Chamber pot used to be a staple in people's bedrooms.

We humans love porcelain for dinning ware, don't we?

Accountability, which seems to be omnipresent in real democratic societies, should be able to effectively impede nepotism and cronyism.

I seldom see impetuous women, at least until now.

However Stephen Harper's election team had lampooned Justin Trudeau, the latter one, a green national politican, has won the recent Canadian election.

There is a prodigious void, which yet is crucially unsatisfying for human beings, left out by capitalism.

Privacy hedges very much information. It's a necessary evil.

Hippo is a domesticated male from Thailand. His daughter is currently attending a kindergarten.

There seems to be so many keeners in Canada.

Sigh. The bruising demands of the modern life, in both Canada and China.

Maybe many people carry a lot of emotional baggage.

Cubicle farms seem to represent the productivity of yesterday.

Personally I like the tastes of the Primo brand spaghettini and vermicelle.

One shouldn't look for camaraderie in today's rampantly capitalist societies, I guess.

Sigh. How much extra time and efforts do individuals have to put in just for the sake of up-to-dateness, which in turn they have to do?

Erudite journals such as New York Times, New Yorker, and The Economist are still too painstaking for me to read.

夏逝：落英缤纷，灼灼其华。

秋临：落叶遍地，红黄间绿。

I wish that the desktop Windows ecosystem gets along harmoniously with its desktop Linux counterpart.

Sigh. In order to accompany cheese, nowadays I replenish my beer belly nearly every single day.

At the very least, the American way of life has got three bad encroachments: that of gun violence, that of obesity, as well as that of workaholism.

Welcome to the new world.

So many recent changes are so breathtaking and bad.

I commiserate with my fellow men.

Many of them did or will lose their households.

Obviously, capitalism encourages hedonism.

From secular eyes, religions demand credulity from each believer.

Reclaim orientation, recover time, reintegrate knowledge sources.

Unfortunately, some Chinese who graduated from universities in Montreal are not as erudite as they should be, it seems.

Once upon a time, I liked those typical flamboyant sports T-shirts.

Watch out for bad postures when you are using a computer.

They will do you bad.

It seems that many Chinese immigrants in Montreal are not ready for the oftentimes challenging Canadian job market.

Some of them tried, and then capitulated to depaneurs and restaurants.

Well, those conscientious females.

The cartoon figure Big Bird looks amiable. It appears in Sesame Street and must be very well known in the U.S.

It seems that I repetitively look up the exact meanings of "get ahead" and "taint".

It's lucky that I still haven't lost my mind during the very long journey of beefing up my English vocabulary. I'm a sanctimonious learner of the English language. :-)

Hold your horses, cowgirls.

Sometime I'm terrified by the complexities of the contemporary world, be it religious, geopolitical, economical, or technological.

It seems that the backdrop of the ongoing military conflicts in the Middle East is the conflict between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam.

To fall into the trap of being sanctimonious...

Caillou and Rosie

Caillou shows Rosie how to make (sand) towers.
"Look, Rosie," he says. "You take the pail and go like this."
Rosie giggles and claps her hands.
Sandcastles are the most fun of all!

-Excerpted from p. 117 of the children book Caillou: My Book of Great Adventures

How well written.

It appears that more and more people have become gluttonous for money and voracious for unhealthy foods and drinks.

Long live the Firefox browser.

It seems that more and more people can't stand callous and spoiled women movie figures.

The name 'Javascript' suggests that the particular programming language might be a Java analog in many aspects.

However, it's only a marketing scheme.

Well, the boolean values in the Javascript programming language are evaluated to a "truthy" value or a "falsy" value.

Well, soooooo special...

Immigrants are different than migrants.

The latter word is used often in the ongoing refugee crisis.

Linux people like plaintext files so darn much.

The meanings of the noun 'stroke' has got many variations in terms of degrees.

Bengali and Bangla refer to the same language spoken as the official language in Bangladesh.

It seems that nowadays many parents have culpable ignorance or negligence whilst raising their children, in both Canada and China.

Information overload spites me.

Less is more.

History is not always dead-on.

In Linux, filter commands print a file's contents, in total or in part, so to speak.

It seems that there always is malice in ancient palaces.

I deplore my past ignorance.

When real problems arise, can fanboys call down Apple?

Yes, if those problems are caused by Microsoft. :-)

Are Canadians splashing out too much money on insignificant but expensive mobile phone models?

It seems that Americans are ferociously competitive.

Manhood and masculinity.

J doesn't like to let others walk all over him.

Some women expect to be swept off their feet.

Well, in the United States and Canada...

I feel that the segue from MP3 players to smartphones went very fast.

Capris are also called 'crop pants' and 'three quarter pants'.

A bank employee touched base with J.

Banks know everything.

Android is not an open-source poseur.

But Android/(Google Mobile Services) is.

And that's quite unlike GNU/Linux.

Compared to real Linux, Android is so baked in cake.

'Ballistic' seems to a good brand name for a phone protection case.

Montreal has got a relatively strong presence in acrobatic circus.

Brazil and Mexico, followed by Colombia, are the most populus countries in Latin America.

The English word 'pantyhose' was derived from 'panty', I guess.

For that matter, the former appends 'hose' to the latter.

I'm always apt to have problems with pronouncing the English word 'managerial'.

Hollywood stars often regale us with real life dramas.

Am I increasingly becoming a somewhat cheapskate :-) ?

Coolheadedness is different than hardheadedness.

I've always had a slight trouble with the English word 'annotate'.

My toddler daughter mistook the English translation of the Chinese word '蝉' as 'beaver'.

It should be 'cicada', instead.

Take a high road, man.

Water under the bridge.

Cheaper and cheaper are tertiary storage devices such as external hard disks.

But I like the primary storage device, i.e. main memory, the most.

Open-source seems to be the kingmaker.

Let's see how Apple will go and fare.

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?