Well, how vividly descriptive the phrase "cow pie" is.

Don't you think parkour is very dangerous?

The knock on Humanities subject matters is that to study them does not yield employment.

But those ones are vital lubricants for human beings, IMHO.

It's been reported that the late Vito Rizzuto, Montreal's former mafia boss, had been a teflon don and a convivial golf partner among Montreal's government officials, until 2003 when he got arrested.

It's been reported that Mikhail Kalashnikov has died. He's the designer of the rugged AK-47, the world's most popular assault rifle.

In Canada, many men look good with stubble on their chins.

It's sad to see so many Chinese people almost solely gun for money.

Interestingly, the English word "oaf" is etymologically related to "elf" and "boob".

So many young people are pudgy in Canada.

It seems that many Chinese immigrants in Montreal never really buckles down to mastering English.

Ah. Are some moneyed Chinese only equipped with cash and greed?

I'm afraid that nowadays human beings have become a little ridiculously hubristic.

Many people can't simply wait for the loving recovery of the economy.

Life is a struggle.

"Make yourself at home! Clean my kitchen" is a good one.

Well, Annals of Internal Medicine is NOT Anal of Internal Medicine. Duh.

There seems to be a lot of English loanwords in French. For instances, software, and email.

And vice versa, of course.

I increasingly like clothings with vintage looks.

It appears that Mr. Rob Ford has a loose mouth sometimes. Now he's gotten served with a libel notice.

What a drama in Toronto's public life.

It's intriguing that Mao Zedong permanently lies in state.

Individuals today don't have to be warehoused in an office cubicle in order to work and produce for the society.

Princess Ariel is one of Disney's smart devices directed at young children.

Any one human being's hubris should be abated, because only God's deeds are foolproof.

It seems that many Chinese intellectuals align themselves with Westerners, especially Americans.

But I'm afraid that some of them are just opportunists in essence, and those people cannot devote themselves to the Western ideals and values.

There are some somewhat annoying insects living in wall crevices. Please go away.

The cedilla in French is an interesting tidbit.

Sovereignties' foreign relations are all about horse-trading.

Vigils for Nelson Mandela have been held around the world.

I've got only a vague idea about what he'd done in his life. Maybe I'll read more about his life.

The high tide of the American style university education system has already passed, I'm afraid.

I'm telling you, first-generation Chinese immigrants in Canada are sort of like shock troops, figuratively speaking, but unfortunately, many of them, if not the most, die on the beachhead, because they didn't equip themselves with profound foresight.

K. L. thinks his money is a magic wand. Duh.

The flour canister in my kitchen seldom spends a day idle. :-)

Cooking is fun.

American intelligence agencies' nozzles must be everywhere in the world.

In French, how come the trema, circumflex, and grave accents of the vowel 'e' are pronounced exactly the same?

Duh. It's been reported that Vancouver was recently named as the worst gridlock city in North America.

If one doesn't invest some of his time and energy into his own intellectual and ethical growth in his day-to-day life, then the real difference between his days is vanishingly small.

I don't think "the helplessness of life" is a suitable English translation for the Chinese expression "人生的无奈". Then what's the right one?

It's hard to purchase a pair of earmuffs for men in Montreal, where of course muffs for men are omnipresent.

For me, alcohol can dispel tiredness.

So, drinking moderately can help life.

I only eat Western dishes sporadically.

I must look gormless many a time, because I am often absent-minded. :-)

Modern life oftentimes is like shards of glass -- broken, fragile, and superficial.

Maybe a man's chief asset is his character.

To consort with K. L. is not what J wants to do.

I am confused over the differences between carpets and rugs no more.

See http://www.ehow.com/facts_5877470_carpet-vs_-rugs.html?dmsp=manual .

The dignitary Mr. Justin Trudeau appears to be still a little too green to understand the principles undergirding Canadian politics.

See http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/08/justin-trudeau-seemingly-admires-chinas-basic-dictatorship-at-toronto-fundraiser/ .

Now nearly every Canadian knows Mr. Trudeau is probably a political lightweight. Well, Rex Murphy got it right. He worded 'The "Unbearable" Lightness of Justin Trudeau'. See http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/content/analysis/rexmurphy/justin_trudeau_the_johnny_depp_of_canadian_politics.html .

Day to day life comprises myriad little tasks.

Keep it simple, "stupid".

Shallowness makes people apt to be rectitudinous.

Another week. Another caddy of Orange Pekoe tea bags.

Crew socks are unisex.

Many of men's necklaces are made from sterling silver.

Oh là là. The French pronunciations of "restaurant" and "croissant" sound so pretty.

The enormity of the status of China's political stability definitely guarantees that beacons of that status will be reported in the Western media.

One should take risks. But one also should mitigate risks by acquiring knowledge.

Well, at the very least, popular Hong Kong triad movies spread fashion impressions and the concepts of noble characters.

In terms of personal development, so to speak, only to listen to new songs and new music is not progressive, while perhaps only to listen to old songs and old music is not retrograde.

If one can dispel his fears of death, then he is a freer man.

I'm afraid that oftentimes persistence is my way to slay the dragon.

Teen indictment is a very powerful naysayer.

Bonhomie and politeness puts people at ease.

Often used is the title "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" in politics.

There are so many doubts in life that cannot be dispelled.

The rubric of fashion shouldn't be controlled by magazines.

The commonplace foods and beverages in Montreal are often sugar-laden. How horrible.

