The French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been described as "impetuous, disloyal, and un-French".

See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/impetuous-disloyal-and-unfrench-chirac-attempts-coup-de-grace-on-sarkozy-2294940.html .

Well, that doesn't make the leadership of Sarkozy and Merkel, which is supposed to drag Europe out of the mess it's currently in, look hopeful.

Among the Christmas wreaths on the market, there's one kind which have a Christmas bow attached inside the ring. That's a selling point.

For the time being, I'm chary of having a second child.

Music video - Alexander Borodin - Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances

About the author (composer) Alexander Borodin:
He's a Russian. His main vocation was a professor of Chemistry at the Academy of Medicine in Russia. "Between 1859 and 1862 Borodin held a postdoctorate in (University of) Heidelberg", which is a world renowned university in Germany. Borodin "suffered poor health, having overcome cholera and several minor heart attacks. He died suddenly during a ball at the Academy, and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in Saint Petersburg." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Borodin )

The dentist gave me an extra shot for freezing. Then my lips and chin began to go numb and tingling in a brief while.

On another note, usually the dentist smiles quite courteously, which impresses me. I'm not sure if that kind of smile is a Waspy thing.

Will Alberta's oil sand industry be arraigned for its environmental impact by future generations?

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.