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理想，自然是每人各有不同。
说真的，更好地“糊口”也算是理想的一种吧。
说起来，最有吸引力的世界要算是“自己内心理想（的）完美映射”了。
Optional: 那个，是关于一段或长或短的 “我很丑 可是我很温柔” 的行程。行程的长度与格局，因人而异。
Friday, January 14, 2011
1.6 capital punishment
In 2009, the legal processes of the U.S.A. sentenced the 70-ish Mr. Bernard Madoff, the infamous Ponzi schemer who had forged stupendous financial results and fleeced his investment clients around $18 billion all the way, to an imprisonment of 150 years.
150 years of prisoning roughly equal to 1.6 capital punishment, given the life expectancy of a typical American of his class.
Sometimes freedom tastes bitter, and sometimes it tastes delightful.
I guess that depends on what you do with it.
A person's independence is inevitable during his university career.
The process of that is subtle and aloof, and largely unassisted.
I had two Arab classmates.
One was from Kuwait, and the other from Jordan. I kind of enjoyed those moments of their company. I kind of miss them.
Cyprus is an intriguing country with a population of around 1 million, which is a comparatively highly educated people.
A company over there manages to export allegedly genuine Russian vodka, which is made in Russia FOR the Cypriot company, to Canada.
I am ignorant about the Mediterranean.
I am ignorant about the Mediterranean.
Should the working class Americans spend some time on learning about foreign countries and acquiring foreign languages in lieu of getting familiar with domestic rock bands?
Maybe the cultivation system of the PUBLIC primary and PUBLIC secondary schools of the U.S.A. is really a big excruciating failure. I know, I know, education of minors unavoidably involves some disciplining, which sort of counters the individualism and freedom that Americans, inherently governed by Anglo-Saxon values, cherish greatly. It is a conundrum.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Time is fast, because we are slow. That is what our entire life is like.
Gee, a thought has just dawned on me after I put down the above sentences: Wasn't that an idea in Einstein's Theory of Relativity? :-D
The canon of great literature is pivotal.
Students tend to be undersold in this harrowed modern world.
In some ways, parents in China are lieges of their children.
At the same time, in some other ways, they are dictators of their children's lives.
Life is complicated.
Life is complicated.
A person's responsibilities towards his family shouldn't lead him all the way
to the engulfing, overpowering, and consuming selfishness towards other human beings, in the long run.
The mojo of keyboard shortcuts on laptop and desktop corresponds to the mojo of voice control on smart phone and tablet.
Google's web services and Apple's iPhones have been democratizing them, respectively, till now.
Every one of us more or less likes communicating with fellow human beings.
And that is embedded in human nature.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
LSE and King's College London (KCL) are especially held dear by me, among the excellent universities located in London, U.K.
On a related note, I've just gotten to know that Virginia Woolf had attended KCL for some years. And, you can take a peek at Shakespeare at King's.
UCL is actually so prestigiously strong.
Some Chinese only know about the cachet of U. of Cambridge and U. of Oxford.
However, UCL, as well as a few other universities located in London, such as LSE, LBS, Imperial College London, and King's College London, which University of London, a seemingly very loose organization, once included or still includes for many years, is so top-notch in their academic pursuits and strengths.
Will Dell throw its hat into the ring of smart phone competition?
After all, it's already been churning out tablets.
The fluidity of capital is accompanied and facilitated by that of workers' mobility,
that of real estate markets, that of interconnected transportation infrastructures, and that of global telecommunication of videos, audios and texts which are manifested in English in this internet era.
However, the complexities and obstacles in those forms of fluidity seem to be boundless too.
However, the complexities and obstacles in those forms of fluidity seem to be boundless too.
HTC has been forging ahead with its excellent foresight.
Its decision to maneuver from Windows Mobile, the predecessor of Windows Phone 7, to Android in around 2009 was very smart.
By the way, its slogan "quietly brilliant" is poignantly catchy, isn't it?
