The ongoing tapping of the rain drops in the night makes the quietness intimately Chinese.

When a person's age grows, although he grows wiser naturally, his free time falls off continuously. What a trade off.

Which town's weather can be duller than Montreal's?

也許，娛樂精神不強的人，是不能將 internet marketing 做得非常好的。

大学教育的作用究竟有多大

其实，我们既不必夸大大学教育的作用，也无法否认它的帮助，“大学的功能只是我们的一个助推器。”***说，“因为教学进程是一步步向前的，它可以推着你往前走，在一定程度上至少能克服人的惰性。”

不要被大学渲染的短暂的热情迷惑，同时，如果上了几个大学、研究生院神马的，自己的水平没提高很多，也不要自卑，认为是自己不行，没有天赋。任何知识的学习都一样，是一个长期的过程，需要持久的热情与努力。

- Produced largely by replacing "培训班" with "大学" in the article "英语培训班的作用究竟有多大" by 堵力 李丽萍 / http://www.edu.cn/20020903/3066278.shtml

The pernicious natural grip of unreasonableness should be held off by intentionally cultivated wisdom.

Image - Lethe

(Image "The River Lethe in Alaska" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RiverLethe.jpg)

In Greek mythology, Lethe, is "a river in Hades whose water when drunk made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth".

It corresponds to （冥界的）"忘川" in Chinese.

*Note: The word "Hades" in the first paragraph above means "the underworld; the abode of the spirits of the dead". And it corresponds to "冥界" in Chinese.

In my childhood hometown in China, along the bank of Changjiang River, there are wharfs spread.

It diverges so much the meaning of "care a lot" and that of "take care of a lot".

The idiom "feel like" seems to be a little tricky.

Some people are apt to link everything, almost everything, to making money for himself or herself.

情感形成的批量生產，是廣告營銷的重要功能之一。可以在多大程度上代替銷售人員在互動體驗中提供的情感形成？

Not capitalized are the English words denoting subject matters (or branches of study, to put it another way), such as economics, mathematics, and sociology.

However, on the other hand, capitalized are the words denoting human and computer languages, such as Latin, Italian, Greek, and Perl.

And I don't know why.

In most cases, ignorance doesn't excruciate an individual, but poverty does. In much rarer cases, the opposite stands true.

The interrogational processes of the police must be specially designed not to violate the law but to help the police' investigative work effectively.

Well, maybe many university graduates in Canada and China leave their alma mater for the real world with insufficiently trained critical thinking skills.

And, boy, they leave for the working world, intentions awry.

The past a few days had experienced excruciatingly humid weather in Montreal. Had this city been in Southeastern Asia or somewhere? Gee.

"List, list, O list!" My life will be more and more on the internet, even.

貌似有這個現象：搖身變成文藝青年的浪潮正在席捲中國各地大中小城市。

中國的很多風氣，不善。

Some people appear to be nonchalant about how they expend their time, which surprises me.

It appears that many Canadian journalists ardently care about politics.

I look out the two horizontal panes of window glass, and I see the dawn has brushed pink stripes in the sky.

Well, it sometimes isn't fit to blindly follow an established education system, but it always is vital to live with it.

It seems that many Montrealers regard the great boom and growth of China is going to continue for a very long time. Can I beg to differ?

The financial services company, The Motley Fool, has got a good name. :-)

When a person is in the market, the pith of his way of treating people cannot be exaggerated.

George W. Bush had been crucified as being a dumb and unintelligent person. Is that depiction true or false?

文藝、藝術，純粹是創造精神世界，可以說是很沒有用處，但是在另外一方面，可以借曹丕的一句話：“蓋文章，經國之大業，不朽之盛事。”

Image - The Nemean lion and Heracles

(Image from http://goo.gl/mXpq1)

The Nemean lion was the first labor of Heracles, in Greek mythology.

Old splendid buildings tend to be cold, wet and slimy, albeit with fantastic architectures.

Old institutions tend to feel like that too, sometimes.

Being pertinent and courteous is consequential when dealing with people.

在网络上，在这个越来越多的人有了 input 的工具与意愿的时代，“小众”的社区等等，几乎成了“质量”的代名词。

不同省份的理工學院之間，腫麼水準相差這麼大哩？麻省理工學院、加州理工學院和 Oregon Institute of Technology、浙江（省）理工大學能比嗎？

主要原因之一是不是人的自由選擇、自由流動、自由競爭？

Watching TV, or viewing entertainment videos on the internet, is not pernicious in itself. But a deep-dyed habit of doing that day after day is.

Sometime, holding off reacting saves some hustle.

The United States of America is full of eager beavers, in all walks of life.

知道遠方的存在。

Corresponding to its pronunciation, the lettering of the word 'crisp' is pretty efficient.

B2C 已經 SNS 化了。C2C 呢，有木有？

華人到了國外，也許是一次重新洗牌的良機或危機。

矮油，問題是，重新洗牌的規則你搞清楚了嗎？

Vintage music video - 张学友 - 相思风雨中

There have been so many well known international figures who were actually born in Canada. Elizabeth Arden was one example.

Beetling cliffs are good settings for films.

Parents' interrogations of their children often stem from their disrespect of the children.

Among the national political leaders in Canada, Jack Layton sounds crisper than Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff do, I think.

Employment, or unemployment, still remains an ongoing concern for many Canadian citizens.

A person's middle age or old age usually awaits him decidedly as a sepulchre of his own dreams of younger ages.

Courteous actions cannot be expected to be appreciated every time, or most of the times.

“七嘴八舌”中的第八舌從哪裡來？

It seems that communication between or among people often goes awry.

And, maybe that's one of the reasons why individuals with excellent communication skills are relatively pivotal.

