Everything is so vague in China.

How come local governments in China can terminate, at will, factories' leasehold of lands and force them to move and pay even higher rents?

Gee. That definitely can turn businesses on.

It should be exhorted that Canadian businesses get to be more aggressive and less complacent.

Who doesn't like a restaurant with an attractive courtyard and marvelous sangria?

I always forget one of the meanings of the word "foil", which is a fencing sword.

Still, I need to beef up my English reading persistently in the decades to come.

If one is completely satisfied with his current career situation, there is no chance that the world is his oyster.

"Where did you shower my daughter?" J asked.

"There's a utility sink in the daycare. I took her there and gave her a mini shower," D answered.

Bev Oda's aptness of indulging herself in luxurious spending, on taxpayers' money, had been divulged and consequently, she resigned from her post of Minister of International Cooperation of the Canadian government.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Oda#Controversies_and_scandals.

If she really likes living high life, she would be better suited if she chose a profiteering career path, such as investment banking, rather than the public service one.

I am not sure how technologically sophisticated the mining and processing of oil sand is, which is momentous for Canada.

I had lunch at the Frite Alors on St-Denis the other day.

The young waiters and waitresses over there attend on customers quite friendly and professionally. And their poutine isn't bad. I recommend the place.

Sadly, the truth is that some Chinese Canadians have less etiquette than their European counterparts, especially when lining up.

In almost every movie or TV series, there are some reproachable characters.

Drinking coffee or tea is my wont.

And they do good.

Some people don't have the gumption to try entrepreneurship because they focus too much on monetary gains.

A quote

"He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself."
-"Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None", by Nietzsche

一杯午夜一点钟的咖啡，一曲汪峰的《春天里》，几片好吃的 crackers。

最近我被汪峰的这首歌秒杀，被他的才力秒杀。

Remarkably, NASA's Mars exploration has been 50 years in the making.

The Curiosity land rover looks fantastic in action.

There are certainly some grim aspects of life.

Then everyone must learn by himself how to place his conscience in the face of those grim aspects.

I think Douban.com is a swanky way of doing social media.

Radical technological innovations. Embrace them or lose in competition.

As so many investors in the U.S. show scorn for banks, it's unwise for an individual to seek a career in the banking industry, I suppose.

The playfulness of Google's seemingly unrelated product lines makes many people wonder.

Some people speculate that the reputedly rock-solid real-time QNX OS which RIM bought up several years ago will facilitate RIM's possible encore.

I don't agree with it. RIM not only has a huge product problem, it but also has a HUGE marketing problem, because it's been forced to be enveloped in the consumer market, which is very different than the enterprise market it'd been used to, by the market shifts, especially the nascent but widely adopted BYOD policies implemented in many companies.

Some blobs in human brains must have very similar mechanisms of emotions.

For instances, most individuals can appreciate the ever popular song "Hotel California" by The Eagles with its fantastic music, and most individuals can be somewhat moved by a military funeral.

Which parent never scolds his or her kid?

Permanent competitive edges elude businesses, large and small, while customer demands almost always evade real understanding as long as they evolve.

Microsoft has revamped its OS offerings and adapted to the mobile world.

Windows 8 probably will not be able to sustain the company's dominance in the IT industry, but it probably will be a really fantastic product for consumers nevertheless.

I wont to drink beer in the summer.

It surely tastes better than water and Diet Coke.

Life puts almost every friendship to small or big tests, sooner or later.

Then the rhythm and the fate of the friendship is determined.

More and more Syrians are ready to rebel against the President, after it has become apparent that every civilian can be the intended victim of the ongoing massacres ordered by the President.

Business doesn't stop at 5. Technology innovation and advancement doesn't stop at 5.

The United States disrupt all sorts of industry value chains with its customary innovation.

What Apple and Google's Android have done in the mobile sphere is just another example of that.

By contrast, the sad case of RIM's free fall stings many Canadians and makes them ask again if Canadian companies can compete in the technology sector.

"California, here we come".

Friends have parted from D. X., one by one.

