Gee. Too much tonic mixed with cola can leave such a long-lasting bitterness in my mouth.

I am an idiot.

In economically difficult times, people tend to be more opposed to illegal immigrants being bluntly set on shore.

Classics are gentle enemies.

It seems that for any person, most of new things or equipment are double-edged swords, in terms of how he makes use of his time.

For one thing, social networking websites can enhance his information intake, while it can suck away and away his precious time on the other hand.

We have to make the best of that conundrum.

Straight from the heart - Music video - Dido - White Flag

Lyrics: http://goo.gl/Chxho .

This is Dido. "This is London."

Rain break

(Picture from http://goo.gl/tWh3g)

The other week, when I was sitting out a sudden big pouring of rain in a shopping centre, I thought, why some people tend to curse an occasional break like that from daily routines? For those people who the timing of the breaking rain didn't wreak real inconvenience, what was so bad about it?

People tend to become lonelier and lonelier, in this world with more mobility and less face-time.

When loneliness snipes, how can one gather himself and keep his wholesomeness?

No wonder movies and novels have been selling quite well.

Who didn't experience misery before achieving something? At least in some senses?

Is it really inevitable that innumerable men turn crotchety when they turn old?

Now that Obama has fulfilled some of his important presidential election campaign promises, I for one, in Canada, hope that his team is going to resurrect the United States of America as a top-shelf economic ENGINE.

The speaker in the "Subway" sandwich outlet is blasting out loud pop music officiously, right above my ears.

I am deprived of my right of choosing not to listen to it. Gee, consumer rights are hard to protect, especially when they are attacked through the air. :-D

In a certain sense, the Canadian way of life is so procedural.

The mysterious Vatican, the Roman Catholic church, has been upbraided for years.

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

What facility will the Catholicism stand upon in future?

Westerners tend to be less round about religion than Chinese are, it seems.

Should I in the future learn a little bit Spanish, or Italian, in order to become capable of pinpointing groovy music pieces written by magnets born in Spain and Italy?

Sigh. No time.

I think statistics is more artificial than arithmetics, or counting. (But maybe I am wrong.)

Consider "1 + 1 = 2" vs. "P(A intersection B) / P(B) = P(A given B)".

The sample space must be big enough, yet controlled and without outside interferences.

The taste of a person being a producer may be on a different route than that the taste of him being a consumer is on.

How to reconcile them?

And Einstein stated that imagination is more important than knowledge.

It suddenly dawned on me that Wikipedia has dominated my conscience and judgement about what is important and what is not.

(Picture from http://goo.gl/015Uh)

If something or someone is not sufficiently mentioned in one or more Wikipedia entries, which means that no one has bothered to write and edit information about that something or someone, it implicitly equals to that that is not important enough, in my mind.

The advancing of the intelligence apparatus of any government is so imperative.

But that must be highly confidential state secrets and I, a civilian, rarely see any information about that in public media.

Sometimes, the essence of a monolithic group is just unsatisfying.