Many are observing the predicament which most Muslim countries are now in.

CBC's Rex Murphy publicly said that the lately allegedly scandalous Jian Gomeshi is "double-faced", who is another CBC host.

Did Jian Gomeshi fake out the public? On the other hand, did some of the claimers fake out?

L went from being bony to being just slim during his fifties or so.

It's usually more taxing to earn a living furnished with more than bare essentials.

Simple doesn't mean drab.

That's why I don't understand why the English word 'corny' has got a derogatory meaning, among others. Personally I always consider corn to be a delicious staple food.

It may be the reality in North America that many people abuse antidepresssants somehow.

J's been getting his act together for a long time.

It's sad to see people's body sizes becoming grosser and grosser in North America.

I normally don't cull the movies manufactured by Hollywood.

"And death is gaseous and gruesome".

That's what the role acted by Philip Seymour Hoffman said in the film The Savages.

Vocabulary, vocabulary, "how do I love thee?"

Duh, in a conversation with a friend of mine, I mistakenly invented a verb 'nutriate'. What I meant was actually 'nurture'. But certainly not 'neuter', :-)

It seems that homeopathic medicine has been steadily gaining popularity in the Western world.

It seems that yoga belongs to both Hinduism and Buddhism.

Historically, both Hinduism and Buddhism originated in India. But the latter has been nourishing China and flourishing in it for over a thousand years, at the same time dying out in India.

By the way, the reputedly vegetarian Sikh is a sect of Hinduism.

There is no shortage of changes happening in the world.

Oh, the old man's catheter makes me sad.

Busy students who live away from their parents had better be boarders.

White apparels are ravishing, but they are time-consuming to be taken care of.

Well, 'fecal matter' just means 'feces'.

"Froggy" is an English word that I've rarely come across.

Now the world has become increasingly wary of the potential economic fall of China.

China's annual GDP growth rates have been the envy of the world for so long.

Increasingly, university education has become a power-up, not the deciding factor.

The tower cranes deployed in construction projects are just so, ..., skyscraping.

The Pareto Principle is just a rule of thumb, not a scientific law.

There probably are more scarlet women than you think.

Who wants to have a life in which money always comes out on top?

Own your grooming. Own your diet.

Is there a market mechanism whereby every participant's needs get satisfied?

Will Canadians come to the conclusion that whether the pay scales for public servants are too high should be thrown open to debate?

Sigh. Strong-arm companies.

Well, there will be so many houses of cards among them.

That kind of behavior precludes the possibility of a business relationship with Client L.

And J is in no position to reveal the details of that behavior.

想要知道 Bob 这个名字在英文里多热门，看看山猫的英文单词就好了 -- "bobcat"。:-)

Costs are on one side, and man power is on the other side.

It appears that many young women today identify with feminism, a vogue bandwagon.

An amphitheatre is not amphibian.

Lovebirds, a specific type of parrots, got their name because when perched side by side, their bodies appear to form the shape of a heart.

Well, the self-styled fabulous ladies.

Please don't let on to anyone that you are only generous with others' money, ladies and gentlemen.

The potently freezing weather reminds me that Canada, all in all, is a cold country.

How many people in Canada despise its coldness?

Belarus' capital is Minsk, whose metropolitan population is about 2 million, according to Wikipedia, which is less than that of Montreal.

Children's modeling compound is best accompanied by an extruder and some extruder rails.

It's common knowledge that men have been being deballed.

Actually people have got a lot of haphazard self-defeating behaviors.

In J's heart of hearts, he doesn't think customers such as L are decent ones.

What's happened to the world's nationalities' categorization?

J for one is a Chinese by heredity, but he will be a Canadian by choice.

I'm afraid Google's goodies will disappear one day.

I don't want to be a subservient Google fanboy.

To instigate is a tactic.

On the other part, not to respond to instigators is a countertactic.

We can still see dressing styles like flower children here and there.

It's not all about oneself.

And, it's not all about money.

Do you think today's media and mass entertainment to be pernicious?

The English word "scholastic" seems to have negative flair to it. Dull, narrow, and so on.

Maybe people are too blinded by modern science to think some things to be incredulous.

The dichotomy between the expections of life by women and those by men is so out of control in North America.

When people say to get the most out of something, sometimes they are the blind leading the blind.

J's got unequivocal English.

English: Division is to divide the numerator in the fraction.

中文：除法是除一个分数里的分子。

In the above comparison, we can see that the English sentence expresses the same mathematical meaning more clearly than its Chinese counterpart.

The Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat (周润发) has got physical grace, especially when he's wearing a duster coat in his movies.

I said to W. M., "now I'll leave you alone." But I should've said "now I'll let you go" instead.

It seems that some teachers in Canadian schools water down school education to the blind leading the blind.

The U.S.A. has been such a beneficent superpower.

But how can some of its people be so selfish and entitled?

To bludgeon, to slight, to belittle, ...

There are so many similar words in English.

It seems that "prana" in yoga is analogous to "chi" (气) in traditional Chinese medicine and Taichi.

Being psychotic is different than being neurotic.

For the time being, the Canadian job market is cramp.

Well, it's sad to see the United States, the pinnacle nation of the 20th century, has been in great decline.

Ben Carson wrote lately that Americans, as a nation, are "losing" their "moral compass and are caught up in elitism and bigotry."

For customers who are not so good, J can only shrug and hope for better ones.

A man of stature.

There is a Punjab State in India, and there is a Punjab Province in Pakistan.

And they have got the same main language, Punjabi.

The greater Punjab region is the historic homeland of the Sikhs. Unsuprisinly, Sikhs' main language is Punjabi. Take note that the Sikh people have a total population of 27 million globally.

For starters, the Sikh people have the following characterics which interest me particularly:

1. Kesh

In Sikhism, Kesh (sometimes Kes) is the practice of allowing one's hair to grow naturally as a symbol of respect for the perfection of God's creation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_%28Sikhism%29

And that naturally involves head hair, as well as body hair.

However,

In modern times the trend of short hair has encroached upon this tradition; in some parts of Punjab, it is estimated that 80% of Sikh youths have cut their hair. Reasons include simple convenience — avoiding the daily combing and tying — as well as social pressures from the mainstream culture to look like everyone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_%28Sikhism%29

Nonetheless, you can take a look at the following old news (no oxymoron intended, :-) :
The Sikh woman who stood up to online abuse about her facial hair


2. Kacchera

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


3. Kirpan

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


4.

The Punjab is the wealthiest Indian state per capita, with the average Punjabi income three times the national average.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh#Representation

Can you see a way for Microsoft to claw back its desktop market share?

With laying off employees in large chunks, is it on the right track?

Thailand, and its Phuket Island (布吉岛), often appear in Hong Kong movies.

"Sleep like a lion" means "sleep like a baby", I suppose.

G, r, i, t.

Grit.

Are you a stickler?

Why is dilly-dallying from time to time considered to be a luxury?

Are vernissages commercial arts?

Runaway grandpas.

"Kindergarten" is an English word directly borrowed from German.

It's reported that commercial spaceships have got full manifest.

What an era.

Wafers and waffles are different foods.

J's kept his eyes peeled for so long.

Rarely seen nowadays are carnations for fashionable gentlemen.

Thoughtful amenities make comfort.

But don't make people have the impression that your life goal is to pursue thoughtful amenities.

Ever since I made an interim switch to Firefox the other week, I miss my clean-cut Chrome browser.

There are two phases of cognitive natuaralization for a Chinese immigrant in Canada.

Phase 1: Finally he's come to realize that there are some certain crucial elephants in the room in the U.S. and Canada.

Phase 2: He's then come to terms with those elephants in the room.

Deluded long time ago, and then disillusioned many years later.

I think that off the charts is Americans' seemingly indoctrinated disrespect to old men, a.k.a. "old geezers", in the especially globetrotting American pop culture.

Many of those "old geezers" are wizards who are of old age. Old wizards, not old geezers, so to speak.

Better late than never, deluded combative and "sturdy pioneer women".

Casting political correctness aside, only fools amid men would love a woman who almost solely loves spreading her wings.

It's very commonplace nowadays that people keep holding out for many things in life.

A storage tote is different than a storage bin.

The former is a tote bag, while the latter is an enclosed box or can, if you will.

The web is never an innocuous or innocent place.

All in all, I'm in support of multi-process web browsers.

So I'm waiting for Firefox' catching up on that particular front.

What an Indian summer day today.

Is society a cooked up notion? Is Capitalism the only real institution?

How one answers those questions largely defines who he is.

In the film "American Beauty", Fitts' catatonic wife is surreally hollow.

Ah, and the red rose petals present are so memorable in the movie's scenes.

Montage - 元曲《天净沙·秋思》

作者：马致远（元）


枯藤老树昏鸦，小桥流水人家。

古道西风瘦马，夕阳西下，断肠人在天涯。


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What a montage.

The overflowing American media hash out everything.

But that doesn't make Americans well informed, I'm afraid.

Life is tough. Share and share alike.

