Today's light around 6:20AM conjured up my memories of the lights in my young and past days in China.

Trade and diplomatic accords among countries are typically the tips of the iceberg.

What are the real underneath forces of them?

What sort of consumer to be is at your discretion.

Cry me a river, truth.

I had used to be an oaf.

It's up to every individual to use his discretion in deciding how to expend his time.

Man, that's actually an enormous responsibility, in certain senses.

Nowadays, I really think that for most average Joes and average Janes in China, moving into Shanghai or Beijing is a retrograde step.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/9EDgL)

Discretion is omnipresent.

I've been having marginal meals lately.

Software guys have to put in a lot of sweat equity.

I don't think McGill U.'s Computer Science department is up-to-date enough, seriously.

Many negotiations and organizing take place discreetly, in every single significant country's political landscape.

For instance, Canada seems to have been working hard to have give and take with the Organization of American States.

Oftentimes discreet distresses are hard to discern on people's faces.

The appearance that JavaScript imparts to a web page appeals, and even pleases sometimes.

The nobility of classic music sometime is rejective.

YouTube video clips are discrete. They should make those continuously play, shouldn't they?

The mojo of human feelings.

Some people think different fields are discrete.

But many times they are not.

It seems that I love communication.

Well, nowadays, comparing to the Chrome browser, Firefox has got a face for radio, sort of.

Music video - 情人劫 - 老狼

Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/Lp4NH and then corrected by me:

情人劫
作曲:郁冬    作词:郁冬

你就靠在地铁的站牌这么望着我
突然发现心中翻动一团未曾熄灭的火
很多朋友早已经走出我的生活
我所有的梦却只有你全都看过
记得我们分手那年你受了一点点委屈
今天我还不时琢磨那些点点滴滴
地铁列车接上所有的人匆匆驶过
霎时站台上就剩下我们两个
当你走后我终于知道
在你面前我在劫难逃
那些照片早已烧成了灰烬
可那些回忆怎么点也点不着
你的眼睛让我终于知道
你的怀抱让我在劫难逃
那些日子早已经无处寻找
可那些回忆跟着我奔跑
分手多年后我终于知道
再次相逢我在劫难逃
那些日子早已经无处寻找
可那些回忆跟着我奔跑

A potential customer always makes an inquiry first.

Discreetness of some people seems to be present since their very young ages.

強烈推薦豆瓣電台的安卓 (Android) 手機客戶端。

In fact and in effect, a relatively unsophisticated education I had gotten in the nanny-state of China has wreaked my ignorance.

Nevertheless, it provides where I started going.

Independence means going from one platform to another better one discreetly.

Discreet inquiries tend to be going on everyday.

Have the corpses of state-owned companies in China been already largely eaten up?

The F5 key on Windows keyboard doesn't change a web page's URL to its default value at all.

It's deeply rooted in human beings' conscience to see how a certain thing stacks up against its peers.

Oh, the Chrome browser's lovely.

The popularity of various web gadgets has become largely determined by the Chinese consumers.

Some so-called tech articles from big companies are just elephant dung.

Hectic living is our rampant malady.

Hmm. I like the generally unobtrusive melody of female Japanese singers.

That's right. Sweet unobtrusiveness and melody.

Widespread internet gaming addiction among the young population is such a malady in Eastern Asian countries such as South Korea and China. It's been reported that a 30-year-old man died immediately after a straight 3-day online gaming session in the Beijing area lately.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/uHzH2)

At the same time, it seems that the severity of the addiction among North America's young people is not as bad as in Eastern Asia. Why?

If aristocrats in a nation unfairly compete with grassroots private businesses, and undermine civilians' interests as well, fie on them, and woe to them.

有時A驅動B，有時B驅動A。

開心大西洋。

青春是我意興闌珊時。

Science is science.

有時候，不讀書的人不明理。真的。

當然，不讀書的人有時候還是很明理的。

好的社區，有求必應。

日本の音楽です。

大家去試試豆瓣電台，蠻有愛的。

"吹盡狂沙始到金 "

千淘萬漉雖辛苦

吹盡狂沙始到金

- 劉禹錫《浪淘沙九首》其一

Know thy customers.

“己所不欲，勿施於人”極其難做到。真的。

Don't take it to heart, homeboy.

