隨著我年歲的增長，我越來越覺得一個人的語文能力(非特指外語能力)極其重要。

看起來思辯能力與語文能力正相關，但是相關係數每個人是不同的。

一個人對自己的真知灼見的淬煉，與別人的真知灼見對他的淬煉，是兩個相輔相成的進程，也是兩個非常個人化的進程。

另外，'真知灼見'這個詞好像蠻有意思的。其中‘灼’是‘明亮’的意思。

The abrogation of responsibilities of a government or state to its employees can happen. So I don't know how many civil servants or state employees actually worry about whether their skills are marketable or not.

Under the pressure and watch of opposition parties, the media, and voters, the government in a democracy has to execute husbandry on resources such as the money collected from taxpayers.

Google Dictionary doesn't support wildcard, till now.

We should expect the real world to be awry most of the time, perhaps.

Maybe rebels revel in rebelling. And maybe they don't revel in building.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/OrZSA)

How much private businesses remunerate its executives, as well as staff, must be their own business.

But their customers may care about or pay attention to that. The fair trade coffee is one example of that.

ORIGINAL ideas actually are ideas DERIVED from other ideas. However, they are emitted from ORIGINAL minds.

I guess that in Christianity, it's subtle to discern what's in an individual's power and what's not, albeit everything is ultimately in the god's power.

So, in the face of hardship, does an individual only passively pray, or does he both pray and get up and do something about it?

The above is my primitive thoughts.

另外一面，佛教極其講究“因果律”，貌似一切操之在我，也貌似根本無必要向佛祈禱。與上面的基督教的看法極不同。

Well, I've been seeing replicates of the Twitter interface everywhere on Chinese websites.

A life spent on making money for its own sake is only a surrogate life. It's not a true life.

Transparency makes traducing less effective, perhaps.

The staunchness of the money worship among the Chinese people, both domestic and overseas, has always seemed to be very hard to beat.

To importune for help is not wise. To give and take is.

The British poet Simon Armitage said, "the heartbeat is essentially an iambic rhythm, and you could say the same about footsteps."

(Excerpted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/mar/11/radio-review-ramblings-simon-armitage )

Everyone should bethink himself that life is short, or very short.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/AoQAO)

Soldiers walk unassailably. Countries move considerately.

The real estate of a former Couche-Tard convenience store, which went out of business and is close to my place, is still unsold, after at least 10 months. The real estate agent's ad. sign is still hanging right above the door of the property.

The Android browser needs more functionalities and a better favicon.

Maybe there is no such thing as a thoroughly trustworthy bank.

I don't know. Some big entrenched businesses may seek bankruptcy and then reorganization as a vehicle to abrogate workers union contracts, as a last resort.

GM, and Blockbuster, might be two examples of that practice.

One's daily life with a child or children to care is very time-tight. He must husband his time, as a resource, quite well.

The wonderful relationship between the number of sides and that of angles in a polygon...

When a person's beliefs, values, or way of life is challenged or shaken, he tends to feel "now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say?" (The Bible : John 12:27)

A society's fabrics have many layers and threads, which can be invisibly very powerful and subtle. Implanting a foreign layer or thread of societal fabric into the system can be quite dangerous.

For instance, replicating Western democracy in China would, possibly, be quite harmful to people's life over there.

Mother Theresa (a.k.a. 德兰修女, 特蕾莎修女 in Chinese), her personality, her deeds, and mostly her spiritual journey, has begun to intrigue me.

Music video - Jason Mraz - Bella Luna

This particular song appeared in Jason Mraz' 2005 album, "Mr. A-Z".

Lyrics:


"Bella Luna"

Mystery the moon
A hole in the sky
A supernatural nightlight
So full but often right
A pair of eyes, a closin' one,
A chosen child of golden sun
A marble dog that chases cars
To farthest reaches of the beach and far beyond into the swimming sea of stars

A cosmic fish they love to kiss
They're giving birth to constellation
No riffs and oh, no reservation.
If they should fall you get a wish or dedication
May I suggest you get the best
For nothing less than you and I
Let's take a chance as this romance is rising over before we lose the lighting
Oh bella bella please
Bella you beautiful luna
Oh bella do what you do
Do do do do do

You are an illuminating anchor
Of leagues to infinite number
Crashing waves and breaking thunder
Tiding the ebb and flows of hunger
You're dancing naked there for me
You expose all memory
You make the most of boundary
You're the ghost of royalty imposing love
You are the queen and king combining everything
Intertwining like a ring around the finger of a girl
I'm just a singer, you're the world
All I can bring ya
Is the language of a lover
Bella luna, my beautiful, beautiful moon
How you swoon me like no other

May I suggest you get the best
Of your wish may I insist
That no contest for little you or smaller I
A larger chance happened, all them they lie
On the rise, on the brink of our lives
Bella please
Bella you beautiful luna
Oh bella do what you do
Bella luna, my beautiful, beautiful moon
How you swoon me like no other, oh oh oh


- Copied from http://goo.gl/hSazP

Many American and British families are staunchly Christian.