Pseudo code, and virtual machine.

Hold on to your hat! I've switched my default web browser from Google Chrome to Firefox.

Geekdom is necessary.

But nerdiness is not.

Hash, chop, chopper, chip, chipping.

The little worlds around Hashing and Chaining in computing used to make my head spin.

Nowadays so many women are accusing men as effeminate and not selfless and are describing other women as bimbos.

Well, tables have been turned, and beds have been made. There have got to be some people who will have to lie in them.

The perpetual theme of the lady and the unicorn stand-in. Godspeed.

哲夫成城。

哲妇倾城？

Cryptography and Obfuscation are two different cans of worms in Computer Science.

Corporate employees are increasingly fobbed off with unstable jobs.

Oh yes, Virginia, and John, you're by yourslf.

《长恨歌》：骊宫之骊歌。

J needs to revise his Linux installation doc.

I've been long muddled by the meanings of "hash", "hash function", "hash value", "message digest", and "hash table" in Compute Science.

Now finally I've made it clear to me that a hash function is simply a one-way encryption function which often is used to ensure a data file, or packet, transmitted over the internet has not been garbled.

Brouhaha. All that hodgepodge of different names and terms.

It's the same old hash of hash function over and over again, all in all.

By the way, a function is not a mapping.

"Data" is the plural form of the noun "datum" in the English language.

Nowadays so many women are so busy and can't make themselves well groomed.

Or they don't know how to give a damn?

Misogyny galore. Misandry galore.

Patriarchy denied. Matriarchy denied. The society has become so out of order.

Whoa. Mercurial.

September, the sniffle season.

Will Ukraine be at war with Russia, and at risk?

All those cat ladies in the world's cities.

Sorry. Bed..., made..., lie. Sigh.

You shouldn't be too courtly. And you shouldn't be rude.

People will yearn for more physicality down the road, surrounded by all these virtual things in their life.

Microsoft Windows still has got a mammoth advantage over Linux. And it's that Windows is preinstalled and turnkey on almost all personal computers sold to the mass market, beside Mac computers.

Linux command-line makes you feel it's really ready to do your bidding.

That's one of the reasons why I'm fond of the little operating system (if you will).

The difference is a little confusing between open house and guided tour.

Nothing important

"What is it?"
"Oh, a stomach cramp or something. Nothing important."

Harmony doesn't mean unanimity.

A harmonious society doesn't equal to a unanimous society.

Everyone once was a whippersnapper who didn't know beans.

The inscription of a child into schools is an endless household project.

"Adorable", "lovable", "lovely" and so on. I don't know where the differences lie between them.

I feel that flutes sound nicer than recorders.

Young girls naturally like press-on nails and nail polish.

"Pedagogical director on site" is a selling point for a daycare facility.

Will the alleged dearth of good men lead to abundance of spinsters down the road?

How will China's progeny stand in the future?

To take on too much work is to flake out.

I've got a friend who's deeply into mnemonics.

Ferguson, MO. has made such a headline.

Personally I don't like songs with long-winded lyrics very much.

Singers with mortormouths typically lose me.

Have the society, the economy, and the job market gone to the dogs, in the U.S. and Canada?

One dilemma in life is that some people are thought by many others as downtrodden but they are protected all in all.

If they are "liberated", lo and behold, a Pandora's box gets opened, from the circumstances.

How I wish I can power through life's difficulties and dilemmas.

Some Chinese people are apt to shortchange life for earning money.

Who doesn't want to be chipper?

But oftentimes individuals are too unapologetically caught up in the rat race for that.

To cull one's workload in life must be one key of time management.

Strapped for time? Then save more.

"Living with intention" means "living with purpose".

Almost everyone is overtired and superbusy nowadays.

The term "acrobatic park" reminds me "Acrobat Reader", the old name of Adobe Reader.

You garment-dye a piece of shirting, you get a typically more attractive piece of clothes.

An Ubuntu PPA is a repository of software programs, usually maintained by third parties.

Why use the word "repository", not "depository" or "depot"?

Some unilateral decisions made by others are somewhat scathing to one. In that sense, it's "Hell is other people", if you will.

Well, it appears that Alberta's former premier, Ms. Alison Redford, is a jetsetting politician.

Time is cut up by household chores.

So far as judgement is concerned, American and Canadian individuals usually with insatiable desire go for money.

Wall-to-wall prettied up women.

Full of gold diggers.

"NICU" stands for "Neonatal Intensive Care Unit".

Toffee and taffy seem to be very similar things.

Have a good one.

