In one's life, much of his academic learning experience is an experience which is in and of itself, which essentially is a relatively transcendent thing and a good thing.

"Faye Wong" is an excellent name. 'Faye' means 'fay', or 'fairy'.

People say leaders are readers. But I also want to say leaders are considerers.

Oh, the sweaty early summer of Montreal.

A coffeehouse is different than a coffee shop. Starbucks wants to be a gigantic chain of the former instead of one of the latter.

He holds the blossom, from the nature, to his bosom, and waves aside the cheap jewelry, which is from his tribe and society.

1. 採用一定的抽象程度的（語言）表達，可以節省受眾的時間。

2. 撇開深入的思考力的其它好處不說，它也可以在判斷、取捨信息的時候給人節省時間。

It's such a pity that myriad of Chinese are left on their own to retrofit many soul elements after they leave China's education system.

The crony system of the Commonwealth is interesting.

There must be deep reasons why some countries, which there are powerful national governments present in, don't banish so-called terrorists and terrorist organizations.

What makes many young entertainment stars all over the world, from the U.S. to Romania, dress and dance like strumpets in music videos and the like?

In brief, Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, allegedly is not very pleasant to deal with in some occasions.

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer#On_competition .

People actually sue for slander. Gee. That is sort of eye-opening for a person like me who came from China originally.

The media and the public in China appear to dismiss many matters that Western media and the public in the West deeply care about. For instance, the space exploration.

In some corner in the heart of everyone, there prints some attractive domestic tableau.

There's no such thing as vanquishing an enemy. Everything is only temporary.

The green maples are fluttering and rustling their leaves amid the sunlight under the azure sky.

Some shoddily designed baby carts make babies in their seats stoop.

People like to read gnomic remarks by famous figures.

有些從國內來加、然後從加拿大大學的本科或碩士畢業的人，即使在畢業後，在知識面、思考力、邏輯思維能力、溝通能力、英文水平等等方面，實在是不夠很好。

The recent weather in Montreal has been so atypically humid.

Having done my share of English reading and writing, I've developed my own taste in and eye for English.

Baby canteens look so lovely in general. Gee.

Who doesn't like to be inspired by the beautified immensely modern look of Shanghai?

聽說蔡康永說過真正的好電影沒人看，何嘗不是肺腑之言？

一些未仔細梳理的片段

1. “三月裡的小雨，淅淅瀝瀝下個不停”是台灣歌曲嗎？

2. 台灣屬於哪個氣候帶？

3. 中國陸地跨越亞熱帶、暖溫帶等等多個氣候帶。
http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD#5

4. "April showers bring May flowers" 是英國還是美國的 idiom？

5. 中國農曆的三月大致上對應於公曆的四月。

一些未仔細梳理的片段

1. 在豆瓣上，居然搜索不到關於“胡椒粉”的烹調書。
2. 白胡椒粉居然屬於辣味作料。

This thought has come to my mind and stricken me -- many, if not most, journalistic articles are just ephemeral, even those published on NYT.

The rendering of characters in input boxes in Firefox is better than that in Chrome.

加拿大媒體報導，日本大災後，有很多的 amazing acts of kindness。這是事實。豆瓣上有人說日本人完全不互相幫助、很冷漠。持這種說法的人沒有事實依據，只是浪費大家的時間。

In fine, life is short, but the journey is long.

Music plays in our bosom.

How Chinese women are fond of fair skins.

話說都已經 n 年沒看日系動畫片了。n 年了。我想看新番。

六一兒童節快樂。:-)

有時候從好文章看世界，有時候從世界看好文章。

“止觀雙運”。

Vintage music video - 一首含有虚拟语气的歌 - Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

Lyrics: http://goo.gl/J6nDw .

The introduction copied from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0:

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards. This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the American adult contemporary chart in 1992.

It's an excellent dirge.

As for the '虚拟语气' in the post title, by that, I don't mean falsetto, I mean Subjunctive Mood. :-)

It can take hours or even a day to dismiss unhappiness from one's mind.

So many people have been sifting Obama.

Some people tend to make overhasty decisions over critical matters, such as choosing a career for themselves, while they make tardy progresses over some other critical matters, such as enlightening themselves about how to properly rear a child.