Social media really slam-dunks the paradigm shift of people's information intake.

For us the native speakers of Chinese, English learning is our overload.

On the other hand, English learning is also our opportunity.

DOD, the United States Department of Defense.

DOD "is the U.S. federal department allocated the largest level of budgetary resources and charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the United States armed forces. The Department of Defense is an evolution of the Department of War." 

The DoD is the major tenant of The Pentagon building near Washington, D.C., and has three main components—the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. 

- Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense

I don't know. Maybe the Mainland Chinese people take the American genre of airport novel too seriously.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/oyia3)

Examples include Stephen King and Arthur Hailey.

Maybe entrepreneurial success increasingly does not depend on financial apparatus.

It's apparent that there will be a slew of newly minted graduates with Master's degrees.

Appropriately giving heed to apparel is a habit to be accompanied by cultural tastes, or more precisely, intellectual tastes, so to speak.

It seems that sometimes American and Canadian schools tend to be a little peevish.

There exists a certain cultured male Waspy mien.

I miss the authentic Cantonese Chow Mein.

Eastern Europeans have their own miens.

震撼劇烈。

朱光潛“身與時舛，志共道申”。


Notes for myself:

1. 朱光潛（1897年－1986年），「安徽省桐城縣人，北京大學教授。」

朱氏為中國現代美學的開拓者和奠基者之一。 

朱氏自幼接受父親嚴格的私塾教育，奠定其中國古典文學的基礎，中學就讀於桐城中學，熟讀桐城古文及唐、宋詩。1918年至1922年，就讀於香港大學，期間受胡適五四白話文學運動影響，毅然決定放棄古文和文言文，改寫白話文。 香港大學畢業後，先後於吳淞中國公學及浙江白馬湖春暉中學教書，因而結識朱自清、夏丏尊、豐子愷、葉聖陶等好友。後來決定離開春暉中學到上海成立立達學園，提出教育獨立自由的宣言，並一方面籌辦開明書局（出版作品皆以中學生為對象的出版社）。 1925年，考取公費留英，到愛丁堡大學選修英國文學、哲學、心理學等，畢業後至倫敦大學學院聽莎士比亞課程，同時又在巴黎大學註冊，對研究西方哲學、藝術美學、心理學產生濃厚興趣，在1933年獲得法國斯特拉斯堡大學博士學位。1933年回國，先後於北京大學、四川大學、武漢大學任教。 1949年以後，一直擔任北京大學教授，居住於燕東園27號。其美學思想曾數度遭受批判，文化大革命時被指控為「反動學術權威」，遭到抄家、鬥爭，並被剝奪執譯者的權利。 

1986年，因腦出血搶救不及時而去世。 

- Excerpted from http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%9C%B1%E5%85%89%E6%BD%9C

2. 安徽桐城，「清朝著名的文學流派「桐城派」即產生於此」，據稱「現在的桐城依然文風鼎盛，經濟活躍。」

“應憐屐齒印蒼苔。”

It appears that Western people are much more apt at miming in daily life than the Mainland Chinese people, on average.

It's said that Linux' GUI utilities are slow to run and cumbersome to use. And different distributions of Linux do NOT have the same GUI utilities at all.

You know what? Actually the Find / Search functionality in Microsoft Notepad, which appears to be a very primitive product, is pretty good, comparing to some other programs which are not very well done.

Vintage music video - Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Live 1992 Dangerous Tour)

Michael Jackson, one of the best miming dancers ever, King of Pop!

Web forms can be elegant.

The Chrome browser vs. Firefox

PROS of Chrome in comparison with Firefox:

• Prettiness: Chrome > Firefox
• Viewing space: C > F
• Integration with Google's own web services: C > F
• User friendliness of web store: C > F
• Average modernity and user friendliness of third party extensions / add-ons: C > F
• Startup time: C < F

CONS of Chrome in comparison with Firefox:

• Memory cost: Chrome > Firefox
• Their own icon images: C < F
• Web page favicon rendering: C < F

In both Windows 7 and Windows XP, it seems impossible to make a running MS-DOS window, i.e. Microsoft's shell command line prompt window, minimize to the Notification Area at the lower right corner or something, in order to make things look a bit neater.

Microsoft should make that happen.

Starting my lovely web server.

Rudimentary English can only express relatively rudimentary thoughts.