Hollywood disseminates many wrong ideas in its numerous flicks, doesn't it?

The University of Wittenberg, located in Germany, seems to be a quite famous one.

Mime video - The rose

A nice pantomime.

The two words "Backpack" and "piercing" are among the ones which native English speakers normally don't understand when I'm voicing them.

Faux leather seems to be everywhere.

When I saw a nail salon named "DollySwan", I thought about Dolly the sheep.

I wanna try kipper someday later.

Working in a hospice would provide a very thought-provoking experience, wouldn't it?

There's no issue bigger than life and death on the Earth.

One should be able to discern another's true personality even if the latter is shrouded in elegant clothing.

Eristic words lead to strife.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

At the same time, one woman's meat is another woman's poison, certainly.

Vaporware goes nowhere.

Maybe some interest groups with humongous sums of money act like demogorgons in this world.

Can the democratic institutions check them?

While you have a toddler child, your time is still dispersed during every single day.

For that matter, cooking healthy meals occupies a large chunk of time.

The sere fallen leaves are omnipresent in the wake of nascent winter winds.

Encyclopaedias, now mostly supplanted by Wikipedia.com, appear to be an indispensable cornucopia of deep knowledge.

Dissipated are the offsprings of the nobility of all the dynasties of ancient China.

We can see the amaranthine obese butts and legs everywhere in Montreal.

Muslims are mandated to be teetotalers.

Profligate youths wear Louis Vuitton stuff and buy sushis as their lunches.

Unfortunately, Dollarama doesn't sell cork trivets.

Unfortunately, for many relatively wealthy people, being rich just means their families have more money to dissipate.

To be able to see through financial prestidigitations is an important skill to have.

A sweater is supposed to cover the torso and the arms.

Sometimes, there's not a scintilla of joy in life. But hope is always there.

Today's world is so fiercely competitive that many skylarking young boys fall behind.

Many traditional societal institutions have been assaulted by Capitalism, globalization, and statism, and thus have become unprevailing.

As the years go by, I've discovered that many American brand names sell antically shoddy products.

"Asseverate" is such a rare word.

German breweries make good pristine beer. They are better than many of their Canadian counterparts.

J wants his life to be a journey of strewments of virtues.

Money dissipates people.

Are there more and more peevish people?

Both the English and French alphabet are the same as the ISO basic Latin alphabet, a.k.a. Roman alphabet, you know, the 26 letters from A to Z.

It makes me sigh to see the continuous passing of day after day.

Human beings not only can communicate by parol, they but also can do by eyes.

In general, women in Canada are significantly better at trappings than their men counterpart.

The reverence grows.

We lead our life in silico.

How come I see more and more grief in the societies of both U.S.A. and China?

And, how come I see more and more discussions about the dissipation of ancient empires?

Some lousy wives give their men lip.

Some unwise wives want their men to be wusses who are bossed around by them.

Now the lackadaisical Winter weather will begin to chime in.

Among the Chinese languages movies, some Hong Kong movies are doozies really. Fashion, visual style, music, entertainment, depth, morality, they have them all.

Of course you shouldn't watch a Hong Kong movie with its dialogues interpreted into Mandarin. That would reduce it to a lackluster.

During the evening, people disperse into different houses and buildings. How many among them like their life?

The market, i.e. the customers, adjudicate every single round of business competition.

But the market is fickle, and the competition perpetual.

Some Canadian men don't pay attention to their trappings at all.

Are pristine women increasingly rare?

Of course, on the other hand, women are saying, "are good men increasingly rare?"

The way ahead for a Chinese immigrant in Montreal is strewn with tremendous difficulties.

The enskied Google Inc. has slowed down their innovation pace.

Personally I think the reputed enormous resources put in the "Google+" thing is their relatively dumbest strategic bet.

One of the problems with an overly materialistic lifestyle, which is way too common in this era during which Capitalism rules the roost in most societies, is that many things in it are merely for show, which is, ah, shallow vanity.

Chinese descendants are scattered all over the world.

Japan, South Korea, Southeastern Asia, Africa, U.S.A., Canada, The Carribeans, South America, Europe. You name a country, then there are a lot of Chinese offsprings in it. Even the teeny weeny state of Mauritius has got a large group of Chinese people.

Of course, Indians are like that, too.

This world is full of stiff competitors.

So faint are the options available right now for the traditional Japanese electronics makers such as Panasonic and Toshiba.

It's said that muskets were supplanted by rifles in the history.

It seems that in Canada, many people don't have enough pecuniary wisdom to handle their hard earned money.

Confidence normally denotes capability, and humility normally denotes wisdom.

I continually bemoan to myself the lack of vegetables available in dishes when I eat out in commonplace restaurants and chains in Montreal.

"Couloir" looks very French.

Some white people's skin looks too doughy and plain.

The sodden economy saddens people.

Some parts of Montreal have visages of desolateness.

"The people before me said the ATM machine doesn't work," I said.

Probably "corrigendum" will become an outdated word.

If the institution of traditional marriage is inherited from the patriarchal society, then what kind of replacement institution will emerge from the nidus of Feminism?

China's cities are often filled with architectural pastiches.

On that grey day, J was walking on the Sherbrooke street dejectedly.

Once I was genuinely asking a young Quebecois girl for the directions in a shopping centre, and she didn't give me the time of day.

