In the popular flick "Forrest Gump", Gump had never let his persistence to be douted, not even a shred.

However, it seems that he had had no consideration of morals until the end, from my impression which is vague now.

I've just snatched a relatively quick recovery from a cold. Boy, it's rough to be caught in sickness in a busy life.

I think Spanish is easily melodious.

I don't like very much the situation that in Canada, patients are very amenable to being blindfolded by the medical doctors.

Some doctors don't explain well, some are incompetent. Above all, there is no objective system to help people judge the competence of doctors.

Are Apple and other multinationals errant American businesses? They are just global businesses which have no social obligations towards the United States of America.

See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html .

When will the laud for American dream resurface?

I don't know, but I'm sure it will.

Some people tend to be good employees. And some others are apt to become entrepreneurs.

One world, two types of people. Diversity matters.

I've seldom received courtesy calls from the companies whose services I've used as a consumer. Should they make more calls?

An excellent businessman may not look classy, but he typically is a classy deliverer of business value.

Why doesn't every website just give out very simple and brief privacy policies? Ideally, the gist should be there, just clear and straight.

An acquaintance of mine told me that in Portugal, some city people still have a live-in maid in their houses. And those maids are typically uneducated peasant girls from the countryside.

Essentially, it appears like Portugal still has some sort of two-tier system, the upper tier is its city residents, the lower one its country residents.

So it seems that in that aspect, that part of Europe is very much like China. And, the North America is more equitable than that part of Europe.

A young man may only encounter deaths and tragedies mainly through snatches of literature. And he should consider that as education.

Obama's hair has turned hoary since he, a personification of "change", went to Washington D.C.

See http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1034318--is-the-white-house-turning-obama-grey .

Music video - Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel ("Gretchen am Spinnrade" in German) - Sung by Barbara Bonney, music by Franz Schubert, and lyrics from text in Goethe's Faust

Goethe corresponds to “歌德” in Chinese.

Apple is a classic case of how a company can win girls' hearts. Take the example of its Macbook laptops, they are very thin, smooth, and maybe most importantly, free from the necessity for people to acquire technical knowledge about computers in order to maintain them.

You can see myriads and myriads of girls who bear Macbooks around. Many of those girls would rather pay premium prices for Mac computers and yet buy some other stuff from cheap dollar stores.

Who bears forward the fate of a company? The owner, of course.

Then do you think that he would rather allow a staff member to become irreplaceable?

The world knows that products made in China are inexpensive. But it looks askance at their quality.

Will that tendency soon change?

For Canadians working with minimum wages, such as those working at Tim Horton's outlets, every sliver of that small income counts for their livelihood. If they lose one or two slivers of it, they probably will lose their home telephone line or something. It's that bad.

Sigh. There are good student loans programs from the government across Canada. Why don't those workers just get a student loan, whatever their ages are, and finish a career education program which targets fields in high demand from employers? Programs like that typically only require 2 - 3 years of full-time study and the prerequisite of a high-school diploma.

Then life and their newly found earning power will be a lot better for them. Sigh. I don't understand why they don't take that surefire route.

This is a windy night with light snowfall. I'm fixing myself a cup of coffee.

"Nice talking to you," J said to the retired man who had come to Canada from Portugal a very long time ago.