A Chinese tends to compare his material well being to that of others.

And that tendency embedded in the Chinese conscience harrows generation after generation of Chinese people.

When you go to a battle, go armed cap-a-pie.

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Protest rallies have been mushrooming across the world. 'Tis "the worst of times", 'tis "the best of times".

My impression is that the group of the Canadians of Eastern Asian ethnicity are normally judged sort of more leniently than some other ethnic groups, because they have the reputation of being law-abiding denizens.

Okay. Now Sony Ericsson has also climbed on the bandwagon of making Android phones.

The smart phone and tablet industry is and will be an industry in which the greatest business war I've ever seen takes place.

Sometimes I tend to think that a little more leniency should be introduced into the corporate world so that workers can have just a little more breathing room.

To copy my own input contents:

While in a form input box: Ctrl + A to select all
vs.
While on an output web page: Ctrl + A to select all

For all the risks of potential traumatic earthquakes, many people, especially rich new immigrants from China, are still flocking to Vancouver and pushing the real estate prices over there higher and higher.

I don't understand that. It's a risky area to live in. Quakes are coming sooner or later.

We must constantly ask ourselves these questions: Do I have time to season myself for nuance? And, should my worldview ever stop evolving?

There are all sorts of hidden premiums you have to pay for financial products. So you have to be very very careful when purchasing them. This is a very complicated world.

The U.S. will rally to lead the world again very effectively, I guess.

For all its seemingly limitless potential in a naive eye, life develops within various very powerful constraints and much potential is doomed at the beginning.

Artwork of digital music pieces usually looks very goodly and hence makes the music more appealing to potential listeners.

(Image from http://goo.gl/mw9PR)

The manipulating effects of arts on human consciences are not to be ignored.

Herbal lenient medicine is well known and widespread in China's homes. On the other hand, I don't know many existing in Canada.

Well, the existence of divisions within any alliance is always inevitable.

Well, I suspect that Christianity already is the premier religion among the Chinese descendants overseas who are religious.

Lately I encountered a person that likes to attack people, with no good reason, in an internet forum.

She may do that out of irrational thinking, jealousy, or something else, for all I know.

People like that will eat their own folly, for all I care.

Methinks Egypt will have a very difficult journey ahead. Just my gut feeling.

Neither democracy nor the Chinese economic model is a silver bullet for economic prosperity.

Music video - 7 Years and 50 Days - Groove Coverage

Groove Coverage is a German band.

Lyrics:

7 years and 50 days
7 years and 50 days, the time is passing by
Nothing in this world can be as nice as you and I
And how could we break up like this?
And how could we be wrong?
So many years, so many days and I still sing my song 

Now I run to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream 

I return to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream Of you 

7 years and 50 days, now just look at me
Am I the girl I use to be
So damn what do you see?
And how could we break up like this?
And how could we be wrong?
So many years, so many days and I still sing my song 

Now I run to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream 

I return to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream Of you

Google's been churning out numerous products and platforms. 'O most wicked speed!'

Do the insurance companies earn profits by taking insurance premiums from customers? No, they earn their profits by managing risks sharing for customers, and lobbying governments.

Don't ally yourself with the force of money. But take advantage of it nevertheless.

As more and more domestic and international students, either young or adult, are rallying around an education in an American or Canadian university, the point right after the peak will mark the beginning of the end of the myth of the value of a traditional higher education, whose price has been getting more and more expensive, I guess.

Many Egyptians have endured living in hovels for so long. Some people even live in cemeteries.

I don't know if a similar situation will appear in Shanghai and Beijing.

A man must know how to shun sucky career paths.

Black hats hide well.

And white hats don't expose themselves very well sometimes.

Actually homilies are often necessary, I think.

In fact, when a person actually disrespects others, or even both disrespects and takes advantage of others, that does not equal to gaming them.

However, it doesn't look pleasant in the eyes of others.