Some men live a sorry life.
Every once in a while, they get paid, then they get laid.
Some women live a sorry life.
Every once in a while, they get laid, then they get paid.
Some women live a sorry life.
Every once in a while, they get laid, then they get paid.
Happiness is to be found, and to be made.
And you can substitute the word 'happiness' in the above sentence with 'love'. :-) Have a good day.
Some Chinese university profs seem to have sold their academic souls very early on.
Precocious materialism.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Americans and Canadians believe in and rely on legal processes.
Yeah, a true legal system's due processes. Hmm.
So governments which employ or utilize extralegal means are not to be trusted.
So governments which employ or utilize extralegal means are not to be trusted.
Webcasts consume almost all the bandwidth of the worldwide internet.
The worst spots of internet traffic jam must be coffee shops and tech meeting rooms. Well, your home network is your oasis.
See this article and also take a look at the sorrily thin Steve Jobs: Wi-Fi Overload at High-Tech Meetings - NYTimes.com .
The technologies and innovations which Russia is able to create nowadays can run deep.
Probably greatly deeper than I thought few years ago.
Unfortunately, that nation has oftentimes been ignored by Western marketeers.
Unfortunately, that nation has oftentimes been ignored by Western marketeers.
Move over, the Mideast oil.
Here comes the tar sands oil and shale oil.
Keywords: alternative energy, new energy.
Keywords: alternative energy, new energy.
It's received that Shakespeare makes use of iambic pentameter.
It's about sounds, my friend. Iambic rhythm it is.
Pieces of English writing which taste like Anglo-Saxon are delicious to my eye.
My mind loves savoring them.
For a person with a native Chinese cultural and language background, mastering English takes a very lengthy way to work out.
That's the "inconvenient truth".
I've gradually begun to appreciate the mojo of Canadians' comparatively lenient temperament.
Don't say it's boring. It's just about being understated.
Some people in the workplace tend to get their own back on their enemies.
The same tendency manifests itself in the rounds of tit for tat between countries. To retaliate is human nature.
Oh, I love the Oxford University Press, albeit I'm not into the university itself very much.
The same goes to The MIT Press and MIT. Speaking of MIT, who doesn't hate spending multiple years on "drinking from a fire hose", kind of in a forced manner, anyway, except geniuses?
Rumors have it that HTC is planning a launch of tablet in early 2011.
See this: HTC Tablet rumours: what you need to know.
It's reasonable for me to anticipate that their tablets will be finer than Samsung's.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Once again, lenient gun ownership laws of the U.S. have been blamed in the wake of the very recent gun-shooting massacre in Tuscon, Arizona.
However, widespread gun ownership and lenient laws governing it may be one of the main reasons why the U.S. is capable of being a great nation. That is, civilians RESERVE the power and forces to tame the elected government, as I heard.
But, that is a very very subtle and controversial issue that my little mind, which is untrained in Political Science, cannot handle.
But, that is a very very subtle and controversial issue that my little mind, which is untrained in Political Science, cannot handle.
From time to time, I've been deeply impressed by Westerners' respect for equal rights of individual human beings, poor or rich, minority or WASP,
against the backdrop of my background of being brought up in China.
Just impressed.
That's where self-esteem, assurance, and confidence largely stem from.
Just impressed.
That's where self-esteem, assurance, and confidence largely stem from.
Some buildings on American and Canadian streets look ratty.
By comparison, China's big cities have many more buildings which look more modern than North American cities nowadays.
However, how will the buildings in Chinese cities and North American cities look like in fifty years?
However, how will the buildings in Chinese cities and North American cities look like in fifty years?
The eclectic Android phones seem to be going to win out,
while iPhones allegedly tend to too often drop calls due to their touchscreens' hyper sensitivity.
Some people are naturally very good at impersonating.
Did you watch the wedding dance of the impersonation of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" MV dance?