The culprit is two fatal flaws of him, albeit he's got some very good characters which I actually appreciate a lot. Sigh.

Currently I've got a habitual weekday routine, which is to improve my own English proficiency a teeny bit.

I don't give up.

Sometime I can't help but wonder if I'm too ambitious because I want to achieve what 1.5 or 2 generations of Chinese immigrants overseas achieve within 1 generation, which is my own lifetime. :-)

In recent years, some, or many, local governments in China have done quite a few harmful and untrustworthy deeds to SMBs.

No wonder more and more rich Chinese people have been heading out of China and establishing a base in one Western country or another.

It's quite easy for me to mistake the word "splinter" for "sprinkler".

It's regrettable for G. N. to pair with C. G. into their entrepreneurial endeavor.

As was my wont, I checked the news about RIM and saw almost nothing good.

Breezes in August make life lovely.

A spectrum of light feelings has been induced in me by summer.

I used to exhort Chinese immigrants in Canada whom I know to learn a great deal of English.

I repent of the moment that my wife turned off our portable air conditioner without first cancelling the set timer. :-)

Now I have had to fix the mysterious problem that the air conditioner refuses to consistently blow cool air.

People had better to stop the custom that one must use Facebook day in and day out.

Life is a poem without rhyme. Some people just don't know to appreciate the right ones.

I think there's a crucial element and aspect of a good higher education.

And it's that the university or college must instill and strengthen the student's hard working habit (not work ethic. The latter may only be taught by one's parents and himself?), as well as intellectual custom and curiosity, by constantly urging him on by loading him with relatively heavy academic learning and work. One extreme example of that is the infamous or famous "drinking from the fire hose" approach long adopted by MIT.

No offense, I can't keep from wondering about this.

Some Christians sort of plead with God to form a perpetual bond. But does God think pleading is the best form of praying?

"Wonton" is a good sort of food in Chinese cuisine.

However, it's very easy to be confused with the word "wanton", which signifies badness and mercilessness.

Love listening to Norah Jones' singing voice sliding down the pitch.

I often contemplate where my time has gone after a busy day.

Time is one of the most scarce resources an individual has nowadays.

Now I've become kind of wont to judge people significantly by their geographic origins. Sigh.

The custom of profit seeking is so ingrained in Capitalist societies that it's pivotal to compensate it with humanity.

Alas, not just few Canadians have scorn for Americans.

Chinese diet is apt to provide ample amounts of various vegetables, which comfort our stomachs and minds.

Many Canadian Olympic athletes train and compete almost entirely out of their own pockets, without governmental funding.

Yet their passion for their sports stay undiminished. That spirit goes on.

I'm going to try to run my little aptitudes and good-will through this world.

An ideal sales rhythm has no waste.

The newfound engine of economic development is knowledge and talent.

It's powerful. And it may not need much capital to begin with.

Chandeliers are a marvel, aren't they?

In general, animal rights advocates have been trying to reduce and eliminate the wanton treatment of animals by human beings. And that's good.

"At the crack of dawn" is a beautiful idiom, isn't it?

Will Nokia ever get to its feet?

Will it be able to roll out a mobile OS of its own which will be popular?

I'm wont to think as much as I can.

This world is summoned to run by perceptions which are accompanied by concepts.

Vintage music video - Angie - Rolling Stones

Many people fear that the launch of Blackberry 10 expected of early next year by RIM will be the last lipstick on a pig.

How glorious RIM once had been. But lo, how low it has gone.

Last week, there's a protest by hundreds of professional scientists which skewered the federal government's funding cuts.

I guess that Harper just puts more focus on scientific and technological research projects which have more commercial values, against the backdrop of a perennially gloomy global economic climate.

All in all, to decide when to put more public financial resources into scientific research activities and when to put less is the job of the elected government and the democracy, the society, NOT the scientists, IMHO.

The maturation of global economy requires Western countries, including France and Japan, to adopt English as the ubiquitous language for business and higher education.

And that's happening, now.

Probably we'll see major changes on that aspect in Quebec as well in 5 - 10 years.

