Obliviousness to the future is the one thing many people have.

Along that dimension, there are two sorts of people: the haves and the have-nots. I for one wanna be a have-not. :-)

Not to intend to exert much agony on individuals does NOT mean that the Western law system is merciful.

My wonted systematicness must have helped me a lot.

The snafu of the sharp fall of Facebook's stock price may have revealed there's a better biz model for SNS.

What is signified by the grim grip of Triad scenes in many Hong Kong movies?

Will there be no further opportunities for Sony?

"What a familiar name Bear Sterns once had been. What will I feel about the familiar name "Morgan Stanley" in the future?" I thought.

The fates of financial firms seem to be intrinsically fickle.

The society is apt to be the best dojo (i.e. "道場" in Japanese), but only if you have got a doshin (i.e. "道心" in Japanese), so to speak.

As for the meaning of "doshin", see page 109 of the PDF file at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:4s6_vIx9H_cJ:nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/246.pdf+&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh98hOoVdZLbMcm1ZKzRK6HI5nOr4HXZP0L0zm-6hO0Do8RbzGbZupIIqWo_PLv8Xr8aRKMqVMASx27cBE9ohS96UMf39wavFJgqWvFB_JWZU_hEfaULDquHRQqY23uLzN_9F9B&sig=AHIEtbSLrjP6luGSt3fhFL39ud5gNOr1sA&pli=1.

One of my tics is to make unrelated hand gestures while conversing with other people, I guess.

Overwhelming is the grimness of some gun fighting movies produced in Hong Kong.

The obviousness of the decline of Taiwanese computer companies such as Acer makes me wonder why they didn't invest in mobile computing several years ago.

They tried it but haven't succeeded in it?

Some technical people often myopically say Apple's platforms are lagging in terms of technologies.

They simply have ignored how remarkably Apple improves its technologies all the time, coupled with reputed staggeringly marvelous user experience.

I always wanna pare the number of emails received from websites such as Twitter and LinkedIn.

The future of RIM is grim.

See BlackBerry sinks to zero sales in 'a meaningful number' of stores.

It's been said that Facebook is considering to build up its own search engine.

We're watching a nascent public company, however reluctantly it went public though, at work with enormous financial resources.

My wonted choice of computer brand name used to be HP.

No more. Because it has got quality problems nowadays. I think I'll switch to Toshiba.

Music in movies usually provides sensational additive entertainment to viewers.

I like it.

Our toddler daughter has got some minor skin problem at the place close to her wrists, on both of her arms.

We've been applying some excellent medicinal cream to those problematic areas.

If she hadn't been picking at those areas, they would have healed long time ago.

It seems among the grocery stores in Montreal, IGA offers the nearly freshest and sweetest corn.

Yummy.

貌似儒家的态度是“不知生，焉知死”，而佛教的态度是 不知死，焉知生，描述种种地狱的种种惨状。

而日本武士道的态度貌似是 武士“向死而生”。