Everyday, as the HOURS go by silently, my heart droops. But it doesn't droop as the DAYS go by, because I know I've been making efforts day after day, everyday.

How vivid the word "bounce", as in "bouncer", is.

Both the biz owner and the customers know the moments of truth. But the biz owner may not care very much.

J always keeps a far-flung outlook for his life since his salad days.

Most of ancient Chinese poems make use of many rhyming couplets. That phenomenon seems not to be as pervasive in ancient English poems. No, not at all.

You know, chicks like to chill together. But each of them will learn how to fly only in her or its own way. :-)

Wow, the above line is my first pun in 2012. Not bad, huh? :-)

Pivotal is a company's texture and culture. I wonder how many companies have robust and good ones in presence and in formation.

Better than three of the most famous electronics multinationals have been in red in their respective latest fiscal years, i.e. either 2011 or 2010. And they are Philips (HQ in Netherlands), Sony (HQ in Japan), Panasonic (HQ in Japan), and JVC Kenwood (HQ in Japan), to my incomplete knowledge.

The electronics industry has been a tough one to be in since the early 2000s, my impression tells me.

Uncontrolled and unmanaged, information overload is a major impediment to productivity.

To quit Facebooking and Twittering, after careful evaluation and consideration, can be the first step towards managing info. overload.

Personally, I've abandoned them around two years ago.

Standing at the dawn of digital economy, I think the current biz models of many Montreal retail stores look problematic.

I don't know how quickly they will be able to adjust themselves and adapt when the tides come.

I don't know. The words "dove" and "pigeon" mean precisely the same thing. However, it seems that "dove" has a more beautiful and lovable flair associated with it.

有時候，你在掌勺時，看見炒鍋中的紅燒茄塊在『明油亮芡』這最後一道工序中明亮起來，感覺有點像在昏暗悶熱的夜裡驀然看見清風明月拂楊柳一樣，小驚喜的心情變得輕快明亮了起來。

When coffee house owners talk about "sensory triggers", you know they are talking about an experience business.

It's so incredulously hot today. It's still April, not June!

Sigh. RIM may have very well missed another opportunity to save itself. It was a huge mistake. The company's end will present itself anon.

See Exclusive: Former RIM boss sought strategy shift before he quit | Business | Reuters.

Here goes an essay over egalitarianism which is difficult to read for my completely untrained eyes.

See EQUALITY -- WHAT IT IS, by Prof. Ted Honderich who had worked at and had been educated at UCL. The essay tries to explain the core of the ideology of the Left, I suppose. The drift must be he's with the Left, I guess?

The HTML5 localStorage and sessionStorage thing is interesting.

Many Chinese immigrants in Canada are hindered, by their inadequate or outright limited English, when they face career choices. That's a moment of truth.

They lack the required cultural capital and it's likely no one had told them that before they boarded on an airplane and flew out of the Chinese border. The thing is, not only they lack it, but also they don't have time or aren't willing to remedy it.

It's said that in Canada, many people in traditional service trades have questionable honesty. For instances, car mechanics, building repair people, and financial advisers (read, financial salesmen).

And we often hear journalists cry out "buyers beware".

But, it still may be the case that the numbers of good people in those trades far exceed that of their corrupt peers.

Any biz deal is an exchange of biz values and economic values. You've got to accept it, warts and all.