"Jack and Coke. Simple drink. There's nothing to it." the bartender said.

It must feel bitter for a CEO to be dismissed from his or her job. Given that CEOs get sacked quite often, why do so many people want to climb the corporate ladder and become a CEO or something? :-)

To go and work / study in a better place, be it Canada, the U.S., Harvard U., Princeton U., Stanford U., Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google Inc., doesn't automatically turn a person into a successful one.

Thinking that it would automatically happen is a pious hope, or even a pipe dream.

Sometimes knaves are fools because they think others are fools.

Faye / Fay is an interesting name.

Some flicks are more cerebral than others. And some books more cerebral too. Which ones do you choose?

How much goodwill in the world does China have at its beck?

Through hubbubs created by journalists, the negative sides of public figures get to be learned by the public.

Those public figures need to discipline themselves well and develop a pretty good sense of risk.

Recent examples include Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anthony Weiner.

When will the inherited craze for real estate of Chinese bottom out? In ten years?

And when will it begin to fade away? In twenty years?

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Challenges and failures break you down to build you up, if you know how to let them to.

There are many levels of friends, many of whom slide into oblivion.

其實，生活是一個謎。你用什麼心法來解謎？

In ancient China, some poets cast their feelings into bawds.

Probably there's going to be a superfluous supply of Chinese financiers.

Some Canadian small businesses have been reluctant to invest more in technology. Well, that sort of kicking the can down the road just won't help them at all.

In certain degree, in the U.S. and Canada, flexibility is what the recursion of cutting the funding of cultural, social, and academic research programs during economically hard times reflects.

When the interest of all taxpayers and that of the groups whose interest gets harmed by the cutting collide, it is the latter who loses.

Rearing an infant is like attending a longish boot camp. And, you'll appreciate your free time greatly more after that.

Which man doesn't have pangs in his young years?

People relay messages about opportunities from the front line.