This blog is partly devoted to the sharing of my learning of the English language (my well mastered mother tongue is Chinese and I am not an English teacher) and its *cultures*, partly to the current significant trends in Canada and in the world, and partly to my own random thoughts and little life. I am not religious, but I am somewhat interested in Christianity and Buddhism, among other personal interests. Welcome. And, have a good day.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Shimmying can be done with the shoulders. Or with the hips, as the below video shows:
By the way, compared with those dances with body movements that are so provocative that they stretch credulity, belly dance just looks greatly cleaner.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Yeah, it's agreed that the magazine The Economist is an erudite one.
And its English is kind of difficult.
The English word "marionette" is very different than "marinate."
The former means the sort of complex puppets that are controlled with strings.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Friday, November 17, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
There's a children books author named "Holly Hobbie."
It can be her true name, not her pen name.
The interesting thing for me is that her first name can be confused with "holy," and, her last name can be confused with "hobby." For that matter, her parents' family, as a whole, are referred to by others as "the Hobbies," which exactly is the plural form of the English word "hobby." Swoon...
The interesting thing for me is that her first name can be confused with "holy," and, her last name can be confused with "hobby." For that matter, her parents' family, as a whole, are referred to by others as "the Hobbies," which exactly is the plural form of the English word "hobby." Swoon...
Monday, November 13, 2017
Sunday, November 12, 2017
All this hurtling of Android apps' updating is off-putting for me.
Almost every week, there are more than a dozen apps waiting for me to give permissions for updates which are going to occupy more phone storage and RAM space.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
In most Western countries, many, if not most, husbands have become, are becoming, or will become unwitting victims under multiple collective forces which are not so benign to men, including the family court system.
The situation is actually bleak and going to bring severe consequences, for men, and women, as well as children.
Matrimony has been becoming an art, discipline, institution, and treasure to be massively lost.
Matrimony has been becoming an art, discipline, institution, and treasure to be massively lost.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Thursday, November 2, 2017
I encountered a children's graph book that does not make sense, or even is outright stupid.
In the female authors' narration, the "very little red riding hood" emotionally manipulated a wolf and led him into the house of the teeny girl's grandma. And then she cried and cried, so the wolf tried very hard to please her. Then she fell asleep, thereafter the exhausted wolf, as well as grandma, fell asleep "happily ever after."
A wolf is a wolf, who eats humans and animals all the time.
What does the particular story book teach young girls to do in their future prime years during which they will pass by a"wolf" on the side of a road?
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To recklessly and heedlessly lead a bad boy into her family's life while emotionally manipulating him?
A wolf is a wolf, who eats humans and animals all the time.
What does the particular story book teach young girls to do in their future prime years during which they will pass by a"wolf" on the side of a road?
...
To recklessly and heedlessly lead a bad boy into her family's life while emotionally manipulating him?
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
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