Some Japanese modern music shrills. I can't stand that.

Prosody is obviously important in the English language.

I suspect that "moon and sea" is used much more often than "sea and moon". In the former, the sound /u:/ precedes /i:/. Why does the former seem more natural to English speakers than the latter?

By contrast, in the idiom "monkey see, monkey do", the vowel /i:/ comes before /u:/.

Hong Kong has long been an energetic section, in terms of the economy, in Asia. But has it been supplanted by Singapore?

Nearly everyone knows that the U.S. isn't squeaky-clean in its motives in its military interventions abroad.

Hopefully in the wake of the tragic Boston Marathon bombing, the U.S. government recognizes the importance of no more meddling in other sovereignties' affairs.

There have been many human beings who prophesied doomsday.

Time will debunk those conjectures.

Her smiles soothe my mind.

One just shouldn't start up in his old age.

That would put him on the razor's edge.

Probably one of those days down the road, the world's mightiest American graduate school system will go through some drastic reform and shrink greatly from its current enormous size.

Is Canada's Arctic sector crucial? You bet.

There is a voice shrieking life is short.

Tim Hortons' Honey Cruller donut isn't bad.

The eclipse of Sony is sad.

The nostalgia of Walkman...

I suppose that residents in the Shanghai megalopolis have to spend a large chunk of their time on superficial things, including commute.

It appears that there are more causes for the possible curtains for Asia's economic boom right now than in the past 20 years.

In my opinion, pretty sound both the female given names "Pauline" and "Paulette". However, they both mean "humble" and both are derived from their male counterpart "Paul".

Asia has long been hailed as an uprising economy and a prosperous continent.

But now I for one am not sure if disasters in Asia will break out down the road.

I've noticed that many restaurants have gone out of business in the vicinity of Concordia University, a section of downtown Montreal.

Once you choose an entrepreneurial path, you step into the wild.

How free and how risky.

Risk taking inevitably infers close squeaks here and there.

Perhaps the open source Linux will eventually be the razer of the expensive desktop Mac OS.

One omen for Mac OS' declining popularity can be found at After 'astonishingly' poor quarter, Mac sales predicted to rebound.

A TV screen hanging in a coffee shop presents a window to the world outside the little beverage room.

The device is fine. But the programs which run on it most of the time are just sort of gibbering. No wonder TV is often called "idiot box".

Vaseline is my desktop companion to soothe my dry hand skin.

Canada's weather is simply too dry.

For whom to spend?

By and large, the public sectors in U.S.A. and Canada spend for the best interests of American and Canadian people, while the private ones in both countries spend for the best interests of their shareholders.

We can sense that some Chinese civilians think that China's foreign policies should be somewhat "might is right".

Julius Caesar is allegedly the best known among all the ancient Roman leaders.

His father is Julius Caesar the Elder. But the father's actual name is Julius Caesar III. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar#Parents and the family tree presented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Caesar_the_Elder .

How strange. Hmm.

By the way, Julius' son is Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.

Coarse is the slang "horse hockey".

See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horse_hockey .

"Chink" is an offensive word. It's a slur.

When will the palmy years appear for today's young generation in their 20s?

Razers look more fantastic than razors.

You can compare the image search results below:
http://goo.gl/wuvs8
vs.
http://goo.gl/v7gDe

Does Obama often jawbone?

Ere dawn, everything is in the dark.

For me personally, the taste of haddock resides between cod and sole.

"The time window is closing up," J said.

So soothingly fine are some ancient Chinese poems written during the Song Dynasty.

I'm fond of them.

Shall we expect more and more world-weary people in China?

Is it true that in ancient China, martial artists tended to be have-a-go heroes?

Come on. Who didn't use to be the cream among their peers?

Life isn't easy for non-state-owned Chinese firms.

Inside China, the omnipresent and overbearing governments are apt to mistreat them.

Outside China, foreign governments will potentially clamp down on them more and more.

Canny innovations happen everywhere and everyday.

The thing is, mainly industry insiders know and are capable to discern them.

There're many interesting points about the seizure and trial of Adolf Eichmann by Israel during early 1960s.

First let's be clear that we just don't concern ourselves with the disputes between Argentina and Israel. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann#International_dispute_over_capture.) And we just talk about things between Mr. Adolf Eichmann, an individual, and Israel, a state.

Personally I don't know anything about the study of law. But the particular case intrigues me, in terms of law.

Point 1: Israel captured Eichmann by kidnapping him in Argentina. That act of arresting an individual by way of illegal means seems to be ADMISSIBLE in Israeli justice system, even in international legal system.

Point 2: During the trial, Israel allegedly followed an alleged meticulous due process. For that matter, it seems to me that in many Western judicial systems, due processes dictate that evidences obtained through illegal methods are NOT ADMISSIBLE.

A rather intriguing law case.

J thinks it's better to roll his own than to work for others' businesses.

Good looks the picture of "Night view of the Supreme Court of Canada from the Ottawa River".

See http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/details/d5-eng.asp.

In my mind, Samsung's products smoke those made by other vendors, for the time being.

Grand office buildings are no longer palms, I suppose.

The Razor-Qt desktop environment is interesting.

In China, the portentous housing bubble will bring forth big trouble in the future.

Steamed pears can soothe coughing.

The choices of GNU/Linux distros are overwhelmingly many.

Life is short.

And J wants to have a go at building a great life.

Whoa. I didn't know Lululemon is headquartered in Canada. In Vancouver, to be precise.

Wow, the nascent so-called bank account tax for Cypriot bank accounts appears to just violate people's rights to private property.

Where's the line between public property and private property?