If you are vain enough to want to appear clean-cut, ...

Almost everyone is whiplashed by information overload.

J spent that afternoon in a public library, fittingly, skimming and reading books.

Ah, the seasonality of life.

Cash is not king.

But cash is terra firma.

When those sexpots inevitably will take a hit by aging...

"Character is destiny."

"Accent rug" is an intriguing name.

Felt can be used to make hats, as well as pads.

One has money but no time. Yukky or yummy?

Maple taffy ice cream mustn't be my favorite one.

原来 “lazy eye” 就是中文里说的弱视啊。

大节自强项。

小事不强梁。

Interestingly for me, senators, the members of the so-called Upper House of the Parliament, are in fact unelected in Canada.

Instead, they are "appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_Canada ).

By contrast, MPs (i.e. Members of Parliament), the members of the so-called Lower House (a.k.a. the House of Commons) of the Parliament, are elected. And, indeed, "the House of Commons in practice holds far more power than the upper house, the Senate. Although the approval of both Houses is necessary for legislation, the Senate very rarely rejects bills passed by the Commons (though the Senate does occasionally amend bills). Moreover, the Government of Canada is responsible solely to the House of Commons. The Prime Minister stays in office only as long as he or she retains the support, or "confidence", of the lower house." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada )

惊闻军中以篆易财者众。

恐为没溺危倾之滥觞。

Well, "Baccalaureate" means B.A., while the famous institution "International Baccalaureate" (a.k.a. "IB") offers formal educational programs for children aged 3-19.

It's one of the few instances in which the adjective "international" degrades something instead of enhancing it.

Judaists are divided into many levels, as well as branches.

Appear, with nonchalance.

There are so many culpable spouses and parents nowadays.

Well, the American government and military had removed Saddam Hussein and his government in Iraq, then they stayed a while, then they left.

Now the sorry country is in a horrible civil war. What a mess.

Can't people all over the world see an apparent pattern? And, does an American touch upon an area make the inhabitants stressed out?

Stay away from calculating freaks. That's what freedom and happiness is.

You can patronize a child, but not an adult.

There are noise ordinances in every area.

Laws are helpful.

I don't eat food treats often.

Whose brains would I like to pick?

Maybe none right now. Maybe.

It's common knowledge nowadays, worldwide, that a university education is not necessarily a bankable endeavor for an individual.

How come in Brazil, such a dominantly Christian country, so many soccer fans end up killing each other in conflicts that soccer has been turned into a blood sport by them, so to speak?

Live pretty.

But it is very expensive and may be overly selfish.

Khaki green outfits are not for me.

For J, what's happened in his life last year is for the best.

"You're one to talk, you bloodless, money-grabbing freak."

-Lester in the movie "American Beauty"

Personally I prefer garment dyed clothes than piece dyed clothes.

Have there been famous couturiers in China's history?

The rooms in which men take their whizzes must be kept clean.

Chinese restaurants in Montreal often fall short of that.

Acting, in the motion picture industry, is hands down a fiercely competitive occupation.

Hydrophobic and superhydrophobic clothes and cars have been becoming increasingly omnipresent.

Well, some middle-aged and old-aged men's bad breath grosses me out. You bet I'm not the only one.

The American way of life seems to have become more and more like: sit long, act pretty, live pretty.

Where's the substance?

And where's the time to get physical, just with only your own body?

Crap. It appears that too many young boys get attracted to it even before they will reach the age of the bull of the woods.

The cowboys who control the mass media definitely have done their job very very well.

A TYPICAL Chinese immigrant to come to the U.S. or Canada and then get ahead in his new land?

Let's forget the whole thing.

Do more and more people wear orthotics?

I'll wash away the slight smell in my glass with a cold beer.

Les femmes avec beauté, sans grâce...

How many very valuable, or even priceless, heritages of all the human kind's traditions have been discredited by the modern civilization of the West?

The West's own priceless heritages are among the discredited, too.

The culprits may include the Protestant Reformation, as well as the Enlightenment.

C'est rusé.

Mix and match is significant in Chinese cooking.

Life in the post-modern society: à mon goût, à ton goût, nothing more, nothing less.

Brad in the movie "American Beauty": "I'm one of the good guys, Les. I'm trying to level with you. This is your one chance to save your job."

Huh, human resource management, the American way.

Oh, those women who are almost constantly on their close men's case...

Young girls who don't know wear come-on clothes...

And those young men and girls who somewhat act out with their voices and deeds...

Well, Fossil is a very interesting company.

