I for one am afraid that moans of despair will emerge about actual polluted food chains resulted from oil sands extraction in Alberta, Canada.

Some people run away with the idea that powerful or capable businesspersons can keep making a lot of money by simply making phone calls and things like that.

People in the skirts of China, so to speak, cannot imagine how busy a typical Canadian's life is.

The life of Canadians and Americans is too technologically complicated. That's bad. People need to slow down.

A yard isn't always necessarily green.

It's that people often make it green out of their own preferences.

The world in various historical and cultural contexts

I'm fluent in two exclusive languages: Chinese and English. To me, the world still appears to be a difficult place to explore and maneuver, in historical and cultural contexts. Latin America, Oceania, Southern Asia, Southeastern Asia, Northern Europe, and Eastern Europe. Any of their histories I don't know. And their historical figures and their names look so strange and foreign to me.

For example, Bhai Baghel Singh "is celebrated in Sikh history as the vanquisher of Mughal Delhi." And the architectural wonder Taj Mahal in India "was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal." So these two historical items are closely related, cue the keyword "Mughal". But look, how many foreign words there are simply in those names!

I guess that if what one wants is a steady income, then he may vaguely or clearly regret over unimproved opportunities in the latter half or the end of his life.

I for one like the look and flair of Scotland Yard.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New-Scotland-Yard-Victorian-building-Big-Ben-1890.jpg / GNU Free Documentation License)

The American mettle has somewhat influenced the Canadian one, I guess.

Obstreperous factions, blocs, influences, and forces are everywhere.

A food court is within the building, and a court/courtyard is outside and adjacent to the building.

Raising a baby is super busy and gnarly, but having no baby probably will be eventually tragic.

RRSP is one's covenant with his old-age financial security.

If one's more than 50 years old and he doesn't have RRSP, that is precarious.

I don't think I had ever eaten squash in China before coming to Canada.

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.