D is a tall black woman who came to Canada from the Caribbeans when she was young. Now she lives in Montreal with her husband.

The other day, when I saw her grizzled hair roots, which outgrew the dyed dark look of her hair, something that time produces touched me somehow.

(Picture 'Grizzled' by bogdog Dan / http://www.flickr.com/photos/25689440@N06/2455312427/ / CC)

(Pic 'grace lutheran church' by lynnmanhart / http://www.flickr.com/photos/your_friend_flicka/2293276303/ / CC)

In life, we want to avoid certain things. Poverty is an example.

But one thing which many people overlook is that we should largely eschew the flicks and other 'cultural' products which manipulatively pander to our basest innate desires and emotions.

Entrepreneurs have to be cross-silo.

I've seen technical and non-technical people without mindsets of sales, HR, etc. And the biz which they started look to be doomed.

Our baby daughter does't like to take any milk at all during the day.

So I try to dunk pieces of bread in milk and feed them to her, with the hope that she'll gradually begin to accept milk. An inherited Chinese stomach is hard to be shifted.

The North American finance industry looks more and more like a Gordian knot.

A wild Alexandrian solution would be to turn it into a largely state-owned system.

Every youth can't escape the romantic ardor inside. That's one of the troubles of being young.

Then why do people miss their green years? Do they miss all the troubles during those years?

Social media such as Facebook and Twitter have been encroaching on people's time because they're somewhat addictive by nature. In some sense, perhaps fighting addiction to social media is sort of like obese people fighting addiction to foods.

This seems to be an innate illness of capitalism finance.

The problem with Wall Street and other financial firms is that they want to be paid princely to provide the liquidity of financial capital, which is very essential to capitalism, but they want to wash their hands of keeping that liquidity going all the time, that means, in bad times. But that liquidity must be kept going ALL THE TIME.

Apparently, European cities possess more embellishments than their North American counterparts. A long history matters.

Let's hope Wall Street will eventually be invaded and occupied by regulations and laws which are better than the current ones.

Also see Confronting the Malefactors by Dr. Paul Krugman.

It seems kind middle-aged matrons possess some shared distinct flairs, be they Chinese or Canadian.

In a tablet market in which iPads have dominated and Android, as well as Windows Phone 7, devices have been slowly climbing in market shares, the rebellious Kindle Fire by Amazon, which is of 7" form factor, will possibly quickly rise up.

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

Interestingly, the preposition 'like' sometimes serves in similes, sometimes not.

'He runs like the wind' is a simile. And 'he looks like his mom' is just a resemblance.

Freedom is a deep concept. Creative freedom too.

I've just heard of Dr. Samantha Nutt, who is actually still young. I highly respect her efforts.

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

Canada is usually kinetically engaged in the NATO-related military operations overseas.

It seems that this country's military forces are constantly trained in the field, proportional to the modesty of the nation's power.

It's impossible not to get laughed at. But what distinguishes people around you is who laughs at you and who helps you.

The houses and streets are static. You can't get many ideas by looking at them with your naked eye.

In contrast, the life in those houses and streets is dynamic. You can get lots of ideas by peering at it with your mind's eye, with the help of words and formulas.

In that afternoon, I moped about the Sherbrooke street.

The Great Mogul empire (a.k.a. Mughal Empire), which was Muslim, ruled much of India from the 16th to the 19th century.

I guess many of the descendants of its people are in Pakistan now.

(The famous Taj Mahal in India built by a Mogul emperor / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taj1.jpg / Public domain)