Take the instance of a paper card that comes with its new wallets. On it is printed:
[
Authentic
FOSSIL
Genuine

Long Live Vintage
]

And, well, the company itself was founded in 1984, in the U.S.

Pieces of onyx are not bad.

You don't want to be a material victor by being a spiritual loser.

The word "impetus" is better than "impulse", isn't it?

The archetype of the modern household is so perverted.

C. G. Jung is such a snappy name.

And "Jungian" is such an omnipresent and pivotal adjective.

Let's give some Chinese politicians the benefit of the doubt.

Ms. Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz est avec grâce? Ou sans grâce?

Well, irreconcilable differences...

How will the Wall Street eventually placate the average Joes and Janes?

How many Canadian children become more and more willful over the years?

Where does goodwill among people flow in China?

Brass and cinnamon are two distinct colors.

La vodka, à votre goût.

Elevator music doesn't matter substantially.

This era screams blue murder that most people are overloaded by their lives.

But which era doesn't?

To call in the media is one good way to speed up Canadian companies' handling of consumer complaints.

Hush, Americans. :-)

Nice going, Russia. :-(

It's sad to get to know that for many Chinese American engineers who had immigrated from Asia, getting their first professional job after the earning of their PhD degrees is almost the high point of their lives, then it's almost all downhill from there.

And then they got laid off in their forties or fifties, and then it's hard to land another similar job, and then...

Look closer at the devouring American capitalist machine, my son.

台湾人将大陆人和香港人称之为“牛角面包”的 croissant，译作“可颂”。

How elegant.

Spider-man is always ready to save the day!

Either in the store or at home.

With its literal meaning, Victor is a good first name.

It being a last name is even better. People will call the household "the Victors". How brilliant.

It appears that Americans typically like talking away.

Male shrinking violets are everywhere, as well as so-called alpha males.

Notre Dame de Grâce.

Notre dame, de grâce!

Gare d'Autocars de Montréal.

It seems that so many Hong Kong people are so into the Callable Bull/Bear Contracts (a.k.a. CBBC).

A ticket to immense personal troubles.

American brands mass products: What you see is what get, nothing more, nothing less.

More and more young women unwisely follow the herd and wear like many a temptress.

Le français à ton goût.

À mon goût. À son goût.

Les devoirs de un homme...

"On loan" is distinct from "on hold".

Well, "Roussette au Miel" is not a dish made of dogfish, rock salmon, or flying fox. Instead, it is a type of donut sold at Tim Hortons.

"Toujours frais", pour moi, Tim Hortons.

For a piece of apparel, probably a small ticket with "designed in La Ville-Lumière" printed on it carries a little more glamour and merit than one with "designed in the City of Angels".

Regarding the latter city mentioned, Los Angeles' metropolitan area inhabits around 16 million people. It's huge, from the point of view of Montréal.

Maybe one day in the future, men will get their arms around what a woman's love is, while women will get their arms around what a marriage is and means.

Maybe. Just maybe.

When someone takes you for a ride, ...

I try to be obliging day in and day out.

But some people are just overly self-centered, or too sly, or both.

Android is androgynous.

Ballbusters browbeat their diffident male sidekicks.

Smug smiles behind the faces.

J doesn''t like cheesy products.

在非理工科的领域里，美国人知界多，知世少。

A phony is a phony.

Care for a whiskey?

Yeats is a good poet. And Yeti was a good disco song.

"Inter" is a better word than "bury". Isn't it?

For men, dress shoes are dress shoes.

If you are a stand-up guy...

What pairs of smooth women calves.

Sneakers sneak, because they have quiet shoe soles.

Runners run, because they have life purposes and rationality.

Some people imply that new age wimps are everywhere.

On the other side of the gender line, there are too many ballbusters, they say.

A traditional university campus can be downright poetic at certain moments.

I am dog-tired after a particularly long day.

Love it or loathe it, c'est la vie...

La confusion: "côte" et côté, côte-à-côte. Plus, "à côté" et "à-côté", côte-à-côte.

Est-ce que c'est jeux vidéos?

Le Devoir est un petit journal à Montréal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Le_Devoir

Bon matin, mes amis.

Une chemise et une valise.

一生要扶墙几回...

A satchel is not a suitcase.

自由社会多陷阱。

The patio season doesn't go hand in hand with me, who for one is chained to a computer chair. :-)

It's been reported that at least one militia in Ukraine has been formed and in training.

If the crisis in Ukraine continues, probably more and more militias will come into force in that country.

When some advertisers talk about "being edgy", they actually mean being racy, being risqué.

Probably many businesses are silently losing their shirts for the time being.

