Montreal's mafia mogul, Vito Rizzuto, had been arrested for racketeering, loan sharking, and murder some six years ago, and then was released from a U.S. prison lately.

He had been considered to be the most powerful mafia boss in Canada. And he's returned to Canada.

It has profound consequences on Quebec's society, considering the ongoing police investigation into the close links among Quebec's construction industry, mafia, and some Quebec politicians.

Facebook isn't very satisfying. Which social networking website is gonna whup it?

Who can mollify the Americans who've seen their prosperity dim?

A president who can create decent-paying jobs.

Kaboom. I've stumbled on the PowerShell on my Win7 machine.

Well, natural rubber latex is, natural.

But hospitals and people have been running to escape from it to hypoallergenic latex-free alternatives.

See http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=4148 .

If I followed the instructions on the detergent bottles and only added a cap of the detergent, the washing water in my portable washing machine would never be sudsy enough to convince me that it would give a proper laundering.

Many Chinese have lived through abject poverty.

What an era of have-nots.

It seems that thrift is the one thing which is hard to get by the people born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

Conscious people know to avoid fawning, towards others and towards herself.

I know a widower whose condo got burned down.

How life's misfortunes can hit again and again, especially when one's old.

Poncho is different than raincoat.

The local Unibroue beers aren't bad at all. Nice.

Heck, a Release the Kraken underwear.

See http://www.jinx.com/p/release_the_kraken_boxer_briefs.html .

What a fantastic adoption of the great meme.

It seems that in many Hong Kong movies I've watched over the years, rooftops appear in them often.

Are those scenes a beacon that Hong Kong people crave for hard-to-get space?

Are most cheap things inevitably shoddy? At the end of the day, you get what you paid for.

Watching stand-up comedies is a good way to amuse oneself.

碎波秋水，青葱节气已过。

If to demand bribes is customary in a country, then what sorts of people and businesses want to conduct business in that country?

And do the business clients and average consumers lose in that country? And what do they lose?

Music video - Gangnam style - PSY

With the ascendance of the formidable Samsung, South Korea seems to have soared beyond its peers among the Four Asian Dragons, business-wise, pop-fashion-wise, and pop-culture wise.

Here comes a recent spectacularly popular MV - 江南區 style:



And here's the English translation of its lyrics:
http://www.kpoplyrics.net/psy-gangnam-style-lyrics-english-romanized.html

Thrift is one good characteristic that Chinese descendants are apt to have.

Let's hope the ongoing sweep of spending on credit cards in China won't change that thrift much.