There are so many videos of mimers shows on the internet. But I personally think mimes should be short, for that matter.

The meme of the adoption of social media is indeed shifting and ripping the whole world.

學力的養成，有時以快打慢，有時以慢打快。

I don't like that some websites employ Adobe Flash on nearly every single web page of theirs.

The Analytic Psychology of C. G. Jung looks intriguing to me.

Detail of Animus in the Garden

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

For instance, animus and anima.

Sometime a business and a potential customer of it are like star-crossed lovers.

It's an unfortunate fact that even today, many universities in China and Canada still churn out some graduates with unschooled thinking skills.

Atheists tend to be relatively unfortified, especially during times of great tests.

Disclaimer: I have been an atheist.

Many things that were considered unmanly have been becoming acceptable in mainstreams.

日本佛教頭兩大宗派 - 真宗、日蓮法華宗（a.k.a. 日蓮宗）

 (Pic from http://goo.gl/Q00dD)

到了明治時代，所有各宗各派，都轉向了真宗此一特色，全國的僧侶，都可以娶妻生子，公然攜帶妻室，共同住持寺院了。就真宗而言，此一宗派迄今已有七百多年歷史，比起基督教的新教，更早了三百餘年。在日本各宗派勢力中，真宗要數第一大派，現有寺院二萬五千多間，信徒數百萬人。 

... 

其次則為日蓮宗，... 

- Excerpted from 《中華百科全書》線上版， which is made by 台灣的文化大學（全稱為中國文化大學，位處台北市，私立大學）

主要由中國大陸人貢獻的互動百科、百度百科，主要由台灣人貢獻的繁體字版的維基百科，都很好。

It's REALLY difficult for a person to be not biased.

Douban.com's search API seems intriguing to me.

Every one of most companies starts from tiny beginnings. Most individuals too, for that matter.

In the beginning of the 2000's, a career in Shanghai looked very promising for a person from elsewhere in China.

Each private entity and organization operates on his or their own terms.

公開課（Open Courses，例如 Open Yale Courses）和通識教育（liberal education）是不同的。

In the American education system, a student goes rather slowly to begin with, say, in elementary school and high school, in general.

Then the real deal comes in university and graduate school.

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

At first, I for one thought the almighty Google was invulnerable.

It appears that the retirement of Bill Gates from Microsoft marked the beginning of the end of the software empire.

At the beginning of a person's life, everything looks interestingly fresh.

It appears that a portion of the Chinese population is becoming increasingly not on good terms with Western countries, deep in their minds.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/sTQJM)

Comparative Religion, a field of Religious Studies, looks intriguing to me.

It seems that the larger proportion of all the existing mainstream religions and the mainstream branches of them were deemed more or less impious when they started out in the beginning. Examples include Christianity, Zionism, and so on.

I wonder how the fasting tradition in Arab countries came into being.

On a somewhat related note, the Arab populations apparently can fast once in a while, but not forever. That's why the steep rise of foodstuff prices largely wreaked the current political upheavals in the Arab nations to erupt.

Academia is an industry.

The Chrome browser's relatively larger memory footprint

The arrangement of each tab as a separate process in the Chrome browser costs more memory. For example, with the same other software processes and programs running on the side, a logged in iGoogle page and 5 other regular web pages, 6 tabs in total, consume roughly 1242M on my Windows XP machine.

By contrast, each tab in Firefox is just a distinct thread in the big Firefox process. In Firefox, 6 logged in iGoogle pages, whose total memory consumption should be around 1242M as presented above, with the same other processes and programs running. However, the actual total memory cost is just 875M.

Google Translate 讓人笑瘋掉 - “输入“有情人终成眷属”，给出的英文翻译是“Money talks””

（窦瑞刚发表的微博） 

google翻译最懂中国文化！所谓的#有情人终成眷属#在当下的中国实际上是“有钱能使鬼推磨”。在google翻译输入“有情人终成眷属”，给出的英文翻译是“Money talks”。在google翻译输入“Money talks”给出的中文结果是“有钱能使鬼推磨”。 

2月18日 13:53 来自新浪微博

- Copied from http://t.sina.com.cn/reagandou 

很明顯，Google Translate 已經成為中國人的每月笑點來源之一。

In terms of marketing, Justin Bieber's manager has done a great job.