RIM wasn't tardy. It was just full of itself.

Slowly but surely, we must move from the peripheral of the Western civilization to the core of it.

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Many times, topics which are actually common to average native speakers of English seem esoteric to Chinese in or from Mainland China who are ESL learners.

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Excerpt from web - 关于"词汇量问题"

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说到这里,我想插入一点,有关于人的词汇量问题.衡量人的词汇量有多种尺度.具体要分为阅读词汇量,口语词汇量和写作词汇量.所谓阅读词汇量就是你在阅读时看到认识但不会拼写甚至不会读的单词量.这种词汇量是最容易提高的.口语词汇量,当然就是指你在口语表达时能灵活运用的词汇量.而写作词汇量就是你在写作时能灵活运用的词汇量.有人或许会问,口语词汇量大了写作词汇量不就大了吗？非也,这两个完全是两个不同的体系.口语词汇和写作词汇是不一样的.口语中多用短语多用动词词组多用Baby English,这里有个误区,很多人为了impress外国人,在口语中经常用一些自己刚背的大词或者生僻的词,有人甚至用GRE词汇,这是绝对错误的,这就好像在我们用中文进行日常交流,某个人一直使用文言文一样.同样的道理,我们在进行英语交流时也要多用自然的口语化的句子.我还记得我们在大一口语课时,外教就专门训练我们用Baby English,而避免用一些写作中的大词.因此我们在积累口语词汇时,要注意积累一些口语化的用法和词组,除此之外真正涉及到词汇量的是,生活各场景的具体词汇.不知道大家有没有这样的体会,和外国人在一起往往感到无话可谈,谈来谈去都是些相当空的话.为什么？彼此间接触的东西相差如此之大,可交流的应该很多啊.问题就在于我们specific的词汇量太少.随便谈个话题,谈不了多久就卡壳了,这词不会说,那词也不会.比如,我有个外教比较喜欢cooking,这方面的东西她很感兴趣.可问题是各种菜的名字我知之甚少,怎么交流？？所以,我们常常呼喊提高口语,提倡这个发音,那个语调的,可是,就算你真正做到native了,却无法交流,这又有何用？所以,平时一定要注意日常词汇的累积.好像最平常最生活的词汇反而容易被我们忽视,VOA词汇有用,难道这些日常词汇就没用吗？其实利用率更高.以前我曾经为了提高这方面的词汇量而买过一本书,是外文出版社出的,名为《看图速记英语词汇集 学习生活用语新突破》,是日本人编写的,共分182个日常生活的自然场景,每个场景分别收集了20个是用频率最高的词,中英对照还有插图.当时觉得很实用,但后来给外教一看,说里面有很多用法不地道,毕竟是日本人编写的,有的时候用英式用法,有的时候又是北美用法,还有一些过时的用法.听她这么一说我就懒得背了.后来她给我看了一本她买的与其相类似的书,具体书名我没有记,不过是剑桥出的,她说比较权威.我准备去买,等我买了一定把书名贴上来.（这个书我到现在还没有找到）.

而在正式写作中,尤其是在学术写作中我们一要避免使用Baby English,例如;take off最好改用remove,throw  away最好改用discard,get used to最好改用adjust to或adapt to.在这里我们就应该多积累一些写作中可以用到的华丽词汇,比如在表示“重要”时,除了使用important,我们还可以用pertinent, vital,  crucial等等.刚才我之所以说刘毅五千很重要,就是因为里面大多数词语都是使用率极高的,而且可以使用于写作中.我个人认为五千是刘毅词汇系列中最核心的.建议大家拿来背背.
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--Excerpted from http://goo.gl/ntUs9 in around 2009
--Recycled in 2011

Quote via web - “工作忙，没时间”学英文

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懂得爱上英语，但找不到时间来学习英语？调查指出，80%以上的白领都报名学过英语，但真正坚持下来的恐怕连一半也没有，最普遍的借口就是“工作忙，没时间”。
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--Excerpted from http://goo.gl/0XFwR in around 2009
--Recycled in 2011

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Some, if not many, bosses can make an intrinsically interesting job just an ongoing mirthless experience.

People must be scurrying on Douban.com.

Effectively filtering information has been becoming increasingly time-consuming.

Good authentic Chinese dishes make my stomach merry. However, they're hard to come by in Montreal.

Well, that's one of the compromises that I have to take for living in a relatively fair, rich, and democratic country.

新浪微博 搞的 新浪微群 貌似蠻有意思的。

其 title 裡寫道：“新浪微群-大微博里的小圈子”。

沉思於唱、沉思於怨

非君唱樂府 

誰識怨秋深 

--唐代李賀之《巴童答》

The capitalism system is merciless. But, there are other systems co-existing for people in the U.S. and Canada.

Many entrepreneurs mistake "possible" for "probable".

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That's right, what measures do you take in order to make it from "possible" into the realm of "probable"?

What we think we can accomplish always is tardier in arriving than what we anticipated in the beginning.

Dude, shun dogmatism, will ya?

Reputation is a fragile thing. It can get sullied very very easily.

"情義倆心知。"

Sigh. I tend to be too serious for mirthful enjoyment of life.

Voidness is something that every man must resist.

White under the sunshine.

I like the taste of the "Quaker" Trail Mix bar of the "Nut Medley" flavor.

Now I know, youthful pop singers tend to be more or less blithe.

