Taken literally, the surname 'Kidman' is an oxymoron, isn't it? :-)

组织英文倒装句，有时候有点难。

Interesting is the half joking adoption of the pseudo French pronunciation of 'Targét', as in Target discount stores, by some customers.

Is Nicole Kidman comparable with Marylin Monroe in some ways?

(Image from http://goo.gl/8Sazi)

The recent change in Tunisia is very surprising.

Many other governments must have been studying it very closely. 你懂的。

Lesson: The problem of high unemployment among young people is too important to be ignored by a government.

Now Arizona seems to have earned a reputation of a "bigotry" state.

The potential overload of Facebooking will become a liability.

Windows actually is a time-tested consumer OS.

Don't just trash it.

When we learn the English language, we are concomitantly absorbing the cultures and values it embeds and conveys.

Subliminal advertising is everywhere.

Should we like that or hate that?

Wow. Italian even sounds more beautiful than French does, I feel.

Freedom sometimes can be surreally terrifying.

That boils down to that we human beings are afraid of making bad and consequential choices. So, freedom demands capability from a person. Someone else has put it in another way: "freedom means responsibility".

There must be a lot of geo-military pacts in existence among countries.

An interesting example would be between India and Russia.

Who wouldn't like impromptu Heineken lagers once in a while?

Young people love with their eyes.

The forms of human beings are made by god. Even youngsters, male and female, can naturally appreciate them with human eyes.

On the other hand, everything man-made, tangible and intangible, needs a person to appreciate with his mind's eye. That is where sophistication comes in. Gee. I think the name PhD, "Doctor of Philosophy", can be replaced by Doctor of Sophistication. SoD that is. That would be a better name. :-)

Just some jibber-jabber of mine. :-)

Some films, and texts, which look truthful harrows me significantly.

For one thing, the 2010 Taiwanese flick Monga. Below is its official trailer:




From time to time, truth unsettles human beings enormously.

In this hectic life, an activity is hard to be picked up again once it is broken off.

It's very apparent that the once red hot MySpace has been dying.

Adieu, MySpace. Peace.

Facebook still has a way to go to acceptable handling of its users' privacy issues.

I for one am surprised that Sarah Palin, of all American politicians, has gathered a national clout.

I had begun to read the Newsweek around three years ago.

Then I was finished about a year later. I felt it sort of too political for me.

Humans' organization is sublime.

Now it's been moving towards online, in an understated and sublime way.

We tend to swear by something because we don't know better.

Flavors

Coffee, strong coffee.
Python, free Python.

Java, Sun Java.
.NET, ASP.NET.


P.S. If you're not an IT person, don't worry at all if you don't understand this little poem of mine. :-)

Oh, I love the slick web design of The New Yorker website and its exceeding favicon.

Below is a pic of their slick paper mags:

(Pic from http://goo.gl/VUt59)

If legit gun usage could be guaranteed in the U.S. ...

In countries like the U.S., Britain and Canada, public politicians must have known that they would become fair game, when they started out at the beginning.

The Economist is the baddest British mag.

我觉得“被和谐”这个词极其有意思。

恩，和谐的社会与被和谐的社会是很不一样的。

The maelstrom of information streams can be maddening from time to time.

Tush, at least half of all the songs churned out every year have no effective cultural values.

Poetry illumes people's hearts.

The other month, I walked in a coffee shop and sat myself down.

Then immediately I noticed several men not far from my table. They were mostly in their sixties. And they were talking about stocks enthusiastically.

I personally think they were kind of playing with fire, at their ages, they shouldn't expose their retirement moneys to the risks of laymen playing in the volatile stock market. It's better for them to leave their retirement moneys in the hands of professional investment managers who they would VERY CAREFULLY choose.

It's interesting to see that people assailing each other happens all the time at the top political level of Canada, i.e. in the Canadian House of Commons.

Well, the business of politics is not for the faint-hearted.

Entreating wolves not to destroy lambs predatorily only wastes time.

Don't let ignorance take hold of you. Will ya?

Unfold yourself with others.

The largely sunless long winter in Montreal is capable of making people sick at heart.

Of course not today. I love you, sun grandpa.

The niubility of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, knows no bounds.

