I guess many people are jaded by the dubitable official data about China's GDP and its growth.

How many people in the world want, implicitly and explicitly, to crush the United States? But Americans' toughness has served themselves very well. They have balls.

I wonder how many people persistently pursue nocturnal or early-morning study and practice in their own professional fields, after or before their typically exhausting day work and daily family obligations.

Blank Verse in English poetry

Quote:

Blank verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the sixteenth century" and Paul Fussell has claimed that "about three-quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_verse

Music video - Excellent nursery rhyme - Five little ducks

By the way, I didn't know that Humpty Dumpty, the popular brand name of a Quebec packaged snacks company, is actually a well-known nursery rhyme in the West.

Personally I like listening to live performance of good violin music.

It's been proven time and time again.

Given the omnipresence of social media, I wonder how many online complaints are libels in essence and how many Facebook "like"s are false praise.

Some dinner parties among Chinese people tend to be banal. And the reason must be they don't know how to care about people, I suppose? No?

When you're young, energetic, driven, and ambitious, you look at the United States differently.

When you're old and frail and have to be nursed, you look at the United States differently.

Windows 7 is much sleeker than Windows XP.

And it's said that a great many companies have upgraded or are upgrading their boring office computer operating systems to Win 7. From a user's perspective, I especially like the facts that it's faster, I can switch among different windows very easily by the Aero Flip 3D thing, the "search programs and files" box is quite satisfying, I can simultaneously run multiple instances of the same program, and its memory management is apparently more efficient. Personally I feel the Windows Aero interface built in Win 7 boosts my productivity significantly.

And I wanna see how the future Windows versions further take advantage of parallel computing.

Creativity is the way to crack problems. How to foster it effectively?

Certain behaviors are nonstarters. But many people don't know to avoid them.

Ottawa has been disappointed by many American companies that walked out on their promises to keep jobs in Canada.

And the workers unions took those as betrayals and an affront.

Well, many people don't like Americans.

Many people are discouraged by the complexities and fleet-footed evolution inherent in web development.

Native Canadians, and even immigrants who came from countries whose native official languages are either English or French, have no idea about how much the majority of the immigrants from Mainland China sacrifice on the altar of adapting to Canadian life.

A take on friendship

When one's friends inundate him with disappointments about what a friend should do but doesn't do, he then knows better what the meaning of friendship is and what the tests of it are. And then back to the core, he knows better what a PERSON should be like, hopefully.

Windows XP had its heydays. Since then, my Windows computers, both XP and 7, have nearly never crashed or frozen.

I don't know, man. I like the blue color on the topmost bar in the programs' windows in Windows XP. I like it.

For aught I know, time passes fast.

There are some indubitable things in life.

One is that if a person is already 40 years old, he'll probably bear a child or two before long, he's still on the nearly lowest rank among the professional workers in one of the Canadian offices of a large Western corporation, and his English proficiency is in fact just close to that of an average teenage Canadian junior high school student, then the chance of his climbing to the executive level in that company is quite slim, indeed, very slim. Time's running out and the competition too much and too strong.

The friendship had been crushed time and time again by the man's motives and behaviors, J thought, and he sighed.

But what good is a friendship with the man? It's destined to be cracked, J also thought.

So many Chinese fans have been watching the flights of European soccer stars in Euro 2012.

With retail workers galore, no wonder their earnings are not high.

I lighted on Dover sole. It tastes good.

English appreciation - a quote

"Epitaph.

Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies."
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

My wife and I are afraid that our toddler daughter is an epicure. :-)

Sometime it's really difficult to please her palate.

Without the themes of love, friendship, and humanity which can be typically found in classic literature, the ugly and difficult reality can crack one's hope of and confidence in humanity, sometimes.

Roosters crow, people speak, and leaders converse, read, and think.

Reasonably, people can suspect that workers at RIM have been cracking under enormous pressures.

All these years, I've been ogling many varieties of biz insights. Hopefully the next ten years will bear fruits of that.

Lately I've really seen that an individual's career or biz vision, aspiration, and potential is NOT really just the resultant of his most recent SEVERAL years of work and life, instead, it is the resultant of at least TEN recent years of his work and life.

I hadn't known what the differences are among biscuit, cookie, and cracker.

So I headed to my internet search engine to find it out. However, after having skimmed the top part of the painfully long article at http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcookies.html , I'm still almost confused as ever.

Fixing computers is a potent way to waste time.

Will the crash of the Facebook biz be inevitable within 15 years, given the rise and potential of Pinterest.com, Path.com, and the like?

I'm not sure if my creativity in its general term is strong. But I'm apt to be highly analytical and probing.

