I always prefer coffee or anything over tea.

Gee. The name of the movie "Rice Rhapsody" (海南鸡饭) is so subtle and so good.

For the introduction of the flick, see http://movie.douban.com/subject/1309013/ .

'Rhapsodies' normally are big concert music pieces which are developed upon folk music pieces in a certain country, if my take isn't too far from the truth.

And I guess that the word 'rice' refers to 'sticky rice', which means "a homosexual Asian male who is sexually attracted exclusively to other homosexual Asian males". (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sticky%20rice )

In terms of the degree of people's abilities, this world can be so diverse and bipolar.

Some people are so formidably and deeply smart and capable, while some others are so incredibly incompetent on many aspects to the degree which beggars belief.

Well.

People who tend to be browbeaten by economic crises aren't fit to stay in a Capitalist country.

Just now, I've been doing the thing called "Display Color Calibration", which can be accessed from Control Panel --> Display, on my Windows 7 laptop.

And I have slightly disappointedly found out that there's no way to change the "Contrast" setting at all for laptop screens.

A DVD drive is not a fitting to be let go in the computer. Probably we'll need it for some occasions.

Words open a sphere of experiencing

My wife and I have been having more and more interactions with our toddler daughter as her cognitive capacity grows by week. I can see that while interacting, which obviously makes a large portion of human activities, one's words bring another into a sphere of experiencing, imagining, and conveying knowledge.

Cancers are pestilent and fearsome.

Once caught by one of them, one loses life and hope.

The list of monetary dealings is humanity.

It seems that in Canada, more and more young people, both male and female, have been stuck in obsessive and unwholesome passions for social media such as Facebook, and computer gaming.

Some of them have dropped out of school because of spending too much time on Facebooking and so on.

Facebook has been becoming a canker. Alack.

Demanding is to take care of a two-year-old. EXTRA demanding is to take GOOD care of a two-year-old who's having constant nightly teething pains for her last four teeth to grow out.

Maybe for people in this era, to have two or more children and raise them well is superfluously overloading.

Maybe there's always a thread of authoritarianism in the French mentality.

Typically, cheap teacup mats are less shoddier than cheap place mats, I think.

I always want to soup up my Windows computers experience with keyboard shortcuts. Sigh.

D had greenly and selfishly handled his people, most of whom just came and went. So his entrepreneurial initiative deceased helplessly, it appeared.

The index of Particulate Matter 2.5 in Beijing has reached a critical level from time to time. A lot of people have been risking their lungs and health in that modern mega city.

See 网友申请公开PM2.5数据_网易微博.

All in all, this era is an opportune one for information junkies like me.

"Sorrowful" and Jack Ruby

I consider the following piece good writing:

"Mrs. Kennedy walked beside it, her face was sorrowful. She looked steadily at the floor. … Her hand rested lightly on her husband’s coffin as it was taken to a waiting hearse."

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/nov-22-1963-president-kennedy-is-assassinated/

There's only one adjective in the piece -- "sorrowful".

By the way, Jack Ruby, who killed JFK's assassin, appears mysterious and suspicious.

Dead people's bodies used to be interred into the ground. Nowadys oftentimes it's the ashes of them which get kept.

What will be the form by which human corpses are kept in the future? Stem cells?

The MOST important battle in Canadian history is the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (a.k.a. the Battle of Quebec) which took place in the siege of the Quebec City in 1759, during the Seven Years' War.

As the French commander General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm lay dying due to a bullet which had hit him on the Plains of Abraham, he said (probably with much regret which he should have expected that the British would scale the very steep cliffs on the riverbank outside Quebec via the Anse au Foulon route), "I am glad I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." On the other hand, the British commander General James Wolfe also lay dying on that battlefield, and he said, "I die happy", after he heard that the French army had just collapsed and been escaping.

What a bitter and tragic battle.