An ulcer for the human kind is the existence of nuclear weapons and the seemingly ongoing nuclear proliferation.

If you think about it, you'll feel that we live in a precarious world, where a nuclear bomb may blow for whatever reason which is utterly beyond rationality's control.

Knock the wood.

Such an apt expression by Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher once said:

To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the 'U-turn', I have only one thing to say: "You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning."

Wow.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady's_not_for_turning .

I like the general quietness of Canadians. That lets everyone do his own thing and keeps him free from intrusions of noises.

Sourcing and procuring popular products is definitely a business competitive advantage.

对于有销路或畅销的产品，就每一笔消费者的交易来说，有库存现货的商家可以增加营收、扩大市占率。

而没有现货的商家会 suffer 一系列的后果。

Heineken made my night.

Some people expend a lot of their off-work hours and their money on speculating (albeit they call it 'investing') in the stock market, you know, buying and selling.

Essentially, they are spendthrifts, with a pipe dream of getting significantly richer by speculating, which has proven to be just a pipe dream, perennially, in the society.

I've been comparing many ebook reader apps for Android.

I like the Aldiko one.

My Android phone is the Motorola Milestone, so there's not a lot of memory available for me now. Otherwise, I'd also go with Kindle for Android by Amazon, which is apparently a sleek ebook reader app and whose feature set looks excellent.

Many of the jobs in big companies are cut-and-dried. And they are far removed from the real market.

The abatement of Kodak is so tragic.

See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-17/kodak-and-the-brutal-difficulty-of-transformation.html .

实际上，很多创业的男人，午夜低回的时候，总有一些伤不起的感慨。

多年以前，有部日本电影，叫做《伤痕累累的勋章》。多好的名字。

Having to deal with constant snow and freezing rains is a pleurisy of living in Montreal.

If you cook Chinese dishes, more often than not, you need to cut vegetables more or less obliquely in order to let them absorb tastes more fully in the frying pan.

Chivas Regal 的广告词：“患难见真情”。

多么的有力量。

We've got a Whirlpool fridge at home. And it's not up to snuff.

Maybe the company will meet big troubles ahead if it doesn't take care of its product quality very seriously. You know, pretty many companies in the developing countries can make the same products cheaper and better, e.g. Haier.

I hadn't expected to see that so many Canadian university students work wholeheartedly with the goal of attaining almost immaculate transcripts without deep confusion about life when they still have the luxury of time to ponder about life.

Well, people are born different.

There seem to be perennial rebates going on in fashion brands stores in Montreal. You can always find some handsome rebates here or there.

When the big companies began to put the shareholders' value as their utmost priority, their attractiveness to ambitious young workers started to abate.

As a matter of fact, many Arab people have been having a hard time in the U.S. and Canada since the 9/11. The society shouldn't envenom them.

Appropriate tolerance should be kept in civilized societies.

Many daycare centres in Montreal tend to be a little too scholastic. Kids need to play more and imagine more.