A person's intellectual depth and emotional depth tend to be correlated, I suppose.

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And I only have become aware of that possibility lately.

Nowadays, so many Chinese adopt a very very Westernized image on the internet.

Stratagems need studying, because they are disliked.

Take a peek at this article at the NYT: Crisis Panel to Probe Window-Dressing at Banks.

My experience with douban.com brought home to me the relevance and potential of SNS.

For years, Google has been insinuating itself to surrogate and surpass Microsoft.

Certainly it has succeeded exceedingly. Next, I want to see how it will or will not stave off the pertinent threats of Facebook and Twitter and the likes. I guess, that pretty much is the the first thing in the morning on many Google executives' minds.

North Korea seems to be so isolated a sovereignty that no intercession on behalf of it has been publicly made.

That, looks so surreal.

So many businesses have been undone, or undermined, by their own being lax about morality.

The Zeitgeist - great overload of information, and great confusion.

(Image from http://goo.gl/Pgl3J)

And that's been my personal feeling.

Till a moment ago, I've been burning the midnight oil and reorganizing my electronic information channels. Phew. For the time being, I shun Facebook and Twitter, while I embrace email and RSS reader.

Does great confusion really present great opportunities?

I imagine the day when my daughter grows up big enough and I can gather her to me.

Family life enriches and matures a man.

Do I think that oral English training and self-training have become too much of a good thing for the native speakers of the Chinese language? You bet.

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A person's emotional and mental strengths, as well as his physical strength, are finitely exhaustible.

That is why he needs to gather himself sometime, either mentally or physically, or both.

精微的思绪与流畅秀美的表达，已失踪迹久矣。

一探。
一叹。


但是，真相仍在。
一探。
一笑。

A myriad of tech media and blogs have been bustlingly prognosticating the upcoming landscape of the smart phones competition.

Keywords: iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Nokia.

Is RIM, the manufacturer of Blackberry, another Nortel in the making? Many people, especially Canadians, must have this question on their minds.

Weather anomalies seem to have become one the major risks in people's lives in North America and Europe this winter.

iPads vis-a-vis China

(Picture from http://goo.gl/hum3n)

I am amazed by the fact that iPads and iPhones have been bought, or craved, by many consumers in China's urban areas. That, may signal a watershed that China's consumers need higher end products and services.

太阳 你在哪里？

我对 Montreal 的阴天, 发出貌似唐朝乐队的一吼。当然，我还是没有那么喜欢他们的那一首歌。

“因为这些知识是好的，应该让你们知道。”

我在豆瓣上偶尔看到的：
“
我上大学时，有一次我的数学教授在课堂上讲到：我现在所教的数学，你们也许一生都用不到，但我还要教，因为这些知识是好的，应该让你们知道。这位老师的胸襟之高远，使我终生佩服。
--王小波《跳出手掌心》
”


恩，那个，就是教育（education）的几种意义之一。

Keywords: 格局、气场、学力、层面、情怀。

Meaningful money only can be made in passing.

Sometimes I really tend to think that happiness is the most expensive thing for any one in the world.

The ability to get it cannot be found on everybody, yet the yearn for it is inevitably found on everybody. And that is one of the reasons why the business of seriously making merry, such as entertainment film-making and entertainment music making, is of the magnitude of at least 100 billion US dollars, globally.

Sublimely, some artists have or had studied human nature very deeply.

We must mark their works, in order to know more about their thoughts and emotions, and more about ourselves, I think.

Money worship, if too abrasively pervasive in a human organization, would lead to one common ruin.

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Any society, including the largely atheist China, should not allow that to happen.

Any man should not be deputed to go without the armor of pragmatism.

Innocence must be lost ASAP.

I for one suspect that patriotism would be readier for conjuration in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. than in China.

Cynicism may be one of the biggest perpetual enemies a man must fight against.

Hmm, consider myself warned.

Armchair adventures

The treasure island was in the attic
But the impressionist was in the foyer
The loft was aloof with itself
The gallery was full of journalists

When I was in my teens and twenties, my apparel was more gathered in at the waist.

Sigh. This is a men's inevitable course in life.

客观地讲，cynicism 是人生之苍凉的必然产物。

例举温瑞安和 Timon of Athens。

寄托的沙场

他，定了定神，又返身杀回，那沙场，那寄托之地。

这才发现我喜欢听独立民谣一类的流行音乐。

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从台湾的齐秦，到 U.S.A. 的 Elliot Smith（伤逝），都是行走于靠近独立民谣 (indie folk) 的路线。

这才发现这条脉络。生命的诗意，这才流行。探索，这才找到诗意。


P.S. 简体字真是缺乏韵味。什么时候繁体字可以被大陆普及，我才可以跟进？

The sun grandpa put out feelers to Montreal for hours today.