窮究物理。

Some ardent English learners in China have been busy watching and studying American TV series, e.g. Friends, in order to elevate their English proficiency. Is that popular approach right?

Thoughts without corresponding actions following are going to be inurned.

The functionalities of mobile apps are still primitive compared with those of regular websites.

事實上，很多的社會傳統風氣，具備高度的智慧在其中。我們不明白其中的智慧，只是由於沒有遇上足夠清楚的解釋而已。

智慧命脈的傳承，主要由知識文化人士進行。“知書達禮”之群體，在社會領域中的作用，豈能輕看。

夢想，需要勇氣與智慧作背書。沒有勇氣，若干年後哀嘆夢想的遠離的結局是必然的。

人生的有限性需要用勇氣來擴張。

I for one don't want to sign up for the paid versions of what the news media offer, yet. Not even The Economist.

What value have they been really offering us in recent years beside myriad forbiddingly overlong articles most of which are of relatively little importance?

Well, it seems that some white people tend to, relatively, ridicule or criticize the mainstream culture and media. :-)

Western big car makers have been unveiling concept cars in China. Don't they worry that cheaper replications will spring up in China?

中國大陸和香港的娛樂圈藝人，總有一定的機率給公眾提供雙重的娛樂：文藝方面的娛樂、醜聞和緋聞方面的娛樂。

為了避免醜聞的發生，內心的強大與清肅對他們來說真的是極其重要。

在中國，曾經有一些時候和地區，盛行不讀大學而讀中專或直接工作的風氣，理由大致是知識過剩。現在，在中國和西方，有一種信息過剩的論調，我有點懷疑篤信那個論調的人的後果會和篤信知識過剩的調子的人的結果一樣。

吹盡狂沙始到金

- 劉禹錫

It seems that the parser which Google Dictionary makes use of is NOT the same as the one which Google Web Search takes advantage of.

清晰的文字溝通，真的是極其重要，尤其是在這個信息超載的時代。

Will the ever deteriorating sandstorms become the cerement for Beijing, China?

(The pic "The massive Kuwait sandstorm on Friday evening" from http://goo.gl/kN1bx)

So many buildings and transportation infrastructures in Montreal are almost beat-up.

Canada actually seems to be a motley nation, to some degree.

When two people make a transaction involving money in a market, the pith of the matter is that they show a certain degree of respect to each other, they respect the fact that the other one's time/life is also limited, and they think the ability level and labor of the other one is valued as such.

矮油，這麼多华人喜欢听 Montreal 的歌手 Leonard Cohen 啊。

木有料到。木有料到。

貌似 Quora.com 比 Hunch.com 的商業模式更靠譜。

The processes of globalization and Americanization have been gradually hearsing the entrenched tradition of rote learning in China.

So far, my infant daughter has canonized a dozen or so of MVs, which she likes to watch and can calm her down, in our home.

Well, she is a picky music listener, right from a very young age, I would say.

My infant daughter likes to nap on my shoulder.

Well, I like what the authentic French words which got transplanted into English make it sound like and feel like.

在中國，騰訊、新浪、網易、搜狐、豆瓣等各大網站在微博這條產品線上競爭到白熱化。大致上來說，從傳統網絡新聞媒體網站轉化為用戶自媒體網站，是大勢所趨。

Some people treat the issue of their news intake nonchalantly. I can't do that.

I still don't exactly understand why people originally decided to dress children like goblins in the tradition of Halloween. To remind the human kind of the perpetual presence of evil or something?

(Image from http://goo.gl/y0wFZ)

A waterway tends to breed slime. A way in which substantial money flows tends to have the same problem.

To give and take is an art. On a different note, choosing is an art.

On a combined note, it is an art to choose what, when, to whom to give and what, when, from whom to take.

BAs are not at the coalface. But they are one way to customers' hearts.

I like having a countertop in the kitchen.

Interrogating a person with several questions in a row looks impolite and intrusive.

Vox pop counts

I like to read the readers' comments on the NYT's website when I go there. Vox pop counts.

In this world, there are many achievements or prizes which are up for grabs, if you are willing to take the corresponding risks, some of which are not really significant.

The financial power and clout of some people and organizations are often boasted. But what really needs to be boasted is the edge of wise husbandry wielded by certain people and organizations, which is at the core of capitalism systems.

Personally I don't think the RCMP's livery looks groovy.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/j2LoY)

In China, something is terribly awry with the horrifying inflation of stuff and that of workers' pay.

And that's unfair to the people who have worked the better parts of their work life or retired.

Will it happen that big corporations cease to be honeypot for job seekers?

'Rye', 'barley', 'buckwheat', 'wheat', 'malt', and 'corn' are dear words to the human beings in the Western hemisphere.

The marrow of most technological devices and equipment has been gradually moving towards software or firmware.

未被理解的文藝或者藝術，常常被指為“裝逼”。（文藝，並非特指高水準的文藝，也並非特指低水準的文藝。）

縱有千百情思......

縱然沉默......

Commercial successes usually are not replicable, where commercial failures usually are.

Comparing with their British counterparts, the Americans are so good at the business model of free stuff plus advertisements.

Discipline is like orange pith. We know it's good for us, but we want to get rid of it immediately when possible. And we tend to think people who eat it are sort of a little boring.

貌似豆瓣上還有不少長文控。

Perhaps some people's swinish pursuits of money reflect their insatiable hunger for power.

(Image from http://goo.gl/Uth3e)

In China, the unassailability of the Peking University and Tsinghua University may have begun to fall apart, I suspect.

No matter how small a business is, it always has got a brand, which exists in the conception of its past, current, and potential customers.

However, the owner may not be very clearly aware of that.

The Chrome browser rocks in many ways, and in its own way.