"Sorry, I don't speak English," and then the stuck-up girl simply walked away.

So many American and Canadian women are incarcerated in their materialistic obsessions.

How come that we can often see in American movies that young girls' beds are strewn with their clothes?

Gee. What kind of women are they?

Gee. These girls in hijabs look good.

See https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&q=modern+hijab+styles&revid=608122780&biw=1241&bih=572&dpr=1 .

If I learn French, I will become a polyglot.

It's a huge waste for the society that many people have to sleuth jobs.

Most of that time should be spent working and yielding real results.

Are Canadians solemn by nature?

Day and night pass by continuously. What do you want to end up with near the end of your life?

If a company overworks their employees too much, then it's reasonable to suspect that the business is trying to make cat's-paws out of those human beings.

Don't those joggers look good in their fimbriated sports outfits?

During and in the wake of any economic crisis, it is not job or job hunting alone which stresses people, it is also their love relationships which does that.

By submitting to sheer power and mere money worship, probably many civil servants in China have turned into complete minions.

Especially in the wake of the prominent case of Bo Xilai.

J crossed the Rubicon and blocked K. L.'s incoming calls.

Personally I think many male fashion models wear too much complex foofaraws in men's magazines.

My toddler daughter looks good in inky outfits.

It's sad to see Microsoft, the monument of the lifelong work of Bill Gates and many software developers, to go south.

It's even sadder to see that it seems that all Microsoft has left nowadays is just cash, tons of cash.

You can see so many cleavages in the streets. But you should pay more attention to their waistlines. :-)

"Sir, your zipper is unzipped," the young black man shouted.

Once a person's child or children grow to young adulthood, typically he becomes freer.

The Lux soap has got a good name, hasn't it?

Betwixt Buddhism and Christianity, there is Islam.

The New York Times appears to be full of journalistic lucubrations, whereas The Globe and Mail does not.

Ay me, life is hard.

Escalators heave on, and strangers pass on.

The fashion sense cannot be disparaged of myriad black young Canadian men and black young men from Africa.

Maybe just by occupying many people's almost entire available time, the continual information inflow has done more harm than good.

Couples pass through dating to marriage. But the real dangers are in the marriage phase.

An earring is an ear ring. Being pigheaded is being pig headed.

"Orchid" is quite different than "orchard".

Since women began to enter the work force in Canada and the U.S., the two countries' labour supply expanded to almost the double of its original size.

There's one particularly noisome inside alley at Montreal's China Town. Sigh.

Accompanying the wildfire spread of Western materialism, more and more people across the world have joined the coffle of money worshippers without having carefully thought about human life.

I think nighted colour clothes befit me.

Kenneth Cole Reaction appears to be a fashion line for young adults.

See http://www.reaction.com/home.aspx .

When will the hapless Gen Y get lucky? When they grow into their fifties and sixties?

Mechanic waitrons cannot provide good services.

It's reported that South Korea is a hive of activity. Work has almost solely occupied many people's life.

They even don't cook at home and only eat food made outside home day after day.

It seems that in China, the majority of people don't believe in dread retribution any more.

Memorial services tend to be too long for outsiders.

But anyways, they are not for outsiders in the first place.

Cleveland (mutated from its original name "Cleaveland") is a beautiful name, isn't it?

Owning some sort of craftsmanship is a positive thing.

Google used to be such a hive of innovations.

Is nuance different than tergiversation?

Canadians appear to acquiesce to any economic situations.

J heartily chatted with T. I.

As a matter of fact, most individual workers are dispensable.

Shouldn't people be upset by the fact that so many couples, well known or not, separate or divorce?

A nascent case is the prominent household of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. See http://goo.gl/U9yS5n .

It's reported that the Canadian internet black widow used to spike her lover men's coffee with poisonous drugs. Oh my. Such a harpy.

Fraxinella look good enough, don't they?

In many aspects of human life, Eurasia is more complicated and sophisticated than the U.S. and Canada.

Personally I wouldn't prefer working in an open concept office.

Coffee houses are the utmost open concept floor. I can't stand the noise level there while thinking.

Some Chinese Canadian telemarketers importune people to buy their products or services.

That makes me shun them.

Should people dilate more on virtues and less on power?

How come most mobile phones, among both Android and iPhone, which are such an indispensable contraption nowadays, do not include FM radio tuners?

With age, typically a man lives every day of his life more gingerly.

For the past several decades, the advancements in productivity and technology haven't heaved individual workers' real wages.

In Christianity, the God dispatched Jesus to save the human beings.

In Buddhism, there are many Buddhas who live through different eras of human history.

Canada is a good country to live in. There's a caveat though, that's the commonplace food culture here is neither delicious nor healthy.

People should take what Western experts say with a grain of salt.

The most orchidaceous buildings are mostly found in Asia, right?

Valetudinarians don't well suit a formal education system, which typically stresses on academic competition and deadlines.

Does the decline of churches in Canada presage the going south of the society's morality?

It's interesting that in British English, the word "tea" often serves as a metonymy for meal.

Modern life is apt to push people to push forward without respite.

People are increasingly becoming itinerant employees.

IBM, the grandsire of tech companies, is evergreen.

The word "cliff" looks very Germanic, whereas "precipice" looks very Romance.

Governments levying taxes is necessary for their providing public goods.

Whose gaits is America trying to suppress in this world?

"Can you let your child sit on your lap so that I can sit down?" the old lady asked.