For sure I loved it.

The aesthetics of the English language should be promulgated in the high schools and universities in China.

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For that matter, it would be ideal that the same occurs for all the knowledge branches, be it Math, Physics, or any subject matter.

But unfortunately, some of the teachers and professors have not tasted the intrinsic beauties themselves, let alone to convey them to students. So, once again, many students are put in the same old condition, which is "you are on your own", as people say, in that sense.

A person's interest can spark en passant.

So, a rich environment is pivotal, in that sense.

Have I come off to be a Google fanboy too much?

That would be too much of a good thing.

Many companies have been bending their courses and fitting out their tablet computing devices lines.

I for one see that, and I for one see a glut in its formation.

To the untrained eyes of mine, the American senatorial functions and processes look just opaque.

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

But a man's ignorance of politics must be lifted at some time in his life, I am afraid. After all, politics organizes THE WAYS a society is.

Article via web - Obama Turns to Mideast, Offers ‘New Way’ With Muslims

Looking back to the Obama in his election and inauguration period, here goes a nice article: Obama Turns to Mideast, Offers ‘New Way’ With Muslims - Bloomberg.

I personally reckon that that article was written well and chose citations of Obama's words very well.

On a related note, it seems, to an outsider like me, that the divers dimensions of the Muslim world are very unclear, for the time being.

Music video - Narciso Yepes - Concierto de Aranjuez (by Joaquín Rodrigo) (2)

Great music must be accompanied by great thoughts.

I still can't bring myself to invest some time in playing around with Mac computers with Mac OS' famously elegant interface and streamlined computer administration.

Oh, please don't laugh at me for being so out of it, I beg you. :-)

不快意恩仇

“恩仇”，重点在后一个字。

我猜想，在中国人近几百年来的流行文化里，例如武侠小说、枪战电影等等，快意恩仇是那种比较理想的生活状态。恩，那个，因为是理想，所以和现实是相反的。当代现实中的中国人的生活状态多半是不能快意于强拆之类的社会性恩仇的。

另外，在最近火爆中国的姜文大俳優之映画作品“让子弹飞”里，我猜测，多半有一根线条，叫做“快意恩仇”。

恩，真正的社会公平裁决管道，即法治，是能够棒打那快意恩仇的蔽日纠结云的。法治的利器，是世间法。之外，还有在中国日渐壮大的宗教信仰供给非世间法，也是一途。


P.S. 回头看这篇小博文，貌似上面的“恩”少了一些，目前来看。

The acceleration of the world's changing is beyond measure, sometimes I feel.

Is North Korea really contriving launching a nuclear bomb or two?

Everyone is forced to PAY attention to that sovereignty. It must know that our attention and time is expensive. How much GDP is lost because of this amount of collective attention? :-) Just some gibberish from me.

Some harms cannot be offered something in recompense for.

So one must be gentle and careful.

I guess that the public transportation vehicles in Beijing should gather speeds and efficiencies,

so that commuting by them will no longer be like running the gauntlet. Then the car traffic jams can possibly be expected to drop in number. See this: 北京治堵方案 我们还能实现买车梦吗？

Merry Christmas.

(The painting "Regatta at Sainte-Adresse" by Claude Monet)

And happy new year in advance.

Smart money, noble money

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No one on earth can outgo Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the combination of business shrewdness and philanthropic donations.

In certain ways, their money is smart money, as well as noble money. It is well earned, and it is well spent.

Money only signifies the bough of a society - the exchange of the results of individuals' labor.

寄托

“寄托”一事，迷倒众生一生。

也许，这就是人类之所以为高等生物？

O.K. 证无碍智。

I tend to gather that Alberta's tar sands industry is going to face severe challenges down the road.

让炮弹飞？让核弹飞？

中国屏幕上，让子弹飞。

南北韩之间，让炮弹飞。

Washington, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, and Seoul, 都在密切注视北韩ing，不要让核弹飞！

The tardy economic recovery, if there is a real one at all, renders newly minted university graduates almost powerless.

I read somewhere that some Princeton (if my memory is correct) graduates had to become fishing guides. Well, Princeton, the received most prestigious university in the world, is going to lose some potential applicants in the forthcoming years.

Gee. Too much tonic mixed with cola can leave such a long-lasting bitterness in my mouth.

I am an idiot.

