Is Hong Kong an auspicious city?

And what about Singapore?

(A pic of Singapore from http://goo.gl/KJ2Au)

Twitter is the prototypical microblogging platform.

Better things will spawn.

Information overload calls out the scarcity of time and intelligent info. filtering mechanisms.

Should I switch to Mac or stay with Windows computers in the near future?

It's a tough call.

There must be many fireworks sputtering in China's small towns.

Without challenges, ignorance goes blithely.

The surname "Sachs" is a German and Jewish name.

It "took its name from the region of Saxony in central Germany".

Years and decades of marketing and advertisements can fill some people's conscience and turn them to slaves of materialism.

Some copyrighted software programs will eat themselves.

The current Quebec composer Pierre Lescaut's piece "Paysage d'Orient" (Oriental Landscape) sounds nice.

Please forgive my constant gripes about information overload. :-)

Teenage girls mostly speak words quickly.

And when they get excited or something, they sputter. Then you can tell they are excited.

The existence of unctuousness is reflected in many movie scenes.

Snobs snub people.

They tend to overestimate and underestimate.

Suomi, a.k.a. Finland, is an intriguing country.

Below are some images associated with it presented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland:

Coat of arms

Urho Kekkonen, 8th President of Finland

A Finnish-made F-18 of the Finnish Air Force.

Headquarters of Nokia, the largest Finnish company.

Impressive for a nation with a mere population of 5 million, isn't it?

Trust is earned.

British English sounds a lot crispier than American English. Delicious.

It feels that the reputation of Harvard University,

the ritzy brand name among the world's higher education institutes, was more ore less tarnished by HBS.

Snubbing is a bad habit.

The video streaming websites in China must remember this: first, do no hideosity. :-)

Too many people consider the finance or investment industry to be the top, the ritz.

But, is a job in it actually fool's gold? Well, ask those who left it.

Dubai wants to be the Ritz of all Mideast hubs.

But how many people think the whole city is a bubble?

(Pic from http://goo.gl/r5JdT)

The ritzy Westmount area in Montreal looks poetic with its tall trees.

Spring will come through yon sky.

Issac Newton, the great physicist, and John Newton, a clergyman, are two totally unrelated figures.

Many Chinese drink too much scalding tea and soup day after day to help themselves with their stomaches' health.

The Chrome browser's sync and cron functionalities are quite interesting.

I really think cynicism is what every man should fight against. I really do.

I've climbed mountains.

Oh, the Montreal wintry winds. They aren't easy on my ears.

It's interesting that Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and Mozilla Thunderbird also integrate, or embed, so to speak, the Usenet newsreader client, which is scarcely irrelevant and defunct nowadays.

I've never really employed the first two of them though. Right from the start, I used web mail, first the Yahoo! Mail, then Gmail. And I guess most young people did a similar thing.

Scalded water is different than boiling water.

And excellence is different from mastery.

(Image from http://goo.gl/5kASq)

Make a point of enhancing your English a little bit here or there everyday.

Some investors tend to anticipate gravies.

Well, it would be surprising or astonishing if there weren't some people like that, wouldn't it? :-)

In certain senses, it is far easier to reach truth in Canada than in China.

One thing that I don't quite grasp is that Western leaders often remonstrate about dictatorship during their official visits in lands governed by what they scold.

Parents are natural scolders of their children who tend to irritate people's limits.

The cron functionality of the Blogger platform is interesting.

I wonder how much resources the platform allocates to it.

Russet sky

A bird showers in the russet sky
A man walks on the refreshing path

(Pic from http://goo.gl/oV5RF)

To sanctify individual rights unleashes lots of potential in a society.

Some people are erring in their career paths.

Well, it's hard not to err, of course.

How is it if we compare the book 'The Catcher in the Rye' with the 2010 Taiwanese film 'Monga'?

Because Google Buzz, the social networking service that Google rolled out in February 2010, is generally considered to be a failure, I am abandoning it for the time being.

It's hard and time-consuming to navigate the social networking landscape, isn't it?

President Obama gets scoldings from all angles.

That actually boils down to one thing: money. Capitalism runs on money.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/qchJ6)

Well. Do you think the current pension crises ripping through the Western countries will also present themselves in China down the road?

It is interesting of the remedy of mutual exclusivity of two or more threads for the race condition.

The file widget is interesting.

The government in a democratic society tends to be scolded all the way.

Don't those politicians in it get discouraged?

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

Some entrepreneurial endeavors are vain efforts,

because the entrepreneurs who initiated those are ill-equipped and will remain so.

We have hied for too long on the road of materialism.

Canadian winter is bereft of warmth outdoors.

And it is too long.

The omnipresence of the web has wreaked tectonic shifts in economic and political landscapes of both the developing and developed world.

The world will be becoming more homogeneous, along certain dimensions, such as the adoption of democracy and that of the English language.

Well, well, well. Twitter has facilitated, certainly unintentionally, many political gatherings and logistics across the developing world.

The permeative fluoridated tap water in Montreal looks a little opaque and a little creepy, doesn't it?

Shoot! American governments are engulfed in debts at all levels.

I for one don't like that at all. Many Americans are too genteel to berate their systems of governments. The whole financial situation over there is just very foul! H^^y ^^it.

Many people in the U.S. and Canada will be reminded not to trust any form of government from this moment forward. Not at all.

Keywords: Unfunded liability.

Northern countries, such as Canada, are notorious for their wintry cold snaps.

After having lived in Canada these years, do I want to go to Russia, Norway, Finland or something in winter? Haha. You bet I don't.

'Bundle up and hunker down'. Love that expression.

Well, this is tearing. How can the Tucson murderer possibly plead NOT guilty on the ground of his alleged insanity?

