

Gradually and increasingly, more ads on YouTube are playing peekaboo with viewers.

也許，中國未來的國運堪憂。

只要看中國名校的多數“精英”學生的只為自己謀利謀名的根深蒂固的人生觀，也許就可以大致判斷出中國將來的國運走向，尤其是在那些市場無法有效組織的領域，比如 public goods 的領域，即國防、公共設施、對某些特定行業的監管等等。

A person who's extremely selfish tends to be viewed as a social leper.

中國的很多地區，買/租房價極高、有毒食品時時出現、動不動來個又臟又亂的沙塵暴、翻那堵奇妙的牆比較困難、交通堵塞、強制的一胎制、35 歲以上找工作就受年齡歧視。天朝啊，GDP 的連年高速增長與一介百姓何干？天朝啊，在你的國土上生活怎麼那麼難？

Women tend to think that men have unreasonable amounts of nonchalance in life.

The word 'kidnapped' often is a euphemism for 'kidnapped and raped' for female Western journalists abroad. International journalism nowadays is a dangerous profession for women.

個人也應構築自己的高邊疆、大判斷。

Some profs make students learn like swallowing fish with bones. They don't have time to solve problems existing in their understanding and have to hurry up towards the next learning unit. Fish bones remain there.

Competition on the supply side makes people be on their mettle, and competition on the demand side makes people pay.

It's poetic to see myriad of maple blossoms lie there covering the streets and sidewalks in this softly rainy spring time.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/FIlBd)

There being too many government fiats is doomed to impede or kill potentials in a nation. That's what many believers in Capitalism believe.

With her own set of reasoning devices, N (the 'N' here doesn't represent 'Nancy' or something. It's just a random letter I picked.) knew she's nearly always in the right, always.

The days of a baby gurgling are happy days for parents.

I wonder how much the thought excruciates the Canadian parents that their children's generation probably will not financially fare as well as their own generation has.

The bosom of parents breeds happiness in a child.

Is reduction in complexity of life a herald of a better lifestyle?

Euphemistically speaking, the higher education and advanced research in China still has a long way to go.

When most people in a society are ardently interested in climbing the ranks by rent-seeking, what an arrant waste it is for that whole society.

成年人撥冗研讀英文，實為大不易。

想將來去中國湖南省旅遊。據說湖南人性格很特別，機智、直率、很關心政治等等。洞庭湖漂亮嗎？

The fonts appearing at the startup of Windows 7 look much nicer than those in the past versions.

In this climate of recession, Walmart, Dollarama, and the like are in blossom.

The subtle threads of the soft spring rain are falling obliquely outside the clear big glass windows of the atmospheric coffee shop.

Moments of experience are building blocks of taste and interest.

It appears that some people perennially seek tips on English learning, but they never put real efforts into really learning it except watching a little bit of American soap operas.

Lack of time is modern people's tsuris. Well, to put it another way, maybe the excessive complexity of life is modern people's tsuris.

Outlaying big bucks will be required to upgrade Canada's internet bandwidth capacity before long, in order to prevent Canada's international competition position from falling significantly, I guess.

It's a little surreal to me that Michael Ignatieff and Gilles Duceppe, two household political names in Canada, were just politically dispatched. They were just gone overnight.

Gee. I can't believe that the family name 'Lazar', whose literal meaning is so repulsive in English, is actually so commonplace

I don't know. How many notaries are not writing boilerplates?

The discipline of heraldry looks interesting.

(Image from http://goo.gl/Mi7ag)

In computing, speed of (software) development has increasingly outweighed speed of (program) execution.

A mobile client of a website provides an additional buffer of or approach to the reservoir of data on that website.

酒菜和人的快樂

半杯酒、一點小菜，就可以給我帶來一些快樂。那確定的結果每次事先就可以知道。結果的幅度也是有限的。

人卻不同，有時帶來快樂，有時是煩惱。每次無法事先知曉確定的結果。結果的幅度卻遠遠超過上面的情形。

而且，我作為一個人的意義卻不是和酒菜打交道，而是和人打交道。

自然地，從小在言論不自由的環境裡長大的人，相對地不太懂得用言語和別人交流。

Some people want to become another Steve Jobs. But they don't seem to know and comprehend that Steve Jobs had worked ardently and wisely for ages before his rise to stardom.