In economically difficult times, people tend to be more opposed to illegal immigrants being bluntly set on shore.

Classics are gentle enemies.

It seems that for any person, most of new things or equipment are double-edged swords, in terms of how he makes use of his time.

For one thing, social networking websites can enhance his information intake, while it can suck away and away his precious time on the other hand.

We have to make the best of that conundrum.

Straight from the heart - Music video - Dido - White Flag

Lyrics: http://goo.gl/Chxho .

This is Dido. "This is London."

Rain break

(Picture from http://goo.gl/tWh3g)

The other week, when I was sitting out a sudden big pouring of rain in a shopping centre, I thought, why some people tend to curse an occasional break like that from daily routines? For those people who the timing of the breaking rain didn't wreak real inconvenience, what was so bad about it?

People tend to become lonelier and lonelier, in this world with more mobility and less face-time.

When loneliness snipes, how can one gather himself and keep his wholesomeness?

No wonder movies and novels have been selling quite well.

Who didn't experience misery before achieving something? At least in some senses?

Is it really inevitable that innumerable men turn crotchety when they turn old?

Now that Obama has fulfilled some of his important presidential election campaign promises, I for one, in Canada, hope that his team is going to resurrect the United States of America as a top-shelf economic ENGINE.

The speaker in the "Subway" sandwich outlet is blasting out loud pop music officiously, right above my ears.

I am deprived of my right of choosing not to listen to it. Gee, consumer rights are hard to protect, especially when they are attacked through the air. :-D

In a certain sense, the Canadian way of life is so procedural.

The mysterious Vatican, the Roman Catholic church, has been upbraided for years.

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What facility will the Catholicism stand upon in future?

Westerners tend to be less round about religion than Chinese are, it seems.

Should I in the future learn a little bit Spanish, or Italian, in order to become capable of pinpointing groovy music pieces written by magnets born in Spain and Italy?

Sigh. No time.

I think statistics is more artificial than arithmetics, or counting. (But maybe I am wrong.)

Consider "1 + 1 = 2" vs. "P(A intersection B) / P(B) = P(A given B)".

The sample space must be big enough, yet controlled and without outside interferences.

The taste of a person being a producer may be on a different route than that the taste of him being a consumer is on.

How to reconcile them?

And Einstein stated that imagination is more important than knowledge.

It suddenly dawned on me that Wikipedia has dominated my conscience and judgement about what is important and what is not.

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If something or someone is not sufficiently mentioned in one or more Wikipedia entries, which means that no one has bothered to write and edit information about that something or someone, it implicitly equals to that that is not important enough, in my mind.

The advancing of the intelligence apparatus of any government is so imperative.

But that must be highly confidential state secrets and I, a civilian, rarely see any information about that in public media.

Sometimes, the essence of a monolithic group is just unsatisfying.

I've been torn between fully embracing the red hot social networking such as Facebook and shunning it.

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Straight at the beginning, I had researched on that and found Facebook was a waste a time.

And just now, I googled that again. Still, I've found that Facebook, is a waste of time for individuals. (But maybe it's not the case for businesses.) See this article. Moreover, some people have said Facebook is so yesterday. (Man, that opinion makes me feel good. :-)

So, my personal Facebook account will remain dormant, I expect.

Article via web - 伟大的孩子

If you can read Chinese, I would highly recommend this article: 伟大的孩子-心理健康与家庭教育-搜狐博客. Sighing... For the rough-and-tumble callousness which has been permeative in the past and current parenting in the homes in China.

Not all lines or all aspects of Samsung's products are top-notch, but I adore their efforts.

Does the Wall Street have a natural crooked tendency to make people buy and sell investment products more frequently than necessary?

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Prepared with a background of being brought up in a pretty much closed China, I am not very enlightened about how accursedly the Jewish people have been treated across history and continents.

Sometimes, no protestations make any differences.

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However, making a difference on others may not be the real purpose of the person uttering protestations. Read: cathartic.

Sometimes I don't like obtrusive advertisements very much, but I for one let them pass.

I don't surely know what it was like in the past, but in this era of knowledge economy, myriad individuals keep increasing and increasing their levels of sophistication after the completion of their formal education.

Happiness is a person's capacity to find it, in certain senses.

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Stuff

The marketplace is full of stuff
But much of it is just fluff
Many crowds of people puff
And some other ones bluff

- Initially written in July 2009
- Tried to revise in December 2010 but did not succeed

Artistic dancers can dance with their loins only scantily covered yet without suggesting erotically.

The North American labor market apparently is going to be more and more volatile, from the point of view of a worker, I suppose.

