It's been said that Facebook is considering to build up its own search engine.

We're watching a nascent public company, however reluctantly it went public though, at work with enormous financial resources.

My wonted choice of computer brand name used to be HP.

No more. Because it has got quality problems nowadays. I think I'll switch to Toshiba.

Music in movies usually provides sensational additive entertainment to viewers.

I like it.

Our toddler daughter has got some minor skin problem at the place close to her wrists, on both of her arms.

We've been applying some excellent medicinal cream to those problematic areas.

If she hadn't been picking at those areas, they would have healed long time ago.

It seems among the grocery stores in Montreal, IGA offers the nearly freshest and sweetest corn.

Yummy.

貌似儒家的态度是“不知生，焉知死”，而佛教的态度是 不知死，焉知生，描述种种地狱的种种惨状。

而日本武士道的态度貌似是 武士“向死而生”。

I suspect that since the 21st century, for any, or at least almost any, young generation in North America and East Asia, the future always looks grim.

Maybe it's ultimately because the power within the society does not belong to them but always belongs to the middle-aged population, relatively?

Without exception, the 20 somethings in Canada and China feel quite blue.

What a scene.

Today I passed by the Holiday Inn at the China Town. Almost all over its wall, are small colorful posts reading "CSN lock-outs" and "Scabs".

Do Canadian tech companies know how to keep the ball rolling?

Android has been eating its competitors' lunch.

What exactly is Google's grand plan behind the particular mobile OS platform?

It seems that many Chinese Canadians who are university graduates are oblivious of some universal concepts and ideals which shape and drive the human society, while their European counterparts are not.

I don't understand why styling putty is categorized into hair wax.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairstyling_product#Hair_wax.

Shortened URLs have one particular drawback, which is unlike original URLs, they are incomprehensible for humans to just look at.

I don't know why shoe makers line shoes with polyester.

They are not comfortable.

K. L.'s habit, or wont, of taking advantage of others does and will impede him.

Dell has been scrambling and buying up assets and companies in the fields of VOIP, cloud computing, and so on.

Anyways, its traditional PC business has been declining horribly in recent quarters.

Currently it's conventional Windows computer makers such as Dell and Acer whose graves are being dug. Now is their moment of truth.

I heard from an acquaintance that a full-time real estate agent in Montreal, who's been several years in the trade, has not closed a single deal this year, which is a generally booming year for the housing market in Montreal. It's already the beginning of September right now.

Think about how much pressure he feels when he gets up everyday and drives around and goes about his work of selling houses.

Being a real estate agent is a high-cost and high-maintenance occupation.

Let's hate those mosquitoes which carry the West Nile and other viruses.

You beautify your hair by yourself with expensive or primitive hair styling products and go about your daily life.

You use your own sophisticated or rudimentary computing devices to deal with the world day in and day out.

Nonetheless, we can realize how empowered a modern individual is.

American public companies' moves generally are not fresh, but they look new in the eyes of the public, including myself.

Because the power of those companies is so significant that they provide fresher and comparatively reliable alternatives.

Just now, I tried out listening to songs by a few singers, such as Of Montreal, Mobile, Joey Cape, and Bahamas.

Still, among them, Norah Jones is the only one in whose music I drown myself and did so quite easily.

Many people remember the glamour of the great start-ups such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, but they forget the millions of others which fell into oblivion.

Not only I wanna see the obvious, but also I wanna see the oblivious.

Many Americans and Canadians advocate that education is the key to solve the structural unemployment problem.

If they are mentioning college level career education such as welding, then I don't know much about it and can't say anything really.

But, if they are talking about post-secondary academic education, then they are ignoring the problem that university academic education probably is increasingly irrelevant both to the real world and to the truths so that it is actually scuttling the labor market instead of helping it.

“自能窥宋玉，何必恨王昌”

赠邻女
鱼玄机

羞日遮罗袖，愁春懒起妆。
易求无价宝，难得有心郎。
枕上潜垂泪，花间暗断肠。
自能窥宋玉，何必恨王昌。

Some people think they can scheme and take advantage of others.

Really? Are other people really fools or pushovers as they think those to be?

Patience is business etiquette.

To Extort is very different than to Exchange.

A lot of women like to be soccer moms, I think.

It's not a good wont to maximize profits in friendship.

Sadly, some people do that.