一代英雄曹操寫下“憂思難忘”，又豈是空言。

The jazz piece in the air goes well with the afternoon summer street.

The white blooms look pretty on the branches of the green tree, which I don't know the name of.

Not every small business knows how to compete.

The juju and test tube of money is so interesting.

It appears that myriad of young people in China who have drive are in blossom intellectually, due to the proliferation of broadband internet access, smart phones, foreigners' presence in China, and foreign intellectual and cultural material available on Chinese websites. And it appears that they will stay so and benefit from that enormously in the upcoming future.

The fine balances between chancy intaking of information and systematic intaking...

French IS more euphonious than many languages.

日本民族對於小、潔淨有著卓越的美感，對於人生的短暫、無常有著深刻的奧義。我當年被震撼，多年後亦不能忘懷。

Deep seems to be the recent sexual assault case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the lately resigned MD of IMF. It may be a smear campaign, it may not.

"Strauss-Kahn had been expected to be a leading candidate for the 2012 French Presidency under the Socialist Party. Preliminary polling suggested he was favored to defeat the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy." (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn_sexual_assault_case#Political .)

On another note, the family name "Kahn", which he for one possesses, is an interesting and widespread one.

The affright of great earthquakes has grasped the world in the recent several years. What will computation be able to do in order to support the field of seismology?

Image - Leprosy - McLeod Ganj, India

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

Why couldn't people like the leprous woman in the above pic get timely treatment, given that the once precarious leprosy had already become totally curable due to the advancements in medicine?

Perhaps I'll shift back to China in the future.

過分地急，就是會出錯。錯到痛！有木有！！！我要修點禪，“調服自相續”。

不知道基督教有木有修心的功能。

The excruciation of midlife crisis stems from that the individual had not stayed loyal to and had not chased his own dream or dreams during his young years, in many cases, I suspect.

It can be tough for a person to manage two or more responsibilities which compete for his time and attention, occasionally. There's no room of flexibility. If he fails to carry one of them even just once, he's gonna have to bear the consequences.

The phrase "juggling responsibilities" is a heavy one.

Now Michael Ignatieff is nearly a spent force. That former university prof and Harvard U. scholar must have a lot to chew. And now we know that the battle field of real world politics have different game rules than that of the ivory tower.

On a related note, it amazed me that both Micheal Ignatieff and Jack Layton hold PhD degrees. Gee, overeducated Canadians.

If one subscribes to information sources with too many heavy updates, then his reading experience is made to be fleeting.

Well, well, RIM must be dead and phantasmal in the eyes of app developers. The latter are already excruciatingly busy with doing two rounds of software development for the same app, for iPhone and Android.

It doesn't feel very good to see the beginning of the end of RIM. It's another Canadian tech giant falling down in the face of new competition, after the colossal demise of Nortel.

It takes wisdom and judgement to respect another person's spite but dismiss her as a person who's not worthwhile.

Are there more wanton killings to be seen in Pakistan, given that Bin Laden got assassinated in that country by Americans? India must be on full alert about the development of situations in Pakistan.

矮油，貌似烹調書在豆瓣上很冷門啊。難道，豆瓣上的文藝青年、蘿莉控怪蜀黍、LGBT、小清新、電影控、萌物控、圖片控、書蟲、教徒、軟件攻城師、廣告馬甲等等一眾人等不愛吃嗎？難道，創作只能用電腦鍵盤，不能用油鹽醬醋嗎？

好吧，我在研究油菜的做法。

I wore a blue Chaps T-shirt in the Chapters store, impressed, and overpowered.

Rearing a baby is tough day in and day out. But it's like April showers bring May flowers.

One's knowledge of how to reason well is quite or very closely related to his knowledge about Mathematics or Physics, I guess.

I came to Canada in order to shun the crushing and constricting omnipresent reality of limitations on individuals' development in China. And I did intend it.

It seems that many home food blender companies aren't aware or don't recognize that for parents of infants, blenders are mission-critical.

Look, the skyrocketing inflation of living expenses and wages in China has started to drive out foreign companies, which are now looking elsewhere for labor, probably back in their home countries. Combined with the backdrop of the steeply rising transportation costs wreaked by upward moving gas prices, now we can suppose China's economy and employment situation will have to face increasing troubles.