There are far too many crises in this globalized world. The lasting Great Recession (infamously a.k.a. "The Second Great Depression"), the food crisis, and the water crisis.

Now there's a global garbage crisis. (See http://globalnews.ca/news/952340/global-garbage-crisis-looming-say-experts/ .)

At the same time, it appears that the weather crisis is looming.

However, as individuals, we shouldn't have over-the-top worries, just do the best that we can.

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

The French word "fleuron" means jewel, or floret.

Chez Boss Gourmet. C'est le nom de un petit café.

C'est un bon nom.

Chez moi. Un bon pâté au poulet.

Un sac à dos et un sac à main.

Beside Chick Lit, there is Chick Flick.

For more and more people, entrepreneurship is somewhat a rebound from unfulfilling employment.

Un écolier avec un cœur clair.

A computer field bag is a laptop messenger bag.

Une page nouvelle.

Le travail nouveau.

La Ville lumière et le carrefour.

C'est un vrai cirque ici.

C'est le printemps.

The calm facades of Canadians on the streets belie the truth that many of them are stressed either in work, or in life, or in both.

Many young men go through work-out regimens in order to get more showy body shapes.

Is it a blessing for themselves, or a curse?

Unfortunately, some clothes are not colorfast, which are made by some Chinese companies.

I don't know. Do these advertisement words sound a bit tongue-in-cheek?: "Une école de vie... pour la vie".

Un brunch à Subway.

Un jeu de mots.

La science de légume verts.

Are some activists over-the-top worriers?

You'll see more perky young women on Friday nights than other times.

It seems that the outlands of China will face a lot of challenges down the road.

Pour argent? Pour bonté?

Pour les deux.

Most Canadian aboriginals live in outbacks.

Le anglais interdit.

"Montclair" is not a French word or place-name. Instead, it's an English toponym for "clear mountain".

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

Votre don est beau.

Les vrai-faux politiciens, juste pour vous.

Le sixième sens.

La lumière est bonne.

"Mountain trail mix" just means "trail mix".

La beauté des vêtements blanc et noir.

C'est seulement un prêt.

"Infernal Affairs" est un bon policier.

La belle saison à la belle province.

Some people attack Obama and said he's a joker.

Well.

Une étude de cas.

C'est un don de vêtements.

Soins disponible aux soirs.

It's been reported that Pauline Marois' premature Québec sovereignty remarks had quashed Parti Québécois' chance of returning to the power of a majority government in Québec.

Well, what a state of seesaw politics in Québec. And it appears that the issue always smolders of the preservation and prevalence of the French language and culture.

En la vie, les premier et deuxième leçons sont sur le aspect physique et le aspect intellectuel.

Est-ce que le troisième leçon est sur le aspect spirituel?

Le tour de Babel à Montéal.

Tout le monde est un savant ou une savante maintenant.

Meilleur avant demain.

"Dépanneur Beau-Prix" is such a good name for a corner store.

Le Mont Blanc de la province du Québec.

La beauté des cœurs, sans sagesse.

Les jours de printemps de cette saison.

Le soir noir.

It seems that all cats fall into two categories: shorthairs, and longhairs.

And research has shown they are stress-busters for human beings.

Probably people are increasingly callous.

How badly we need closure of this prolonged economic recession.

Elle est belle.

Est-ce que c'est le chinois?

Il et elle.

The title of Tamas Wells' second album, A Plea En Vendredi, must have been coined by the band as a strange combination of English words and French words.

"A Plea" belongs to the English language, where "En Vendredi" does to the French one.

Such an expression, neither fish nor fowl. Well. So postmodern.

L'anglais et le français.

Café est une boisson chaude.

C'est un monde du français.

Two ear candy French words: journal, Montréal.

One tabloid: Le Journal de Montréal.

Maquillage et mariage.

Les cafés de qualité à Starbucks.

Le travail nouveau.

Une collation de une pomme.

Argent comptant seulement.

Les bars à le Quartier Latin de Montréal.

"Smart" is a windier word than "chic", I guess.

It's been reported that, well, the famously "consciously uncouple"-ing Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, the lead vocalist of Coldplay, had "butted heads over parenting" their children.

See http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/paltrow-was-a-control-freak-1.1671430#.Uz-WrXVdVQQ .

There is so much international sparring going on right now over geopolitical and geoeconomic calculations.

It's said that there's a glee among Wall Street financiers who short Blackberry's stock.

C'est ouvert au public.

C'est un bon chat.

C'est un bon achat.

Un repas de pains.

Avec ou sans tu.