Whenever the market is in a panic or crisis, liquidity beyond cash is nonsense.

As a person's age grows, he's wary of more and more matters.

(Image via http://goo.gl/VqPEn)

For an individual, the mundaneness of the daily life needs to be countered and that needs time or even energy.

Among the ways to counter that mundaneness are entertainment, love, poetry, or elevation.

People call that countering "recreation".

Very powerful entities and organizations which look unassailable today may disintegrate in a matter of years.

In this era of information overload, most forms of writing should be succinct, terse, and clear.

Pablo Picasso once said or wrote, "Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."

Is the chastity mentioned in his above quote different than purity?

The fluidity of mind is driven by imagination and reasoning. The former cannot get certificated, but the latter often get certificated by one or more diplomas, generally speaking.

Competition is permanent. Don't get galled by it.

The "follow" relationship on microblog websites, such as Twitter, is UNIDIRECTIONAL, while that on SNS websites, such as Facebook, is BIDIRECTIONAL.

有營養的軟文都是很微妙滴。

The displaying of information, including text, charts and images, is consequential. Not to mention the presentation of information.

Fine and delicate balancing act for Quebec

In order to keep the identity of their own French cultural root, the Quebec people need to enforce some sort of language preservation measures. On the other hand, in order to achieve or enhance the fluidity of movements of Quebec's economy, capital, talents and workers, the Quebec people need to continuously enhance their English proficiency and their presence in and engagement with the world at large whose lingua facto has increasingly focused on the English language.

It is a fine and delicate balancing act for the Quebec government and the Quebec people to take up in the years to come.

Unchecked and unexamined selfishness is a canker.

(Image of a canker worm from http://goo.gl/5eQn3)

Reality drives the evolution of one's dreams in life.

識人，實為一要務。

I think it's very consequential for an individual to acquire or possess a vision that can fathom the circumscription which he will have to face and deal with in his later life stages.

Now there's a term "Facebook depression", which is used to depict a current phenomenon among North American teenagers.

Canadians receive too many importunities in letters week after week, I think. This way of life isn't attractive.

The five major components of English learning are Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Vocabulary. I'm gonna call them the pentameter of English acquirement.

Many procurers are quite chary.

Usually, people need to watch out the sons of high ranking officials.

I guess that less and less people care about the blow-by-blow accounts of news events, which have tended to be omnipresent in the traditional media, nowadays.

There's a town named "Ajax" in Ontario, Canada. Gee.

Perhaps the popularity of Taylor Swift has something to do with the implicit hint of chasteness in her music and own person, in the seemingly sexy world of American teenagers.

It seems that many Chinese people, both domestic and overseas, are very natural hoarders.

D.O.D., a.k.a. the Pentagon, has spawned and sponsored so many seeds of modern technologies.

Without sufficient critical thinking skills and background knowledge, an individual tends to be prone to calumnious influences.

(Image from http://goo.gl/TG3Ij)

Deal-of-the-day websites, which mostly are copycats of Groupon.com , are mushrooming everywhere across the world.

Nifty wordsmiths tend to fare particularly well on Douban.com .

When companies leverage too much, a.k.a. are in too much debt, they put themselves into very assailable positions.

Employees usually want to emancipate themselves from their managers, especially those micromanaging ones.

As an information consumer, among all the information streams which I subscribe to, for some, I receive all the information in those streams, and for others, I just take snapshots.

While the number of Christians has been in decline among native Westerners, more and more staunch Christians have emerged among the first-generation Chinese immigrants in the U.S. and Canada.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/9G8k0)

Many internet companies send importunate emails to the users of their services.

Well, users have to pay that price for the free services they take advantage of.

Maybe, just maybe, black people are naturally not very fit for ballet dancing, due to the way the back of their hips is built and that cannot be tucked very well.

Well, different races have different strengths.

For any sovereignty, the circumscription of the fields which foreign capital can enter into is of vital consequences but also is a delicate art.

