The wintry blasts today are so loud.

A worrisome phenomenon - Chinese immigrants' parting from the powerful trends in both Canada and China

Due to their relatively low English proficiency and limited leisure time, some Chinese immigrants dwelling in Montreal seem to be out of touch with both the powerful trends in Canada and those in Mainland China. That, is not a blessing for them, in this era characteristic of globalized domino effects and accelerated changes.

Nostalgic - Vintage music videos - ABBA - Fernando

Two versions of the lyrics:
http://goo.gl/WvAgq
      &
http://goo.gl/IjMp6


This particular song is ABBA's "biggest selling single of all time, selling 6,000,000 copies in 1976 alone." The English version of the song in the above videos "presents a vision of nostalgia for two veterans reminiscing in old age about a lost battle that they participated in during their younger days fighting under Emiliano Zapata in a battle of the Mexican revolution of 1910." (Cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_(song) )

Wendy wench (Part 1)

(Anime from http://goo.gl/djN0G)

With a pony tail fluttering behind her head
Reminiscing about the braid she wore yesterday
She mindlessly flushed the tube out with the clear water
Which she had carried down from the hilltop with cypresses

Spider

Becoming less than enamored of its time spent here
It scrambled into another web, fluttering

Wikileaks.org is another undermining cut on news organizations' roles

If a mysterious and tremendously discussed website, Wikileaks.org , can dig out important, enlightening and current information for and present it to the public, what are the values that traditional news outlets bring forth to the society?

And have the values been diminishing for years? You bet.

Wenches tend to be a little sentimental sometimes.

Thought-provoking - Article via web - Raising a Child in Two Worlds

Article: Raising a Child in Two Worlds - NYTimes.com .

Excerpts:

When Nina is ready for real school, the choices in our neighborhood don’t thrill me either. Because of the dominant immigrant population, many have a heavy focus on learning English. While I understand that need, I can’t pretend I don’t worry that my daughter’s education will be slowed while she waits for other kids to learn her native language. Plenty of Caucasian parents in my neighborhood have chosen them, are determined to advocate for better education by keeping their kids there instead of fleeing south. I admire them, truly. But at the end of the day, I’m just not ready to make that leap of faith where my daughter’s concerned. I’m not proud of this, but I’ve accepted it as my parental right.

Motherhood is constantly realizing that so much of her life will be out of my control. So is it so terrible for me to see that one of her cultures maybe edges out the other? Just a teeny, tiny bit? If Latinos ruled the world, maybe I’d push things to go the other way, but political correctness and cultural diversity aside, I want her doing well in life — money, success, respect, opportunities, and, most of all, safety. Not gonna apologize for that, though I wish it could be otherwise. I also wish that there weren’t so many boxes to check — and that the only alternative to choosing one is to write on the blank line “Other.”

Toto washlet (toilet)

The inventions of flush toilet, oscillating sprinkler, and blow dryer are among the best creations by the human kind. On top of them is the Toto washlet (toilet). You can watch this video commercial.

First-rate poems can be lenient.

Deputation

(Image via http://goo.gl/xxQfM)

The deputation manifested their doting on maps
And chided the trade wind around the vessel
While deputing it to hasten the lost fineries
And the freedom never really seen in the world

Impartiality in news reporting

A news organization chooses, observes, and reports tidings. How on earth can it achieve and keep impartiality, if that is not its paramount aim? I for one want to be fed impartial information for the most part.

Actually, I think this is a deeper issue, which demands rumination, than I previously thought, in the presence of the supposed pursuit of advertisement dollars by the news organization.

A tempest in a tea pot (Version C)

Sustenance in a bowl of soup
Maintenance in a rigid book
Staid souls in a barter mall
Unfathomable water in a hall

Appellation of sage

The appellation of sage requires one to be by nature wise, and gentle.

I have become enamored of the Anglo-Saxon language.

Its richness and insights seems to know no bounds. And the cultures breathing it seem to be always powerfully up-to-date and progressive.

Poignant - Vintage music videos - Take That - Babe

Lyrics: http://goo.gl/pvQpv .

A poignant blast from the past.

I did a double take on the band's name, "Take That".

I somewhat flushed with anger at a person's words at douban.com .

The comments were quite distasteful and the person's attitude terrible. There's often someone unpleasant somewhere online. Sigh.

Purport of being

(Image from http://goo.gl/xjdsC)

The unruly system is tepid
Yet cruel and unfeeling
The ruly faces appeared
Trying to depute the thing

A tempest in a tea pot (Version B)

(Image via http://goo.gl/Nb0fR)

The realization came into his mind
And made him tremble there

A gentleman allays his negative feelings.

And that's not in vain.