Sans maquillage.

C'est bon en la vie?

Mais c'est bon pour la santé.

Un tatouage de un petit chat.

Bonne journée.

Le chinois, le anglais, et le français. Trois-en-un. Allez-y, monsieur.

La vie offrir dans Montéal. Et les défis de ma vie, en tout ce ans.

Toujours dans mon bureau.

Un employé de maison.

The word "Avon" itself is not a French one. It is a geographical name in the English language.

I suspect that more and more people have become no longer hushed by the so-called American dream.

Some decisions an individual makes send his or her future into a flux.

"Élection" est un mot de trois syllabes.

Le monsieur et la madame.

The world is too difficult, while life is too brief.

Est-ce que c'est le français?

Oui, c'est le français.

An estate sale is much less commonly seen than a garage sale.

Le français? Pour moi, c'est du chinois.

"Cripple" and "lame" mean almost the same things.

It appears that in Western medicine, most serious illness types are treated with intravenous medicine, while others are with oral medication.

It's sad to see that many American women turn out their husbands from the houses which the men worked hard to buy.

Une leçon de la vie.

Tu et je.

La poutine et rien de plus pour le dîner.

The "TRESemmé" hair styling products seem not to be very good.

Le français de Paris vis-à-vis le français de Montréal.

Montréal, la cité du français et du anglais, la cité de la poutine.

Ma étude du français ici à Montréal, la cité spéciale.

The shape of a children ear syringe is different than that of a nasal or mouth one.

It seems that as of last week, Russia still denied that its military had made any ultimatum in Ukraine.

The condition and situation in Ukraine is ominous, or even bleak.

And the Ukrainian military and its individual soldiers are pressured or cajoled by all the sides of the conflicting parties.

Mr. Putin said he'd got no intention to annex Ukraine. Does the world believe him?

Is that people only pay premiums for good substances the reason of why some VFX firms are closing shops now?

This news title had made me burst out laughs before I got to know what had happened.

See Cane to the genitals helps seniors foil robbery.

"Age of consent" is different than "age of majority".

"Les pros de l'impôt" are the advertisement words of the Québec wing of H&R Block, an American firm.

Such an ear candy.

Stephen Harper seems to be a real pro politician.

People love to be vicarious professional sports players.

Sometime I wonder if winds of change bring forth unweeded gardens on the soil.

Sometime I wonder if freedom sends more harm than good upon a society.

Due to the nature of eating raw fish, there may be parasites present in many sushi and sashimi pieces in eateries in Montréal.

Pour les vies.

There are so many people who claim they are from Sirius, Venus, and so on.

J wants to keep his unbated curiosity.

Many social contracts have changed on the individuals.

The society will have to bear the consequences.

Education is a very individual thing. It doesn't start in and doesn't end in university puppy mills.

So controversial is the Stand-your-ground law prevalent in the U.S., especially Florida.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law. People say that it at least gives armed vigilantes excuses.

Discounts of all sorts are designed to manipulate cash flow and customers flow, I think.

La vie. Le voyage.

Ton milieu. Ta baie.

Some people's worlds are too small. And they keep driving others up the wall.

Keeping score on one's monetary net worth is not necessarily a good thing.

A man makes his troth with his dream.

Imaginatively, watching movies gives us vicarious lives.

My toddler daughter told me that she had played "Hulu-Hoop" during the day. But, it should be "Hula-Hoop" instead.

One shouldn't learn a language from a child. :-)

In Canada, there are many tax abatement programs for individuals and enterprises.

"Fi!" in French corresponds to "Fie!" in English.

Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) are designed to replace incandescent light bulbs.

Rebates are a good way available for producers.

Maybe many trips people make are unprofitable day in and day out on the streets.

Religious believers of every hue at least hold the proper structure of a society.

It appears that more and more people who had had Christian and Jewish faith have turned agnostic.

Victoria Nuland's father, Professor Sherwin B. Nuland, a native Jewish American and a surgeon, is one of them. "Although raised in a traditional Orthodox Jewish home, Sherwin now considers himself agnostic, but continues to attend synagogue." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwin_B._Nuland )

In a typical democratic society, damning reports are broadcast every now and then.

Is it a good thing for the society, or is it a bad thing?

It doesn't feel good to see the unabated downward spins of career roller coasters of many people in this insecure era of demotions and lay-offs.