And I'm capable of asking a volley of questions in order to dig around and deeper into a subject or a particular train of thought.

In Canada, two past tech giants, Nortel and RIM, have crashed one by one.

Now, will Bombardier face a somewhat similar fate in the future, given the forceful and lower-cost competition from Brazil and China?

How many conquests had the ancient China taken from its neighboring countries?

And how many ones has Russia done?

I've been having a crack at establishing a biz from scratch in an industry with a lot of potentials. Unfortunately for himself, U. Q. didn't and still doesn't understand it.

Warlike peoples are very apt to view honor to be even higher than their own lives.

One example is the ancient Japanese samurai which are quite well known to Chinese.
The other one is that pre-Christian Romans preferred to commit suicide rather than live a life which is ignoble in their view.

Well, it's disappointing that a great political figure in China of the past had slandered a lot of his ex-colleagues. It's disappointing. That's not statesmanship.

There is enough grime on the windows to be cleaned up.

The winds blow on my skin and blow my T-shirt to fullness. It feels good, in this hot June night.

There are usually some innuendoes about RIM flowing around. One is that at least one of its two former co-founders and Co-CEOs is arrogant, very arrogant.

Either working for a company or working for oneself, who hasn't ever gotten cracked by reality check?

The important things are improvement, persistence, and potential.

Many times reading classic literature doesn't bring a person felicity at all.

I've seen a great many companies and individuals in China nonsensically talk or write about cloud computing. Duh.

Do they just want to replicate the buzzword in the west, or they want to utilize the buzzword to drive their own agendas?

Time and time again, it has been shown that the current order of the Chinese society has spawned myriads of young people who has no interest but to maximize his or her own monetary gains, even by breaching the bottom line of moral and civil laws.

That's a path to perdition, which probably lies 30 years ahead down the road.

A newly graduated geriatric doctor said that some people call elderly patients "bed blockers" and that view is ageist.

Well, ageing societies will face big problems economically and in terms of the arrangements of social welfare, I suppose.

English appreciation

"You should alike find rain, hail, frost, and thaw lingering in that dismal enclosure when they had vanished from other places; and as to snow, you should see it there for weeks, long after it had changed from yellow to black, slowly weeping away its grimy life."
--Littel Dorrit, Chapter 15, by Charles Dickens

The Canadian sensation Justin Bieber has got lots and lots of fawning girl fans, worldwide.

I don't know how humble he is and how humble he should be.

People have been inundated by information about and from their friends, trivial or not, all these years.

I don't know how they will think of that when they'll look back at that in future.

While in sadness, J's apt to converse with his life feelingly.

Things to do in companionship and in solitude

When one goes out with acquaintances, he wants to make the society enjoyable.
When one is in solitude, he wants to conduct deep and thorough thinking.

Personally I think cod is an absolute fish for dish.

即景

建筑们、街道们是不动的，树梢们是摆动的，人们是走动的，心是流动的。

What's the skeleton of HTML?

Structural elements such as div?

English appreciation - a quote

"He remembered with what a callous selfishness his uncle had treated her, how obtuse he had been to her humble, devoted love."
- Chapter CXI of the novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

It's said there are innuendos about drug addiction in the song "Hotel of Calnifornia" by The Eagles, however pleasing it sounds.

By contrast, in the songs by Chyi Chin, a Taiwanese pop singer, typically there are only insinuations about love and self-seeking.

I long for Linux for my future ease.

Updated - I really tanned my own hide

Problem:

Long ago, I wore a wrist watch whose belt was entirely plastic. And because I was apt to sweat a lot on my skin in the summer, the area which the watch belt covers on my wrist felt itchy from time to time. So I stupidly sprayed some Windex or something onto the watch belt and wiped it, on several occasions, then my wrist didn't feel itchy. Then few months later, that particular skin area began to look and feel significantly abnormally dry.

I treated my own wrist skin like a tanner tans animal skins. The difference is, he makes leather but I made a problem for myself ever since.



Cure:

Recently I've found that a calendula cream made by Boiron, however controversial the French company is, has been very effective in treating the above described skin problem of mine. That cream is a homeopathic medicine.

Modularity and reusability are at the core of the efficiency of software development, including web development.

Sometimes I can't help but feel journalistic writers are too verbose.

Why don't and can't they keep their writing short and simple? Why don't they just directly get to their points?

I'd had my days walking on slimy country field trails in rural China.

To invest on stocks is sort of like to wager on other people's perennially working hard and smart. It's apt to be highly risky and should be handled by really trustworthy and really competent professionals.

Unfortunately, it tends to be difficult to pinpoint those professionals, and then again, to let those professionals handle an investor's money is sort of like to wager on other people's perennially working hard and smart. :-)