Classic books and work are memorials of their authors' life's beauty, work, and mental spheres.

"Amy Young" and "Dave Courage" are two excellent names, I think.

You can cleave all companies into two types, profitable and not profitable, no matter they are cash-rich or not.

So many elderlies are bedrid in their final years.

Everyone naturally has a bias.

But he shouldn't distort facts, should he?

We've seen that many cash-rich companies are impotent in their respective markets.

Examples include Blackberry and Microsoft.

"I heard that Canada is feminized and boys and males are disadvantaged," J said.

"I wouldn't reply. My opinion would be skewed, right?" Ms. B. N. smiled.

It takes time to take down a structure harmlessly.

You can brew beer, you can brew coffee, and you can brew tea.

Who likes this utterly long economic funk?

Almost everyone's been treading water at best.

To keep one's head above water, only humanity, knowledge, and perseverance can help.

To colonize the Mars is an ambitious dream.

Why is there a need for clowns to make people guffaw and hoot?

It appears there're cosplay parties every weekend in Montreal.

"Barista" and "ballerina" both are English words imported from Italian.

How many people should be mortified by the shallowness of their life, albeit this is a free society?

People increasingly have to hopscotch from one career to another.

Isn't it bad?

I've got one or two pairs of fat jeans.

I hope I'll never grow into them again. :-)

Monuments remind in the physical world, while canonical books remind in the mental world.

Well, "pick flowers" is not authentic English, which was what I used to think it is.

It's an expression in Thai, instead! See http://thaitranslation.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/polite-v-vulgar-part-two-bodily-functions/ .

Nowadays I'm slightly disinclined to get social with friends.

I've got so many ideas over how to spend my time.

My daughter is an apple monster.

She's eager to eat apples almost everyday.

How many English sentences have I writ in my life?

Education, for my money, is ever more democratic.

The verb "import" has got an archaic meaning - "express, state".

Wormwood is mysterious because of its link to absinthe.

Only business innovators can jump the queue in competition.

Isn't "rendezvous" a better word than "appointment"?

There are two types of Americans. One are secular ones, the other godly ones.

I still don't get why so many Canadians are so crazy about "nutritional" supplement PILLS, such as antioxidants, sold in PHARMACIES.

They are not natural, they are man-made pills!

Here goes an interesting interactive website about the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S.A:

http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/ncr/linc/interactive/deploy/index.htm#/introduction .

One of my acquaintances had a vertigo at home the other week.

Old people are fragile.

I guess "MK" means two things in Montreal: Michael Kors, and the Montreal Kosher certification.

High five originated from low five.

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

People who keep wearing sunglasses indoor make themselves look like chumps, sometimes.

"Chef my ass" and "chef my foot" mean the same thing.

Now you get what "ass" and "foot" indicate in English. And is it unpleasant to "put one's foot in one's mouth"? You bet.

A man shouldn't pester a woman when he's courting her.

Hollywood glares too much.

Personally I think tomes provide more substance than typical American flicks.

Dirges of love are omnipresent in pop music.

Man, this Otakuthon (as in Montreal) and Fan Expo (as in Toronto) thing is a huge subculture.

Christians read some scripture on Sundays.

It's a good practice for people's minds and hearts.

Andy Lau, the actor and pop singer, once mentioned that the Hong Kong Philharmonic (Orchestra) never rehearses over 20 hours.

The meanings of "maggot" and "Margaret" differ so much.

Garments provide enough for me.

No accessory garb is needed. No, thanks.

Obviously, the media in China are full of propagandas and trial balloons.

Wow, there are around 12 million of Coptic Christians in Egypt.

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

One of my close classmates at senior high school has got a moon face.

Well, here lies some confusion for me in English. It seems that being moonfaced is not a medical sign, whereas a moon face is. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_face .

In a public system, money shouldn't be capable of making queue-jumping happen.

Trust is hard to earn, but mistrust is easy to produce.

The memorial services held for WWII are typically decent.

Is the U.S.A. an increasingly disjointed society?

Oh, the endless pursuit of trying to one up on your competitors.

The black lady flew off the handle in front of others.

G. X.'s decision surprised me to no end.

Coffee houses typically brim with loud songs.

Some people conceive of money as treasure, some others conceive of time as treasure.

Levi's Red Tab is interesting.

See http://levistrauss.com/blogs/tab-your-um-pocket-its-75 .

Wrong is the supposal that the American way of life is always good.

See what you get when you grow old in the American society. And see what you lose while you chase the possession of more materials too much.

J's looking for the cloven hoof of those women.

Well, speakers of Romance languages and those of Germanic languages often build countries neighbouring each other.

Examples: The U.S.A. and Mexico, and France and Germany.

Challenges in life are never as dull as dishwater for a Chinese immigrant in Montreal.

One shouldn't foist things on others.

Those women leave J cold.

Don't stare at people. But you can glance. :-)

A dearth of jobs makes the current young generation professionally lost.

The word "parliament" is so British, and "congress" so American.

Maggots are different from worms.

This economy hasn't known mirth for 5 years already.

It appears that deceits have run so rampant in China's bureaucratic system. Ouch.

We'll be watching the auspicious India.

There are so many glitches in the American culture. Boy, sometimes I wanna quit it.

If you think about the name of Imperial College London, then you can conjecture how lofty and advanced its capabilities and spirit are.

The United States has been constantly involved in wars, either here or there in the world.

