Many people remember the glamour of the great start-ups such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, but they forget the millions of others which fell into oblivion.

Not only I wanna see the obvious, but also I wanna see the oblivious.

Many Americans and Canadians advocate that education is the key to solve the structural unemployment problem.

If they are mentioning college level career education such as welding, then I don't know much about it and can't say anything really.

But, if they are talking about post-secondary academic education, then they are ignoring the problem that university academic education probably is increasingly irrelevant both to the real world and to the truths so that it is actually scuttling the labor market instead of helping it.

“自能窥宋玉，何必恨王昌”

赠邻女
鱼玄机

羞日遮罗袖，愁春懒起妆。
易求无价宝，难得有心郎。
枕上潜垂泪，花间暗断肠。
自能窥宋玉，何必恨王昌。

Some people think they can scheme and take advantage of others.

Really? Are other people really fools or pushovers as they think those to be?

Patience is business etiquette.

To Extort is very different than to Exchange.

A lot of women like to be soccer moms, I think.

It's not a good wont to maximize profits in friendship.

Sadly, some people do that.

With mobile computing such as iPhone and iPad driving forth unabatedly, more and more developers have been diving into mobile development.

Everything is so vague in China.

How come local governments in China can terminate, at will, factories' leasehold of lands and force them to move and pay even higher rents?

Gee. That definitely can turn businesses on.

It should be exhorted that Canadian businesses get to be more aggressive and less complacent.

Who doesn't like a restaurant with an attractive courtyard and marvelous sangria?

I always forget one of the meanings of the word "foil", which is a fencing sword.

Still, I need to beef up my English reading persistently in the decades to come.

If one is completely satisfied with his current career situation, there is no chance that the world is his oyster.

"Where did you shower my daughter?" J asked.

"There's a utility sink in the daycare. I took her there and gave her a mini shower," D answered.

Bev Oda's aptness of indulging herself in luxurious spending, on taxpayers' money, had been divulged and consequently, she resigned from her post of Minister of International Cooperation of the Canadian government.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Oda#Controversies_and_scandals.

If she really likes living high life, she would be better suited if she chose a profiteering career path, such as investment banking, rather than the public service one.

I am not sure how technologically sophisticated the mining and processing of oil sand is, which is momentous for Canada.

I had lunch at the Frite Alors on St-Denis the other day.

The young waiters and waitresses over there attend on customers quite friendly and professionally. And their poutine isn't bad. I recommend the place.

Sadly, the truth is that some Chinese Canadians have less etiquette than their European counterparts, especially when lining up.

In almost every movie or TV series, there are some reproachable characters.

Drinking coffee or tea is my wont.

And they do good.

Some people don't have the gumption to try entrepreneurship because they focus too much on monetary gains.

A quote

"He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself."
-"Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None", by Nietzsche

一杯午夜一点钟的咖啡，一曲汪峰的《春天里》，几片好吃的 crackers。

最近我被汪峰的这首歌秒杀，被他的才力秒杀。

Remarkably, NASA's Mars exploration has been 50 years in the making.

The Curiosity land rover looks fantastic in action.

There are certainly some grim aspects of life.

Then everyone must learn by himself how to place his conscience in the face of those grim aspects.

I think Douban.com is a swanky way of doing social media.

Radical technological innovations. Embrace them or lose in competition.

As so many investors in the U.S. show scorn for banks, it's unwise for an individual to seek a career in the banking industry, I suppose.

The playfulness of Google's seemingly unrelated product lines makes many people wonder.

Some people speculate that the reputedly rock-solid real-time QNX OS which RIM bought up several years ago will facilitate RIM's possible encore.

I don't agree with it. RIM not only has a huge product problem, it but also has a HUGE marketing problem, because it's been forced to be enveloped in the consumer market, which is very different than the enterprise market it'd been used to, by the market shifts, especially the nascent but widely adopted BYOD policies implemented in many companies.

Some blobs in human brains must have very similar mechanisms of emotions.

For instances, most individuals can appreciate the ever popular song "Hotel California" by The Eagles with its fantastic music, and most individuals can be somewhat moved by a military funeral.

Which parent never scolds his or her kid?

Permanent competitive edges elude businesses, large and small, while customer demands almost always evade real understanding as long as they evolve.

Microsoft has revamped its OS offerings and adapted to the mobile world.

Windows 8 probably will not be able to sustain the company's dominance in the IT industry, but it probably will be a really fantastic product for consumers nevertheless.

I wont to drink beer in the summer.

It surely tastes better than water and Diet Coke.

Life puts almost every friendship to small or big tests, sooner or later.

Then the rhythm and the fate of the friendship is determined.

More and more Syrians are ready to rebel against the President, after it has become apparent that every civilian can be the intended victim of the ongoing massacres ordered by the President.

Business doesn't stop at 5. Technology innovation and advancement doesn't stop at 5.

The United States disrupt all sorts of industry value chains with its customary innovation.

What Apple and Google's Android have done in the mobile sphere is just another example of that.

By contrast, the sad case of RIM's free fall stings many Canadians and makes them ask again if Canadian companies can compete in the technology sector.

"California, here we come".

Friends have parted from D. X., one by one.

The culprit is two fatal flaws of him, albeit he's got some very good characters which I actually appreciate a lot. Sigh.

Currently I've got a habitual weekday routine, which is to improve my own English proficiency a teeny bit.

I don't give up.

Sometime I can't help but wonder if I'm too ambitious because I want to achieve what 1.5 or 2 generations of Chinese immigrants overseas achieve within 1 generation, which is my own lifetime. :-)

In recent years, some, or many, local governments in China have done quite a few harmful and untrustworthy deeds to SMBs.

No wonder more and more rich Chinese people have been heading out of China and establishing a base in one Western country or another.

It's quite easy for me to mistake the word "splinter" for "sprinkler".

It's regrettable for G. N. to pair with C. G. into their entrepreneurial endeavor.

As was my wont, I checked the news about RIM and saw almost nothing good.

Breezes in August make life lovely.

A spectrum of light feelings has been induced in me by summer.

I used to exhort Chinese immigrants in Canada whom I know to learn a great deal of English.

I repent of the moment that my wife turned off our portable air conditioner without first cancelling the set timer. :-)

Now I have had to fix the mysterious problem that the air conditioner refuses to consistently blow cool air.

People had better to stop the custom that one must use Facebook day in and day out.