Against the backdrop of the rising of personal blogging, microblogging, and social networking and hence that many individuals have found their voices in the public arena, some journalists' roles have somewhat been replaced, I suspect.

The aboriginal peoples in the U.S. and Canada are descendants of Asian races.

My wild guess is that their ancestors had migrated from Eastern Asian areas via Russia and Alaska to the North American continent, perhaps in their pursuits of Arctic preys.

Take That was a lovely band, wasn't it?

Well, I wish that after so many years, Chinese textbooks have finally changed.

And they are no longer bereft of subject indexes.

People say some real estate agents are full of it.

Somali pirates still are extorting money from international ships.

What a failure of the Somalia state.

Cherish your time. But don't be absurd.

Don't you think French men in their berets look quite good?

(Pic from http://goo.gl/h3O5z)

Some people don't respect others' work and labor.

So they tend to belittle others' achievements.

The wide isles in grocery stores are for paunchy men and women.

And mega companies are for bureaucratic and staid business management, in certain ways.

Some websites are just foul in their appearances.

Gird your loins, Canadians.

It will a tough global competition for work. This country needs to invest more in innovation and productivity enhancement.

Much to the chagrin of some Chinese Americans, their children didn't become high-flying successful people owning mansions.

The majority of native English speakers, in contrast to the majority of ESL learners,

acquired their bases of active vocabularies throughout their childhood family life and their education in primary and secondary schools and universities.

You know what? Why has the Chinese housing market been constantly berated in China?

Why not just marketize it? Hmm...

Some people, especially among the religious people, allegedly foreknow forthcoming events.

It seems that many Chinese immigrants in Montreal are not privy to what is going on in the online life of Mainland Chinese people.

What is left in the wreckage in an online user account if that account gets cancelled voluntarily?

If you are an English learner, no matter how hectic your life is,

keep reading at least one or two pages of text in English everyday. That activity alone, can at least counter or check the natural depreciation of one's English proficiency.

I have swallowed and tasted a slew of books and articles in my past years.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/V3rPK)

The current recession has seen many wrecked careers which were established or budding.

People are scrambling to salvage the wreckage.

Many things will realize before long, and many other things will pass away momentarily.

I personally think that too many people in Canada and China borrow too heavily,

particularly in their house mortgage arrangements, to maintain their capacity of maneuvering the risk of becoming wretches when bad economic times attack.

How come I like much of what British Prime Ministers spoke so much?

Some people spend too much time on expanding their passive vocabularies,

while paying too little heed to enhancing their somewhat wretched active vocabularies.

Article via web - 为什么要重视新闻英语

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为什么要重视新闻英语 -|Hi－Jo 发表于 2008-6-19 10:44:00


对中级水平的学生，我历来推荐使用音频(包括视频）的新闻英语学习、教学。为什么？

首先是听力训练。英语要从耳朵开始，我不知道已经说了多少遍，也许一些读者已经接受。不接受的，以后也要接受。不从这里开始，只有哑巴英语。

第二，新闻容易获得。有电台，有电视，有Podcast，很多都有下载的段落，而且发音地道清晰。有无文字（transcript)，倒在其次。

第三，新闻有连续性、重复性，对语言学习，尤其重要。

第四，有新颖性、兴趣性，容易引起兴趣和讨论。

第五，相对简单，至少结构上，比较简单。

第六，内容信息量大，单词量丰富。

第七，可以学到知识。时事也好，科技、时尚也好，都可以和社会同步。

第八，用mp3或电脑，都方便复习、模仿的训练。

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- Excerpted from http://blog.zhuhai.gd.cn/user1/elmlab/archives/2008/3553.html (now defunct) in around 2008

- Recycled in 2011

The Chinese proficiency of so many native Americans and Canadians who are not Chinese descendants has become so good and native.

Gee.

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

You know what? All those exceedingly complicated organization and interactions of global economic activities belittle individual efforts and undertakings wretchedly.

Another fact is,

a myriad of young people in the U.S. feel wretched about their prospects. They don't think they have a bright future, in the so-called 'land of opportunities'.

As a matter of fact,

last several decades have also seen the CONTINUOUS DECREASING of median annual real income of middle class American workers. Ah, what wretchedness.

In the U.S. and Canada, last several decades have seen that workers' loyalty to their employers becomes wrecked.

Well, but who was disloyal to whom at first?

Microsoft seems to have been banished from the media spotlight.

Christianity and Buddhism are the two most popular religions that the human kind possesses.

The scriptures of the former were written in ancient times in Hebrew and ancient Greek. And the scriptures of the latter were written in Sanskrit and ancient Chinese.

I don't know much about the two religions. And I know nothing about the above mentioned languages, except for ancient Chinese, to a quite limited extent.

Perhaps some bosses, who still hold Chinese citizenship, of Chinese companies not owned by the government will begin to emigrate overseas momentarily.

Farewell, my friend. Good luck.

Have you ever heard those incantatory hymns sung in churches?

They have real effects on people.

"四依四不依"

"所谓四依与四不依，即： (一)依法不依人。(二)依了义经不依不了义经。(三)依义不依语。(四)依智不依识。（了义经，说示究竟显了之义之经典也。不了义经，谓隐覆实义，而为方便之说，不明了开显法性实义经典。） "

- 佛家语

The timeout functionality of the Chrome browser is interesting.

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

It is said that mobile micropayments will be insinuated, or ushered, into people's daily life in the U.S. and Canada.

Well, Japan leads the league, for years already, certainly.

My impression has been that in the management tiers of big American companies,

every single participant nearly strains every sinew to maintain his position and compete in advancing a career in a vast organization. It's a tough life, actually.

Sigh. I've seen so many people in China having been wrecked by the great changes of the time.