It is pivotal that there is a civil market of ideas, which compete with each other.

'Blissful' is a very rich word.

Blissful treatment of people leads to nowhere.

In my young years, I was ignorant but not blithe.

It seems that China's video streaming websites, such as tudou.com, are bedrid due to their lagging in technological capabilities.

And 56.com seems to be the best, relatively, among them.

The consequences of social networking services are writ large on the face of the forthcoming years.

People will use them more and more to find information.

Is immigration to overseas a go for more and more businesspersons in China?

Jobs not allowing for career advancement tend to not retain workers.

Globalization has swelled the ranks of futureless people in the U.S. and Canada, as it were.

In Economics, the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility is "the central hypothesis of" the Utility Theory, which often gets criticized by some economists.

However, I have found it a powerful concept.

The accelerating pace of paradigm shift, which is pestering, costs us very much time and too much time.

我現在還不需要入 tablet.

One or more pragmatic ideals are among the best life companions of a boy then a man.

If you are using Internet Explorer, you might want to consider to switch to Firefox, or even better, Google's Chrome browser.

(Image from http://goo.gl/TIq5a)

我很喜歡 Google 產品的 understatedness, effciency, 與 effectiveness.

然而，Google 產品匱乏一些治愈系的感覺。

從此刻開始，我自己在這個部落格上面寫的中文文字，一律採用我心儀已久的繁體中文。

離根更近。

It seems that the high school and university students with the best critical thinking capabilities are concentrated in Beijing and Shanghai, the two hugest mega cities of China.

Well, it's obvious, isn't it?

I'm abandoning the labeling of the posts on this blog.

It's just neither necessary nor helpful. For finding information on this blog, a search will do.

Fluorine is everywhere in our daily life.

Fluoride toothpaste, fluoridated tap water, and fluorescent lighting are good examples.

Many old people are out of the frame of the web evolution.

Much of the hurry-scurry of smart phone apps is fads, for my money.

The colors and fonts of the Chrome browser on Linux machines seem to not be on a par with their counterparts on Windows and Mac machines.

Now that the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons has stripped the license of the disgraced Toronto pathologist Charles Randal Smith and found him "incompetent" and "unprofessional".

Note that Mr. Charles Smith had obtained his pathology training at University of Toronto in the 1970s. And now we know that an education from a prestigious university does NOT equal to high quality of a professional's work.

I adore and admire LSE.

Cost of living is spurting in Montreal this year.

What is wealth? Paper monies?

What major elements have driven the current tectonic shift of the political landscape of the Arab world, such as what have been happening in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen?

It is said that the steeply rising cost of foods is one of them.

Gosh, introspective men's appeal may be rising.

The BURSTS of innovations happening in China are still not on a par with the SPURTS of those in the U.S.

Is China spurting its accumulated mammoth amount of U.S. dollars?

Or will it be?

There are many dirges in pop music.

The North American life is more or less mirthless for some first-generation Chinese immigrants.

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.