The sorts of fish which are generally available for food in Montreal, such as salmon and cod, are normally so ample, compared to the types of freshwater fish I used to eat in China.

Well, I didn't know optometrists serve kind of like general doctors for the medical branch which deals with eyes.

Ophthalmologists should be referred to by them, more or less.

To have been creative and have coined an effective little biz device can make you feel a bit triumphant.

I'm telling you. Adapting to a new and different life in Canada makes at least one third of Chinese immigrants' love life quite uneasy.

Crushes belong to salad days. They are green, romantic, and fresh.

Among Chinese poems, I prefer those which rhyme well.

Wow, this article about nursing homes in Canada is revealing:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/nursing-homes/

At every workplace, there are telltales.

My toddler daughter is quite capable of emitting cracks of cry without reason.

Well, she definitely has her own reasons, but they are not understandable or reasonable to us adults. :-)

The wanton Cultural Revolution in China permanently sits there, looking at every Chinese steely.

Music video - Le Papillon

Beautiful French language and song.

Are too many Canadians too meek?

"Superstitious" is a rhyme for "surreptitious".

Both are long words. They are not as good as "suspicious" and "delicious", I suppose?

人在小异国，注定忙死。人在小商途，注定忙死。人有小儿女，注定忙死。

Both China and the U.S. are smart-ass.

But which one of them has been kicking ass in science, technology, business, and humanity during the past century? Now we know the privilege of being a smart-ass must be earned, with sweat and innovation.

So far, the FOSS of Android has been a grand stratagem and strategy of Google.

I still don't completely understand why they put such enormous amount of resources into constantly developing Android and then release it entirely for free. Are they collecting user data or something?

You take someone into your confidence and you are exposing yourself.

任何一个企业的“永续经营”的理想，应该是象任何一个人的“长生不老”的梦想一样，是不可能实现的。“成住坏空”是铁律。

也许，对任何一个企业来说，包括 RIM，“但这已不重要，因为他已来过，活过，爱过——无论对任何人说来，这都已足够。”（摘自古龙《楚留香传奇》系列之《桃花传奇》正文最后一页）

Out of every famous drama, some well-known lines get declaimed in people's hearts time and time again.

Examples:

"The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he's rich!"- Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act 1 

"After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive."
- Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act 2

Full of his own importance, J set out to help.

Well, it's boring to have to watch the recurrent TV news pieces of the crash of some cars or aircrafts. But it's a necessary bore, I guess.

If it didn't exist, how could the random members of the public who are affected by the accidents get to know the happenings quickly and effectively?

I like the ambling sounds sung by Norah Jones.

The crush in the pubs on Crescent street left J a feeling of loneliness. He couldn't help it.

I don't know anything of the Italian language at all. But it seems that the Italian words existing in English rhyme very easily.

Almost every one of them ends with "tti" (as in "spaghetti"), "ni" (as in "tortellini"), "co" (as in "fiasco" and "alfresco"), or something similar.

A play's commentary is apt to be much more elaborate than its synopsis.

A young child's nursery is an oasis.

Some people prefer the JSON protocol over the XML one, some others the other way around.

I've been acting out the roles of web developer, sales rep, strategic planner, and business development rep.

That's typical for people trying to run his own little biz.

Many, if not most, people see the world just through the cracks of their own trade, upbringing, and so on.

Before, I didn't believe a broad view and a broad education is THAT important. But now I believe it. Yes, Virginia, crucial is a broad education or self-education, probably by the means of wide reading and studying.

Walmart will possibly be on the ropes in around 10 years.

Target, Amazon, ... and ever more competitors, equipped with better and more modern strategies, have been attacking it on all fronts.

Facebook must have been surreptitiously constantly evaluating the mobile scene.

Social networking is destined to be mobile. Who wants to be tethered to a computer desk while being social?

The nature of health care work makes the workers to be on call. It has its own tolls on their life.

Many a time, the play "Death of a Salesman" fills my heart with strong and complex feelings.

A folio book is twice as big as a quarto book.

On the altar of money, myriads of people are willing to sacrifice.

But many successful people say it is wrong.