Personally I don't like the information deluge exacerbated by Facebook.

Unfortunately, Facebook has become the bridgehead for many businesses and people.

So many women waste much of their time on frivolities.

Out of proportion seems to be the percentage of Chinese people who have got aspiration for wealth.

How did unhealthy candies get to become festive treats?

Let me forget the whole shebang of the word 'brocade'.

J wants to be his family's keeper.

Personally I like cutting-edge software. But not the bleeding edge stuff.

Apple afficionados, Windows diehards, along with Linux enthusiasts.

Which camp do you belong to?

Sporadic acknowledgement of my English fluency provides extra incentive for me to acquire the particular language.

Withstanding is even better than resisting.

Command-line utilities automate GUI operations done by mouse clicks.

Lovable.

What, if anything, can withstand the secular capitalism?

"Anything, Anything, Anything for money".

What has Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. done to the children and the young adults?

Doesn't the name say it all, "Blizzard Entertainment", and "Inc."?

You don't want to be overtaken or overwhelmed by the particular Blizzard.

As I understand them, 'cookery' is more advanced than 'cooking'.

And 'gastronomy' more than 'cookery'.

Industrious Amelia and good-time Charlie.

Information Technology terms are typically not lucidily coined at all.

Examples include "buffer", "cache", and "boot", I reckon.

Sometimes, this earthly life needs to be ameliorated by religions.

Maybe the part "smart" should be expunged from the name "smartphone".

Most phones have got a mobile OS running on them nowadays, after all.

We're now Christmas bound. Surely flurries will come.

The tacit knowledge is that a potential biz partner must at least be reasonable and gracious, I think.

Welcome, winter mittens and leather gloves.

F. G. is not even close to being gracious enough. Sigh.

And, he wants to go head-to-head with entrenched competitors. Sigh.

It seems that many people consider Donald Trump to be bombastic.

See:
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20150915-editorial-behind-trumps-bombast-a-man-without-a-plan.ece

Well, algorithmic problems.

The model for the Gerber baby.

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

"You shall not bow down to them or worship them; ..." - Deuteronomy 5:9

"Calypso Trail Mix" is a good nuts food by Lalumière.

What a colourful and fancy food name coined by the Canadian company.

By contrast, "Mountain Trail Mix" seems to be a name widely adopted in the industry.

Well, these days of persistent warm weather in Winter. So abnormal.

I don't know how to precisely describe it. The Americans seem to be fervently selfish.

Not necessarily self-centered, but really fervently selfish.

Well, Capitalism has run a long course.

The meaning of 'justice system' seems quite different than that of 'judicial system'.

And 'adjudicate' differs much from 'judge'.

“唱戏的腔、厨师的汤。”

It's almost a hoax that people are led to think they can profit from speculating in financial markets, except real Finance professionals.

And that tragedy is deemed to be exacerbated if the individual speculator is in the later half of his life.

Will life eventually become hard for Apple aficionados, post Steve Jobs?

"But I have nothing to wear," modern Cinderellas usually sniff in their hearts.

And they follow fashion trendsetters blindly, with their eyes wide open.

Yes, through thick and thin...

Oh, magnanimousness.

Well, have Christians been forced into the counterculture in today's American society?

The latter has become so hedonic.

A North American foible is the overloading omnipresence of foods of wickedly high colories sold in splendid little packages.

We've been coaxed into a typical life style of do more, consume more.

But, enough is enough, huh?

Swill your beer, swell your belly.

To be frank, most people who grew up in China still tremendously underestimate the amounts of time and practices which to REALLY acquire English requires.

Schism seems inevitable in every single organization or alliance.

Yes, extenuating circumstances, as well as excuses.

"Raffle" tickets, not "ruffle" tickets.

I'm an inveterate learner of the English language.

It's noteworthy that the dominant Apple computing devices are consumer gizmos.

On the other hand, we owe the gratitude for the democratization of personal computing to Microsoft, at least in China.

J knows how much and long it takes to overcome the disadvantages of one's lineage and surrounding.

Naan and pretzel are among my new favorite foods.

J's dad has got insomnia lately.

Mostly in Montreal there are only coffee houses, but I prefer Eastern Asian tea brews.

Beer is not healthy, but it's nurturing. :-)

Just fattening, actually.

