RIM has only been giving its naysayers more and more fodder during the recent 6 months.

Cooking has become one of my habitual activities.

Maybe opprobrium on GE is surfacing, because it's probable that the once splendid giant company's biz will grow no further.

U.S. Election 2012 has been red hot.

At work is a gigantic democratically political machine. At issue is how much responsibilities belong to the government and how much to the individuals.

The bonanza of mobile computing is so fast and furious.

Bouts of cyber espionage, allegedly from China, get Western countries to be very concerned.

Canada's intelligence agency, CSIS, has come out and warned the government and the public for several times already.

Country-level politics seems to be very complicated. Much much more complicated than the province-level politics.

The titan-silver color is silver-gray.

By the way, I think titanium camping mugs look cool.

Time is always short. But is life long?

Quiche is a sort of custard pie.

And it's usually considered to be a sub-type of tart.

Delicious. The French have so much culinary know-how.

Barack Obama is a deft politician, isn't he?

And his opponent, Mitt Romney, is a very rich guy who was also born in a rich family, isn't he? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#Heritage_and_youth .

And see the consequences of the notorious "47 percent" words by Mitt Romney here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/brutal-new-obama-ad-features-mitt-romney-and-the-47-percenters/2012/09/27/8fc96b6c-08b0-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop .

Who do you think the middle class people with good sense would vote for? And who do you think the lower middle class Americans would vote for?

Romney has already lost.

Grant's Law in British Columbia seems to be working for preempting gas-and-dashes.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_station#Canada .

Are China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong always apt to be strongholds of tribalism, comparatively?

Young high school students who feign that they have done the required readings may be wasting their own time and opportunity to really strive and get immersed in the marvelous worlds created by those chapters and words listed in the required readings.

On the other hand, do the prestigious high schools have to assign so much readings to their students?

Life is short and time, even for young people, is invaluable, I understand.

It appears that the Italian cuisine has got a very strong presence in Canada.

Gourmet coffee, pasta, panini, ..., you name it. They are almost everywhere.

And I love the way Panini taste.

Divinity (i.e. 上帝) is different than Karma (i.e. 因果报应).

For that matter, Christianity is different from Buddhism.

Still there is a lot of mojo for working in the famous Google dojo.

There are some jerks who do some unexpected things which enrage you. Sigh. This is life.

Mr. Z's eyes were sizing J up grimly, during the initial moments of their first meeting.

Pringles potato chips were developed by P&G. And Dr. Fred Baur designed the packaging can of them.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur.

Gee. All those inventions that have gone into the American food industry which produces so many sorts of unhealthy food.

Melon Sangria has roused my interest in punches.

Obliviousness to the future is the one thing many people have.

Along that dimension, there are two sorts of people: the haves and the have-nots. I for one wanna be a have-not. :-)

Not to intend to exert much agony on individuals does NOT mean that the Western law system is merciful.

My wonted systematicness must have helped me a lot.

The snafu of the sharp fall of Facebook's stock price may have revealed there's a better biz model for SNS.

What is signified by the grim grip of Triad scenes in many Hong Kong movies?

Will there be no further opportunities for Sony?

"What a familiar name Bear Sterns once had been. What will I feel about the familiar name "Morgan Stanley" in the future?" I thought.

The fates of financial firms seem to be intrinsically fickle.

The society is apt to be the best dojo (i.e. "道場" in Japanese), but only if you have got a doshin (i.e. "道心" in Japanese), so to speak.

As for the meaning of "doshin", see page 109 of the PDF file at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:4s6_vIx9H_cJ:nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/246.pdf+&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh98hOoVdZLbMcm1ZKzRK6HI5nOr4HXZP0L0zm-6hO0Do8RbzGbZupIIqWo_PLv8Xr8aRKMqVMASx27cBE9ohS96UMf39wavFJgqWvFB_JWZU_hEfaULDquHRQqY23uLzN_9F9B&sig=AHIEtbSLrjP6luGSt3fhFL39ud5gNOr1sA&pli=1.