The testimonial he put out for The Economist is as follows:

I used to think. Now, I just read The Economist.

http://ads.economist.com/the-economist/testimonials/

Man, that, is the most niubi magazine testimonial I've ever seen.

Can RIM forge an alliance with some complementary company in order to gather speed and strength?

張九齡《感遇》十二首第一

“

欣欣此生意

自爾為佳節

”

--節錄自張九齡《感遇》十二首第一（唐詩三百首），當作於開元二十五年（737）

張九齡，盛唐最後一位寒士宰相，於開元二十四年（736）罷相，貶荊州長史。從此士族朝臣一統天下。


My random thoughts: meritocracy, U.S.A.

Google 与 豆瓣，补充和加速知识环节的传播，功德无量。

Vintage music video - 齐秦 - 蜉蝣

(This version has better sound quality than the one below, especially around the time point of minute 2:29.)







Lyrics copied from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4JdevTzSvA:

【蜉蝣】 4分04秒

作詞：齊秦　作曲：齊秦、黃大軍

＊在風中　就這樣停止不動

讓笑聲　丟入蒼茫一片

當太陽停留在模糊的地平線

是否現在開始走出舊日的隱痛

＊在雨中　就這樣停止不動

讓自己，丟入蒼茫一片

我並不願執著在你來去之間

為何無法看透躲在命運裡的捉弄

△究竟我應該屬於哪個感情世界裡的蜉蝣

除了你還有什麼？

男人，少年时在世界之中找自己的理想，长大后在理想之中找自己的世界。

(Image via http://goo.gl/1QA2V)

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。

For a person, a system of values guidelines are pivotal.

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.

咖啡馆，就是应该有疗伤系的内涵。

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.

Why did I begin to love products 'Made in Germany' so much?

Exceeding quality.

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.

Northern Africa, including Morocco and Tunisia, has always looked and felt very exotic to me.

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Those countries have European flair, as well as Arab flair.

Some pervasive media tend to be pernicious to the core, in certain senses.

I don't know why. I've just suddenly fallen in love with the sound of the word 'laugh'.

:-D

Italian sounds so delicious to my ears. :-)

I'll be all ears for it.

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.

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.

The de facto resegregation, which seems to be happening in the U.S., can lead to dangerous consequences further down the road.

Many issues in the software world are moot.

Every one of us more or less likes communicating with fellow human beings.

And that is embedded in human nature.

Not too many Chinese immigrants in Canada are able to conduct masterly thinking, until now.

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.

The usability of douban.com is not as excellent as that of Google's web services.

Details do matter.

Will Dell throw its hat into the ring of smart phone competition?

After all, it's already been churning out tablets.

Some people ignore news nonchalantly day after day.

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.

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.

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.

Constricted by the evolved system, individual Americans shouldn't replicate the traditional American dream.

Don't you think so?

The idea of democracy is far easier to propagate in this internet era.

Is the U.S. government going to lean on some more large companies in order to put out the wild fire of Wikileaks?

Is it wise or dumb for Apple to close off much of its code?

In their controversial handling of Wikileaks, Amazon.com and Paypal ran the risk of being abhorred and abrogated by some customers, from those moments forward.

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.

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 .

Article on NYT - Tablets, Compared

A slick comparison of the leanest ones: Tablets, Compared - Interactive Feature - 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.

Move over, the Mideast oil.

Here comes the tar sands oil and shale oil.

Keywords: alternative energy, new energy.

Anglo-Saxon is hard to crack.

I thinkth so. Dost thou agree not?

The most popular microblogging service in China seems to be too closed in some senses to be for their own benefit.

Here it goes: http://t.sina.com.cn/ .

I wonder why.

The monotony of familiarized office work can deprive a person of his imagination, in certain ways.

It's received that Shakespeare makes use of iambic pentameter.

It's about sounds, my friend. Iambic rhythm it is.

It can be hard to use meter to drive a poem forward to a listener's ears.

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.

Life in this information era is a litter of usernames and passwords.

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.

The fray between the family of laptop and desktop and that of smart phone and tablet will be interesting to watch.

Mr. Peter MacKay, Canada's Minister of National Defence, seems to be a graceful gentleman.