These years of very deep economic crises brought Americans their reckoning.

Just don't live beyond your means. So for those lending agencies, such as VISA and MasterCard, how well will their businesses go?

Here's a caveat everyone should consider.

If you go abroad from China, which skills will enable you to compete in a foreign job market? If you go the opposite direction, then which skills will enable you to compete in the unique Chinese job market?

Article via web - Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

Here's an article on WSJ: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. My opinion of Yale Law Professor Amy Chua dropped some notches after having skimmed that essay of hers. Perhaps I was being too judgmental.

Living in Canada is very dissimilar to living in China.

Just totally different experiences.

死宅的软件工程师。

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中国未来的经济发展与社会发展

Keyword: 权贵资本.

Mr. Tony Blair, an ex Prime Minister of Britain, likes G and T.

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But he was a Prime Minister of a land which produces the best whiskeys in the world. Now we know that men really differ in their tastes.

My ignorance knows no bounds.

TV programs and movies tend to be cheesy sometimes.

What has happened to the Canadian way of life over the past several decades? And why?

People eat jejune diets day in and day out. They lack exercises. They don't sleep enough and hence feel tired day after day. They don't save enough for retirement. And their children don't have appropriate jobs available when they graduate from university.

Gee. This anomalously constricting way of life sucks. Something must be done.

Since the social networking websites now constitute an ever larger chunk of the information sources that people make use of,

how can the veracity of the information be assured?

When the young people in China engulf themselves with Eminem's music,

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do they really understand the indelible scars in and the social context of it?

I can sympathize with elders.

Significant changes in the society and economy can rack their lives. No wonder they don't like changes.

Many elders' behavior sends an unequivocal message:

they still prefer newsPAPERS and TV much more than the internet and they somewhat fear the internet, computer, iPhone and the likes. Well, now you know to which generation this world belongs.

Music video - Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Lyrics: http://goo.gl/O4mHN .

The helpful Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_la_Vida .

Gee, British alternative rock...

The bombing foray into South Korea by its North counterpart has wreaked such a systematic preparation for war on the southern side.

I hope the war will not break out.

How exactly did Mr. David Cameron scrape into the post of British Prime Minister?

I am curious about that. And I for one admire his fantastic communication skills.