Many of the jobs in big companies are cut-and-dried. And they are far removed from the real market.

The abatement of Kodak is so tragic.

See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-17/kodak-and-the-brutal-difficulty-of-transformation.html .

实际上，很多创业的男人，午夜低回的时候，总有一些伤不起的感慨。

多年以前，有部日本电影，叫做《伤痕累累的勋章》。多好的名字。

Having to deal with constant snow and freezing rains is a pleurisy of living in Montreal.

If you cook Chinese dishes, more often than not, you need to cut vegetables more or less obliquely in order to let them absorb tastes more fully in the frying pan.

Chivas Regal 的广告词：“患难见真情”。

多么的有力量。

We've got a Whirlpool fridge at home. And it's not up to snuff.

Maybe the company will meet big troubles ahead if it doesn't take care of its product quality very seriously. You know, pretty many companies in the developing countries can make the same products cheaper and better, e.g. Haier.

I hadn't expected to see that so many Canadian university students work wholeheartedly with the goal of attaining almost immaculate transcripts without deep confusion about life when they still have the luxury of time to ponder about life.

Well, people are born different.

There seem to be perennial rebates going on in fashion brands stores in Montreal. You can always find some handsome rebates here or there.

When the big companies began to put the shareholders' value as their utmost priority, their attractiveness to ambitious young workers started to abate.

As a matter of fact, many Arab people have been having a hard time in the U.S. and Canada since the 9/11. The society shouldn't envenom them.

Appropriate tolerance should be kept in civilized societies.

Many daycare centres in Montreal tend to be a little too scholastic. Kids need to play more and imagine more.

Once upon a time, I was fond of having a place with a hearth.

At twilight, home life begins with our daughter.

J used to be constantly serious but not grave.

The images of Archangel Michael are so handsome and picturesque in general, especially those present in Kiev, the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev .

Fancy looks the livery of the Swiss Guard in Vatican.

I still think Google should have been more courteous to its existing users. It knows how to lose users' hearts.

It seems Microsoft has done significantly better in that aspect than Google.

Unoccupied are most of the cubbyholes in the hallway of our toddler daughter's daycare centre. It's reasonable to expect that it'll change relatively soon.

Roughly speaking, it seems that these three tiers exist.

One is those people who know whom they are but have little marketable skills, so their money-earning capacities are limited for the time being. One example is those newly minted university grads who have majored in Arts.

Another tier is those people who sort of don't know whom they really are but have marketable skills, so their income-earning capacities are near the average.

The last is those people who both know whom they are and have marketable skills, so their earning power is at least somewhat above the average level.

The above is my guess. I might be wrong, and certainly I'm imprecise.