Is the top country, whichever it be, destined, or doomed, if you will, to be a warlike state and bear the responsibilities of wars across the world?

Life is often conceived of as a journey, as a road.

Those pitted dates are a little too sweet for my taste.

I need to wash them down with cups of tea.

Being low-key means to shun the glare of publicity.

How many relatively young women who are married to quite old men are there for the sake of becoming a jointress one day?

J and L shot each other a quick glance.

My remembrance of childhood is long gone.

When are Microsoft's financials going to really deteriorate?

One problem in Western countries is that once some behaviours get legalized, they don't get regarded as deceits, even if they are actually deceptions on moral grounds.

It's sort of sad to see almost all of my compadres aren't succeeding at career-building for the time being.

It's sad that the American mainstream culture and cuisine has made more and more harpies and broads.

L deigned to do some of the work that his subordinates used to task on.

There are many glitches in Android OS. But more and more people still like it.

J's eyes revealed a brow of sadness.

Heed my warning, son. Canada and the U.S. are spoilers of girls, especially those of Gen Y.

Why are there more and more young women in China unable to conceive?

For all these years during my whole life, I've worked and searched my ass off.

Is it for nothing? Come on.

A good man doesn't sell another person short. And he doesn't sell himself short.

One's made her/his bed and she/he must lie in it.

It seems that Canada and U.K. have an amicable relationship.

Does consumerism befit the female mentality?

Endives seem to taste too bitter.

Employment is consensual.

How many harpies are there in the world?

Dimwits disrespect others for nothing.

Unto the end of our life each one of us goes.

A mature man gets less deceived than a green one.

This modern society has become almost unable to fit marriage.

How many percentage of men are housebroken in Canada? :-)

As years pass by, things that I never conceived are happening.

A lot is said about one's future by his embrace and exploration of new things and ideas.

Well, it's said that Demi Moore likes toyboys.

I would say it takes at least 10 years for a Mainland Chinese immigrant to acquaint himself with the Western society.

Unfortunately, the Western society has increasingly become a sadder one.

Memory is like a laundry hamper.

You put your life's mistakes in it, and then take them out and wash them.

One's available time usually doesn't consent to his ambitions and goals.

Sometimes music really chimes in with life.

Life is short. If one has conceit, then his world is deemed to be small.

The world seems to be always in the embrace of crises.

Doesn't every man want to try a stepford wife? :-)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives .

Dumb animals cannot communicate and develop their needs, thoughts, and feelings through language.

How unfortunate they are.

Women who are dressed to the nines know what they are doing and after. Men should know that, too.

It seems that knowing to be feminine is a gift.

J wants to impart so many words to L.

What's in the Muslim world over yonder?

I for one really don't know how China, after its emergence as a global economic superpower, if you will, can really chime in with its values in the international dialogue.

You can sense if a girl has conceit and vanity.

There's no perfect country in this world which suits every need of every person.

I like Canada, in part.

Wow, Southeast Asia's population embraces 600 million people.

刘备 is a gracious figure in ancient Chinese history, isn't he?

Probably unprecedented happiness awaits J down the road, after all those somewhat dark and struggling years.

The hallowed English language is the universal language across the world. But it isn't the prettiest.

Taking on extra work needs a lot of time.

Do the Chinese, as a people, know how to live a wholesome life?

I don't think that in the society at large, men and women chime well together nowadays.

One must always be prepared to brace himself for yet another disappointment in life.

If a country makes its own citizens feel many of their rights reduced or taken away, then they probably would flee abroad.

Life will have unprecedented chapters.

"A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye."

In almost every excellent movie, their music chimes well with their stories and emotions.

Western politicians must be almost always prepared to be braced and grilled in their parliaments.

People had better ignore the crowing of some economists in China.

Some of them don't have a clue, and some others are bought off, I'm afraid.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, Muslim sovereignties get chided for lack of democracy, by their own people.

Will this new wave of democratization in the Islam world unleash new economic gains for the whole world?

Compared to traditional Mainland Chinese, Americans and Canadians are apt to be extravagant consumers.

One of their fundamental assumptions seems to be that happiness can be bought with money.

Outside the confines of China, there are things unimaginable for many Chinese.

With ballpoint pens so cheap and convenient, I don't know why people should use fountain pens.

"With freedom comes responsibility."

Individuals are unprecedentedly free nowadays, so their life is unprecedentedly complex.

Is the world mostly a vagrant always pursuing material satisfaction?

It's wise to plan and brace oneself for the Winter.

Woh, Ms. Melissa Ann Shepard, the famous Canadian "Internet black widow", has pleaded guilty.

See http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2013/06/10/ns-internet-black-widow-trial.html .

J tries to hie home before the dusk falls.

G. X. is erring.

Rational people look at precedents.

With each night and then the daybreak, there comes new freedom to act.

In the past, summonses were issued by feudal authorities. Now they're by courts and judges.

Google and Amazon are braced by the flourishing of Linux. Microsoft is not.

Some securities analysts

Roosters crew, the sun didn't move.

Vintage music video - Greensleeves - The Brothers Four

"Alas, my love, you do me wrong". How elegantly written.

Who doesn't like majestic trees?

Now I know that "pike" is the name of one of the ancient weapons which I often saw in movies.

Here goes a very warlike picture of pikemen:
http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1336/93/1336937170375.jpg

Everyone has his own moments of feeling powerless and helpless.

