Who wants to become a stooge of powerful bankers anyway?

'Velvety' is a very good word.

VirtualBox seems to be a stand-in for me before I will embrace KVM.

Information Technology slathers so much time of everyone.

Bhutan, the reputed happiest country in Asia, has a very small population of 0.7 million.

By contrast, the Tibet region has got a much larger population of 3 million.

Bhutanese belongs to the Tibetan language family.

In Canada, firefighters are also first responders.

People are apt to think recess is useless.

An Indian Tamil descendant, who was born in Malaysia, speaks Malay, Tamil, English, and Chinese, each to various proficiency level, supposedly. But she doesn't speak Hindi.

Oh, now she can also speak French, after she came to Canada.

How complex is that? Well, it's complex for a pure Chinese like me.

'A piece of cake', and 'cakewalk'. Anglophones like cakes.

A piece of cake and a cakewalk are easy. But a real cake is not easy on your teeth!

Most likely, an Indian speaks Hindi and is a Hindu.

Every employer wants to get their money's worth.

And, many of them want to get rich on their employees' back.

For young and middle-aged IT professionals who cannot self-study in his spare time in order to keep abreast, unemployability down the road is going to be in the cards.

Berne Convention was signed in Berne, Switzerland.

Another famous city is Bonn, Germany. I'm apt to be confused between them.

I saw a child's T-shirt reads 'Eat, Sleep, Score'.

That can apply to many Canadians, I think. Because so many people nowadays do not eat properly, and are deprived of sleep in various degrees.

'Classics Galore' is such a good name for a music CD album.

In software development, version control is intrinsically related to exploratory coding.

It's so much heavy lifting for IT and software development practitioners nowadays.

Is honor system reliable in Canada nowadays?

openSUSE's gecko logo is elegant.

Using Linux Mint would be a great boon for university students who major in technical programs, both money wise and technical know-how wise.

It's a sure leg up.

With the advent of mobile computing and telephony of smartphones, people's home internet and telephony have become somewhat graceful degradation systems.

IT professionals typically possess the know-how of a panoply of tools.

The dumb-ass H. W. has caused such a loooong pain for everyone.

Twerking, booty dance, etc.

What has the American pop culture become?

He couldn't break out of that vicious circle.

Who can prognosticate the future of the knowledge economy job market?

It would take a lot of constant sleuthing.

But anyways, hack it, individuals.

Italic fonts look prettier than their Roman counterparts.

Labor market is risky in nature.

We should get used to two themes in James Bond movies, especially in its Skyfall episode: 007 hits the ground running, and 'agent down'.

The long-standing Ebony magazine, an American one, may be experiencing cash flow problems.

Owls are a bird of deciduous forests.

The Pantheon in Rome corresponds to the Parthenon in Athens, so to speak.

The winds blow the rains onto my windows and the rains stream down on them.

It's evocative.

A raffle sale is not a rubbish sale.

And, a 'garage' sale is not a 'garbage' sale.

In Canada, family doctors perform the general treatment and the triage upon patients.

A chipmunk is not a squirrel, but the two are related.

Bunnies normally refer to young rabbits.

A gnome is a troll. But a GNOME is a desktop environment. :-)

'Scotch tape' is like 'Kleenex'. The name came from the brand.

Constantly plagued by information overload and overflow.

To contest the putative good life...

The overflowing lava of modern Linux desktop OSes appears to be unstoppable.

In the future, I wanna try the following: resist the siren call of the putatively sleek desktop environment of Mac OS X, and Bash it instead. :-)

Joe Boxer and American Eagle Outfitters seem to be interesting brand names.

Living in the mother of all modern Linux distros.

The waxwork figures are excellent, which are presented in Musée Grévin Montréal.

Uzbekistan has got a population whose amount is nearly the same as that of Canada.

And, Uzbeks, as well as Tatars (鞑靼人), are included in the Turkic peoples (a.k.a. Turks (突厥人)).

In their hearts, nearly every youngster wants to impersonate some super stars, I guess.

And, for good measure, they want themselves to become a super star in some way one day.

Interestingly, "Armenia has a relatively large diaspora (8 million by some estimates, greatly exceeding the 3 million population of Armenia itself), with communities existing across the globe."

-Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#Diaspora

Would-be hackers and wannabe nerds.

