This blog is partly devoted to the sharing of my learning of the English language (my well mastered mother tongue is Chinese and I am not an English teacher) and its *cultures*, partly to the current significant trends in Canada and in the world, and partly to my own random thoughts and little life. I am not religious, but I am somewhat interested in Christianity and Buddhism, among other personal interests. Welcome. And, have a good day.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Unknown shore
(Image from http://bit.ly/94Ic5G)
He was cast by sea waves on an unknown shore
Birds swarmed and swooned in cacophony
As if fain expostulating with each other
He walked and saw and thought
This would be a known shore in years
Zionism, the very powerful Jewish political movement, is very intriguing.
And relatedly, the Christian Zionism is also very interesting.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
I've heard that there's a free unlock package that can unlock iPhone and all of its paid apps.
I don't know if it contains spyware or something. It must be, right?
Many people like drawing. And they draw doodles everywhere, in the classroom, washroom, and so on.
In Canada and the U.S., you can see lots of painted doodles on building walls.
But I've never been able to draw.
But I've never been able to draw.
The sometimes outrageous costs of law suits have made resorting to court largely only viable for the suits, especially in the U.S.
Can the existing glut of lawyers drive down the costs and benefit more average Joes and Janes?
It seems that some native Chinese, even some with undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, don't know how to express their reasoning at all when they are expressing themselves. They simply reiterate their personal feelings.
Should they voice their reasoning when they try to make their points? Well, sometime when a person doesn't make his reasoning known, his words appear to be kind of like unconstructive jibber-jabber, right?
Vintage music video - 巫啟賢 - 心酸的情歌
Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/oocgT:
心酸的情歌
作词:刘德华 作曲:巫启贤 编曲:杜自持
此刻深深的伤透了 我唱着心酸的情歌我個人覺得哈,劉德華演電影演得不是很有深度,歌唱得不是特別的好,寫的歌詞一般也不是特別優美,但是這首歌詞裡反映出的情懷很是不錯。
歌声不再有那美丽结局 与你重燃爱火
风中凄清的一个 却有谁人可知心事么
谁想到为你付出热爱在那夜 竟是错
留恋情 是我 曾经爱你是那么多
无心人 是你 令我热炽热爱一切没希望
我甘心将空虚中的一切都交托在这首歌
祇想一生在寂寞内剩余绝情来伴我
我伤心将消失中的深爱都寄语在这首歌
如今再没有力气共你在这夜 玩火
如今再没有力气共你在这夜 玩火
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The said "moral bankruptcy" of Goldman Sachs and the likes of it & "a global financial levy"
The former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown once mentioned "a global financial levy" for banks and financial institutions. I wonder how well the actual implementation of it goes worldwide. I believe many people are watching that.
Take this as at http://goo.gl/QrekV:
Take this as at http://goo.gl/QrekV:
Mr Brown said: "We need a global financial levy for the banks, we have to quash remuneration packages such as Goldman Sachs. I cannot allow this to continue.
"Everything I find out convinces me we've got to go in deeper and I believe I'm the man to go in and deal with these problems with the banks."
Last week Mr Brown said he made a "mistake" when he acceded to call for lighter regulations on financial institutions during his years as chancellor.
Today he said: "Every time I moved on regulation I had people saying this is ridiculous - deregulation is the only way forward. I accept we didn't know what was going on inside independent companies.
"The banks have let us down. There is a moral bankruptcy reflected in what I've been reading about and hearing out. I want a special investigation."
Mr Brown added: "The banks are a risk to the economy. We've got to make sure they behave in a proper way. We've got to do it at an international level. We need agreement about what we need to do. A new global constitution for the banks is a big issue."
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Wow. A grandly refreshing picture.
Note that the photograph "was taken on June 21, 2009 in Battle Creek, Michigan, US, using a Nikon D90", as stated at http://goo.gl/5QqO6 .
孟郊之“月明直見嵩山雪”
“
天津橋下冰初結
洛陽陌上人行絕
榆柳蕭疏樓閣閒
月明直見嵩山雪
”
--孟郊之《洛橋晚望》,未錄入《唐詩三百首》
“孟郊(751~814年),中國唐代詩人。... 孟浩然孫。”
- Excerpted from http://goo.gl/VKERK
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.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
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.
Friday, February 4, 2011
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.
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.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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.
The surname "Sachs" is a German and Jewish name.
It "took its name from the region of Saxony in central Germany".
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