The trifecta of desktop OS, web, and mobile OS has grown complex.

I vote for open source.

Canada and the U.S. must be more forestal than Europe, I guess?

J arrived in Canada. And J embraces the freedom to do what he wants to.

Life gets stricken by misfortunes. It's inevitable.

But one becomes better with ill fortunes.

There are many extortive forces working against civilians in undemocratic countries.

The hand towels sold at Dollarama aren't bad nowadays.

There must be myriad of companies, large and small, which will waylay Google.

Microsoft and Amazon probably are the two most formidable ones among them.

By contrast, the tiniest among them are DuckDuckGo (2 employees), and even smaller, Newsblur (1 person, see the "Who" section at http://www.newsblur.com/about ). :-)

Apple Inc. is such a gigantic hoarder of money.

Scratch pads are always needed by people.

They are made of paper in the past, while they are digital nowadays.

Things in the mobile computing sphere are clearer nowadays than several years ago.

I think that even for average consumers, it's probably a mistake for them to brace their own mobile life in the walled garden of Apple's ecosystem.

Now more and more people must have foreknown that Microsoft will be in big trouble.

The mammoth trouble for the Redmond giant doesn't come from Apple, IMHO, it comes from Linux, as well as cheap DIY hardware.

I'm not privy to the licenses of open source software programs, but I rely on those applications much more than on proprietary ones.

Well, I used to think Fila is an American brand name.

But in fact it had been an Italian one, and now it's a Korean company headquartered in Seoul, Korea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fila_(company).

There's a lot of corporate flimflam in this world.

"The credits have been added to your account," the girl at Domino's Pizza said.

"How much credit?" J asked.

Well, I'm surprised by the fact that Montreal's metropolitan area has a larger population than Cincinnati's.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal.

IT has always been in a state of flux.

I've always been fond of the RSS segment of internet browsing.

Many people say that Twitter and other social media replace RSS/Atom feeds. I beg to disagree.

Due to the increasingly omnipresent food chain pollution and food safety problems, will China be blasted by cancers and diseases?

Lo and behold, it's almost midnight again.

Taking care of a toddler is very time-consuming.

What makes the whole Japanese nation not to sully their own streets and to keep them almost squeaky-clean all the time?

J's apt to gag when a dental professional opens his mouth with a tool.

Not a year has passed by with ease in my life.

It's a good thing.

Some souls embrace freedom because they embrace life.

When I fire up an incantatory Unix-like command-line, I feel excited.

Oh, those commands as magic words.

The cooking segment of life is crucial, especially in today's world full of junk food.

Shouldn't students get taught some culinary skills in school?

Is Google still blasting forward as in the good old days?

The French part of Canada is always different.

Behold, France is considered to be a representative democratic republic.

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

Strictly speaking, the U.S.A. is a republic, not just a democracy.

Particularly tedious is taking care of the RSS segment of information consumption.

GNU/Linux screams out to be the primary computing platform.

Our microwave oven shrieks many times every single day.

I hope the particular kitchen appliance is really safe.

I think that every young person should watch some good movies.

Because there are no harbingers of what living a life is in textbooks.

Web applications are never like native client software programs.

I used to prefer the former to the latter, but now the contrary is true since Google Inc. consecutively pulled the plug on its multiple web applications, including Google Reader.

The web's dominant pioneer, Google, has changed significantly. That means the web has changed, for now.

Michael Jackson's singing voice tends to be a little squeaky.

I'm sorry. But I personally think that it will take China till doomsday to eclipse the U.S.A.

Anger can make people, both men and women, roar with words.

Almost all the computing gadgets and associated accessories, whose colour is sheer white, scream out to remind people that the products are Apple wannabes.

Personally I prefer ale to lager, most of the time.

However, it's alleged that lager, instead of ale, its precursor, dominates the world in terms of beer consumption.

To my surprise, Boréale is a microbrewery little known outside Quebec. I used to think it's a well known big brewery.

Its red beer is called Rousse.

Personally I find some violin music quite soothing.

The sector of female workers may have different motives than that of male workers, by and large.

Classic literature in Chinese and English unfolds themselves in front of me soothingly, from time to time.

During the Hong Kong movie Initial D (头文字D), there's a lot of car engine roaring and car tire shrilling.

It's a good film. I appreaciate the performance of the supporting actor Anthony Wong Chau-Sang (黄秋生).

I'm still flabbergasted by Google's decision to shut down Google Reader. Oh, my heart.

Transportation is different than commute. The latter implies travelling back and forth on a regular basis.

Some Japanese modern music shrills. I can't stand that.

Prosody is obviously important in the English language.

I suspect that "moon and sea" is used much more often than "sea and moon". In the former, the sound /u:/ precedes /i:/. Why does the former seem more natural to English speakers than the latter?

By contrast, in the idiom "monkey see, monkey do", the vowel /i:/ comes before /u:/.

Hong Kong has long been an energetic section, in terms of the economy, in Asia. But has it been supplanted by Singapore?

Nearly everyone knows that the U.S. isn't squeaky-clean in its motives in its military interventions abroad.

Hopefully in the wake of the tragic Boston Marathon bombing, the U.S. government recognizes the importance of no more meddling in other sovereignties' affairs.

There have been many human beings who prophesied doomsday.

Time will debunk those conjectures.

Her smiles soothe my mind.

One just shouldn't start up in his old age.