人言啧啧的“啫啫鸡煲”和“啫喱水”

从小到大，我肯定读过很多白字。最近几年才自知的有豉（chǐ）。

有些中餐馆的女侍应将“啫啫鸡煲”的“啫啫”读成“zhū zhū”，今天查了一下，其实应该读作“zé zé”。我猜“啫”应该是广东话里的字，象声字；所以他们不将“啫啫鸡煲”称作“啧啧鸡煲”。其实，“啧啧”形容咂嘴的声音，那道菜品叫“啧啧鸡煲”貌似也不错。当然，“啧”字既可以做褒义（例如“啧啧称羡”），又可以做贬义（例如“啧有烦言”），不如“啫”来得清爽不产生误解。

另外，对于英文的 “gel” 一词的翻译，“啫喱水”，为什么很多人读作“zhě lí shuǐ”？应该是“zé lí shuǐ”才对啊。

It's sad to finally see that the traditional Chinese culture is almost flat in Mainland China.

It seems that Christianity is against one being idolatrous.

The Christian view of idolatry is intriguing to me.

Debate is also common in ancient China's courtyards and some Buddhist temples, according to history.

It seems that nearly all the major religions prohibit self-slaughter in the world.

More and more fun is nixed out of modern life.

Allez-y, thé rouge.

This post-industrial world has resolved communities into loose groups of perpetually mobile profit-seeking individuals.

Can this terrible obesity trend be abated in the U.S. and Canada?

See http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/an-epidemic-of-obesity/ .

To thaw means to melt.

Interestingly, Armageddon, the apocalypse, was foretold in both Christianity and Islam.

Finally I've gotten an Asian strainer to help with my cooking.

In proper English, when in a restaurant, parents with a toddler should ask a waitron for a booster seat, not for a booster.

A piece of phenolic cookware essentially means its handles are phenolic, which translates into plain English as "heat resistant handle(s)".

Since when has the word "staunch" become a negative one?

"Stuffy" should be negative, but should "staunch" too?

The United Church of Canada is "the second largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Roman Catholic Church."

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

I'm rueful that the life of us human beings in big cities has insidiously become so busy.

I've gotten used to stock Valleyspeak words such as "like" and "totally".

It's common knowledge now that smoking cigarettes sullies one's lung, throat, and mouth.

Do troubles ever abate in life?

"The Everlasting" means God.

"Decimation" is an interesting word.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army) .

I for one can sense that many, if not the better part of, Canadian consumers are sort of maxed out.

Does the French word "bâton" sound prettier than its English counterpart, "baton"?

Yes, probably a little prettier, IMHO.

Will there be jocund years?

I for one don't like to see that the main outstanding debris of the American and Canadian civilization will be large houses and large cars, when they are going to decline inevitably in the future.

Well. Knock on wood.

There are so many pieces of information that get bruited about, day in and day out, on social networks.

How much time of mine are they worth?

Vacuum cleaners' suction is so effective.

Many computer algorithms are heuristic by nature.

Examples include Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS).

A carousal is a carousal. A ritual is a ritual.

The finance industry's activities in the U.S. always belongs to the former, it seems.

Spirituality is pivotal to a person, I suppose.

What does tabloidism do to the society?

For a period of time, I had been a wet blanket. :-)

An $8000 judgement isn't very very much, but one such judgement per month is hell.

Some decisions in life reverberate long.

So people should be careful not to take too much liberties.

The folding (step?) stools sold at Dollarama are inexpensive but not very good.

There are so many time bombs in life.

It's wrong not to be self-confident, where it's wrong to be hubristic.

"Débris" doesn't sound much prettier than "debris", right?

Heuristic teaching methods are used to a great extent in Canadian universities, I suppose.

Pubs typically are for a carouse, not for a conversation.

Canine friends are such a good name for dogs.

Well, there are boarding schools, and there are boarding kennels. :-)

Children are jocund by nature because they are happy-go-lucky and their shoulders carry no responsibility.

When a government is no longer trusty in people's minds, what will people do?

Now I know that wellingtons, or wellies, are a commoner name for rubber boots.

Do bountiful compliments such as "I'm so proud of you" towards a child generate too much hubris in him or her?

How long will the international accord stay in Asia?

Potential dangers are always there, right?

Russia has contributed magnificently to Arts, Science, Engineering, and military of the world.

But it has also strong-armed the world.

Chick lit is always chic.

As a matter of fact, China used to be blackballed internationally.

There are so many chances in life one's dream gets blown to smithereens.

I guess the better part of Canadians are more happy-go-lucky than I am.

It seems to me that Americans and Canadians are head over heels in love with words.

Oftentimes I am in my element at a bookstore rather than in a library.

I have the luck of the Irish to live in Canada of 21st century. What am I gonna do with it?