When you come short, it's a perfect time for you to stop and think.

All things wax and wane. Wall Street is no exception. Wall Street is obviously waning.

People in finance will be floored, probably.

It takes more than a decade to make it as a really good software developer.

I don't know. Some of the words by Yang Li (李阳) are odd nowadays.

For instance, see this article: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2011-09/27/c_122092575.htm .

I think he deserves to be chided.

The drizzle was falling onto the street space. Last night set today's pace.

The figurative cutpurse Oliver Twist is perpetuated in mankind's memory by Charles Dickens. Astray children deserve attention, thanks to Dickens.

The Montreal Gazette is a news enclosure which is generally not deep enough.

Software development is usually composed with too many layers of imperfect abstractions.

The other day, I watched a video clip in which a medical researcher cut across a whole brain matter which had been taken out of a dead person and boxed and then delivered to the Brain Bank at Boston University.

Ah, that's ghastly. I skipped the scientific scene.

The U.S., Russia, Japan, China, India, et al. have all begun to develop the 5th-generation jet fighters long ago.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_jet_fighter#Aircraft .

Will that set a precedent for future arm races among the militarily powerful countries? After all, this world has become no less unstable.

One thing I've noticed in the above web link is that no country in South America has joined the race to develop 5th-gen jet fighters. That intrigues me.

It's nearly apparent that cut-rate retailers will embrace prosperity in the forthcoming years.

'Cost' must have become a more charged word among consumers.

Pics - Retro

(By arghon / http://www.flickr.com/photos/arghon/257400665/ / CC)

Retro...

(By theodevil / http://www.flickr.com/photos/theodevil/6041239310/ / CC)

Retro!

"Hover between abstraction and representation"

Here goes a well-written sentence from NYT:
"The artists chosen by Ross Bleckner, a painter known for canvases that hover between abstraction and representation, display an ethereal quality similar to his own, except in photographs rather than paint."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/nyregion/artists-choose-artists-at-the-parrish-art-museum-review.html

Some Chinese peasants used to build outside toilet rooms and sties side by side. I wonder if that still is the omnipresent case nowadays and if the sanitation has improved.

On a different note, as more and more Chinese peasants have been bought out of 'their' lands and put into apartment-like buildings in more concentrated areas due to the frenzy real estate construction boom, will those areas soaked with ex-peasants become rundown slums further down the road, given that many ex-peasants and their children don't have sufficient education under their belts to prosper away from land?

It seems that more and more influential figures in the U.S. publicly hold opinions that Wall Street deserves being inveighed against and being occupied.

Wall Street is not a synonym of 'glamour' any more.

The tincts of failures reside deeply in my memory. They serve as beacons, as life lessons.

I became better after they had happened.

And on a related note, I think it's a pity for one if he goes through his life unchallenged or not challenged often enough.

D is a tall black woman who came to Canada from the Caribbeans when she was young. Now she lives in Montreal with her husband.

The other day, when I saw her grizzled hair roots, which outgrew the dyed dark look of her hair, something that time produces touched me somehow.

(Picture 'Grizzled' by bogdog Dan / http://www.flickr.com/photos/25689440@N06/2455312427/ / CC)

(Pic 'grace lutheran church' by lynnmanhart / http://www.flickr.com/photos/your_friend_flicka/2293276303/ / CC)

In life, we want to avoid certain things. Poverty is an example.

But one thing which many people overlook is that we should largely eschew the flicks and other 'cultural' products which manipulatively pander to our basest innate desires and emotions.

Entrepreneurs have to be cross-silo.

I've seen technical and non-technical people without mindsets of sales, HR, etc. And the biz which they started look to be doomed.

Our baby daughter does't like to take any milk at all during the day.

So I try to dunk pieces of bread in milk and feed them to her, with the hope that she'll gradually begin to accept milk. An inherited Chinese stomach is hard to be shifted.