And that's one of the reasons why they fail to attract adult fans.

Western life sort of sets me free, in certain senses.

I guess the current WiFi protocols will appear prototypical when we look back at them in twenty years.

Does it REALLY do good to non-public companies when they mercilessly lay off their workers?

"Sir, how many degrees will be enough for me to have?" "The more the merrier."

P.S. I feel glad that universities haven't made postdoc an academic degree yet(?). If one day that happens, what degree should a professor or academic researcher with, say, twenty years of research work under his belt, be entitled to? Assume that he wants to leave the ivory tower for the real world and work in it, can he claim that he has a post-post-postdoc degree? :-)

Eclectically integrating ideas is hard.

Yeah, should I deal with problems mirthfully instead?

For different people, the web can be a place of delight, a place for mirth, or both.

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For me, it is largely the first case.

Businesses can never desist from updating themselves.

My own ambition of getting more and better information bitch-slaps me with info. overload.

The web kicks butt for finding quality information!

Dude, be mindful of both the explicit and the implicit decisions you make.

As a matter of fact, many Chinese people are only largely encouraged by extrinsic motivation.

I've become to like Jazz.

It relaxes my mind.

魚貫。

It seems that my wireless router has become the bottleneck.

Every person comes away from his alma mater intellectually, in a matter of years.

So, especially in this era of lifelong learning, which university or institution a person graduates from shouldn't be overly fussed about.

We Chinese, as individuals, tend to be more or less dogmatic.

Ever since the Han Dynasty during which the Confucianism gained dominance in China, Chinese people have become quite doctrinaire.

News of every single Android device has been bruited about since around two or three years ago.

Google's eclectic Android team has been working very very hard.

Huh. Free BSD is distinct from Linux.

Typically, formal education only defines a career person's alpha, not his beta. And not to mention his mid career self.

By its nature, the field of investment is risky business.

So the volatility of the fortunes of individual financial firms should reflect the natural and unavoidable failures of risky undertakings, which after all is what their businesses are all about.

Streams of light break out here and there. How does an eye grasp them?

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The ever flourishing spreading of the web and personal computing devices such as smart phones and tablets makes every one of us more eclectically sophisticated.

Well, I've become to more and more appreciate living in democratic societies.

I guess that the number of nights of carousals have been receding in many nations, due to the deeper influences, or imposition, of the globalization led by the West.

The ecstasy of accomplishment mutters that you should bide your time.

More and more telecoms and consumers are streaming to 4G telecommunication.

Many elders are so out of it.

They should streamline their own individual processes of information intake by embracing the channels of the web and the 3G / 4G network.

"To read later" is an important layer for managing information.

The stream of Jazz music via Douban.FM keeps tapping my heart.

Changing a web page's URL is bad practice for any website.

It seems that Western countries have always been streamlined and geared, through their own hectic ways, to spread their influences all over the world.

One must be eclectic instead of being doctrinaire.

The number of indiscreet remarks in an internet forum reflects the quality of that forum.

My naive guess is that financial firms should have skin in the game and they can't be allowed to act as mere middlemen.

I used to be a doctrinaire person.

Every single contrivance of new Android device, either phone or tablet, by a competing firm, pushes the ecosystem of Android on a positively breakneck way.

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Hooray! My Moto Milestone phone will be updated to Froyo, the Android 2.2, in this Q1.

Love that. Love Motorola.

Every accomplishment is a jocund party for the heart to celebrate.

Different individuals more or less contrive their own ways, on different front lines.

Wintry blows and flurries, in the broad sphere.

Many countries must be clamping down potential unrests by various measures, given the backdrop of the uprising of violent protests in Mideast and North Africa.

Information overload has cost me double amounts of time: the time it takes by itself, and the time I spend on tackling it.

The rain drops are being driven by the roaring winds to lash and whip at the windowpanes, in the broad pale daylight.

I for one suspect that Goldman Sachs conjured a $50 Billion bubble out of Facebook, which for many, certainly not all, users is a platform of information overload and requests overload.

Oh, I'm fond of David Cameron's sharp wisdom and words.

Wow. Canada's population is around 5 times of that of Libya. That makes me proud. :-)

Man, Canada even is the 36th most populous country in the world! Well, I guess that the gigantic number of the population of China, which was my home country, has blindfolded me so that I haven't been able to appreciate the fact that Canada is actually a relatively populous nation on the Earth. Well.

I for one admire those great minds that can conjure up powerful theories and models.

You know what? Maybe among the strongest moments of a democratic political system are those when lots of people in it take to the street and protest.

Well, it's said that New Zealand is very prone to earthquakes. Is the long term situation over there worse than in Japan?

People should consider to gradually move out of there.

When can we do web dev without further ado?

Maybe there always are more than few financial firms which fudge their figures.

CBC News should contrive a better Android app.

How could BBC or its contractor conjure up such an ugly duckling Android app for the ever elegant BBC? :-)

Android Online Radio (for BBC).

Oftentimes true masters can conjure great results out of something which is of no value in the untrained eyes.

The default Chrome browser doesn't render XML pages in a user-friendly way.

What inconvenience.

The things of Captcha and reCAPTCHA are intriguing.

蔡康永，及其父蔡天鐸，貌似很有意思。

Human beings really are prone to indiscretions.

A man must ask himself, "what sort of man do you want to be?"

Years of grooming produce an unforced mien.

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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.

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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.