For some top-notch Bollywood flicks, people wouldn't miss them for the world.

Slumdog Millionaire, a 2008 movie, was a good example.

Mr. Hu Jintao must be in the fray on a lot of issues with Mr. Obama right now. Face to face.

Swiss bankers must have become nervous wrecks these days.

I suspect that Russia will quickly become a fountainhead of technological innovations.

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

Americans always do things post-haste, don't they?

The building of the strong hand of a country is consequential.

Consider the case of Somali.

The usage of chemicals in foodstuff should be in accordance with the government regulations.

So the government bears the brunt of being a diligent watchdog.

Firefox has been called 'venerable'. :-)

Chinese descendants are the whole world over.

I like French fries quite done.

McDonald's sometimes doesn't provide that kind of fries. Well, that's for my benefit. :-)

I suspect that without acquiring a foreign language,

monolingual native Americans and Canadians will be done for, in terms of their professional career prospects, in twenty years.

Oh, do I hate the memory leak problem of the Adobe Flash Player on my computer.

Even their current Flash Player 10 consumes a larger and larger chunk of memory and doesn't give it back. Hasn't Adobe learned the art of give and take, yet?

At least two products of Adobe, which are the widely disliked Flash Player and Adobe Reader, have been becoming increasingly outmoded. I wish websites to quickly get rid of the Flash Player by 2013. I pray.

It seems that all in all, Baidu.com's blogging service is not up to par at all.

Every edge cutting takes / wastes time, while it enriches life and sharpens mind.

I enjoy edge cutting, but I don't enjoy the loss of time. What a conundrum.

When, when can I have some time to spend on learning about religions?

I really want to get wind of Christianity and Buddhism.

Trade tit-for-tats among countries are always a considerable cause of concerns.

Montages are so vivid to look upon.

Chilled to the core

Check out this piece of news of Jan. 17th, 2011: Woman’s cries ignored as she freezes to death: Police.

And this: DiManno: Freezing death not a sign we’re cold-hearted.

Quote from the second above article:

In this case, “I’m not saying she should have been let in, but people should have at least phoned 9-1-1.”

Another local resident, George Cheang, had difficulty believing that the victim’s cries would have been ignored. He was awakened about 3 a.m. by “yelling or arguing,” Cheang told the Star. “I thought it was a family argument or perhaps some partying or drinking going on.”

So he went back to sleep.

“They can think what they want to think,” Cheang said of the police claims that the victim’s beseechings fell on deaf ears. “Neighbours always say ‘Hi’ to each other and we often borrow from each other, things like tools.”

Residents of the heavily Asian Rosewood community meet regularly to discuss the importance of reporting suspicious behaviour. Said one neighbour: “We watch over each other.”

I would say people, including myself, are chilled to the core. Oh, that Scarborough neighborhood.

Real-life experience and enlightenment tends to make people have second thoughts.

Bill Clinton has been such a rainmaker.

'Drill, baby, drill'

I just did a double take on Sarah Palin's viral slogan, 'Drill, baby, drill'. How come it seems to have a sexual implication with it? Ah, baby, it's so gelivable.

The home stretch

The home stretch of the democratization of alternative-energy cars seems to be bringing down the costs of building them to an affordable level for consumers. Once that is finished, I am afraid that day will see the beginning of the end of the Mideast's oil countries' prosperity.

Chinese puns have been prospering on the internet.

Music video - Liu Yang River - Composer: Wang Jian-zhong

I like this version more than the one below.

Politicians and statesmen are so busy ratifying international economic treaties here and there.

Well, it's somewhat sad to see that Facebook has entirely vanquished the imagination of the media and that of the investment world.

The Western pop music has branched out so many moieties along the way.

I don't grasp that people wager their hard earned money on lotteries.

The web is seized of benefits and detriments.

For a person without a firm values system in place, doubts tend to him and prick his mind-set.

The first two development stages of my English learning can be considered to be over and done with.

Oh, New York, New York. It houses two slick major print media - The New York Times, and The New Yorker.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/VUt59)

(Image via http://goo.gl/PScxM)

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

New York, an indisputable centre of sophistication.

Reading a text leads to reading oneself.

Conservative Party's recent campaign video - Rising to the Challenge

I'm not affiliated with or inclined towards any specific political party of Canada. But this recent campaign video, which is on CPC's YouTube channel, is interesting to watch:

Sarah Palin's accused her critics of libeling her.

You can see people's reactions here: http://goo.gl/uMPa5 .

Homeboy, do what you do.

Getting an appropriate community is consequential.

Classical English literature, as well as the Chinese one, is gnomic and labor-intensive to penetrate.

Historical stuff, too. Just in a different way. It requires different background knowledge, that is.

Do you like British puns?

How much work a reader puts in is usually proportional to how much thought an author put in his work.

Monty Python is quirky and innovative.

I did double takes on their pieces of work.

Why do some young people like psychedelic clothes?

It is said that John Lennon had written trippy lyrics during one period of his life.

('Lennon playing with The Beatles in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania'; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon)

I for one like the music in his song "Imagine".

Some topics have been focused on in movies and songs ad nauseam.

And they tend to turn me off in the first place.

I don't quite understand how the troupe of The Black Eyed Peas have come to such a huge stardom.

Music video - Coldplay - Yellow

(Lyrics are already embedded in the video.)

In the core spirit of the law must be that an individual's right to justice cannot be forfeited.

James Patterson's fictions are not high culture.

But he, or his surrogate authors, can output some fine sentences. For one thing, "Chairs scraped as everyone scrambled.", as in his work The 6th Target. Love that snug assembly of the 5 words.

So many occupations are being long gone. Blacksmith, tailor, shipwright, and so on.

Those work looks quaint.

Heraldry looks intriguing.

Below is an example, the coat of arms of Canada:

(An image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada , which is copyrighted by Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada)

The historical compacts between the English Canadians and the French Canadians seem interesting.

Let's "smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge", in this 21st century economy.

Human beings have combated poverty for so long.

Then we know poverty is a relative thing instead of an absolute one.

I would say the Gmail app on my Android phone is a primitive yet very trustworthy Blogger client, in a certain way.

台湾艺人徐若瑄貌似日文会话能力很好的样子

台湾艺人徐若瑄（Vivian），出生于 1975 年，于 1995 年至 2003 年间在日本发展其个人演艺事业。2010 年在东京影展亮相，貌似日文会话能力很好的样子。

东亚各地区，包括日本、韩国、台湾、中国、香港，的文化产业的互相融合已经比较深入了。


P.S. 我蛮喜欢日文的。但是不可能有时间深入学习。想念日本饮料ing。

Sunshine fills my heart with natural joy.

Time unfolds one's wisdom.

Abundant splendid congenial sunshine.

Perhaps Facebook will be finished in ten years?

I was finished with Twitter about a year ago.

The hoopla around it may have been blown out of proportion.

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?