Sometime Lady Gaga makes herself look like a sorceress. Well, her artistry appears challenging.

Some Westerners don't think Chinese people emote.

Floating and Absolute Positioning are two major CSS layout tools. And they are tedious.

The studying in North American universities of the native speakers of Chinese is GREATLY impeded by their highly probable insufficient English proficiency. My friends and I were among them.

Can you really trust Western banks? I don't think so. Not any one of them.

The existence of raunchy inner cities has its economic reasons.

"Picasa" is the name of Google's online image organizer and photo sharing program. And that name has something to do with Picasso.

""Picasa" is a blend of the name of famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house", and "pic" for pictures (personalized art)."
--Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa

The offices and buildings of the federal government in Canada tend to look chaste.

I love FM radio stations. Douban.FM is a good example.

How to properly interpret the words and teaching in the Bible seems to very difficult, subtle, and ambiguous.

For one thing, in the New Testament, Jesus told people to love their enemies, and 'turn the other cheek' to their assailants (St Luke, Chapter 6). Obviously, the U.S. government didn't follow that specific piece of teaching in its handling of the 911 attack. What would it do if the U.S. were ruled by a Christian government instead of by a secular one, against the backdrop that the U.S. has always been a deeply Christian nation?

Read in English, and read fast.

The hefty Nokia is depending on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform, at least in the short term. I still can't believe it. Gee.

What information material of the media's websites is mirrored in SNS sites must be of great interest for the media.

(Image from http://goo.gl/rzEZy)

On a related note, in a sense, individual SNS users are sort of like mini news stands which disseminate media material pieces, independent of the media companies.

I guess that a sense of wonder is vital for an individual when he first encounters a branch or unit of knowledge.

That being said, it seems that many university professors, in both China and Canada, are not good at conveying that sense of wonder.

It seems that technology firms are nifty competitors to all sectors' established players.

The Berkshire Hathaway companies are advertising sort of aggressively now. Well, the shrewd Warren Buffet.

It looks like that Huawei, a giant Chinese telecom tech company, has begun to globalize and Westernize really seriously.

I suspect that many Western countries are beginning or will begin to breed a more coherent national identity among its citizens of various cultural backgrounds.

Life must be miserable from time to time for the web developers in China. The very backward IE6 browser is still in horrifyingly wide use over there.

Perhaps I'll take up an Android tablet at the end of this year.

How differently are the power of the monarchies of the U.K. and Japan circumscribed?

Oh, I love the blue colors of the top bar of the Chrome browser on Windows XP.

Why are most beverages that adults enjoy either black or yellow? Good examples include coffee, black tea, tea, beer, whiskey, and brandy.

Saucer is very Western tableware, actually.

(Image from http://goo.gl/58vNb)

Chinese don't accompany their tea cups with saucers, because they don't need to put any milk or sugar into their tea at all, so they don't need saucers to place their spoons on.

Well, between the synonyms "lumber" and "timber", largely due to the sounds of the two words, I personally consider "timber" is finer than "lumber". Or more precisely, to put it another way, "lumber" sounds a little rough or coarse.

It's said that Japan makes 40% of the parts and components of our everyday electronics devices and equipments. Gee.

Well, the JIT supply chains which are predominant in Japanese businesses are showing their shortcomings now, in the wake of the mammoth unpredictable disasters of earthquake and tsunami.

Rich men and women are afraid that their love life is besmirched with the smells of money.

Maybe more and more people will assail the presence of too many ads inflicted on Android smart phones.

Unfortunately, it appears that we can observe more intellectual torpor in China than in the U.S. and Canada.

(Image from http://goo.gl/m0k2Z)

Will that situation change? If so, when?

It's in the human nature to swing for the fences at the fist sight of something new. But we must counter that with reasoning.

Maneuvering one's career looks quite heady.

But I'm not sure how much the so-called career planning can really help. If it largely is an art, then you cannot be really taught by a hired career consultant. If it largely is a science, then you cannot be helped much by it because the environment in which you try to implement it cannot be controlled.

I guess how well neighbors know each other is proportional to the amount of the engaged shared spaces which are very close by.

The universities in the U.S. and Canada seem to be bloated. There are too many professors and instructors.

Perhaps there will be some form of lay-offs which will have to be done, against the backdrop of the rising of e-learning. Otherwise the financial burden to pay all the university employees would look too much for the society.

Canada is an excellent society and withal a cold country.

How come Google can hit so many sweet spots in its various lines of business? Gee.

It's been said that the uptake of Android smart phones has surpassed that of iPhone devices.