During the time of China's Ming and Qing dynasties, how differently did the Western royalties' courts look from their Chinese counterparts?

And, much more importantly, how differently did the former work from the latter?

It seems that innovations don't get encouraged at many large companies. Not e'en at Google nowadays.

China appears to be increasingly on the razor's edge. Which most needs reform seems to be its redistribution arrangement.

J's joint business adventure is picking up steam.

International fora are sort of informal negotiation tables.

Looking back, when Larry Page took over from Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO in April 2011, that was an important portent of the dramatic changes of how the company does things as we've seen in recent 2 years.

Sigh.

Nonetheless, Google's stock price has almost doubled in these 2 years.

Everything's just peachy in the early days.

I rummage my days for some more little chunks of time.

I for one took the liberty of embarking on an entrepreneurial journey.

Americans may be uppity. But they've contributed greatly to innovations used by the world.

The West is always busy fulminating its earthly cohabiting nations.

Where do the Western countries' strengths come from? It seems to be that their justice systems are always upheld and trusted by common people.

Where's all that dodgy Chinese money? In Switzerland?

Southern Asia is inflicted by high rates of acid attacks.

What a tragedy.

Acid throwing victim, Cambodia 

These attacks are most common in Cambodia,[8] Afghanistan,[9] India,[10] Bangladesh,[5][6] Pakistan[5] and other nearby countries.[7] Globally, at least 1500 people in 20 countries are attacked in this way yearly, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_throwing

It's lucky for a working person to have a shopping district in her backyard.

Down with the way Google's treating consumers nowadays.

Google Reader's shutting down. The party's over. Google's offering public service no more.

I for one have this typical reaction: you yank so many services, then I distance myself away from you. On the other hand, I'm grateful for all the great services Google has offered in the web sphere in the past.

I used to mistake the word "rebounce", which is nonexistent and conjured up by me, for "rebound".

Today's education institutions in Canada and China probably will in the future draw flak for dumbing down and watering down education.

The word "e'en" looks strange, doesn't it?

It's the literary form of "even". Listen to how it pronounces. Oh my goodness. You need to squeeze out the sound from between your teeth.

Many people are apt to think that the fountainhead of wealth is the possession of money.

I disagree. I see that is hard work and talents instead.

I tend to mistake "cluster" for "clutter".

Now I'm apt to think that it's probable that Chinese, as a group, can no longer get away with its relatively weak moral education.

Well, I for one am afraid that nearly all the past hype about Alberta oil will be razed by the wild runaway success of fracking in the U.S.

Sitting still and not shifting is never in order in IT.

To stonewall is the opposite of to be cooperative.

Short internet meme video - Harlem Shake (original army edition)

Internet memes have been going very strong. Months ago, there was the Gangnam Style originated from Korea, now it's Harlem Shake.

By the way, it's been reported that some Israeli troops who presented themselves in another published video piece are being sent to and locked into military prison. Duh.

Nowadays, "Vatican", "pope", "conclave", and so on are hot words.

Now Korean companies have run away with the hardware sector.

At the beginning it's the American companies, then Japanese ones, then Taiwanese, now Korean.

Who're next? Chinese companies?

I think that entrepreneurial endeavors are normally treks instead of helicopter lifts.

Rare are the examples of the success stories of Google and Facebook.

Rummage sale is quite different than garage sale (a.k.a. yard sale), in terms of their purposes and locations.

My better half seems to like pork attached to bones.

Normally good are the Canadian way of no frills and no fuss. But to food it shouldn't be applied.

Is Southeastern Asia in the backyard of China or India?

Bootleggers used to smuggle alcohol, cigarettes, and so on. Nowadays formula milk is also on their shopping lists.

See Hong Kong arrests baby milk smugglers. The offenders won't be able to get away with light fines. They "are subject to a maximum penalty of two years in jail and a HK$500,000 fine."

Such an international laugh at the quality of some Chinese products. Is it a tip of the iceberg?

I suspect that this information era has caused almost everyone to chase his/her tail.

Among the ranks of officials, there is always balderdash from the mouth of at least one. Be him/her an American one or a Chinese one.

But the percentage of Chinese officials who speak nonsense appears to be significantly higher than that of their American counterparts.

Do opportunities thin out in the old economy? You bet.

Worries have been pressing people, with Canada's GDP growth rates nearly razed in recent 5 quarters.

Is the fountainhead of religions the curiosity about and fears of death, which has been possessed by the humankind throughout history?

I think the Arial font is pretty.

Western countries' governments had given their imprimatur to financial firms to do almost anything they please.

That has angered most people, who have been paying a dear price for the practice.

It's apparent that financial firms' activities often cause negative externality, in Economics' terms. For that matter, some high financiers must have swooned when people and their democratic governments realized it.

When getting refused, it is in order to accept the refusal gracefully and then talk to other candidates.

That's the beauty of free market and free society.

A player occupies more space on a tennis court than on a basketball court. So, intrinsically, playing tennis is more costly than playing basketball.

"For the most part" is an interesting idiom.

Sentences run like this: "for the most part, so and so." But where are the other part(s)? :-)

When you see 10 successful entrepreneurs, you see at least 9 resolutes among them, I think.

I've become increasingly appreciative of jeans' sophisticated yet no-frills style.

Gee. ABInBev, headquartered in Belgium, owns Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Beck's, Labatt Blue, so on and so forth.

Many people run away with the notion that they can achieve things alone.

Maybe that's why securities markets across the world are saturated with individual investors.

"Then that's what your friend's business is doing. Let's watch his future destiny," J said.

To be in tune with the current emotions and feelings of young Canadians is different than to be in tune with the market demands of Canadians.