With mobile computing such as iPhone and iPad driving forth unabatedly, more and more developers have been diving into mobile development.

Everything is so vague in China.

How come local governments in China can terminate, at will, factories' leasehold of lands and force them to move and pay even higher rents?

Gee. That definitely can turn businesses on.

It should be exhorted that Canadian businesses get to be more aggressive and less complacent.

Who doesn't like a restaurant with an attractive courtyard and marvelous sangria?

I always forget one of the meanings of the word "foil", which is a fencing sword.

Still, I need to beef up my English reading persistently in the decades to come.

If one is completely satisfied with his current career situation, there is no chance that the world is his oyster.

"Where did you shower my daughter?" J asked.

"There's a utility sink in the daycare. I took her there and gave her a mini shower," D answered.

Bev Oda's aptness of indulging herself in luxurious spending, on taxpayers' money, had been divulged and consequently, she resigned from her post of Minister of International Cooperation of the Canadian government.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Oda#Controversies_and_scandals.

If she really likes living high life, she would be better suited if she chose a profiteering career path, such as investment banking, rather than the public service one.

I am not sure how technologically sophisticated the mining and processing of oil sand is, which is momentous for Canada.

I had lunch at the Frite Alors on St-Denis the other day.

The young waiters and waitresses over there attend on customers quite friendly and professionally. And their poutine isn't bad. I recommend the place.

Sadly, the truth is that some Chinese Canadians have less etiquette than their European counterparts, especially when lining up.

In almost every movie or TV series, there are some reproachable characters.

Drinking coffee or tea is my wont.

And they do good.

Some people don't have the gumption to try entrepreneurship because they focus too much on monetary gains.

A quote

"He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself."
-"Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None", by Nietzsche

一杯午夜一点钟的咖啡，一曲汪峰的《春天里》，几片好吃的 crackers。

最近我被汪峰的这首歌秒杀，被他的才力秒杀。

Remarkably, NASA's Mars exploration has been 50 years in the making.

The Curiosity land rover looks fantastic in action.

There are certainly some grim aspects of life.

Then everyone must learn by himself how to place his conscience in the face of those grim aspects.

I think Douban.com is a swanky way of doing social media.

Radical technological innovations. Embrace them or lose in competition.

As so many investors in the U.S. show scorn for banks, it's unwise for an individual to seek a career in the banking industry, I suppose.

The playfulness of Google's seemingly unrelated product lines makes many people wonder.

Some people speculate that the reputedly rock-solid real-time QNX OS which RIM bought up several years ago will facilitate RIM's possible encore.

I don't agree with it. RIM not only has a huge product problem, it but also has a HUGE marketing problem, because it's been forced to be enveloped in the consumer market, which is very different than the enterprise market it'd been used to, by the market shifts, especially the nascent but widely adopted BYOD policies implemented in many companies.

Some blobs in human brains must have very similar mechanisms of emotions.

For instances, most individuals can appreciate the ever popular song "Hotel California" by The Eagles with its fantastic music, and most individuals can be somewhat moved by a military funeral.

Which parent never scolds his or her kid?

Permanent competitive edges elude businesses, large and small, while customer demands almost always evade real understanding as long as they evolve.

Microsoft has revamped its OS offerings and adapted to the mobile world.

Windows 8 probably will not be able to sustain the company's dominance in the IT industry, but it probably will be a really fantastic product for consumers nevertheless.

I wont to drink beer in the summer.

It surely tastes better than water and Diet Coke.

Life puts almost every friendship to small or big tests, sooner or later.

Then the rhythm and the fate of the friendship is determined.

More and more Syrians are ready to rebel against the President, after it has become apparent that every civilian can be the intended victim of the ongoing massacres ordered by the President.

Business doesn't stop at 5. Technology innovation and advancement doesn't stop at 5.

The United States disrupt all sorts of industry value chains with its customary innovation.

What Apple and Google's Android have done in the mobile sphere is just another example of that.

By contrast, the sad case of RIM's free fall stings many Canadians and makes them ask again if Canadian companies can compete in the technology sector.

"California, here we come".

Friends have parted from D. X., one by one.

The culprit is two fatal flaws of him, albeit he's got some very good characters which I actually appreciate a lot. Sigh.

Currently I've got a habitual weekday routine, which is to improve my own English proficiency a teeny bit.

I don't give up.

