你過分繁複卻又不夠精深、過分感性卻又不夠理性的舞步，讓我終於在了解後放手。

擦肩而過，一期一會。我們共舞過一次。我盡力地和你共舞過一次。

For my part, I think many of Google's efforts have been pious.

A harlot knows how to sell herself.

J sugared his coffee, a spoon in his hand.

Coffee drinking is an atmosphere. A culture.

Long time ago, I already sensed that in the U.S. and Canada, first-generation Chinese immigrants are typically jadedly clogged in their own career advancements by their typically quite insufficient English skills.

It seems that a PhD degree in Science, Math, Engineering, or Business is no longer an open sesame.

Because the English language is so vastly versatile, people's wonted ways of expression can be drastically different, I feel.

Manage your points of espial. And manage them well.

It's intriguing that accounting professionals in North America are sort of dismissively called "bean counters". Is that a popular misconception?

"Would you like some wine?" the waitress graciously asked. "Is it extra?" J replied. "Yes, it is." the waitress corresponded.

A string of characters.

People don't ping each other via emails as much as before. SNS has largely replaced that need.

Among the recent iterations of all the major browsers, Chrome and Firefox seem to have been leading the force, while Safari has been lagging behind in terms of performance and robustness. As for IE, who hasn't forgotten it?

"Did you assay him with entertainment?" J said.

Music video - Go no more a-roving - Joan Baez

Lyrics (Actually it's a poem "We'll go no more a-roving" by Lord Byron):

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. 1788–1824

599. We'll go no more a-roving 

SO, we'll go no more a-roving
  So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
  And the moon be still as bright. 

For the sword outwears its sheath,         5
  And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
  And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
  And the day returns too soon,              10
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
  By the light of the moon.

http://www.bartleby.com/101/599.html

Improving their English levels is a gigantic drain on the myriad young people in the non-English-speaking developing countries.

The songs by Chyi Chin, a famous male Taiwanese singer, are my Proustian pleasure.

Some Westerners don't possess very sophisticated English. So their judgement over that matter isn't impeccable. When an ESL learner speaks or writes, they get his or her drift and then they think his or her English is good, which actually isn't the case.

Sophistication is key.

For a man with ambitions, buying mortgaged real estate in his twenties is a decoy presented as property. It would clog his freedom to pursue his ambitions.

Are teenagers in Canada set to bloom?

美國各色嗎？中國各色嗎？

In the literature of mathematics which is in Chinese and English, the Greek alphabet was introduced into it for the purpose of mathematical notations.

I wonder which symbols stand for those notations in the literature of Math which is in Greek. The English alphabet?

The Canadian government should accede to the proposals that Canada opens its telecom industry to foreign ownership and competition, especially to American ownership and competition, I guess.

I'm telling you, I've been battling with information overload for a long time. I'm not alone. Info. overload is an epidemic of our era.

Everyone of us who's not out of touch has to TOUGH IT OUT, I'm afraid.

Dismissing mercenary thoughts facilitates one's career, doesn't it?

對死去者獻上我們的敬意，並抱持一種社區式的負責的態度。

一地雞毛。一地蒜皮。

Our baby daughter's appetite shifted lately. We've been having headaches because of that.

LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE (Royal Ballet of U.K.) - Clog Dance by William Tuckett

"
William Tuckett dancing the clog dance in "La Fille Mal Gardée"
Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Music: Ferdinand Hérold arranged by John Lanchbery
Royal Ballet 2005
"

When will the commonplace personal debt problem of Canadians bottom out?

"The lank woman was singing," J said.

For my part, my physical weakness in my childhood wreaked me to have missed something.

Vodka's viscosity is a little higher than that of whiskey and rum.

Well, I'm afraid that the high pressures of competition on the young people positioned in the big cities of China are not going to relent during the coming fifteen years at least.

Alcan is running an ad on the Montreal Gazette which writes "99% virtuosity, 1% aluminum" with a large pic of a jazz artist playing his instrument. Isn't that ad excellent?

我的思維空間不夠開闊。

English learning is not always sunshine and breeze. Sometimes, it's a lot of travails.

Many problems recur sooner or later. So you need to face them directly and solve them partially or completely.

On a related note, you must discern and filter out the trivial problems which will be solved automatically by the environment over time.

The PhD degree is no longer a diadem in terms of academic capability. Too many and too many people have it.

You know, the Chinese descendants overseas are quite good at devising excellent names for the food they sell and the restaurants they run.

There's the "fortune cookie", there's the "dim sun". And there's a lackluster Chinese restaurant in Montreal called "Fay Wong". Why isn't the wonton called 'wanton' instead? :-)

Don't take this little joke seriously, please.

Taking risks means taking losses on the chin.

Will the opprobrium of the entire world at the Wall Street be temporary or permanent?

When the breezes arose, I was standing under the short blooming tree, whose dropped white blossoms covered the pavement.

學習分兩種：有交流的學習、沒交流的學習。

Rheum were shed in private spaces and moments.

No one else saw them.

Is it a portent of a more turbulent Africa that China increasingly relies on the resources produced by the continent?

Ideally, generations of the human kind work in relays in this world.

The fate of Hecuba, the wife of King Priam, was so tragic.

How come all evils and monsters in Hollywood flicks are vanquishable?

Collisions between people in a relationship drain them.

A question: Why is the Christian God "a jealous god"?