Lately Mr. Pierre-Luc Dusseault, a Quebecois student at Université de Sherbrooke and a politics junkie, was elected to become the youngest ever MP in Canada's history.

Does he nearly fully understand the challenges that the position carries with it to him?

How can a person curdle in her old age?

It seems that the business world has continuously, never failing, invented euphemisms and introduced them into the general-usage English language.

Two exemplary words are 'lay-off' and 'downsize', both of which simply mean 'get rid of employees'.

Many first-generation Chinese immigrants in the U.S. and Canada seem to be nonchalant about the chemicals contained in the household items that they use and encounter on a daily basis.

Three pleasantly sunny and breezy days in a row. Weather, thy disposition is unpredi------ctable.

Well, Pakistan's duplicity has been so greatly exposed in this whole thing of Osama Bin Laden's hiding and death. No more trust for them?

Well, Chinese foodstuff and cuisine tends to be more wholesome than its Canadian counterpart. I don't see why it doesn't get more adopted in Canada more quickly.

The U.S., a formidable power on the Earth, has spent even roughly 10 years to hunt down Bin Laden. Now we know how long good results take.

Strangely, it may be the case that a person's fate will eventually crucify him for what he has not done instead of for what he has done.

Inundated with information.

As a matter of fact, if a person chooses to reside in Canada, then he implicitly chooses to be aligned with the interests of Canada and the West, on all fronts including economy, politics, culture, and security, whether he really knows that or not.

Ah, those alleys and lanes among individuals' privacy bubbles...

Is it easier or harder to course or move through established career paths, than through unestablished ones?

基督教徒的“信主即得救”的說法貌似不是非常的準確。當信主的人經歷屬靈黑暗期的時候呢？得救的人深陷黑暗的時候，是否又可以算作沒有得救呢？

Perhaps, for average Joes and Janes, the historical invention of fiat money was a quite bad thing. "Today, all national currencies are fiat currencies[citation needed], including the US dollar, the euro, and all other reserve currencies." (Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money.)

Maybe people should say "I only work for gold, not for money". :-)

The recent national election campaigns in Canada have showcased Stephen Harper's mettle, haven't them?

The word 'quicksilver' sounds crisper than its synonym, 'mercury'.

It's breezy. It's sunny. It's a delightful spring day in the making today.

Hold off your marching, old age. However, slowly but surely, thousands of days later, you will arrive.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/fnznK)

Noblesse oblige is a marvelous notion in the West.

Can we find it in Japan? Can we find it in South Korea? Can we find it in Singapore? Can we find it in Taiwan? Can we find it in China?

文藝、藝術，是我們心和靈的碼頭。

夜色裡，去停靠哪幾個碼頭？

The moist moiety of women tend to measure almost everything by emotions, don't they?

It seems that leprosy was a historically important contagious disease.

It was very smart for Google to get rid of its interface overhead for users by enabling search directly in the URL address bar of the Chrome browser, wasn't it?

There are so many typography fans out there.

Well, Canadian companies being not aggressive enough in keeping really up to date may be a choke chain for Canada's economy.

In Canada, rounds of national election campaigns look fit to get citizens engaged in the politics of the nation.

They are good shows in their own kind, aren't they?

The American and Canadian governments usually wait until a recession to incur big outlays for infrastructure repairs, which I suppose is a good practice.

Well, who doesn't like sitting on a nice porch of a pub on a summer day?

也許，一個自媒體在一個用戶心目中的權重，和他擁有的對該自媒體的絕對控制權的程度成正相關。

Gradually, more and more Japanese products are no longer world-beaters, I feel.

The young generations in China have become such ardent consumers of cultural goods and foodstuff from the West, Japan and South Korea. They appear to be totally swooned. Gee.

Who doesn't like a bistro whose open door speaks elegance and respect invitingly?

There are so many invisible ways, which can only be seen by the mind's eye, to go in this world.

As English learners, we must be aware that there are many memes in the North American culture. And we should gradually grasp them.

Ignorance often wreaks nonchalance.

An individual who has earned the epithet 'lazy' may just be not interested in, for whatever causes, doing what he does not do enough and so that he is called 'lazy'.