Sometime I can't help but wonder if I'm too ambitious because I want to achieve what 1.5 or 2 generations of Chinese immigrants overseas achieve within 1 generation, which is my own lifetime. :-)

In recent years, some, or many, local governments in China have done quite a few harmful and untrustworthy deeds to SMBs.

No wonder more and more rich Chinese people have been heading out of China and establishing a base in one Western country or another.

It's quite easy for me to mistake the word "splinter" for "sprinkler".

It's regrettable for G. N. to pair with C. G. into their entrepreneurial endeavor.

As was my wont, I checked the news about RIM and saw almost nothing good.

Breezes in August make life lovely.

A spectrum of light feelings has been induced in me by summer.

I used to exhort Chinese immigrants in Canada whom I know to learn a great deal of English.

I repent of the moment that my wife turned off our portable air conditioner without first cancelling the set timer. :-)

Now I have had to fix the mysterious problem that the air conditioner refuses to consistently blow cool air.

People had better to stop the custom that one must use Facebook day in and day out.

Life is a poem without rhyme. Some people just don't know to appreciate the right ones.

I think there's a crucial element and aspect of a good higher education.

And it's that the university or college must instill and strengthen the student's hard working habit (not work ethic. The latter may only be taught by one's parents and himself?), as well as intellectual custom and curiosity, by constantly urging him on by loading him with relatively heavy academic learning and work. One extreme example of that is the infamous or famous "drinking from the fire hose" approach long adopted by MIT.

No offense, I can't keep from wondering about this.

Some Christians sort of plead with God to form a perpetual bond. But does God think pleading is the best form of praying?

"Wonton" is a good sort of food in Chinese cuisine.

However, it's very easy to be confused with the word "wanton", which signifies badness and mercilessness.

Love listening to Norah Jones' singing voice sliding down the pitch.

I often contemplate where my time has gone after a busy day.

Time is one of the most scarce resources an individual has nowadays.

Now I've become kind of wont to judge people significantly by their geographic origins. Sigh.

The custom of profit seeking is so ingrained in Capitalist societies that it's pivotal to compensate it with humanity.

Alas, not just few Canadians have scorn for Americans.

Chinese diet is apt to provide ample amounts of various vegetables, which comfort our stomachs and minds.

Many Canadian Olympic athletes train and compete almost entirely out of their own pockets, without governmental funding.

Yet their passion for their sports stay undiminished. That spirit goes on.

I'm going to try to run my little aptitudes and good-will through this world.

An ideal sales rhythm has no waste.

The newfound engine of economic development is knowledge and talent.

It's powerful. And it may not need much capital to begin with.

Chandeliers are a marvel, aren't they?

In general, animal rights advocates have been trying to reduce and eliminate the wanton treatment of animals by human beings. And that's good.

"At the crack of dawn" is a beautiful idiom, isn't it?

Will Nokia ever get to its feet?

Will it be able to roll out a mobile OS of its own which will be popular?

I'm wont to think as much as I can.

This world is summoned to run by perceptions which are accompanied by concepts.

Vintage music video - Angie - Rolling Stones

Many people fear that the launch of Blackberry 10 expected of early next year by RIM will be the last lipstick on a pig.

How glorious RIM once had been. But lo, how low it has gone.

Last week, there's a protest by hundreds of professional scientists which skewered the federal government's funding cuts.

I guess that Harper just puts more focus on scientific and technological research projects which have more commercial values, against the backdrop of a perennially gloomy global economic climate.

All in all, to decide when to put more public financial resources into scientific research activities and when to put less is the job of the elected government and the democracy, the society, NOT the scientists, IMHO.

The maturation of global economy requires Western countries, including France and Japan, to adopt English as the ubiquitous language for business and higher education.

And that's happening, now.

Probably we'll see major changes on that aspect in Quebec as well in 5 - 10 years.

The sorts of fish which are generally available for food in Montreal, such as salmon and cod, are normally so ample, compared to the types of freshwater fish I used to eat in China.

Well, I didn't know optometrists serve kind of like general doctors for the medical branch which deals with eyes.

Ophthalmologists should be referred to by them, more or less.

To have been creative and have coined an effective little biz device can make you feel a bit triumphant.

I'm telling you. Adapting to a new and different life in Canada makes at least one third of Chinese immigrants' love life quite uneasy.

Crushes belong to salad days. They are green, romantic, and fresh.