My running shoes have got 10 eyelets on each.

They strangled my shoe laces to death. :-)

Who defines the treason crime?

The Pretz biscuit sticks are a type of pretzel. It's made by Glico, a Japanese company.

You want to ascertain if your employer are good people.

Chamber pot used to be a staple in people's bedrooms.

We humans love porcelain for dinning ware, don't we?

Accountability, which seems to be omnipresent in real democratic societies, should be able to effectively impede nepotism and cronyism.

I seldom see impetuous women, at least until now.

However Stephen Harper's election team had lampooned Justin Trudeau, the latter one, a green national politican, has won the recent Canadian election.

There is a prodigious void, which yet is crucially unsatisfying for human beings, left out by capitalism.

Privacy hedges very much information. It's a necessary evil.

Hippo is a domesticated male from Thailand. His daughter is currently attending a kindergarten.

There seems to be so many keeners in Canada.

Sigh. The bruising demands of the modern life, in both Canada and China.

Maybe many people carry a lot of emotional baggage.

Cubicle farms seem to represent the productivity of yesterday.

Personally I like the tastes of the Primo brand spaghettini and vermicelle.

One shouldn't look for camaraderie in today's rampantly capitalist societies, I guess.

Sigh. How much extra time and efforts do individuals have to put in just for the sake of up-to-dateness, which in turn they have to do?

Erudite journals such as New York Times, New Yorker, and The Economist are still too painstaking for me to read.

夏逝：落英缤纷，灼灼其华。

秋临：落叶遍地，红黄间绿。

I wish that the desktop Windows ecosystem gets along harmoniously with its desktop Linux counterpart.

Sigh. In order to accompany cheese, nowadays I replenish my beer belly nearly every single day.

At the very least, the American way of life has got three bad encroachments: that of gun violence, that of obesity, as well as that of workaholism.

Welcome to the new world.

So many recent changes are so breathtaking and bad.

I commiserate with my fellow men.

Many of them did or will lose their households.

Obviously, capitalism encourages hedonism.

From secular eyes, religions demand credulity from each believer.

Reclaim orientation, recover time, reintegrate knowledge sources.

Unfortunately, some Chinese who graduated from universities in Montreal are not as erudite as they should be, it seems.

Once upon a time, I liked those typical flamboyant sports T-shirts.

Watch out for bad postures when you are using a computer.

They will do you bad.

It seems that many Chinese immigrants in Montreal are not ready for the oftentimes challenging Canadian job market.

Some of them tried, and then capitulated to depaneurs and restaurants.

Well, those conscientious females.

The cartoon figure Big Bird looks amiable. It appears in Sesame Street and must be very well known in the U.S.

It seems that I repetitively look up the exact meanings of "get ahead" and "taint".

It's lucky that I still haven't lost my mind during the very long journey of beefing up my English vocabulary. I'm a sanctimonious learner of the English language. :-)

Hold your horses, cowgirls.

Sometime I'm terrified by the complexities of the contemporary world, be it religious, geopolitical, economical, or technological.

It seems that the backdrop of the ongoing military conflicts in the Middle East is the conflict between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam.

To fall into the trap of being sanctimonious...

Caillou and Rosie

Caillou shows Rosie how to make (sand) towers.
"Look, Rosie," he says. "You take the pail and go like this."
Rosie giggles and claps her hands.
Sandcastles are the most fun of all!

-Excerpted from p. 117 of the children book Caillou: My Book of Great Adventures

How well written.

It appears that more and more people have become gluttonous for money and voracious for unhealthy foods and drinks.

Long live the Firefox browser.

It seems that more and more people can't stand callous and spoiled women movie figures.

The name 'Javascript' suggests that the particular programming language might be a Java analog in many aspects.

However, it's only a marketing scheme.

Well, the boolean values in the Javascript programming language are evaluated to a "truthy" value or a "falsy" value.

Well, soooooo special...

Immigrants are different than migrants.

The latter word is used often in the ongoing refugee crisis.

Linux people like plaintext files so darn much.

The meanings of the noun 'stroke' has got many variations in terms of degrees.

Bengali and Bangla refer to the same language spoken as the official language in Bangladesh.

It seems that nowadays many parents have culpable ignorance or negligence whilst raising their children, in both Canada and China.

Information overload spites me.