One of my tics is to make unrelated hand gestures while conversing with other people, I guess.

Overwhelming is the grimness of some gun fighting movies produced in Hong Kong.

The obviousness of the decline of Taiwanese computer companies such as Acer makes me wonder why they didn't invest in mobile computing several years ago.

They tried it but haven't succeeded in it?

Some technical people often myopically say Apple's platforms are lagging in terms of technologies.

They simply have ignored how remarkably Apple improves its technologies all the time, coupled with reputed staggeringly marvelous user experience.

I always wanna pare the number of emails received from websites such as Twitter and LinkedIn.

The future of RIM is grim.

See BlackBerry sinks to zero sales in 'a meaningful number' of stores.

It's been said that Facebook is considering to build up its own search engine.

We're watching a nascent public company, however reluctantly it went public though, at work with enormous financial resources.

My wonted choice of computer brand name used to be HP.

No more. Because it has got quality problems nowadays. I think I'll switch to Toshiba.

Music in movies usually provides sensational additive entertainment to viewers.

I like it.

Our toddler daughter has got some minor skin problem at the place close to her wrists, on both of her arms.

We've been applying some excellent medicinal cream to those problematic areas.

If she hadn't been picking at those areas, they would have healed long time ago.

It seems among the grocery stores in Montreal, IGA offers the nearly freshest and sweetest corn.

Yummy.

貌似儒家的态度是“不知生，焉知死”，而佛教的态度是 不知死，焉知生，描述种种地狱的种种惨状。

而日本武士道的态度貌似是 武士“向死而生”。

I suspect that since the 21st century, for any, or at least almost any, young generation in North America and East Asia, the future always looks grim.

Maybe it's ultimately because the power within the society does not belong to them but always belongs to the middle-aged population, relatively?

Without exception, the 20 somethings in Canada and China feel quite blue.

What a scene.

Today I passed by the Holiday Inn at the China Town. Almost all over its wall, are small colorful posts reading "CSN lock-outs" and "Scabs".

Do Canadian tech companies know how to keep the ball rolling?

Android has been eating its competitors' lunch.

What exactly is Google's grand plan behind the particular mobile OS platform?

It seems that many Chinese Canadians who are university graduates are oblivious of some universal concepts and ideals which shape and drive the human society, while their European counterparts are not.

I don't understand why styling putty is categorized into hair wax.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairstyling_product#Hair_wax.

Shortened URLs have one particular drawback, which is unlike original URLs, they are incomprehensible for humans to just look at.

I don't know why shoe makers line shoes with polyester.

They are not comfortable.

K. L.'s habit, or wont, of taking advantage of others does and will impede him.

Dell has been scrambling and buying up assets and companies in the fields of VOIP, cloud computing, and so on.

Anyways, its traditional PC business has been declining horribly in recent quarters.

Currently it's conventional Windows computer makers such as Dell and Acer whose graves are being dug. Now is their moment of truth.

I heard from an acquaintance that a full-time real estate agent in Montreal, who's been several years in the trade, has not closed a single deal this year, which is a generally booming year for the housing market in Montreal. It's already the beginning of September right now.

Think about how much pressure he feels when he gets up everyday and drives around and goes about his work of selling houses.

Being a real estate agent is a high-cost and high-maintenance occupation.

Let's hate those mosquitoes which carry the West Nile and other viruses.

You beautify your hair by yourself with expensive or primitive hair styling products and go about your daily life.

You use your own sophisticated or rudimentary computing devices to deal with the world day in and day out.

Nonetheless, we can realize how empowered a modern individual is.

American public companies' moves generally are not fresh, but they look new in the eyes of the public, including myself.

Because the power of those companies is so significant that they provide fresher and comparatively reliable alternatives.

Just now, I tried out listening to songs by a few singers, such as Of Montreal, Mobile, Joey Cape, and Bahamas.

Still, among them, Norah Jones is the only one in whose music I drown myself and did so quite easily.