If a country makes its own citizens feel many of their rights reduced or taken away, then they probably would flee abroad.

Life will have unprecedented chapters.

"A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye."

In almost every excellent movie, their music chimes well with their stories and emotions.

Western politicians must be almost always prepared to be braced and grilled in their parliaments.

People had better ignore the crowing of some economists in China.

Some of them don't have a clue, and some others are bought off, I'm afraid.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, Muslim sovereignties get chided for lack of democracy, by their own people.

Will this new wave of democratization in the Islam world unleash new economic gains for the whole world?

Compared to traditional Mainland Chinese, Americans and Canadians are apt to be extravagant consumers.

One of their fundamental assumptions seems to be that happiness can be bought with money.

Outside the confines of China, there are things unimaginable for many Chinese.

With ballpoint pens so cheap and convenient, I don't know why people should use fountain pens.

"With freedom comes responsibility."

Individuals are unprecedentedly free nowadays, so their life is unprecedentedly complex.

Is the world mostly a vagrant always pursuing material satisfaction?

It's wise to plan and brace oneself for the Winter.

Woh, Ms. Melissa Ann Shepard, the famous Canadian "Internet black widow", has pleaded guilty.

See http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2013/06/10/ns-internet-black-widow-trial.html .

J tries to hie home before the dusk falls.

G. X. is erring.

Rational people look at precedents.

With each night and then the daybreak, there comes new freedom to act.

In the past, summonses were issued by feudal authorities. Now they're by courts and judges.

Google and Amazon are braced by the flourishing of Linux. Microsoft is not.

Some securities analysts

Roosters crew, the sun didn't move.

Vintage music video - Greensleeves - The Brothers Four

"Alas, my love, you do me wrong". How elegantly written.

Who doesn't like majestic trees?

Now I know that "pike" is the name of one of the ancient weapons which I often saw in movies.

Here goes a very warlike picture of pikemen:
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Everyone has his own moments of feeling powerless and helpless.

The trifecta of desktop OS, web, and mobile OS has grown complex.

I vote for open source.

Canada and the U.S. must be more forestal than Europe, I guess?

J arrived in Canada. And J embraces the freedom to do what he wants to.

Life gets stricken by misfortunes. It's inevitable.

But one becomes better with ill fortunes.

There are many extortive forces working against civilians in undemocratic countries.

The hand towels sold at Dollarama aren't bad nowadays.

There must be myriad of companies, large and small, which will waylay Google.

Microsoft and Amazon probably are the two most formidable ones among them.

By contrast, the tiniest among them are DuckDuckGo (2 employees), and even smaller, Newsblur (1 person, see the "Who" section at http://www.newsblur.com/about ). :-)

Apple Inc. is such a gigantic hoarder of money.

Scratch pads are always needed by people.

They are made of paper in the past, while they are digital nowadays.

Things in the mobile computing sphere are clearer nowadays than several years ago.

I think that even for average consumers, it's probably a mistake for them to brace their own mobile life in the walled garden of Apple's ecosystem.

Now more and more people must have foreknown that Microsoft will be in big trouble.

The mammoth trouble for the Redmond giant doesn't come from Apple, IMHO, it comes from Linux, as well as cheap DIY hardware.

I'm not privy to the licenses of open source software programs, but I rely on those applications much more than on proprietary ones.

Well, I used to think Fila is an American brand name.

But in fact it had been an Italian one, and now it's a Korean company headquartered in Seoul, Korea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fila_(company).

There's a lot of corporate flimflam in this world.

"The credits have been added to your account," the girl at Domino's Pizza said.

"How much credit?" J asked.

Well, I'm surprised by the fact that Montreal's metropolitan area has a larger population than Cincinnati's.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal.

IT has always been in a state of flux.

I've always been fond of the RSS segment of internet browsing.

Many people say that Twitter and other social media replace RSS/Atom feeds. I beg to disagree.

Due to the increasingly omnipresent food chain pollution and food safety problems, will China be blasted by cancers and diseases?

Lo and behold, it's almost midnight again.

Taking care of a toddler is very time-consuming.

What makes the whole Japanese nation not to sully their own streets and to keep them almost squeaky-clean all the time?

J's apt to gag when a dental professional opens his mouth with a tool.

Not a year has passed by with ease in my life.

It's a good thing.

Some souls embrace freedom because they embrace life.

When I fire up an incantatory Unix-like command-line, I feel excited.

Oh, those commands as magic words.

The cooking segment of life is crucial, especially in today's world full of junk food.

Shouldn't students get taught some culinary skills in school?

Is Google still blasting forward as in the good old days?

The French part of Canada is always different.

Behold, France is considered to be a representative democratic republic.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_France.

Strictly speaking, the U.S.A. is a republic, not just a democracy.

Particularly tedious is taking care of the RSS segment of information consumption.

GNU/Linux screams out to be the primary computing platform.

Our microwave oven shrieks many times every single day.

I hope the particular kitchen appliance is really safe.

I think that every young person should watch some good movies.

Because there are no harbingers of what living a life is in textbooks.

Web applications are never like native client software programs.

I used to prefer the former to the latter, but now the contrary is true since Google Inc. consecutively pulled the plug on its multiple web applications, including Google Reader.

The web's dominant pioneer, Google, has changed significantly. That means the web has changed, for now.

Michael Jackson's singing voice tends to be a little squeaky.

I'm sorry. But I personally think that it will take China till doomsday to eclipse the U.S.A.

Anger can make people, both men and women, roar with words.

Almost all the computing gadgets and associated accessories, whose colour is sheer white, scream out to remind people that the products are Apple wannabes.

Personally I prefer ale to lager, most of the time.

However, it's alleged that lager, instead of ale, its precursor, dominates the world in terms of beer consumption.

To my surprise, Boréale is a microbrewery little known outside Quebec. I used to think it's a well known big brewery.

Its red beer is called Rousse.

Personally I find some violin music quite soothing.

The sector of female workers may have different motives than that of male workers, by and large.

Classic literature in Chinese and English unfolds themselves in front of me soothingly, from time to time.

During the Hong Kong movie Initial D (头文字D), there's a lot of car engine roaring and car tire shrilling.

It's a good film. I appreaciate the performance of the supporting actor Anthony Wong Chau-Sang (黄秋生).

I'm still flabbergasted by Google's decision to shut down Google Reader. Oh, my heart.

Transportation is different than commute. The latter implies travelling back and forth on a regular basis.

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?