Even in the Western Europe, the undercurrent of Anti-Americanism shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. On a related note, should the U.S. know better that great responsibilities come with great power naturally?

Well, free access to information is banned in China, and it was also banned in the West a few hundred years ago. Objectively speaking, why shouldn't China be allowed to do something that the West used to do hundreds of years ago and then evolve spontaneously? My little mind is a bit confused.

和對手對客戶進行競爭。和對手對渠道也進行競爭。

Is a high-speed railway between Montreal and New York City a prescription for prosperity?

It appears that an across-the-board adoption of microblogging has been happening in China.

Politics in the West definitely is not for the thin-skinned.

Is there a remote possibility that Canada will merge with the U.S. in the future?

I make savory Chinese dishes and I don't understand why Canadians don't do so.

Music video - "L'Aigle Noir" - Patricia Kaas

The pretty sounds of French are voiced in this well known old chanson.

"Burden of proof" is such a good phrase.

Why do some aboriginal people become fixated or vagrant beggars in Montreal? Why? Don't their own cultures value education and skills building?

The memory of past years is molted into deeper memory to be invoked incidentally later on in life.

A mistake that never happens again

He drinks rum and whiskey simultaneously
and delights in them spontaneously
His mind and body don't act consentaneously
so he drops drunken instantaneously

The Android OS should improve its battery power management and extends the battery life.

Is there real mojo with the Chrome OS, which gets embedded in the quickly forthcoming Chromebook mobile computers?

On a related note, one thing noteworthy about the Chromebook thing is that "Google claims that a multi-layer security architecture eliminates the need for anti-virus software."

A researcher's calling should be to promote human beings' understanding of the nature and of themselves.

It takes a sophisticated eye to appreciate the modesty and cunning simultaneously showcased in many matters in this world.

One day vanishes after another.

Actions speak louder than words.

Maybe big money is no longer a moat for big biz.

Pious hope should be redirected to taking actions by oneself.

To my eye, many writings by Chinese, both domestic and overseas, are not very clear.

One of the functionalities of education is to somehow familiarize, to some degree, a person with the great minds.

Well, after hundreds of years, the notion of democracy is finally vanquishing all hearts and minds all over the world.

Speaking English has become to delight me.

Stratford, Ontario has an Avon River. The small town, which holds the annual Stratford Shakespeare Festival, is the Stratford-upon-Avon of Canada.

(Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stratford15.jpg)

Passing far is actually the cultural and ideological distance between China and the West.

The actual reasons of the dismissal of the former MP Helena Guergis by Stephen Harper are still a little foggy, aren't they?

Heat rash rushes to the skin these days.

Let the beer flow, under the summer sun.

As had been my wont, I was a night owl and didn't wake up early typically. But after my child was born, man, I get up earlier than roosters.

Knowledge of genome sequences facilitates the further understanding of biological processes. Don't you think that is wonderful?

比起由倦意引起的漫無目的的瀏覽，思考我自己感興趣的問題，會帶來充實、實在的感覺。

難怪有哲人說“我思故我在”。:-)

In computing devices and programs on them, mostly, the current screen shows the state, where the menu shows the next transitions, in terms of theory of automata and computability.

CDN & CAD

Canadian
C     D  N


Canadian dollar
CA          D


Content Distribution Network
C          D               N

Like any other OS, Google's Android is a mysterious automaton.

It talks to other software programs smoothly.

What does the newish mushrooming of condo construction in downtown Montreal and its vicinities signify?

By buying a cup of coffee at Starbucks and staying to drink it, you get listening to baddest music gratis. Think about that.

'Good choice,' T made a gesture towards the beer box held in N's hands.

There are usually two types of customers in a franchised coffeehouse, who amusingly are kind of on the two extreme ends of the scale of their duration of stays.

One type is those who only come in for a transient session of coffee drinking and possibly a brief chat, and the other is those who are glued to their seats for hours after hours together with their mobile computers.

Epiphanies bring happiness to the mind.

Lately there was some unrest in Inner Mongolia, an ethnic province in China.

Is it an important portent of more political troubles to emerge within the Celestial Empire?

I lost my mirth once, or twice, in my youth. That was hard on developing a taste for life.

"It's a lot of writing for you," J said, mentioning the form to be filled out.

"Peter Bloom" is such a good name. And 'Bloomberg' is not bad, either.

Is there a relationship between jazz and ambiance music?

(Image: Wanderlinse / http://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderlinse/4828698073/ / Creative Commons)

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.