Go = 圍棋.

The Blogger platform should incorporate more keyboard shortcuts in order to make online writing more convenient and smooth and less tiring for its users.

My impression has been that the Canadian laws and courts are generally very lenient with petty crimes, such as grocery store thefts. And that, drives small retailers crazy.

I guess that many people are waiting and discerning for the premiere, the debut, of the next Facebook.

Human dealings run deep.

The Gang of Four = 四人幫.

The force of money is not necessarily in alliance with that of morality.

If Apple becomes more web oriented, then I'll seriously consider gradually parting from Google and embracing Apple.

The other day, a friend sensed my perturbation just over the phone, immediately.

I was amazed by that.

Facebook is still a waste of time for many people.

I am waiting for that inflection point to happen after which it won't be the case any more.

However, well, maybe Twitter really is better.

Maybe ten years down the road, I'll be capable of smoothly grasping the contents in The Economist, the premier British mag. Or even earlier than that.

Sometime I think I have the potential to become a premium chef.

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

The question is, if I chose the profession of chef, would I have the luck to become an excellent one?

Anyways, just some gibber-jabber. :-)

My ignorance galls me. So I set out to enlighten myself. Now the information overload galls me.

Heads I lose, tails I lose. :-)

In the great endeavors of people rallying behind monetary gains, China has lost its soul, I'm afraid.

Canada, a medley of people of all races, all backgrounds, and all cultural identities, is run by Anglo-Saxons' ideas.

Was the Soviet Union, the former state of Russia, a good member of the Allies of World War II? Seems not.

The payload part in a URL reveals quite a few things.

Canadian consumers are not allying with RIM, which is a Canadian company. Market economy is market economy. After all, RIM is just a business which must eat its own folly.

That's the iron rule of free market.

I guess that during difficult economic times, the alliance between the government and the industry is tighter and closer.

The dynamics within a country and nation is not easy to grasp at all.

Images - Hercules

"Hercules" is the Roman name for the Greek demigod "Heracles".

Keywords: Twelve labors of Hercules.

It seems that the gnarled club in Hercules' hand is his favorite weapon to attack and kill.

(Image from http://goo.gl/f1e5i)

(http://goo.gl/R3Stg)

(http://goo.gl/NZEUM)

(http://goo.gl/Nfwce)

There seems to be a self-indulgent flair to most jazz pieces.

Unwind. Unwind.

As a matter of fact, acquiring sophisticated English is a long long slog for ESL learners.

Well, it seems that Dr. Dambisa Moyo, a prominent economist and popular author, is not currently affiliated with any academic institution.

(Pic from Wikipedia)

Politics plays intimately with economics oftentimes. No wonder the exitence of the term "Political Economy".

I'm sorry. But for the time being, I don't trust the quality of customer service of Bell Canada at all. In addition, for the time being, I don't trust their mobile phone branch.

Well, so I won't purchase a Motorola Atrix 4G smart phone, which must be accompanied by a 3-year contract with Bell Canada, the sole seller. Sigh. The phone itself, is such a marvelous monster machine. I have to let it go.

Nomads from Asia.

As a matter of fact, both the WWI and the WWII were initiated by Germany.

Think about that.

And think about how people consider the Russia power.

During a certain period, I felt quite retarded, especially at school, mainly because my English level was very primitive and inadequate, comparing with my native speaker classmates.

"All tears", "and press the rue for wine."

I've become intrigued by the subject matter of China Studies.

Don't be incredulous about the friendliness and grace of Douban.FM .

I highly recommend it.

An ally and friend is hard to come by.

Painting - Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe’s Children with their Arrows

(Image via http://goo.gl/EYdhX)

"止觀雙運。"

一個人對知識的尋求，是動作片。

A sales channel can be a platform. It also can be one of your clients.

Although sometimes sales is more important than marketing, the latter is more vital than the former, actually.

I can't understand why Nokia chose Windows Phone 7 to bet upon.