But this question must be considered carefully: what are those causes which make him uninterested?

The Celestial Empire obviously has significantly increased its influences in the African continent. But how about the Middle East, given that the U.S. lately successfully killed Bin Laden and deserves ever more respect over there?

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Anyways, I've been thinking that China will be on an increasingly precarious track of economic growth, against the backdrop that the energy prices are anticipated to rise steadily and China's economy depends increasingly heavily, I guess, on energy.

On Douban.com, some people appear to live relatively lewd life, how much of that appearance is true?

On a related note, anyhow, the marriages in China have become ever more fragile. What sort of society will it become for children when many of their families are broken?

市場現實和市場前景兩個需求驅動力中，學問大。

Very much knowledge is subtle but profound.

As a person's age grows, he becomes more aware and warier of the possible consequences of what he utters. So for him, it may be the case that there will be more and more personal opinions not fit to be disclosed.

Maybe it's time to broach the subject that actually it's the boys, instead of the girls, who are disadvantaged.

Maybe people's thirst for information is doomed to be only sated by information overload.

So why don't we squelch our thirst?

Some unchaste stories and behaviors, when fairly attractively presented in the forms of arts, fictions, and movies, are designed to provoke people to think harder, and maybe deeper, I guess.

I suspect there is very much shilling going on on the web.

Spending all one's time chasing pertinent issues cannot lead him quite far, I suppose.

The ever increasing dependence on interconnected computing devices and machines heralds that the countries on this Earth are entering an era of cyber wars, I suppose.

The ongoing tapping of the rain drops in the night makes the quietness intimately Chinese.

When a person's age grows, although he grows wiser naturally, his free time falls off continuously. What a trade off.

Which town's weather can be duller than Montreal's?

也許，娛樂精神不強的人，是不能將 internet marketing 做得非常好的。

大学教育的作用究竟有多大

其实，我们既不必夸大大学教育的作用，也无法否认它的帮助，“大学的功能只是我们的一个助推器。”***说，“因为教学进程是一步步向前的，它可以推着你往前走，在一定程度上至少能克服人的惰性。”

不要被大学渲染的短暂的热情迷惑，同时，如果上了几个大学、研究生院神马的，自己的水平没提高很多，也不要自卑，认为是自己不行，没有天赋。任何知识的学习都一样，是一个长期的过程，需要持久的热情与努力。

- Produced largely by replacing "培训班" with "大学" in the article "英语培训班的作用究竟有多大" by 堵力 李丽萍 / http://www.edu.cn/20020903/3066278.shtml

The pernicious natural grip of unreasonableness should be held off by intentionally cultivated wisdom.

Image - Lethe

(Image "The River Lethe in Alaska" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RiverLethe.jpg)

In Greek mythology, Lethe, is "a river in Hades whose water when drunk made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth".

It corresponds to （冥界的）"忘川" in Chinese.

*Note: The word "Hades" in the first paragraph above means "the underworld; the abode of the spirits of the dead". And it corresponds to "冥界" in Chinese.

In my childhood hometown in China, along the bank of Changjiang River, there are wharfs spread.

It diverges so much the meaning of "care a lot" and that of "take care of a lot".

The idiom "feel like" seems to be a little tricky.

Some people are apt to link everything, almost everything, to making money for himself or herself.

情感形成的批量生產，是廣告營銷的重要功能之一。可以在多大程度上代替銷售人員在互動體驗中提供的情感形成？

Not capitalized are the English words denoting subject matters (or branches of study, to put it another way), such as economics, mathematics, and sociology.

However, on the other hand, capitalized are the words denoting human and computer languages, such as Latin, Italian, Greek, and Perl.

And I don't know why.

In most cases, ignorance doesn't excruciate an individual, but poverty does. In much rarer cases, the opposite stands true.

The interrogational processes of the police must be specially designed not to violate the law but to help the police' investigative work effectively.

Well, maybe many university graduates in Canada and China leave their alma mater for the real world with insufficiently trained critical thinking skills.

And, boy, they leave for the working world, intentions awry.

The past a few days had experienced excruciatingly humid weather in Montreal. Had this city been in Southeastern Asia or somewhere? Gee.

"List, list, O list!" My life will be more and more on the internet, even.