That would put him on the razor's edge.

Probably one of those days down the road, the world's mightiest American graduate school system will go through some drastic reform and shrink greatly from its current enormous size.

Is Canada's Arctic sector crucial? You bet.

There is a voice shrieking life is short.

Tim Hortons' Honey Cruller donut isn't bad.

The eclipse of Sony is sad.

The nostalgia of Walkman...

I suppose that residents in the Shanghai megalopolis have to spend a large chunk of their time on superficial things, including commute.

It appears that there are more causes for the possible curtains for Asia's economic boom right now than in the past 20 years.

In my opinion, pretty sound both the female given names "Pauline" and "Paulette". However, they both mean "humble" and both are derived from their male counterpart "Paul".

Asia has long been hailed as an uprising economy and a prosperous continent.

But now I for one am not sure if disasters in Asia will break out down the road.

I've noticed that many restaurants have gone out of business in the vicinity of Concordia University, a section of downtown Montreal.

Once you choose an entrepreneurial path, you step into the wild.

How free and how risky.

Risk taking inevitably infers close squeaks here and there.

Perhaps the open source Linux will eventually be the razer of the expensive desktop Mac OS.

One omen for Mac OS' declining popularity can be found at After 'astonishingly' poor quarter, Mac sales predicted to rebound.

A TV screen hanging in a coffee shop presents a window to the world outside the little beverage room.

The device is fine. But the programs which run on it most of the time are just sort of gibbering. No wonder TV is often called "idiot box".

Vaseline is my desktop companion to soothe my dry hand skin.

Canada's weather is simply too dry.

For whom to spend?

By and large, the public sectors in U.S.A. and Canada spend for the best interests of American and Canadian people, while the private ones in both countries spend for the best interests of their shareholders.

We can sense that some Chinese civilians think that China's foreign policies should be somewhat "might is right".

Julius Caesar is allegedly the best known among all the ancient Roman leaders.

His father is Julius Caesar the Elder. But the father's actual name is Julius Caesar III. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar#Parents and the family tree presented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Caesar_the_Elder .

How strange. Hmm.

By the way, Julius' son is Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.

Coarse is the slang "horse hockey".

See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horse_hockey .

"Chink" is an offensive word. It's a slur.

When will the palmy years appear for today's young generation in their 20s?

Razers look more fantastic than razors.

You can compare the image search results below:
http://goo.gl/wuvs8
vs.
http://goo.gl/v7gDe

Does Obama often jawbone?

Ere dawn, everything is in the dark.

For me personally, the taste of haddock resides between cod and sole.

"The time window is closing up," J said.

So soothingly fine are some ancient Chinese poems written during the Song Dynasty.

I'm fond of them.

Shall we expect more and more world-weary people in China?

Is it true that in ancient China, martial artists tended to be have-a-go heroes?

Come on. Who didn't use to be the cream among their peers?

Life isn't easy for non-state-owned Chinese firms.

Inside China, the omnipresent and overbearing governments are apt to mistreat them.

Outside China, foreign governments will potentially clamp down on them more and more.

Canny innovations happen everywhere and everyday.

The thing is, mainly industry insiders know and are capable to discern them.

There're many interesting points about the seizure and trial of Adolf Eichmann by Israel during early 1960s.

First let's be clear that we just don't concern ourselves with the disputes between Argentina and Israel. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann#International_dispute_over_capture.) And we just talk about things between Mr. Adolf Eichmann, an individual, and Israel, a state.

Personally I don't know anything about the study of law. But the particular case intrigues me, in terms of law.

Point 1: Israel captured Eichmann by kidnapping him in Argentina. That act of arresting an individual by way of illegal means seems to be ADMISSIBLE in Israeli justice system, even in international legal system.

Point 2: During the trial, Israel allegedly followed an alleged meticulous due process. For that matter, it seems to me that in many Western judicial systems, due processes dictate that evidences obtained through illegal methods are NOT ADMISSIBLE.

A rather intriguing law case.

J thinks it's better to roll his own than to work for others' businesses.

Good looks the picture of "Night view of the Supreme Court of Canada from the Ottawa River".

See http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/details/d5-eng.asp.

In my mind, Samsung's products smoke those made by other vendors, for the time being.

Grand office buildings are no longer palms, I suppose.

The Razor-Qt desktop environment is interesting.

In China, the portentous housing bubble will bring forth big trouble in the future.

Steamed pears can soothe coughing.

The choices of GNU/Linux distros are overwhelmingly many.

Life is short.

And J wants to have a go at building a great life.

Whoa. I didn't know Lululemon is headquartered in Canada. In Vancouver, to be precise.

Wow, the nascent so-called bank account tax for Cypriot bank accounts appears to just violate people's rights to private property.

Where's the line between public property and private property?

During the time of China's Ming and Qing dynasties, how differently did the Western royalties' courts look from their Chinese counterparts?

And, much more importantly, how differently did the former work from the latter?

It seems that innovations don't get encouraged at many large companies. Not e'en at Google nowadays.

China appears to be increasingly on the razor's edge. Which most needs reform seems to be its redistribution arrangement.

J's joint business adventure is picking up steam.

International fora are sort of informal negotiation tables.

Looking back, when Larry Page took over from Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO in April 2011, that was an important portent of the dramatic changes of how the company does things as we've seen in recent 2 years.

Sigh.

Nonetheless, Google's stock price has almost doubled in these 2 years.

