The birth pangs of a capable and mature man take many years to complete.

Well, we don't know how Greece can stay solvent, do we?

Hours and hours escape trippingly.

More and more information goes unwatched. What people really need is intelligence, in lieu of information.

Well, can a person provide intelligence, instead of information?

"How're you doing?" G said. "As usual. Nothing much." J replied.

I'm positive that some people won't succeed, and some other will.

This thought may make people slightly out of sorts. An employee doesn't own the job. Instead, he just occupies it, according to the mutual consent of the employer and the employee.

Is the almost fire-sale prices of labor going to last long?

In terms of philanthropic engagement, the rich in the U.S. whop their counterpart in China.

什麼是高階人力? 博士學位擁有者就是嗎?

產業界、商界、和 知識界 的標準是不一樣的。

Love your friends? Some people's feelings don't tend that perfect way.

Sometimes people tend to brood over things whose importance gets blown out of proportion in their own minds, which makes them pennywise yet pound-foolish.

Why would someone challenge the pious Muslim people by burning Quran? That's not a wise revenge, even looking from the burners' side.

科舉文化氛圍下的歷代中國讀書人，大都是用青春來 買櫝還珠。我不要也和他們一樣，做一個 還珠樓主。盡量用年華來買一些 學問和 know-how 的珠 吧。

You know better than to throw money into sitting expensive ESL classes, don't you?

Many Chinese immigrants in Canada want to parlay their positions in and knowledge of Canada and China into commercial, particularly in international trading, successes.

You must judiciously choose to read less and think more.

"Come on, Mr. dopey," the white man said, dragging the neck belt on one of his two dogs.

Tim Hortons seems to have always been in favor with Canadians.

By the way, "Tim Hortons" is a smarter choice of brand name than "Tim Horton's", which had been the preceding one, I think.

Relatively speaking, your possession of fundamental knowledge, such as Literature, Math, and human languages, is your illiquid assets, while your possession of applied knowledge, such as your trade skills, is your liquid assets.

How do you combine them and manage them?

Among female entertainment stars, there are two levels of wantonness. Nicole Kidman is one level, and Britney Spears the other.

Coffee is provided at no extra charge at that little Greek restaurant.

"Her gum is all bumpy. Her teeth are coming out," D said.

You saw those satellite dishes on top of house roofs? English literacy is like those, but in a person's head, hardly clearly visible but advantageous.

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OOP is just a layer, or dimension, of software creation. So are other whatever-oriented programming methodologies.

They are models, obviously. But are they also theories?

Our life is short. Amble along the beck, though.

In the future, what will possibly drain the massive wealth accumulated by China's government over the past decades? Wars?

So they'd better not to be involved in serious wars.

"Jack and Coke. Simple drink. There's nothing to it." the bartender said.

It must feel bitter for a CEO to be dismissed from his or her job. Given that CEOs get sacked quite often, why do so many people want to climb the corporate ladder and become a CEO or something? :-)

To go and work / study in a better place, be it Canada, the U.S., Harvard U., Princeton U., Stanford U., Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google Inc., doesn't automatically turn a person into a successful one.

Thinking that it would automatically happen is a pious hope, or even a pipe dream.

Sometimes knaves are fools because they think others are fools.

Faye / Fay is an interesting name.

Some flicks are more cerebral than others. And some books more cerebral too. Which ones do you choose?

How much goodwill in the world does China have at its beck?

Through hubbubs created by journalists, the negative sides of public figures get to be learned by the public.

Those public figures need to discipline themselves well and develop a pretty good sense of risk.

Recent examples include Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anthony Weiner.

When will the inherited craze for real estate of Chinese bottom out? In ten years?

And when will it begin to fade away? In twenty years?

Pics - Struts

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Challenges and failures break you down to build you up, if you know how to let them to.

There are many levels of friends, many of whom slide into oblivion.

其實，生活是一個謎。你用什麼心法來解謎？

In ancient China, some poets cast their feelings into bawds.

Probably there's going to be a superfluous supply of Chinese financiers.

Some Canadian small businesses have been reluctant to invest more in technology. Well, that sort of kicking the can down the road just won't help them at all.

In certain degree, in the U.S. and Canada, flexibility is what the recursion of cutting the funding of cultural, social, and academic research programs during economically hard times reflects.

When the interest of all taxpayers and that of the groups whose interest gets harmed by the cutting collide, it is the latter who loses.

Rearing an infant is like attending a longish boot camp. And, you'll appreciate your free time greatly more after that.

Which man doesn't have pangs in his young years?

People relay messages about opportunities from the front line.

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.