As in the Bible:Exodus 20:5, "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me".

Truth 最有效率。用智慧來探尋 truth，把和 reality 的對接成本最小化。

There's relatively too much bawdry on the Chinese internet media's websites.

The clouds are subtle to sight on this cloudy day.

用你的腦和心來化合 ideas。

Well, I tend to be dismissive of the belief held by many English learners who are Chinese that studying American soap operas such as "Friends" can really elevate one's English proficiency. Doing that just turns them into familiarized consumers of American pop cultural products.

I'm gonna be more thick-skinned.

The "Shield of David", the symbol of the Jewish people and Judaism, is quite interesting.

See the name's origin here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_David#Origin_of_the_name .

(Pic "Star of David" by zeevveez / http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/2667648511/ / Creative Commons)

"Go into the washroom, draw out your drain, and shoot out the liquid," J said.

It's not easy at all to take stock of my information intaking and check the information overload.

"An extra pair of socks?" D said.

The jig is up. Wall Street's embedded interest is against that of the people in the U.S. So its decline is deadly obvious. I don't understand why so many and many young people in China dream or want to flock there.

Quote, It's my business, not your business, unquote.

Another occasion, the same person. Quote, It's your business, not mine, unquote.

Montclair maples.

Vital is the management of your current and future financial obligations. And, no, your mortgaged house is not true property. On the contrary, it is your ongoing obligation, your compulsory commitment, your binding debt.

Journalists do intimate and insinuate.

The awesome blossom of American talents is the envy of the world.

Yielding new and deeper understanding typically makes my day, during some days.

The walking civilians get impeded and clogged by the emperor in the carriage. So they wanted individualism and democracy.

The hush of the death of life in that empty land.

A person's whole life is only a mote, from the perspective of history.

How much feelings of helplessness was present in Chinese leaders' minds when they decided to begin to allow people who wanted to go and study or emigrate abroad to be dismissed?

忙得昏天黑地之後，J 悠悠地在身體裡面嘆出一口氣。

Google Translate now allows phonetic typing.

Vital is the management of the pipelines of insights and inspirations.

Wars of blood and gore have always been present in this world, till this moment. However, the typical life of civilians is far removed from them.

The handsome kitten scavenger is roving the street on the garbage day.

In terms of English learning, I've been trying to be a man of letters, not a wordsmith.

據說，“進士輕薄”是晚唐社會上流行的看法。如今的中國呢，“進士”輕不輕薄？

“你看水里的魚，長得那些奇形怪狀的樣子，是因為它們一天到晚在喝水，水中毒、鹽中毒。”，J 說。

在以前的中國，有一種說法是“人生的關鍵點就那麼幾個，走好了就會順，走不好就會不順”。其實，那是因為那時候的人（直到 1990 年代？）的 making choices 的機會不多。

在現在這個年代，每個中國人的每一年，都有很多的 making choices 的機會，所以上述的“人生的關鍵點就那麼幾個，...”的說法基本上已經不再成立。

在如今的中國、美國、加拿大的社會裡，對一個人的人生來說，比所謂的關鍵點 遠為重要 的是關鍵線。這幾條 縱貫線 很重要：知識、求知欲、道德實踐、taste、洞察力、性格等等。

There are too much tyrannous noises in typical Chinese cities.

(Image 'Noise' by JarleR / http://www.flickr.com/photos/29523289@N06/5544262496/ / CC)

The wannabe king dreams up his future in his moated castle that is unconnected with the world.

The thought of surety banishes possibilities from too many people's minds.

鹽味助鮮。

Well, a job holder wants monetary "respect" from his employer. However, does he respect the potential job seekers who are willing to replace him for his current job and earn the salary, i.e. his competitors with fair play?

In topology, "a sphere is an orientable surface with no boundary".

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle    and    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere#Topology .)

Well, the meaning of 'boundary' in topology is so confusing in my untrained eye.

Yes, Virginia, RIM will continue its decline.

When can any Canadian university set about offering world-class undergraduate education in its true sense?

The household drainage brings great convenience to people's life. But the drain clog that is naturally inevitable to be formed is a small annoyance occasionally.

See, with every solution, even where it's great, comes accompanied problems of its own.

The neighboring parching summer streets are kind of reminiscent of some distant days.

So many people's life, not existence, has vanished in the high-flying world of investment banking.

I savor the tranquility of the early morning prior to the moment of the rising of our baby daughter, which is a moat for my sanity.

The ongoing dismissions of product quality issues will cost Panasonic a lot more down the road.

When there have been more and more descendants of Eastern Asians enrolled in top-notch universities and colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada, they bring with them some entrenched dispositions to those higher education institutes. The heavier and heavier presence of those embedded dispositions and their caused behaviors may be a portentous sign of the shift of the higher education in both countries.

If you REALLY OBJECTIVELY think about that matter, then you may agree that my above sentences have got their point.

Can the skill of the Chinese language, which has been being studied by more and more Westerners, be parlayed into financial gains?

It seems that making Microsoft really invest in protecting its Hotmail and Live email services from hackers' invasions is like squaring a circle. That's virtually impossible. I get fishy emails from obviously compromised email accounts, which are held by my acquaintances, every once a while during the past several years.

古希臘神話中的仇怨真多啊。

The maples shade and the flowing breezes whisper creature comfort.

I've evolved an interest in the historical development of the free market system. At the contemporary stage of human society, free market can do wonders.