Just consider how consequential the subject matter and policies of macroeconomics are for a country and its average Joes and average Janes.

Obama's stance on Israel is quite interesting.

Westerners run the world by ideas and facts, I observe.

In the fields in which one competes, his not keeping up to date will mostly be followed by his eventual trepidation.

I'm glad to have learned that Canada is relatively edgy in the realm of space exploration.

The bosom of power or money tends to destroy a person sans proper character education, which is distinct from academic education.

Doing or saying something out of spite isn't good behavior.

矮油，原來，標題黨是如此地遭受中國網民的鄙視和唾棄。

Continuously reading too many books quickly means reading sans sufficient thinking, I suspect.

Silence may be a euphemistic way of expressing 'no' or disrespect, or may be a sign that the person doesn't know how to communicate very well.

Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick Cathedral of NYC, and Saint Patrick's Day

1. Saint Patrick, "is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland". He was said to be associated with visions of Purgatory.

2. The Saint Patrick's Cathedral is "located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, directly across the street from Rockefeller Center."

3. On Saint Patrick's Day, parades are typically held internationally. But it is not made a public holiday in Canada.

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

(Image from http://goo.gl/GSJW4)

(Picture at http://goo.gl/iWeHZ)

Here goes a gnome by Beethoven -- "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life." So insightful.

The medley of American citizens has backgrounds from all over the world. And that makes the overseas operations of American governmental and military agencies not encumbered by lack of local knowledge.

I can see our baby daughter's physical blossoming, at the same time, I can sense her mental flowering.

Babies bud very fast.

"Rain heralds the arrival of spring." is such a very well written sentence.

Apple can elicit rabid fandom among people all over the world nowadays. Few people care about that it was in quite difficult and painful situations once or several times before.

Well, when Microsoft bought up Skype, was it merely buying out a competitor? After all, Microsoft had an excellent free video chat product up and running for years already, which was the Windows Live Messenger.

In China, so profound are the effects of the proliferation of internet access, which greatly facilitates the diffusion of information.

For instance, the young people cannot be easily fooled any more. No more.

I don't really get why Google makes Android versions so ephemeral. Such an ephemeral fashion. Gee.

Have TOO many web companies mastered the $0 price point? :-)

The antic Disney cartoon figures such as Mickey Mouse have lived well for generations of children.

Is UNIX the ultimate Rambo OS?

The keystrokes on my new white HP laptop feel crisper than those on the older black one.

Pleasant industrial design, isn't it?

The excruciating tardiness of improving one's English level is something that he must endure.

China's economy has been in full bloom for around two decades. How long will it be before the deep-running social problems surface in its society? And how much derailment will that do to its economy?

To my untrained eyes, moles, beavers, and groundhogs look quite similar.

(A mole / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Close-up_of_mole.jpg)

Image references:

http://www.google.com/search?q=mole&hl=en&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=vbvYTZ2NOILL0AGXx838Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CB4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

http://www.google.com/search?q=beaver&hl=en&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=y7vYTbvoHYXd0QHwmpT8Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

http://www.google.com/search?q=groundhog&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS250&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=5r3YTbibIee70QHd25j8Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBUQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

I enjoy the chancy NONLINEARITY of meaningful discussions with people. In addition, and a little worse, I enjoy the chancy linearity in discussions with some people.

My relatively unsophisticated English has remained my pain point, more or less, personally.

Shifting one's ground is a bad habit.

我猜想，也許應該定義兩個新的 quotients：Raw intelligence quotient (RIQ) 和 Raw creativity quotient (RCQ)。

RIQ 和 RCQ 高的人，可以在自己掌握相關知識不多的知識領域裡，產生好的 ideas，並且執行出好的結果。

另外，近幾年出現了一個新的 quotient -- Spiritual quotient (a.k.a. SQ, 靈商)，貌似比較火熱。

The heat of the sips of coffee has been coursing through the pores of my skin.

In web development, the HTTP request/response cycle, on the web server side, is the input/output cycle redux, on the UNIX server side (vis-a-vis terminals).

Hold truth, beauty, and reason as bosom friends.

The entertainment elements in our information consumption are increasingly overmastering the patterns of the consumption, aren't they?