Less is more.

History is not always dead-on.

In Linux, filter commands print a file's contents, in total or in part, so to speak.

It seems that there always is malice in ancient palaces.

I deplore my past ignorance.

When real problems arise, can fanboys call down Apple?

Yes, if those problems are caused by Microsoft. :-)

Are Canadians splashing out too much money on insignificant but expensive mobile phone models?

It seems that Americans are ferociously competitive.

Manhood and masculinity.

J doesn't like to let others walk all over him.

Some women expect to be swept off their feet.

Well, in the United States and Canada...

I feel that the segue from MP3 players to smartphones went very fast.

Capris are also called 'crop pants' and 'three quarter pants'.

A bank employee touched base with J.

Banks know everything.

Android is not an open-source poseur.

But Android/(Google Mobile Services) is.

And that's quite unlike GNU/Linux.

Compared to real Linux, Android is so baked in cake.

'Ballistic' seems to a good brand name for a phone protection case.

Montreal has got a relatively strong presence in acrobatic circus.

Brazil and Mexico, followed by Colombia, are the most populus countries in Latin America.

The English word 'pantyhose' was derived from 'panty', I guess.

For that matter, the former appends 'hose' to the latter.

I'm always apt to have problems with pronouncing the English word 'managerial'.

Hollywood stars often regale us with real life dramas.

Am I increasingly becoming a somewhat cheapskate :-) ?

Coolheadedness is different than hardheadedness.

I've always had a slight trouble with the English word 'annotate'.

My toddler daughter mistook the English translation of the Chinese word '蝉' as 'beaver'.

It should be 'cicada', instead.

Take a high road, man.

Water under the bridge.

Cheaper and cheaper are tertiary storage devices such as external hard disks.

But I like the primary storage device, i.e. main memory, the most.

Open-source seems to be the kingmaker.

Let's see how Apple will go and fare.

Who wants to become a stooge of powerful bankers anyway?

'Velvety' is a very good word.

VirtualBox seems to be a stand-in for me before I will embrace KVM.

Information Technology slathers so much time of everyone.

Bhutan, the reputed happiest country in Asia, has a very small population of 0.7 million.

By contrast, the Tibet region has got a much larger population of 3 million.

Bhutanese belongs to the Tibetan language family.

In Canada, firefighters are also first responders.

People are apt to think recess is useless.

An Indian Tamil descendant, who was born in Malaysia, speaks Malay, Tamil, English, and Chinese, each to various proficiency level, supposedly. But she doesn't speak Hindi.

Oh, now she can also speak French, after she came to Canada.

How complex is that? Well, it's complex for a pure Chinese like me.

'A piece of cake', and 'cakewalk'. Anglophones like cakes.

A piece of cake and a cakewalk are easy. But a real cake is not easy on your teeth!

Most likely, an Indian speaks Hindi and is a Hindu.

Every employer wants to get their money's worth.

And, many of them want to get rich on their employees' back.

For young and middle-aged IT professionals who cannot self-study in his spare time in order to keep abreast, unemployability down the road is going to be in the cards.

Berne Convention was signed in Berne, Switzerland.

Another famous city is Bonn, Germany. I'm apt to be confused between them.

I saw a child's T-shirt reads 'Eat, Sleep, Score'.

That can apply to many Canadians, I think. Because so many people nowadays do not eat properly, and are deprived of sleep in various degrees.

'Classics Galore' is such a good name for a music CD album.

In software development, version control is intrinsically related to exploratory coding.

It's so much heavy lifting for IT and software development practitioners nowadays.

Is honor system reliable in Canada nowadays?

openSUSE's gecko logo is elegant.

Using Linux Mint would be a great boon for university students who major in technical programs, both money wise and technical know-how wise.

It's a sure leg up.

With the advent of mobile computing and telephony of smartphones, people's home internet and telephony have become somewhat graceful degradation systems.

IT professionals typically possess the know-how of a panoply of tools.

The dumb-ass H. W. has caused such a loooong pain for everyone.

Twerking, booty dance, etc.

What has the American pop culture become?

He couldn't break out of that vicious circle.

Who can prognosticate the future of the knowledge economy job market?

It would take a lot of constant sleuthing.

But anyways, hack it, individuals.

Italic fonts look prettier than their Roman counterparts.

