「相逢不必忙歸去，明日黃花蝶也愁。」

现代人不遑休息；不遑多让。

What a life. It sucks.

Those garish neon signs omnipresent in Montreal...

恶病质：油尽灯枯，来日无多。

The enchantress must appear before the last petal will fall.

I almost always mistook 'sachet' as 'satchel.'

Yeah, looking at the two words' respective etymology, it's obvious that they are confusing.

Montreal 的中小学每年大事庆祝的都是些什么？

Over the years, many innocent ideas of mine have been tarnished.

The opposite gender's subterfuge and sabotage...

I've been schlepping my English proficiency for all these long years.

"Time went by, as time does."

A perspective by which you can look far is beneficial for your eyesight.

In South Korea, all the 8 constitutional judges voted UNANIMOUSLY to uphold the impeachment motion against the now former president Park Geun-Hye.

That woman had done severe wrongs.

A husky singing voice.

Innovations eventually topple entrenched power players.

Who doesn't want to make good money?

But it's not something that one can do for the asking.

Is the manufacturing industry moribund or not in Canada?

"Abscond" is a word that is hard to keep in mind.

More and more men appear to be questioning about women's nature and ethos.

J was delighted, and brightened up, but not on cloud nine.

跌荡变化 Vs. 平安喜乐。

"The bomb" is almost exactly the opposite of "a bomb."

There are so many idioms in American English.

There are forefathers, and there are foremothers.

By golly, the United States is so deeply broken now.

Its future looks a bit sketchy.

A plume of ashes.

胡为首善之地诸多污染？

The name is very interesting for the "daddy longlegs" insects.

In this day and age, people are so busy, not least men.

Nowadays I seldom read the blurbs on a book's back cover and inside cover pages.

The break between school classes is called "recess" in English, not "recreation."

Very young girls care the most about stuff's cuteness.

Engish learning involves a lot of tedium.

There are many people who want to grow into a software dev virtuoso.

The somewhat noisy K-pop took the cake.

Still, it's generally not my cup of tea.

A stroller in the nature...

I began to not drench my mouth with soda any more around four years ago.

Tea is plainly better.

In this seemingly cold modern world, some individuals are not beneficial towards others, much less charitable.

Life is all but too hard.

It's "clear the table," not "clean the table," nor "make the table."

"Commotion" is sometimes the word which can describe the public spaces in Chinese towns.

"Are you in a big hurry?" asked L.

"No, I'm in a small hurry," replied J.

"Those comparisons are good," said J.

"Yay!" responded L.

The English vocab is gargantuan.

"Suppressors, step aside," the female teacher said to the Grade 2 students.

Children need time to unwind after school.

Rye bread tastes better than multigrain bread, I think.

I for one somewhat kiss off most corporate and organizational news emails.

The female teacher loses it nearly every week in the Grade 2 classroom.

Almost every country/area wants to get off to a flying start in Artificial Intelligence.

I learn English 'cause it's pivotal.

And I learn French 'cause it's necessary.

"I'm not a promiser," the kid said.

Partially blocked sinuses are omnipresent, I guess.

Etymology shows that the word "canister" is not related to "can" at all.

The amount of words in English is mesmerizing.

"You ignite the moxa stick and let it burn," I said.

"Moxibustion and acupunture are complementary in TCM."

The Oxford Advanced American Dictionary states that acupressure was originally from Japan, in its respective word entry.

But it was from China, and it's a part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Japanese had learned it from China long time ago, supposedly.


The boon of acupressure is that anyone can be the masseur or masseuse, so that it can be done at home.

I often misheard "pears" as "pairs."

The vowel sound in "pear" is not the same as in "appear," "dear," "fear," "gear," "hear," and "sear." But it is the same as in "bear," "wear," and "year."

Sometimes it feels like that the verbosity, or sprawl, of English is out of control.

Just few examples. There's "for instance," there's "for example," and there's "e.g." In addition, there's "exemplary," as well as "exemplifiable."

Today, I've found out that apart from "exaggerate," there exists "overexaggerate." And second-graders are constantly uttering the latter.

It's "bunk bed," not "bunker bed."

Taken at face value, the word "grandfather" looks grander than "forefather", doesn't it?

In reality, it's the opposite way.

The blogosphere in China has significantly withered.

Many blogging websites have died or been cancelled, for instance, the blogs at http://www.ifeng.com/ .

Emblazoned T-shirts are very popular.

But I don't think they are good clothing generally.

茶叙珠江，一盅两件。

Nowadays, normally I learn several batches of English words per week.

That would actually take a bunch of my hours.

Now that Intel's processor chips have become unmitigated disasters due to the "Meltdown" security flaw and so on, especially in the arena of cloud computing.

It appears that AMD, after seemingly many years of losses, has turned the table on Intel, suddenly and unexpectedly.

Academic knowledge, for its own sake...

Sometime you have to be able to walk on water, like a boss.

In this day and age, there's too much delectation.

Yet much, if not most, of it feels somehow empty.

Tim Hortons in Montreal used to have a clam chowder soup.

It was good.

Uber allegedly flouted laws.

And they want to change incumbent laws.

The word "plodding" has got some negative connotations with it.

But it should carry mostly positive ones.

Oh, "dove" just means "pigeon."

There are too many luminaries in the U.S. and Canada whom I haven't heard of.

Many societal mechanisms and institutions need to be ameliorated.

For example, religions, as well as marriage.

There are a lot of frivolities in social media.

In order to save some time, unnecessary information should be largely expunged from long-winded university textbooks.

You can reject people.

But try not to spurn anyone.

Sometime it feels like that the Canadian governments are adjudicating on too many matters in Canadians' household life.

Where are the fine lines between private matters and public ones?

Such a lovely pic about dunce's cap.

(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dunce_hat.jpg )

Sun Wukong, the monkey king, is so mischievous in the ancient Chinese novel "Journey to the West."