It seems that many Western countries have wariness of China, more than ever.

If one asks himself at dusk, "what have I done in today's work to benefit the society, however tiny?", then he won't turn to speculation in the financial market.

But it seems that my above logic isn't sound. Anyways, you get what I meant.

I still don't quite understand this commonplace arrangement in Canada. Public hospitals are run by their angels of mercy, and the doctors just work there like medical consultants or something, hired from outside, if my impression isn't too far from the truth.

So essentially, nurses are civil servants, but doctors are not. Doctors are much more of private practitioners of medicine.

Think about that.

Typically, significantly more courtesy can be expected in the city life in Canada than in its Chinese counterpart.

That's one sort of social capital which differentiates.

Shanghai, the mega city in Asia, maybe always tends to have a thread of ostentation.

Are those students who're apt in the classroom actually deep?

Forbidding and deterring has been the coldness of these two days.

I always think that China should hold more rites for veterans of its wars.

Ancient hatchments look beautiful.

See http://www.google.ca/search?q=hatchment&hl=en&safe=off&qscrl=1&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=zZoCT_K5M8fu0gGtrayxBQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CA8Q_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675
.

Is it the right balance for a good life?

In life, it happens that a certain thing is encouraged at an earlier stage yet is sort of discouraged at a later stage.

Take the example of artistic endeavors.

When one is a child, his artistic activities are generally encouraged. For one thing, you can sense the positive tone in the words "artistic" and "art" in the merchandise names "artistic smock" and "art smock" which are actually painting smocks hanging in stores for children.

However, once the child grows up to become an adult, his artistic endeavors are no longer encouraged in general, if he pursues them wholeheartedly, because everyone knows that most full-time artists starve or are very poor. It's not the right balance for a good life.

You see, the same activity, different attitudes by one's surrounding, just because he's at different life stages.

No more whistling in the dark. Please admit failure, RIM's two infamous Co-CEOs.

Without people communing with each other, a group is not a community.

We're all familiar with Facebook and Twitter. Now the emergence of Path seems to be the dawn of sensible social networking.

In addition, some people say Path provides very good user experience.

See https://path.com/
and
http://service.path.com/customer/portal/articles/257552-why-can-i-only-share-with-150-people .

The shoulder pads which football (I don't mean "soccer" here) players wear make them appear very strong and good-looking.

Our toddler daughter governs the rhythm of our life authoritatively. We just hope that the young governor gradually grows wiser. :-)

Some companies had started out with benevolent intent. Then they got listed in the stock market. Then their initial intent got smirched under the high pressure of earnings growth of year by year.

There are two sorts of kisses: the chaste ones, and the sexual ones.

Even 40 years ago, the Mainland Chinese still thought all kisses, between a man and a woman, in the whole world belong to the latter.

It seems that the NYC remains to be a hearth of economic vigor in the U.S despite its high costs.

If you look up the synonyms of "prostitute" in a dictionary, you'll find there are so many. "Hooker", "hustler", "harlot", "courtesan", "whore", and so on.

Well, the above example may not be a very decent one. Anyways, my point is that the great number of synonyms of many words is one of the difficulties we have to overcome when we read material in English from different eras.

Some Montrealers say that Torontonians aren't as courteous as people in Montreal.