Well, what measures can retard the gradual decline of the competitiveness of Canadian businesses in the global market?

Tardiness with a specific matter usually is caused by the matter's low priority, among the competing priorities, or disinterest, or both.

Denis Diderot, an ancient and prominent French philosopher and writer, looks intriguing for me.

Philosophy is vital, actually.

You know what? I like listening to the Japanese speaking in Japan's domestic TV advertisements.

It's said that the demand for individuals with technical skills allied with social skills is rampant.

"Frailty, thy name is woman".

Nearly all companies are rallying to cloud computing.

豆瓣的“關注”功能是用 RSS 實現的吗？

中國當代和歷史上的各個朝代一個很大的不同是，貌似從帝都到地方，很多當朝權貴的子女與家屬取得了各個海外發達國家的永久居留權，並且在當地社會長期居留。

細想一下，實在是令人擔憂。

但是，如果當朝只是簡單地令行禁止的話，卻會使得仕途對年輕人和各路人才的吸引力打折扣。

佛教的天地，是緣明園嗎？

佛家追求的是曼陀羅，還是真理呢？

一個人，在緣中而生。

緣法之力，運維人生。

When a person sees people expressing their opinions dogmatically, his faculty of reasoning should feel to cringe.

Well, I tend to be gabby from time to time.

'Merrymaking' is an interesting word.

You see, merriness is made, it is not spontaneous.

People stand on the rubbles of the multi-year economic crisis and almost live mirthlessly.

Capitalism is a tough system in which you don't want to lose yourself.

Very few entrepreneurs have been able to really build up their businesses only in their off-hours outside a regular job, tardily but surely.

It is often ignored that dictionaries can assist us a great deal with our English learning.

對我來說，任何一個豆瓣小組的吸引力程度往往和該小組的組長和管理員對其持續進行的運營維護的好壞成正比。

Personally I really think Google's stoppage of evolving the Google Notebook, which had once been a cool and handy gadget, was a misstep.

Google somewhat lost me and some other users there.

Google Reader is becoming out of touch.

Ideally, it should be capable of building various filters. But it's not. Not to mention those filters which are NOT ONLY keyword-based.

As for other providers, the Yahoo Pipes seems to be too convoluted to use and not very reliable, and Feedrinse.com too simple.

I don't know what I'll do. It seems that many people have given up RSS feeds and turn to Facebook, Twitter, and the like. But I really like RSS, which seems to be alive and well, contrast to the popular claim "RSS is dead".

A person must insist on his own satisfaction in the corporate world.

The growth retardation of laptop computers feels like written on the wall.

Keywords: Tablets, aggressive media coverage.

Satire joke via web - What's the catch?

"
The Devil tells a Real Estate Agent, “Look, I can make you richer, more famous, and more successful than any Real Estate Agent alive. In fact, I can make you the greatest agent that ever lived.”

“Well,” says the Real Estate Agent, “what do I have to do in return?”

The Devil smiles, “Well, of course you have to give me your soul,” he says, “but you also have to give me the souls of your children, the souls of your children’s children and, as a matter of fact, you have to give me the souls of all your descendants throughout eternity.”

“Wait a minute,” the Real Estate Agent says cautiously, “What’s the catch?”
"

--Copied from http://goo.gl/HqX40

Yeah, I like the sound of the word "medley".

Oftentimes, individuals are not in a position to help with another individual's problem. Only businesses in the market are.

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.

Image via web - Hyperion

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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.

Images - Satyr

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Excerpt from web - 关于"词汇量问题"

"
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.
"

--Excerpted from http://goo.gl/ntUs9 in around 2009
--Recycled in 2011

Quote via web - “工作忙，没时间”学英文

"
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”。
"
--Excerpted from http://goo.gl/0XFwR in around 2009
--Recycled in 2011

人生的局限性可见一斑。很多事，令人望洋兴叹。

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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.