It's almost a hoax that people are led to think they can profit from speculating in financial markets, except real Finance professionals.

And that tragedy is deemed to be exacerbated if the individual speculator is in the later half of his life.

Will life eventually become hard for Apple aficionados, post Steve Jobs?

"But I have nothing to wear," modern Cinderellas usually sniff in their hearts.

And they follow fashion trendsetters blindly, with their eyes wide open.

Yes, through thick and thin...

Oh, magnanimousness.

Well, have Christians been forced into the counterculture in today's American society?

The latter has become so hedonic.

A North American foible is the overloading omnipresence of foods of wickedly high colories sold in splendid little packages.

We've been coaxed into a typical life style of do more, consume more.

But, enough is enough, huh?

Swill your beer, swell your belly.

To be frank, most people who grew up in China still tremendously underestimate the amounts of time and practices which to REALLY acquire English requires.

Schism seems inevitable in every single organization or alliance.

Yes, extenuating circumstances, as well as excuses.

"Raffle" tickets, not "ruffle" tickets.

I'm an inveterate learner of the English language.

It's noteworthy that the dominant Apple computing devices are consumer gizmos.

On the other hand, we owe the gratitude for the democratization of personal computing to Microsoft, at least in China.

J knows how much and long it takes to overcome the disadvantages of one's lineage and surrounding.

Naan and pretzel are among my new favorite foods.

J's dad has got insomnia lately.

Mostly in Montreal there are only coffee houses, but I prefer Eastern Asian tea brews.

Beer is not healthy, but it's nurturing. :-)

Just fattening, actually.

My running shoes have got 10 eyelets on each.

They strangled my shoe laces to death. :-)

Who defines the treason crime?

The Pretz biscuit sticks are a type of pretzel. It's made by Glico, a Japanese company.

You want to ascertain if your employer are good people.

Chamber pot used to be a staple in people's bedrooms.

We humans love porcelain for dinning ware, don't we?