HP computers have done me a yeoman's service these years. I like them.

But I should've bought models equipped with larger memories. For that matter, I mean memories twice as large as in mainstream models at any given time.

I think the word "impediment" is one of the words which sound the most crispest among those ones ending with the suffix "-ment".

Blessed are those who deserve implicit trust.

Theoretically, there are many rogues and jerks in this world. One has his share of meeting them.

Also theoretically, there are many good people in the world. One also has his fair share of meeting them.

I think it's almost impossible for people who hadn't experienced being attacked severely during the Cultural Revolution to really understand the baseness of it.

Nowadays a lot of novel writers in English crank out fictions very quickly, individually, every year.

Essentially, many, if not most, of those books are the MacDonald hamburger equivalent in the book world, I'm afraid.

My work progress has been clogged by the taking care of my toddler daughter, which is much more to be done than expected from looking on the surface.

But that's life. In half or one year, I'll be much freer.

When a biz owner needs to do some big changes to his already successful biz, it's natural for him to have trepidation.

Life's never easy. When you're not successful, you want to become. When you're already successful, you still have to overcome enormous difficulties, both expected and unexpected, otherwise you would fail easily down the road.

Along the way, I'm apt to consider that Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple have played fair, although I don't know all the details of what they've done all these years.

Music videos - 心的祈祷 - 臧天朔 / 张行

歌词：

心的祈祷
作曲：臧天朔
作词：黄小茂（主持人李静的老公，华纳前总监）
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我祈祷 那没有痛苦的爱
却难止住泪流多少
我祈祷 忘记已离去的你
却又唱起 你教的歌谣
我没有怨你
我心里知道 我知道
我祈祷 留下孤独的我
走向天涯 走向海角
我祈祷 带上无言的爱
从此失去心里的笑
我与影同行
我心里知道 我知道
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我知道 天涯路漫漫
我还要去 海角遥遥
我知道 失去的是什么
我又启程 却不是寻找
我心里明了
我心里知道 我知道
我像那一支火鸟
无声地燃烧
我要唱那 那一首歌谣
伴我天涯海角
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黄小茂的词好，臧天朔的曲好！

In Canada, Tim Horton's is very notable at the $5-7 price point for lunches.

It seems that there's no big difference between a salmon fillet and a salmon steak in the ways I cook them.

I've seen a few relatively weak businesses act as if they are playing by the axis of capital, which they actually somewhat lack or completely lack. I consider their outlooks, let alone prosperity, to be problematic in the long run.

I think Baton Rouge, Louisiana has got a nice name, hasn't it?

Americans are inherently much against statism. However, are the bureaucrats in its government naturally apt to be wanting to be more of statists deep inside their hearts?

English became the lingua franca of the world. In essence, it's a phonetic language. By contrast, Chinese is a symbolic language. So the translation of some Chinese words into English can be funny.

A real-life example happened in a Montreal office with a Chinese whose last name is 缪 (spelled commonly as "Miao" in English and pronounced as /'miau/, according to the pronunciation of the original Chinese word). So when one vocal Western colleague of hers learned that her family name is such, the female co-worker uttered "oh my God, her name is Meow" (In English, "meow" means the crying sound made by a cat).

:-)

J said to the store clerk, "I've been kept being asked what my postal code is, for your company's customer locations survey, since last year. Has any new store been opened during the interval?"

As a matter of fact, the historically new layer of human rights, in the organization of human societies, removes most people further from villainy.

I for one am a fly on the wall when RIM's fate has been unfolding.

What a spectacular fall that has been. I guess it has revealed a probable classic flaw that the Canadian biz mentality possesses, which is a biz needs not to participate in or even be posted from innovation frontiers.

It's said that Dell's historically continuous choice of not doing any real R&D and instead focusing on excelling at supply chain management can be its own undoing, especially after it has missed the first years of opportunities of jumping on the bandwagon of smart phones and tablets.