I think that in terms of the amount of care our baby daughter needs, 5, 15, and 20 months of age mark the turning points. After each of those points, the amount of care she demands decreases significantly than before.

Now she's about 21 months old, and she still commands lots of being taken care of. Now you know the first 5 months following her birth were hell for my wife and me. But I've never regretted it.

Libraries in Montreal need to be repurposed.

People read far less physical books now.

Some young men panhandle unapologetically in public places. Are they mentally ill or something?

European manor houses look really historical.

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

I feel Facebook is a little too authoritative. I mean it's a little overbearing.

Rank seems to be the percentage of Canadians who live pay cheque by pay cheque.

The "O" glyph of the Opera browser feels quite sleek.

Maybe melancholy is too depressive. Maybe only love can make one overcome it.

As more and more private, both domestic and foreigner-owned, factories move from coastal China to the main of China, finally, market economy begins to develop in the latter.

我走在陽光楓樹微風秋意裡。

深秋的聲音光色一路輕輕響亮著。

I attended G's Spring Convocation of Concordia University in 2004. An old Hong Kong businessman, who presumably sponsored the university, burst into tears when he spoke about how he even hadn't been able to complete his elementary school because of the invasion of the Japanese military during the WWII.

It's Okay for him to burst into tears in front of thousands of people. But it's not very fine for him not to restrain his private emotions at all. Nonetheless, it's sorry for us to know he had lost his childhood and formal education to the war.

The notions of 'general Providence' and 'special Providence', as in Christianity and Judaism, are too profound to be ignored.

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

Eventually, I'll return to Asia if opportunities present themselves, I think.

I don't know what's the magic with the direction of west.

You know, the old Europe went west and found the American continent, Japan and Asia have sought to learn from the West, and in the modern history of the U.S. and Canada, going west seems to always look appealing.

It's apparent that the Conservative government of Canada purposes to establish Canadian power in the northern territory.

How will the U.S. behave in that vast area?

For aught I know, almost all progresses in one's competence are done in his own private thinking and practicing.

Personally I'm fond of the atmosphere of the Starbucks and Second Cup rendezvous.

Video - The Thatcher years

I came across this excellent video piece.




On the other hand, some of her naysayers called Mrs. Margaret Thatcher "the scourge of the (19)80s". (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcU5E3Ym7og .)

I don't know much about British politics. But Thatcher intrigues me.

Personally I think the writing by The New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks authoritative.

Does every standing tree have at least one cicatrix?

Does every standing man have at least one scar?