Labor market is risky in nature.

We should get used to two themes in James Bond movies, especially in its Skyfall episode: 007 hits the ground running, and 'agent down'.

The long-standing Ebony magazine, an American one, may be experiencing cash flow problems.

Owls are a bird of deciduous forests.

The Pantheon in Rome corresponds to the Parthenon in Athens, so to speak.

The winds blow the rains onto my windows and the rains stream down on them.

It's evocative.

A raffle sale is not a rubbish sale.

And, a 'garage' sale is not a 'garbage' sale.

In Canada, family doctors perform the general treatment and the triage upon patients.

A chipmunk is not a squirrel, but the two are related.

Bunnies normally refer to young rabbits.

A gnome is a troll. But a GNOME is a desktop environment. :-)

'Scotch tape' is like 'Kleenex'. The name came from the brand.

Constantly plagued by information overload and overflow.

To contest the putative good life...

The overflowing lava of modern Linux desktop OSes appears to be unstoppable.

In the future, I wanna try the following: resist the siren call of the putatively sleek desktop environment of Mac OS X, and Bash it instead. :-)

Joe Boxer and American Eagle Outfitters seem to be interesting brand names.

Living in the mother of all modern Linux distros.

The waxwork figures are excellent, which are presented in Musée Grévin Montréal.

Uzbekistan has got a population whose amount is nearly the same as that of Canada.

And, Uzbeks, as well as Tatars (鞑靼人), are included in the Turkic peoples (a.k.a. Turks (突厥人)).

In their hearts, nearly every youngster wants to impersonate some super stars, I guess.

And, for good measure, they want themselves to become a super star in some way one day.

Interestingly, "Armenia has a relatively large diaspora (8 million by some estimates, greatly exceeding the 3 million population of Armenia itself), with communities existing across the globe."

-Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#Diaspora

Would-be hackers and wannabe nerds.

Well, the Banshee media player is good. Is there a music player named as 'Siren' in the world?

'Asunder' is such a good name for a CD ripper.

Love the caret character, don't I?

Earning money is never a cinch.

Well, the "emancipation and empowerment of women."

It seems that Cuba, a country in Latin America, has got a very influential culture out of proportion, for instances, Salsa and Cha-cha, as known worldwide.

Interestinly, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, and Mexico all belong to Latin America.

The topical solution Hydrogen Peroxide disinfects minor cuts and scratches.

Man, it's antiseptic. Well, I don't know Chemistry and Medicine well.

The prevalent capitalist model in North America encourages people to abandon life to money.

The ignorant toddler girl poked my daughter's eyes twice.

N. D. wants to compare notes with me.

"Got a frog in my throat," the old lady said to her friend.

It's said that Populism has contributed greatly to the great decline of the economies in Latin America.

星落鸟飞，弹指间青葱岁月已逝。

Interestingly, the actor Mike Myers played both the role Austin Powers and that of Dr. Evil.

And he's a Canadian.

Why do so many men only in their thirties and forties have frosty hair strands nowadays?

'Criticality'--there is such a word in English.

Simply keep your cool in front of of all that overflowing and constant hype of marketing and media.

That way, you can keep yourself out of the way of much frustrations and busyness.

Ah, the fleetingly changing suppliers landscape for personal computing needs.

Well, a Windows PC is a holdover from the fading Microsoft era, while a Windows OS is a blast from the past.

Where will bespoke IT systems go?

It's been reported that almost every parent in the Western societies is harried by time pressure day in and day out.

'Eight-Section Brocade' is an excellent English translation of the “八段锦” in Chinese.

Oh, my corny little gedit.

Well, the pedigreed Mr. Justin Trudeau.

Here and there, there seems to always be a man who mistakenly believes that to act violently makes him be a hell of a man.

Adoptive parents are not like blood parents.

Some of them rehomed their adopted children. But, that's a very complex issue with complicated reasons and motives. One cannot simply call that rehoming inhumane.

It seems that poppy petals often appear in Western ceremonies and movies.

The English verb 'administrate' has got exactly the same meaning as 'administer', where 'contest' hasn't as 'challenge'.

Laugh at me. I'm afraid that much of the pop culture stuff is just corn.

I've been keeping culling my RSS feeds, as well as my social media and email subscriptions. But they are still overflowing.