Everything's just peachy in the early days.

I rummage my days for some more little chunks of time.

I for one took the liberty of embarking on an entrepreneurial journey.

Americans may be uppity. But they've contributed greatly to innovations used by the world.

The West is always busy fulminating its earthly cohabiting nations.

Where do the Western countries' strengths come from? It seems to be that their justice systems are always upheld and trusted by common people.

Where's all that dodgy Chinese money? In Switzerland?

Southern Asia is inflicted by high rates of acid attacks.

What a tragedy.

Acid throwing victim, Cambodia 

These attacks are most common in Cambodia,[8] Afghanistan,[9] India,[10] Bangladesh,[5][6] Pakistan[5] and other nearby countries.[7] Globally, at least 1500 people in 20 countries are attacked in this way yearly, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_throwing

It's lucky for a working person to have a shopping district in her backyard.

Down with the way Google's treating consumers nowadays.

Google Reader's shutting down. The party's over. Google's offering public service no more.

I for one have this typical reaction: you yank so many services, then I distance myself away from you. On the other hand, I'm grateful for all the great services Google has offered in the web sphere in the past.

I used to mistake the word "rebounce", which is nonexistent and conjured up by me, for "rebound".

Today's education institutions in Canada and China probably will in the future draw flak for dumbing down and watering down education.

The word "e'en" looks strange, doesn't it?

It's the literary form of "even". Listen to how it pronounces. Oh my goodness. You need to squeeze out the sound from between your teeth.

Many people are apt to think that the fountainhead of wealth is the possession of money.

I disagree. I see that is hard work and talents instead.

I tend to mistake "cluster" for "clutter".

Now I'm apt to think that it's probable that Chinese, as a group, can no longer get away with its relatively weak moral education.

Well, I for one am afraid that nearly all the past hype about Alberta oil will be razed by the wild runaway success of fracking in the U.S.

Sitting still and not shifting is never in order in IT.

To stonewall is the opposite of to be cooperative.

Short internet meme video - Harlem Shake (original army edition)

Internet memes have been going very strong. Months ago, there was the Gangnam Style originated from Korea, now it's Harlem Shake.

By the way, it's been reported that some Israeli troops who presented themselves in another published video piece are being sent to and locked into military prison. Duh.

Nowadays, "Vatican", "pope", "conclave", and so on are hot words.

Now Korean companies have run away with the hardware sector.

At the beginning it's the American companies, then Japanese ones, then Taiwanese, now Korean.

Who're next? Chinese companies?

I think that entrepreneurial endeavors are normally treks instead of helicopter lifts.

Rare are the examples of the success stories of Google and Facebook.

Rummage sale is quite different than garage sale (a.k.a. yard sale), in terms of their purposes and locations.

My better half seems to like pork attached to bones.

Normally good are the Canadian way of no frills and no fuss. But to food it shouldn't be applied.

Is Southeastern Asia in the backyard of China or India?

Bootleggers used to smuggle alcohol, cigarettes, and so on. Nowadays formula milk is also on their shopping lists.

See Hong Kong arrests baby milk smugglers. The offenders won't be able to get away with light fines. They "are subject to a maximum penalty of two years in jail and a HK$500,000 fine."

Such an international laugh at the quality of some Chinese products. Is it a tip of the iceberg?

I suspect that this information era has caused almost everyone to chase his/her tail.

Among the ranks of officials, there is always balderdash from the mouth of at least one. Be him/her an American one or a Chinese one.

But the percentage of Chinese officials who speak nonsense appears to be significantly higher than that of their American counterparts.

Do opportunities thin out in the old economy? You bet.

Worries have been pressing people, with Canada's GDP growth rates nearly razed in recent 5 quarters.

Is the fountainhead of religions the curiosity about and fears of death, which has been possessed by the humankind throughout history?

I think the Arial font is pretty.

Western countries' governments had given their imprimatur to financial firms to do almost anything they please.

That has angered most people, who have been paying a dear price for the practice.

It's apparent that financial firms' activities often cause negative externality, in Economics' terms. For that matter, some high financiers must have swooned when people and their democratic governments realized it.

When getting refused, it is in order to accept the refusal gracefully and then talk to other candidates.

That's the beauty of free market and free society.

A player occupies more space on a tennis court than on a basketball court. So, intrinsically, playing tennis is more costly than playing basketball.

"For the most part" is an interesting idiom.

Sentences run like this: "for the most part, so and so." But where are the other part(s)? :-)

When you see 10 successful entrepreneurs, you see at least 9 resolutes among them, I think.

I've become increasingly appreciative of jeans' sophisticated yet no-frills style.

Gee. ABInBev, headquartered in Belgium, owns Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Beck's, Labatt Blue, so on and so forth.

Many people run away with the notion that they can achieve things alone.

Maybe that's why securities markets across the world are saturated with individual investors.

"Then that's what your friend's business is doing. Let's watch his future destiny," J said.

To be in tune with the current emotions and feelings of young Canadians is different than to be in tune with the market demands of Canadians.

I used to mistake "better half" for "the better part".

Well, that half is better than this half. And that part is better than this part.

Boeing's Super Hornet fighter jet (超级大黄蜂战斗机) is interesting to watch.

It's involved in a dogfight for governments' contracts with Lockheed Martin's seemingly more glamorous F-35, which has failed to deliver so far and become more and more like a sitting duck if you will.