Europe's sophisticated major transportation hubs, such as Paris and London's Heathrow Airport and St Pancras international railway station, are incapacitated by unexpected wintry treatments.

Here goes a piece of news at NYT: Snow Hampers Travel in Europe.

This mayhem proves that non-private organizations are essentially not good at predicting changes and then taking effective measures accordingly.

This northern weather dejects spirits.

The roaring wintry blasts are boring.

"Shakespeare ... familiarizes the wonderful" (Samuel Johnson), against the odiousness.

Career vis-a-vis family (Chains of economic values vis-a-vis chains of loves)

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I for one sometimes suspect that the concept of "career" resulted from the combination of the intentional devising by the corporate world's propaganda machines and the somewhat unintentional devising by a small group of really high achievers in the past.

If you entirely buy into that popularized notion of "career", my friend, then you risk ignoring the fact that a more powerful force over your prospect as a worker is the iron law of SUPPLY AND DEMAND, which governs the labor market and an individual's work life all the way. When you enter a labor market and work in it, you are entering a system of chains of (economic) values, and you are not entering a system of chains of loves, essentially. As human beings, we need love. So, my friend, when you are still not too old and discouraged to build a family, you want to do that by all means, for the benefit of yourself and the society at large.  Think about that. And think hard about why family life is such an entrenched value in the North American culture.

The choices of software apparatus seem to know no bounds.

Just keep on exploring and exploring.

A wintry foggy snowy night.

Straight from the heart - Vintage music video - 齐秦 - 柔情主义

Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/A0rTk :

柔情主義

作詞：王念慈　作曲：齊秦

She Loves me She Loves me not She Loves me....... 哦讓我輕輕地告訴你我的romance baby 我偷偷地愛上了冬天的暖陽 我悄悄地墜入了大海的情網 我不知不覺無可救藥地為愛感傷 濃濃的柔情　是止不住的淚 隱隱的刺痛　是我滴血的心 濃濃的柔情　是止不住的淚 隱隱的刺痛　是我滴血的心 而我卻只能默默迴避你冷冷的眼光 而我卻只能輕輕地　輕輕地告訴你 讓我輕輕地告訴你我的romance baby 我墜入深深的哀傷 (She loves me) She Loves me She Loves me not 柔情是我們的主張 我們說著千篇一律的地久天長

Note to myself:
There's a best live version of the song at http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTY2NDkzODgw.html but I couldn't embed it into this blog post. Find a way to do that later on.

Throughout Canada, the maintenance of the status quo that the credit cards companies, such as VISA and MasterCard, grab outrageously high transaction fees is apparently not in the cards any longer.

My realization of my own ignorance has gone up a notch.

For one thing, it has dawned on me just now that I still don't really grasp why the U.S. government initiated and kept its war, together with its allies, in Afghanistan, against the backdrop that many civilians in the U.S., Canada and other Western countries seriously oppose it, and how the average people in Afghanistan have lived since the Taliban had assumed significance within the country.

Sometimes the lure of consumption unhinges, or undermines, an individual's ultimate potential, and drives him beside his reason.

My opinion regarding Intel has dropped some notches over the last few years.

Their technical competence, their relevance, and their handling of suppliers seem to be slipping. Well, their top brass will feel knots of uneasiness, especially against the promising ARM chip technologies and the cheap chips from AMD, in the forthcoming years. Here is some quote from http://goo.gl/FD6ze :

ARM Holdings Plc, the top designer of processors for smartphones, is pushing into chips for server computers and aims to start eroding Intel Corp.’s dominance in that market in 2014.

Server manufacturers are already looking at chips based on ARM’s technology, Chief Executive Officer Warren East said last week in an interview. The designs will help create lower-power computers, which will make data centers more efficient. Still, the effort will take years to bear fruit, he said.

Through douban.com , I reconnected with my past self in some senses.

Tender feelings have been called to drift up.

My reason adjures me to work harder, while my comforts allure me to meander and slack.

And that is a typical tug of war every single human being constantly deals with.

Pop cultures sometimes tend to deprive a person of his reason, in lieu of strengthening it.

The niubility of President Obama sometimes is ungelivable. 你懂的。

The fears over nuclear wipe-out of the human kind are scarcely the elephant in the room.

The U.S. military and intelligence units have been scrambling across the world, including Iran, North Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They must be quite jaded.

As RIM continues notching up a larger market share,

the prospect of it reaches lower. Its inertia will not prolong. It is really badly in need of raising its game vis-a-vis Google and Apple.