Well, the Banshee media player is good. Is there a music player named as 'Siren' in the world?

'Asunder' is such a good name for a CD ripper.

Love the caret character, don't I?

Earning money is never a cinch.

Well, the "emancipation and empowerment of women."

It seems that Cuba, a country in Latin America, has got a very influential culture out of proportion, for instances, Salsa and Cha-cha, as known worldwide.

Interestinly, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, and Mexico all belong to Latin America.

The topical solution Hydrogen Peroxide disinfects minor cuts and scratches.

Man, it's antiseptic. Well, I don't know Chemistry and Medicine well.

The prevalent capitalist model in North America encourages people to abandon life to money.

The ignorant toddler girl poked my daughter's eyes twice.

N. D. wants to compare notes with me.

"Got a frog in my throat," the old lady said to her friend.

It's said that Populism has contributed greatly to the great decline of the economies in Latin America.

星落鸟飞，弹指间青葱岁月已逝。

Interestingly, the actor Mike Myers played both the role Austin Powers and that of Dr. Evil.

And he's a Canadian.

Why do so many men only in their thirties and forties have frosty hair strands nowadays?

'Criticality'--there is such a word in English.

Simply keep your cool in front of of all that overflowing and constant hype of marketing and media.

That way, you can keep yourself out of the way of much frustrations and busyness.

Ah, the fleetingly changing suppliers landscape for personal computing needs.

Well, a Windows PC is a holdover from the fading Microsoft era, while a Windows OS is a blast from the past.

Where will bespoke IT systems go?

It's been reported that almost every parent in the Western societies is harried by time pressure day in and day out.

'Eight-Section Brocade' is an excellent English translation of the “八段锦” in Chinese.

Oh, my corny little gedit.

Well, the pedigreed Mr. Justin Trudeau.

Here and there, there seems to always be a man who mistakenly believes that to act violently makes him be a hell of a man.

Adoptive parents are not like blood parents.

Some of them rehomed their adopted children. But, that's a very complex issue with complicated reasons and motives. One cannot simply call that rehoming inhumane.

It seems that poppy petals often appear in Western ceremonies and movies.

The English verb 'administrate' has got exactly the same meaning as 'administer', where 'contest' hasn't as 'challenge'.

Laugh at me. I'm afraid that much of the pop culture stuff is just corn.

I've been keeping culling my RSS feeds, as well as my social media and email subscriptions. But they are still overflowing.

Many are observing the predicament which most Muslim countries are now in.

CBC's Rex Murphy publicly said that the lately allegedly scandalous Jian Gomeshi is "double-faced", who is another CBC host.

Did Jian Gomeshi fake out the public? On the other hand, did some of the claimers fake out?

L went from being bony to being just slim during his fifties or so.

It's usually more taxing to earn a living furnished with more than bare essentials.

Simple doesn't mean drab.

That's why I don't understand why the English word 'corny' has got a derogatory meaning, among others. Personally I always consider corn to be a delicious staple food.

It may be the reality in North America that many people abuse antidepresssants somehow.

J's been getting his act together for a long time.

It's sad to see people's body sizes becoming grosser and grosser in North America.

I normally don't cull the movies manufactured by Hollywood.

"And death is gaseous and gruesome".

That's what the role acted by Philip Seymour Hoffman said in the film The Savages.

Vocabulary, vocabulary, "how do I love thee?"

Duh, in a conversation with a friend of mine, I mistakenly invented a verb 'nutriate'. What I meant was actually 'nurture'. But certainly not 'neuter', :-)

It seems that homeopathic medicine has been steadily gaining popularity in the Western world.

It seems that yoga belongs to both Hinduism and Buddhism.

Historically, both Hinduism and Buddhism originated in India. But the latter has been nourishing China and flourishing in it for over a thousand years, at the same time dying out in India.

By the way, the reputedly vegetarian Sikh is a sect of Hinduism.

There is no shortage of changes happening in the world.

Oh, the old man's catheter makes me sad.

Busy students who live away from their parents had better be boarders.

White apparels are ravishing, but they are time-consuming to be taken care of.

Well, 'fecal matter' just means 'feces'.

"Froggy" is an English word that I've rarely come across.

Now the world has become increasingly wary of the potential economic fall of China.

China's annual GDP growth rates have been the envy of the world for so long.