Myriad adults and children in the developing world have been bringing vast proportions of their energies and time to bear on the task of English learning.
I don't quite understand why Montreal's Chinese immigrants don't act on that imminent task.
The invention of nuclear weapons and their proliferation are very crazy things that the human kind has ever done.
Public figures should take up the cause of diminishing them.
Before you decide to go to a new place and live there,
crane your neck and look around better. And think twice.
A life at a new place is not necessarily a better life, in the long run.
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A life at a new place is not necessarily a better life, in the long run.
Animals spent most of their time on foraging for foods.
Are men different than them?
We just have better houses than they do. :-)
We just have better houses than they do. :-)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Investors have lost their trust and confidence in the American stock market.
So they've been running for the hills. To where? To the emerging markets.
The Zeitgeist - the breakdown of trust between employers and employees,
and the breakdown of trust between investment companies and investors.
I gather that the relatively recent outburst of creativity among the people in China is really stupendous.
(给力啊。)
Further down the road, it will be interesting to watch how the China nation bridges to the outside world, excluding Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, emotionally and intellectually (Come on, don't you think that being familiar with popular Western music, flicks from Holywood and Europe, and Harry Potter yarns and the likes does NOT run deep and invoke much real-deal profundity in a society?), given that it has already done so economically and partly financially.
(有爱啊。:-)
Further down the road, it will be interesting to watch how the China nation bridges to the outside world, excluding Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, emotionally and intellectually (Come on, don't you think that being familiar with popular Western music, flicks from Holywood and Europe, and Harry Potter yarns and the likes does NOT run deep and invoke much real-deal profundity in a society?), given that it has already done so economically and partly financially.
(有爱啊。:-)
I don't really understand why people still keep trying and trying to scrape into the financial industry.
Its heyday is gone. And people already working in it have been trying to break away from it for various reasons.
Forage grass is different than lawn grass.
Analogously, people founding companies are different than people working for companies.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
These years of very deep economic crises brought Americans their reckoning.
Just don't live beyond your means. So for those lending agencies, such as VISA and MasterCard, how well will their businesses go?
Here's a caveat everyone should consider.
If you go abroad from China, which skills will enable you to compete in a foreign job market? If you go the opposite direction, then which skills will enable you to compete in the unique Chinese job market?
Article via web - Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
Here's an article on WSJ: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. My opinion of Yale Law Professor Amy Chua dropped some notches after having skimmed that essay of hers. Perhaps I was being too judgmental.
Mr. Tony Blair, an ex Prime Minister of Britain, likes G and T.
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But he was a Prime Minister of a land which produces the best whiskeys in the world. Now we know that men really differ in their tastes.
What has happened to the Canadian way of life over the past several decades? And why?
People eat jejune diets day in and day out. They lack exercises. They don't sleep enough and hence feel tired day after day. They don't save enough for retirement. And their children don't have appropriate jobs available when they graduate from university.
Gee. This anomalously constricting way of life sucks. Something must be done.
Gee. This anomalously constricting way of life sucks. Something must be done.
Since the social networking websites now constitute an ever larger chunk of the information sources that people make use of,
how can the veracity of the information be assured?
When the young people in China engulf themselves with Eminem's music,
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do they really understand the indelible scars in and the social context of it?
I can sympathize with elders.
Significant changes in the society and economy can rack their lives. No wonder they don't like changes.
Many elders' behavior sends an unequivocal message:
they still prefer newsPAPERS and TV much more than the internet and they somewhat fear the internet, computer, iPhone and the likes. Well, now you know to which generation this world belongs.
Music video - Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Lyrics: http://goo.gl/O4mHN .
The helpful Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_la_Vida .
Gee, British alternative rock...
The bombing foray into South Korea by its North counterpart has wreaked such a systematic preparation for war on the southern side.
I hope the war will not break out.
How exactly did Mr. David Cameron scrape into the post of British Prime Minister?
I am curious about that. And I for one admire his fantastic communication skills.
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