The notorious traffic jams and air pollution in Beijing make such a massive groan that it's no longer a livable city, unless one has huge profit to pursue in it.

Yet many people choose not to hear it.

The fracking manna in the U.S. is so unexpected.

Labor, and job

It seems that in essence, workers in capitalist societies are detached from their jobs, so to speak. After they've spent years on a certain job or in a certain organization, naturally they would somewhat feel it's their own backyard. However, it happens in reality that the employer can just lock them out and tell them the jobs don't need them any more, without any advance notice, not even on the day before.

A worker doesn't own the job, he only owns his labor.

A worker sells his labor, and an employer buys it. And no one is selling a job, and no one is buying one. So, perhaps "job market" is a false name. And "labor market" is a much more suitable one.

厨艺

如果你想变得做菜好吃，生个孩子。

如果你想变得做菜好吃又快速，生两个。

如果你想变得象餐厅大厨一样专业，做菜好吃快速又成本低，生三个孩子吧。

:-)

MS Windows has increasingly become a nifty OS for power users.

However, its market share is doomed to decline largely.

In the marketplace over the past several years, the Windows operating system is not vanquished by Mac OS and iOS from Apple, it is done by Linux and its mobile derivative, which means Android.

It happens against the backdrop in the mobile computing sphere that many past and current Apple fans have switched to or been contemplating Android.

And, in the desktop computing sphere, I for one need Linux more than Windows.

Everything said, Windows is not without its own merits and advantages. For instance, I quite like the Windows Aero desktop environment present in Windows 7 and so on.

People and location names in the English language have their share of funniness or awkwardness.

"Dick" is obvious vulgarism.
There are so many "Waterloo"s in the world. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo. The question is, which loo in the world doesn't have water? Right? :-)
"Chester" should make ladies shy away. The guy "chest"s. Gee.
The name "Fortinbras" looks O.K. But, there's a but, how does it sound? What? "Fourteen bras"? Faint.

Just some joking words by me.

With the continuous emergence of facilitators, for one's biz adventures, where there's a will there's a way.

Note: I'm not sure if the above "facilitator" is the right word for it, but you get what I mean.

Less and less young people have the false expectation of climbing the corporate ladder.

Where's the ladder? Does it really exist?

The word "inheritance" has an obsolete meaning - "possession", "property".

Without any research over that, my sheer guess is it reflects a subtle shift in people's attitudes across centuries regarding properties. Hundreds of years ago, people's main stance towards possessions had been that they can be passed to their descendants. In modern times, that is they can be consumed by the properties' owners themselves.

Just a wild conjecture by me.

George W. Bush, the scion of President George H. W. Bush, also became a U.S. president himself.

Then, the Great Recession began under his helming. Look at what he'd done for the economy of the U.S. and the world. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Public_image_and_perception.

I used to squash and mince garlic for cooking. Now I just slice it.

A winter carnival simply means a winter festival.

I moan and groan about information overload.

"Yard", "yarn", and "gage" are all simple words which are used often in old English.

Last week, a water main broke in downtown Montreal, and it caused a deluge and then ice all over.

Montreal's infrastructure will need to be upgraded.

Courtyard provides a good additional function to a building.

For toddlers, Souri Mini makes nifty snow suits, but it seems they don't sell really warm mittens.

For parents with a toddler, household chores can often eat up almost a moiety of their waking hours.

By way of learning by doing, one can be seized of all the necessary skills and assets to make a successful biz, as long as he works hard and is courageous but doesn't get over-confident.